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COKTOE on 19 August 2016
onionberry said:
COKTOE said:

Somebody else made a thread with this video a few months ago, so I've already been exposed to this terrible compilation. I wish this video had the segment of Jamie Kennedy "playing" Burnout Paradise with Kinnect on the night of it's unveiling. Oh sweet Jesus. It was soooo bad. He was obviously not controlling the game at all, and the ideas they presented as to how a player would accelerate, brake, ect, were insane. Watching it hardened me, and made me incapable of love. Thanks again MS!

we were so naive lmao

I have been thinking about having a custom "Better With Kinnect"  t-shirt made. To wear to my Xbox friends houses and whatnot. Really should do this.  And having that saying printed on a plain white T might actually make it better.



- "If you have the heart of a true winner, you can always get more pissed off than some other asshole."

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COKTOE on 19 August 2016
Nuvendil said:

Well yeah.  The Kinect is what I like to call "World's Fair tech."  Very cool and interesting in a vacuum as a demonstration of technical achievement, but when taken out of that vacuum and put into the practical world it is actually limited in usefulness.  The Wii's success and advancement wasn't just in motion control tech, it was in solving a problem with motion controls:  navigation of a 3D space.  With the D-pad and analogue stick found in the wiimote-nunchuck combo, 3D space navigation was possible in a game, even if it had a lot of motion controls.  So even though the Kinect was more advanced technologically, by abandoning that advancement it become less advanced in a practical sense.  Metroid Prime 3 and Skyward Sword are not possible on the Kinect as a result.  

Agreed and well said. Also, I like your Weird Al Yankovic avatar.



- "If you have the heart of a true winner, you can always get more pissed off than some other asshole."

LivingMetal on 19 August 2016

You know, maybe Kinect would have flourished more if everyone had gotten one of these...

I guess I missed out.



Dulfite on 19 August 2016

"We are the controller!"

LOL!



LivingMetal on 19 August 2016

Here is a classic we ALL can appreciate:



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SWORDF1SH on 19 August 2016

I'm not a fan of the Kinect but it's not a bad product. It might not of delivered on some stuff that they showed but is did offer a great casual experience not offered to this standard before.



gatito on 19 August 2016

Some people (specially the Xbox brand target audience) couldn't even get up and use a Wiimote, let alone move their couch potato butts to play a videogame. It was bound to fail all along.



Nuvendil on 19 August 2016
COKTOE said:
Nuvendil said:

Well yeah.  The Kinect is what I like to call "World's Fair tech."  Very cool and interesting in a vacuum as a demonstration of technical achievement, but when taken out of that vacuum and put into the practical world it is actually limited in usefulness.  The Wii's success and advancement wasn't just in motion control tech, it was in solving a problem with motion controls:  navigation of a 3D space.  With the D-pad and analogue stick found in the wiimote-nunchuck combo, 3D space navigation was possible in a game, even if it had a lot of motion controls.  So even though the Kinect was more advanced technologically, by abandoning that advancement it become less advanced in a practical sense.  Metroid Prime 3 and Skyward Sword are not possible on the Kinect as a result.  

Agreed and well said. Also, I like your Weird Al Yankovic avatar.

Thanks and what xD?  This isn't Weird Al Yankovic, though I kinca see the resemblence :P



tinfamous12 on 19 August 2016

So Kinect is sillier than an entire gaming console that nearly (if not successfully) destroyed the name of one of the most well-respected gaming companies of all time in the eye of the core gamer? And they included the name in a follow-up console? Now THAT idea is silly.



COKTOE on 19 August 2016
Nuvendil said:
COKTOE said:

Agreed and well said. Also, I like your Weird Al Yankovic avatar.

Thanks and what xD?  This isn't Weird Al Yankovic, though I kinca see the resemblence :P

:) Yeah, the guy in the avatar reminds me of him for some reason. Especially in the smaller avatars displayed in the news/article comments. Who is he anyways?



- "If you have the heart of a true winner, you can always get more pissed off than some other asshole."