My afternoon with Kinect (impressions)

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themanwithnoname said:

jarrod said:

nightsurge said:

jarrod said:

nightsurge said:

jarrod said:

Ugh, everything I hear on Kinect sounds awful.  But goddamn... I NEED Project Draco, Steel Battalion, etc. :/

You mean everything you hear from PS fans.

All the MS fans seem to love it as well as the casual audience that is playing/buying it.

No, everything I hear in general.  Lag, recognition, shovelware, space... the space issue is a total deal breaker for my setup, so unless that changes I won't have much choice but to forego Kinect. Hopefully all those cool sounding JP games have pad based alternative control schemes. :/

Shovelware is the same on Move and Wii.  Kinect's line-up is actually ranking above Move's on Meta so far.

Also, the recognition issues was only to do with Kinect ID features.  The motion tracking for games always works (at least for me and anyone that has tried it at my place it has) provided you have the space and no infrared device interfering.  Kinect ID (the feature that matches you with your avatar) only has issues with lots of sun light or poor lighting conditions because it relies heavily on the RGB camera for facial recognition.

Even just looking at launch lineups, I felt Wii was like a thousand times better (Zelda TP, Excite Truck, Monkey Ball 3, Trauma Center, shit loads of Virtual Console classics) and even Move has some retrofits that interest me (RE5, Time Crisis RS).  As of now, there's literally no Kinect games I'm interested in even trying, metacritic or no.  I mean everyone has shovelware, but Kinect feels like the first launch where... well, there's nothing BUT shovelware.  That's going to change in the future though, which is why I sincerely hope MS can fix at least the "space problem" before then. :/

I wasn't interested in the Wii's launch lineup, but I'm not going to sit here and call it shovelware because of that.

Not defending Jarrod at all since I think he's 100% wrong on the "theres nothing But shovelware" bit cause Dance Central and Kinect Sports are far from it, BUT from game sites to people throwing around their "opinions" on forums and such they've called Wii Sports and Just Dance shovelware, which equates to Kinect Sports and Dance Central on Kinect, I mean people flat out call things like Deca Sports shovelware and then there's one releasing on Kinect.  

Just seems to me there is a double standard and it's a painfully obvious one.