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can it?

Yes 71 29.83%
 
No, its already at the bottom of anything. 100 42.02%
 
You suck, its awesome 55 23.11%
 
I am ashamed I wasted my money on it. 12 5.04%
 
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themanwithnoname on 06 June 2011
superchunk said:
themanwithnoname said:
superchunk said:
fastyxx said:
Shinobi-san said:
Coudnt agree more, cant believe microsoft is repeating their previous e3! And are they blind to see that kinect does not work on some games!!! star wars looked horrible.

You mean last year's E3 which helped them reverse the trends in the whole history of consoles by actually increasing sales AND succesfully launching an expensive peripheral and having all their financials up?

Yes.  As a corporation, you certainly wouldn't want to repeat THAT.  God forbid.

If they hadn't had Dance Central it would have flopped. None of these games displayed today will continue that trend... not for $150. Needs to be $40.


That makes a ton of sense. It's not like it got outsold by Kinect Sports or anything. Oh wait...

1. sports was $20 cheaper

2. sports was a direct rip off of the biggest selling game of this generation... wii sports.

Dance Central is still the only game remotely worth having in that offerings... and that is soundly beat by Just Dance 2 in terms of quality and fun. 4 player >>>>>>>> one at a time.

Point is Kinect sold off of hype.

Its a crappy product that needs mroe time in the oven and a solid controller to help with actual movement beyond dodging.

It needs far faster response time.

Its best current feature could have been done with just software and a mic.


1. No it wasn't.

2. What's your point? It still outsold Dance Central making your post a bunch of crap.



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VetteDude on 06 June 2011

Kinect is...ugh. I don't have a 360 but I feel bad for core gamers on 360. Microsoft seems to be abandoning you guys. There really is not much you can do with a camera like Kinect. Dance games and fitness games are about it, and dance games are a fad. Developers are trying to cram games onto it when it really doesn't work well.. and don't get me started on that "Better with Kinect" BS.



Cheebee on 06 June 2011

Kinect is the new Wii. In terms of cheap generic casual borefests for games. Just you wait, tomorrow Nintendo are going to announce Wii 2 and unveil it's actually a 360 with Kinect. xD



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yo_john117 on 06 June 2011
superchunk said:
BenVTrigger said:
I don't get it.....

Kinect doesn't suck....


sucks horribly.

massive lag.

no actual movement controls.

I've said it since it was first mentioned, as it stands its just not compatible with 99% of game genres. Trying to force it to fit into FPS, TPS, and many others is just stupid and a waste of time.

They want to touch a core genre that might actually do well? Try RTS or Civilization.

NO

IT

DOESN'T 

(only in your opinion)

 

 

Do you guys really not understand how opinions work?



slowmo on 06 June 2011

We Microsoft fans are proud today, the 360 has now become the true home of shovelware! In fairness Kinect is fine, whoever decided to create a onrails Fable shooter and a half assed Star Wars shooter as showing off its features though should be shot.



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fastyxx on 06 June 2011
VetteDude said:
Kinect is...ugh. I don't have a 360 but I feel bad for core gamers on 360. Microsoft seems to be abandoning you guys. There really is not much you can do with a camera like Kinect. Dance games and fitness games are about it, and dance games are a fad. Developers are trying to cram games onto it when it really doesn't work well.. and don't get me started on that "Better with Kinect" BS.

What exactly is a core gamer on 360 missing?  I don't follow.  Where are 360-only gamers being left behind.  Because I don't see it.



Can't we all just get along and play our games in peace?

VetteDude on 06 June 2011
fastyxx said:
VetteDude said:
Kinect is...ugh. I don't have a 360 but I feel bad for core gamers on 360. Microsoft seems to be abandoning you guys. There really is not much you can do with a camera like Kinect. Dance games and fitness games are about it, and dance games are a fad. Developers are trying to cram games onto it when it really doesn't work well.. and don't get me started on that "Better with Kinect" BS.

What exactly is a core gamer on 360 missing?  I don't follow.  Where are 360-only gamers being left behind.  Because I don't see it.


Well that are focusing on Kinect a lot more where as before they focused on core gamers.



Rainbird on 06 June 2011
superchunk said:
Rainbird said:
superchunk said:

The ghost recon demo was stupid.

All it showed was menu screens.

Playing the game would have to be on rails as you have no movement control.. hence the crappy SW game.

Wrong, there were movement controls. You can rewatch the clip, it's in there.

As far as I can see, it depends on the player moving to the sides, don't know if there's anything about going back and forth.

lol that's called being on rails.

Did you see the demo? There was no reason for him to move back and forth, so why would he?

You're obviously very set on this game being on rails, but I don't see how having sideways movement with no confirmation of forwards or backwards movement must be interpreted as the game being on rails.

Stop jumping to conclusions.



yo_john117 on 06 June 2011
VetteDude said:
fastyxx said:
VetteDude said:
Kinect is...ugh. I don't have a 360 but I feel bad for core gamers on 360. Microsoft seems to be abandoning you guys. There really is not much you can do with a camera like Kinect. Dance games and fitness games are about it, and dance games are a fad. Developers are trying to cram games onto it when it really doesn't work well.. and don't get me started on that "Better with Kinect" BS.

What exactly is a core gamer on 360 missing?  I don't follow.  Where are 360-only gamers being left behind.  Because I don't see it.


Well that are focusing on Kinect a lot more where as before they focused on core gamers.

They are keeping their mainstream core group (which is virtually 95% of their core group) with games like Halo, Fable, Forza, Kingdoms, Minecraft whilst expanding their casual audience with the Kinect casual titles.



kmarois on 06 June 2011

This kinect crap with fable actually makes me a little sad. I would love to be able to explore in my action/adventure/rpg games.

next Final Fantasy will be on rails and Kinect enabled.