Doobie_wop said:
E3 has come and gone, some fantastic games have been shown and some not so great games have been shown. Nintendo blew everyone away, third party's are releasing some of their best line up's ever and Sony/Microsoft showed their new motion controller technology. Both received a polite clap for their effort's and both companies presented something new for gamers.
Microsoft obviously had a weak showing in term's of titles that would excite the forum goer and the tech has gotten mixed reaction's from the gaming press. Sony didn't innovate, but they used an old idea, added a few trick's and created game's that can satisfy both their core and casual fan's. This lead to many people putting Microsoft in third place in term's of E3 performance (it's an opinion thing, it's stupid but fun).
I'd agree with most of that.
Since the Microsoft Press Conference the 360 fan's on this site have gone into propaganda mode, all of a sudden they have three kid's, a wife, a mum, a dad, two grandmas and a labrador who love's Kinnect and were amazed by thing's they've never seen done before anywhere else.
The fans saying this have had kids, wives ect alla long, why on earth did we have a reason to bring them up in the past though? Microsoft has never had anything casual worth talking about.
Finally we ARE seeing something our familys can get into. I can play Sonic racing, Lips and XBLA titles with my neice and nephew (which I've been doing for 3 years) but now I can finally get excited about play xbox games with them, because they're over the moon with what I've shown them.
They have become extremely defensive, they're hyping up something they haven't played, nitpicking the good press from the bad press, making up prices and bundles and listing them as facts, changing their perspective on gaming and even acting like their excited that they can now play Kinnectimals after two years of Natal build up. All thing's I've seen some Sony fan's do in the past.
I can't speak for all, but I don't think I'm personally being defensive. Kinect and Xbox is always going to get hate here, it's something most xbox fans have learnt to deal with. arguing with the crap thrown at Kinect (some warranted, most of it not) is not "extremely defensive" well not in the term you mean.
It's just slightly annoying certain people clinging to a retail price that isn't confirmed sticking their fingers in their ears singing "lalalala" to anyone that mentions otherwise. It's not 360 fans stating unconfirmed prices as facts, it's sony and nintendo fans.
Furthermore, I havn't changed my perspective on gaming, I was a little dissapointed, nay, very dissapointed with Microsoft's conference at first. Then I let it sink in. I have more hardcore titles to play over the next 9 months than ever before, and Kinect is just a massive bonus to me, as I enjoying gaming with my neice and nephew. PLUS that dance game looks awesome ...
Nintendo and Sony fan's are excited over the uses of Motion and the Move, but only as a side note, something they'll pick up and use as a tool to enhance their current gaming experiences. Microsoft aren't offering that same experience and instead are retreading on an old one, one's that Sony and Nintendo have developed before and I can't see how anyone who enjoy's the 360 would enjoy that tried and true experience.
I don't even get any of this "retreading on an old one"???
I can never see a reason to have this weird obsession for a console, I can understand that a console can be a preference (the PS3 is mine), but to obsess over a company is pretty sad. Sony, Nintendo and Microsoft all have fan's that behave in that obsessive manner on this site, not that long ago the Sony fan's were the worst, Nintendo fan's even had their moment's and now I'm surprised to see more and more Microsoft fan's falling into that same category.
There is nothing wrong being passionate about your favourite gaming company, the majority of people here have a favourite. And those Microsoft fans have been here all along, they're just speaking up now because there is something worth speaking about.
So, are the 360 crazies now replacing the Sony crazies?, is it just an after E3 effect?, is it due to the rare bad press that the 360 usually doesn't encounter in the gaming media?. What's your opinion on the whole thing?.
Kinect is going to be like a moth to flame when it comes to bad articles, some of them you can tell are just fanboy hate. But the same can be said for some over glowing reviews as well. It's just a case of weeding through them and finding all the genuine ones to get an accurate picture on how Kinect is shaping up.
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