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Dance tutorial / game ... what kind of dance ?
If you're thinking about dances where you have to dance with someone else, the game won't work, cause you can only learn it "good" by doing it with "real-live" dancepartners.

Tutorials won't work either, there are plenty of free tutorials on youtube, I won't need some Natal for that purpose. and you still have to practice it with a live dancepartner



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Grey21 said:
A shooter with strong auto aim and dodge movement. Ofcourse a FPS in its current form would never work on Natal. But imagine a more slowpaced shooter where you walk into say a parking mall and by moving your body far to the right you can run towards the nearest cover. And by moving your body slightly to the right you can dodge right. By pointing your hand Natal sees what enemy your targeting.

So basicly your standing in the living room dodging bullets, taking cover, auto rushing towards cover and auto aiming before shooting. In a regular FPS or TPS the emphasis is on running and shooting. In a Natal shooter the emphasis would be on dodging and rushing towards new cover when your current position is compromised.

Sounds good, but how would you shoot? Is Natal accurate enough to register you twisting you finger, thats one method I could think of, but it wouldn't be very accurate with the timing, so the AI would have to be dumbed down a bit so they stay up long enough to register a shot.

Any game that involves active movement should work well with Natal, dance games, sports games, etc.  I think maybe RTS's could work, if it can read your finger like a pointer, then it could overlay things like world maps over the screen so you could order your units around, kind of like a touch screen only without actually touching the screen. Although your arms might get a bit tired holding them up for extended periods. Still, until we know what it can do, hard to say what games would work well with it. Dodgeball does sound pretty sweet though.



i want to see boxing and GTA walking. what i mean is you have like a normal town where you walk around. you can wave at people, punch them, etc. if the cops find you, then you pump your arms up and down to run until you outrun them. something like that.



Orca_Azure said:
i want to see boxing and GTA walking. what i mean is you have like a normal town where you walk around. you can wave at people, punch them, etc. if the cops find you, then you pump your arms up and down to run until you outrun them. something like that.

The problem with walking is that it will probably be done with some dumb motions that have little to do with the actual act of walking. In that case it will be really gimmicky...

There is a reason why the Nunchuk has an analog stick, and I'm really skeptical of how good Natal will be without one.

 



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NJ5 said:
Orca_Azure said:
i want to see boxing and GTA walking. what i mean is you have like a normal town where you walk around. you can wave at people, punch them, etc. if the cops find you, then you pump your arms up and down to run until you outrun them. something like that.

The problem with walking is that it will probably be done with some dumb motions that have little to do with the actual act of walking. In that case it will be really gimmicky...

There is a reason why the Nunchuk has an analog stick, and I'm really skeptical of how good Natal will be without one.

 

i'm just the taddest bit drunk so if my ideas don't work right now, that's probably why. I would like to punch someone on a natal game. I'd buy it just for that, even if it is a gimmick at the time.



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Willem said:
Dance tutorial / game ... what kind of dance ?
If you're thinking about dances where you have to dance with someone else, the game won't work, cause you can only learn it "good" by doing it with "real-live" dancepartners.

Tutorials won't work either, there are plenty of free tutorials on youtube, I won't need some Natal for that purpose. and you still have to practice it with a live dancepartner

Not dances with partners. More like hip hop dancing like stuff you might find in America's best dance crew. The game could work like this, first you learn the dance moves, with natal tracking your movements to tell you if your doing it wrong and what your doing wrong, then you'll perform it and get scored on how well you followed the lines and the timing. 





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