More details on Mass Effect 3's Kinect usage

[Rainbird]

Hapimeses said:

Rainbird said:

2) Voice commands aren't supported where I live, so I go by what seems to be happening on the forums, and I haven't seen a single person complain. If that's not the way it is, then fair enough, I haven't exactly done any deep investigation here.

3) I guess it depends on play style. I've never been using my squad in detail enough to change a characters weapon, in combat more than maybe five times throughout any of the games. I've never gotten to the point where I know the placements of the different abilities in the menus by heart either, so for me, voice commands seem like more fun in that they add immersion (hopefully), while giving me a less cluttered experience.

If you're playing on a higher difficulty then I agree it's probably not good enough, but for me, that's not going to be an issue.

2) Really? That also sucks. In short: it doesn't always work very well. Sometimes I have to command the device a couple of times or more to get it to do what I want, especially if there are people talking at the same time. It usually works, but not reliably. It's unreliable enough that I pretty much never use the function in practice. As I mentioned before, buttons are quicker and more accurate. After the 'oooooh, new toy' phase passes, it's just a slower, less-accurate way of accessing your console's functions (which is also true for navigating using Kinect's motion sensing; in fact, this is significantly slower, and significantly less accurate).

3) I, by comparison, always use my squad, and always use my powers, so soon they were second nature to me. So, perhaps you're correct, for casual gamers it will be more useful. Run and gunners and the like. I've also completed both games on Insanity with both Paragon and Renegade playthroughs, so I'm very used to the LB/RB dials (or L1/L2 dials, or space bar on PC -- I've played them all).

However, as I said in my previous post, I'm not really bothered by the integration for all I think it won't work well, I'm bothered by how it's been limited to Kinect only, which is a slap in the face to many loyal ME fans, all of whom have mics on 360, mics that could do the job just as well.

Hopefully the voice recognition can be improved for Kinect in time then. Rumors were that Microsoft were bringing big updates to Kinect with the new update in the fall, so maybe it will improve things. I just hope they choose to support danish with the update too. I don't know why they don't just let us speak english though. :/