Holographic Minecraft First Look

[Euphoria14]

Adinnieken said:

Euphoria14 said:

Ever played Minecraft? No way in the world would that game function with voice controls alone. It NEEDS a controller.

Why, because it currently uses a non-NUI interface?

About 20 years ago someone might have said, "You can never get Doom to run as a Windows app", but when Microsoft was beta testing DirectX for Windows 95, that's exactly what they did.  Trust me, people said you couldn't because certainly at that time you couldn't.  Not without an updated API.

Almost anything is possible with the right programmer and the right design choices.  Sayiing it can't be done, or it needs this or that means you're limiting yourself to the design choices a programmer made based on what capabilities the hardware and software offered him or her at that moment in time. 

Why is it impossible to use voice controls or gesture controls?  I haven't played the game first hand, but I've watched it being played and there wasn't anything to Minecraft that was so complex that it couldn't be converted to a voice or gesture control.

"Move forward, stop, dig, dig, dig, dig, stop, turn left, dig, dig, dig, stop, dig, turn left, dig, move forward, dig, turn left, dig, turn left, dig, turn left, dig" Keep it going until you dig a 30x30 area.

 

Good luck. Then figure out how to drop a crafting table, then make torches, light the room you built 40 blocks under the ground via long ass tedious voice controls then prepare it as a base to continue your pursuit underground.

Now go above ground and test your luck building a gigantic castle surrounded by a 200x400 wall, 12 blocks high surrounding your town that you are yourself built. While you're at it build floating islands that lead up to a castle in the sky on a 100x100 landmass that you also needed to take the time to build, starting with a 1x1 block, climbing 30+ levels before you began branching it out to this 100x100 mass before then going back and destroying the 1x1 pillar you created just to reach high enough to build that 100x100 mass. Remember though, after doing all that, build a castle.

 

With a controller my 5 year old daughter would have done in 30-60 minute, likely even less, all while you're looking like an ass talking to your TV set and taking a life time.

Been playing this game with my 5 year old for well over a year now by the way, so I know what i'm talking about.

Even played it tonight with a VGC member, although to be 100% honest I am not sure of his name.

We spent around 30 minutes building a castle, on the ground. It was only 1 floor, with 4 towers. Try that with stupid voice controls with 4 players working together at the same exact time and needing to quickly remove and replace blocks, lol.