the negativity towards Kinect is nothing more than paranoid, idiot logic.

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VGhippy said:
Kinect was the thing that turned me from xbox to Playstation. It wasn't the device itself, but Microsoft's change in focus regarding games after the damn thing came out. I always thought the game libraries were equal before Kinect came out. After it came out MS produced casual games for a year and then tried to produce Kinect games for the core, but just pumped out duds like Steel Battalion, Fable the Journey and Star Wars.

Absolutely loved the pre-Kinect years with my 360. Exclusives galore.
Kameo,
BK Nuts & Bolts,
Ninety Nine Nights,
Lost Odyssey,
Blue Dragon (yeah I liked it lol)
Tales of Vesperia,
Last Remnant,
Tenchu Z,
Viva Pinata,
Crackdown,
Project Sylpheed,
Infinite Undiscovery,
Bullet Witch,
Ace Combat 6,
Kindom Under Fire,
and many more.

These are some the actual exclusives, but console exclusives were good too back then with games like,

Left 4 Dead 1+2
Command and Conquer
Battle stations Midway and Pacific
Ninja Blade,
Supreme Commander
and many more.

And let's not forget the good games that came out as timed exclusives on the 360

Oblivion
Bioshock
Mass Effect
and so on.

I was still a 360 hopeful about mid-2010 I was actually semi-exited about kinect. The exclusives had been drying up for a little while, but it was okay because we knew they had to focus on the kinect launch, we knew they'd be back.... we thought they'd be back.

So in the end exclusive game production stopped outside of Halo, Forza and Fable, and in the end they even let Kinect get its grubby little hands on Fable and ruin that franchise too. Microsoft got a great license like Star Was and threw that into the kinectshitpile and even found a nice historic franchise like Steel Battalion to be molested too.

It's not so much that I'm negative towards Kinect, I actually f***ing hate it.

Halo CE anniversary has kinect voice support through the campaign, you need to say scan and analyse around different area's to unlock certain things, you can say "grenade" or "change weapon" and "reload" in combat if you would like to do any of those things approx 5 seconds after you've said it rather than press the button for the respective move.

Forza 4 has kinect built into it also, there is even a 5 point achievement called "look ma no controller (or hands not sure)" which you have to use kinect to drive around a full race with to get meaning you need to have kinect to 100% the achievements of FM4, using kinect to drive in forza only allows you to hope to drive left and right, the game auto accelerates and breaks for you.... so yeah you get a real driving experience using kinect.

other than those 2 points, your post is true to the letter imo, with the exception of you left out Gears, which did get Gears 3 and judgement after the Kinect bomb dropped neither of which have any Kinect support. But yeah other than that, awesome post.