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Forums - Microsoft - Project Natal wins the Popular Science Home Entertainment Grand Award

considering the 360 is known as a shooter's console, it seems that it will be hard to integrate something like that into natal.

However Fight Night would be awesome if you just think about it. No more accidental flying wiimotes either.



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Seraphic_Sixaxis said:
Well deserved, i must admit MS have created something quite frankly spooky and far ahead of its time, well done MS. *claps*

It is deserved although 3DV Systems created the ZCam which morphed into Project Natal. 



nofingershaha said:
considering the 360 is known as a shooter's console, it seems that it will be hard to integrate something like that into natal.

However Fight Night would be awesome if you just think about it. No more accidental flying wiimotes either.

I believe there was a video a year ago showings a boxing game with Z camera which is now Natal. I notice in the video the players was beating the living crap out of the AI boxer. They were continuely swing their arms rapidly that if the AI boxer let down it's guard for a split second in order to swing the player score a hit.

 This is the same as 1:1 sword fighting. At first I thought it would be cool until I played stick fighting in Wii Sport Resort. Then I realize how tough it would be to build an AI good enough to produce any king of challenge. With 1:1 the CPU would have to "think" as fast as the human brain.   It may be ok for multiplayer though yet I had more fun with WSR table tennis than I did with stick fighting.



Look at the rest of the entries, they are kinda the usual home entertainment systems. They put Natal in there to spice up their list. Natal is new, futuristic and exciting, it doesn't matter if its not a commercial product yet, they want an exciting list.




@bobobolonga - You dismiss a whole genre of games (casual) because they don't interest you then question what it can bring to gaming. I'm sorry but you're delusional to make such demands by cutting off perhaps the biggest growth area this device will provide for.

I'll put one idea out there that could perhaps make it into a game in the future, with full motion tracking you can capture your own animations into a game. With accurate depth perception on the camera too you can generate a more accurate face map of the player. The extra features of Natal will allow you to enhance what is already possible with the traditional webcam and this when combined with new gameplay possibilities is why people are excited.

I'm being optimistic for Natal because I can see the promise in the technology, I'm not blind though and can see what will happen if Microsoft don't support it 100%. Until we have access to Natal as customers then I think it's stupid to hate on it, sure you don't have to praise it as the second coming but a slightly open mind doesn't hurt anyone.



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I hope they provide XNA support on the day it launches.



nofingershaha said:
considering the 360 is known as a shooter's console, it seems that it will be hard to integrate something like that into natal.

However Fight Night would be awesome if you just think about it. No more accidental flying wiimotes either.

I pity the fool who will play Fight Night with a professional boxer.  Concussion alert anyone?



Natal can win all the awards and get all the press and publicity it wants, i want to see something up and running on it before i make my decesion.

 

I wish they would announce a release date or something for it.



Sweep said:
JaggedSac said:
Now MS has to capitalize on this buzz with some good software.

And here will probaby start the problems...

I agree



 

slowmo said:
@bobobolonga - You dismiss a whole genre of games (casual) because they don't interest you then question what it can bring to gaming. I'm sorry but you're delusional to make such demands by cutting off perhaps the biggest growth area this device will provide for.

I'll put one idea out there that could perhaps make it into a game in the future, with full motion tracking you can capture your own animations into a game. With accurate depth perception on the camera too you can generate a more accurate face map of the player. The extra features of Natal will allow you to enhance what is already possible with the traditional webcam and this when combined with new gameplay possibilities is why people are excited.

I'm being optimistic for Natal because I can see the promise in the technology, I'm not blind though and can see what will happen if Microsoft don't support it 100%. Until we have access to Natal as customers then I think it's stupid to hate on it, sure you don't have to praise it as the second coming but a slightly open mind doesn't hurt anyone.

That's what most people seem to miss. Most of us Natal-enthusiasts don't necessarily think it'll go off without a hitch, but just the potential of this technology should make any gamer excited.

If great developers are excited about this, why are people still so resistant? Even if you're not excited about it, a thought like 'well, maybe it'll be cool, I'll wait and see' seems far more reasonable to 'Natal will suck, period'. I'm excited about it, but that doesn't mean I've judged it as awesome yet, I'll wait until it comes out. Not sure how anyone could judge this so prematurely, especially so negatively.