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I want Lord of the Rings.

As in....Lord of the Rings. All of it - the combat (using your hands to mimic a sword, shield, bow & arrow, axe, or wand/magic), the communication, and the travel.

NATAL could be mind-blowingly awesome with such a setup.



Back from the dead, I'm afraid.

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zarx said:
the Darth Vader force choke game.


That's actually a great secondary controll methode... a Natal/Controller game could use force powers in that way.... like in the last SW game when you're pulling in the damn star destroyer class ship you could have done that with natal



Shorty11857 said:
zarx said:
air typing lol like it's that good a tech and even if it was that would crap but funny for 2 seconds oh well forget I said it

There was a tech demo showing that actually, can't imagine it working well unless they were capable of matching the "air keyboard" to how you touch type. I suppose if you air touch typed two letters, it could standardise the air keyboard to that in theory...yeah I don't have any idea if that could even work


you could do some interesting thing with that a 3D head tracking



Keyboard typing is very doable with Natal, it will not be done with fingers though. Just each hand. An on-screen indication of where your hands are is necessary and to type you just move your hand forward a couple centimeters. Natal accuracy at 2m away in the XY dimensions is around 3mm and at 4m it is 6mm. Definitely accurate enough to type on an on-screen keyboard. You could probably get fairly good after a while and it would definitely be easier than using the controller.



Defintiely an RTS, where the camera tracks your hand and displays a Diablo-like hand cursor on the screen. You "grab" unit and then "place" it (open your hand) where you want it to go. It it can do multiple hands you could get crazy fast. Also, for hot keys, the side of the screen could have a customizable interface with virtual buttons on it (like an iPhone game) and you "grab" at them to activate.

Also, Myst or any point and click adventure would work with the virtual "hand", you really need that though for something like this.

There is a snowball fight game in Wii Fit where you are behind a protector and lean out to throw the snowballs and lean back in to hide, you could even add the throwing motion with Natal.

Yes a virtual keyboard would work just fine, which will be great for sending messages and typing in names of characters in RPG's.

Using a character generator in Mass Effect would be easier because you could more precisely place the eyes, nose and other facial features.



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Just thinking about playing an RTS with Natal sounds tiring. Unless a game is made more fun by using Natal, I'd rather use a controller.





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