XBOX Kinect....

[MobBoss]

Do you have one? Planning on getting one? Opinions and experience comments please.

I am anticipating my youngest will put this on her christmas list and was wonder how well it actually works. So far, word of mouth on it is very positive. Wanted to check folks opinions here on it.

Thanks.

 

[Maniacal]

Do you have one?

No.

Planning on getting one?

Sure, I'll just hook it up to my invisible xbox and invisible 52" HD LCD TV and knock down a wall and extend my living room into the yard.

So no.

Opinions and experience comments please.

Better uses seem to be coming from people who (thanks to a very quick cracking of the kinect) are now playing around with it for various uses (such as an eye for a robotic thingy). It has potential, but it remains to be seen how well developers will use it.

I am anticipating my youngest will put this on her christmas list and was wonder how well it actually works. So far, word of mouth on it is very positive. Wanted to check folks opinions here on it.

Whatever you do do NOT get Sonic Freeriders. However, if you have the space and if your kid (and you) are willing and going to get $150 out of it then I don't know of a very strong reason to not at least consider it.

Thanks.

You're welcome.

 

[Chukchi Husky]

What I heard is that you need at least six foot between you and the camera, that the camera has problems recognizing people and for it to work you'll need a perfectly white background.

 

[GoodGame]

No and No. I barely play my parents' Wii.

 

[Maniacal]

What I heard is that you need at least six foot between you and the camera, that the camera has problems recognizing people and for it to work you'll need a perfectly white background.

At least 6 feet yes, but the camera from what I've seen doesn't usually have trouble detecting someone unless the lighting is really bad (especially if you have a darker skin colour, its reality not racism) and I haven't heard it needing a perfectly white background and have seen videos it played in non-white rooms.

 

[Omega124]

Do you have one?

No.

Planning on getting one?

No.

Opinions and experience comments please.

Don't get one. Its only a gimmick, and a horrid one at that. Wii buyers, how long did you play Wii Sports? 1, 2, maybe 3 weeks, before you bought an actual game? Let me tell you, the most popular games either don't use motion controls, only use it to complement a more conventional style of playing, or have a Classic Controller/Gamecube support, which is far more popular. No game on the Wii both is good and almost exclusivly uses Motion controls.

I think comparing the Kinect to the Wii is unfair (The Wii, distipe haters say, has some great games mixed with the shovelware), so let me compare it to the PS2 Eyetoy, remember it? No? Because it was crap. There were literally no good games on it, and it had an extremely small library to boot (Yeah, a good portion of the PS2 can support the Eyetoy in some way (Mostly for mini games or importing an image of yourself), but very few games were designed to play with it). To me, the Kinect is the Eyetoy with publicity and an opening library that is almost larger than the entire library of the Eyetoy.

My advice is to make up a white lie about how you can't get a Kinect. I think it'll be less dissapointing for her than realizing the games on it blow. If she (or you) want motion controlls done right, apporatie for her age level, and if she has a Wii, I'd suggest Super Mario Galaxy 1 (I do also suggest the 2nd one, but the 1st is better, in my opinion). It's a great game that pushes the Wii to the limit, and then some. That will be one game she won't be dissapointed with.

 

[bigdog5994]

just get a wii instead

 

[cardgame]

Kinect could be a hella lot more fun than a Wii, if they develop some good games for it. I played it y-day and it was pretty fun, but could get boring fast with just Kinect Adventures...

 

[bigdog5994]

Kinect could be a hella lot more fun than a Wii, if they develop some good games for it. I played it y-day and it was pretty fun, but could get boring fast with just Kinect Adventures...

to me it looks like a wii that is twice as expensive and doesn't have Mario

 

[Maniacal]

Well the X-Box 360 probably has more good games then the Wii The Kinect is still half the price of a Wii and this isn't about mario.

 

[Omega124]

Well the X-Box 360 probably has more good games then the Wii The Kinect is still half the price of a Wii and this isn't about mario.

Yes, but how many of these "more good games" are family appropriate? For example, I wouldn't want my six year old playing CoD, GTA, or other games of those types, not until he or she can display maturity, atleast. Now, I'm not saying that the Wii doesn't have them (No More Heroes, Goldeneye, and that's it without me having to Google or cross into multi platform releases. I'd actually would be okay with Metriod Prime 3, shockingly...), but there are family friendly games that are just as good as CoD, GTA, etc there (All the Mario games, Kirby Epic Yarn, SSBB (What, that game is for 13+? Ballocks), etc.)

Now, in a normal discussion, my point above is moot. However, MobBoss said the Kinect is not for him, but his daughter/neice/granddaughter/slave/a random, young, female person. I think MobBoss agrees with me (and may he tell me if I'm wrong) that getting her the new FPS is not going to go down well.

Will there be some good Kinect games? I think so. However, I think there will be so much shovelware on it, the people who made shovelware for the Wii would cry in shame. I doubt Microsoft would release their own worthwhile games, as they want to focus on making new Halo games (Completely understandable, even if I still hate how they handled ODST), bastardize the Age of Empires series (I still hate you for that one), and not releasing a Rise of Nations 2 (Oh yeah, that’s right, they sold Big Huge after they finished Asian Dynasties, along with Ensemble). I mean, the shovelware situation for the Kinect is so bad right now, on release date, that even /Sega/ released one, under the Sonic name, no less!

I just think the Wii is and will be better than the Kinect. The only problem with the Wii is the lack of good third party exclusives (No More Heroes, Goldeneye, Ghost Squad. That's it), and if given the choice of the Wii version or the PS3/360 version, it is almost always better to choose the latter (MK:A is the exception to the rule, as the Wii version has more characters than the other versions, but I wouldn't be giving a young kid Mortal Kombat. Ever.)

 

[carmen510]

Currently, the only really good game I've seen on the Kinect is Dance Central. Seems like an absolutely fantastic party game, but the problem is that IT HAS NO MULTIPLAYER.

 

[Kozmos]

Timeless, quality games that have been reshashed for 20 years? Lulz right there.

 

[Reginleif]

Timeless, quality games that have been reshashed for 20 years? Lulz right there.

You jest sir, are you enjoying your bland, montone fps for the 1000000 time?

 

[Maniacal]

You jest sir, are you enjoying your bland, montone fps for the 1000000 time?

You're just mad because he's right. And yes, I am enjoying my montone fps for the 1000000 time, its better than a gender confused elf who doesn't respect other people's property and a plumber who does way too many shrooms.

Now for real real, I don't know anyone who actually uses their Wii often enough that when they do they don't have to dust it off. I think all or almost all of the kinect games are child-friendly so far. Except sonic freeriders which was so bad Angry Joe hasn't reviewed another game all month.

 

[Kozmos]

You jest sir, are you enjoying your bland, montone fps for the 1000000 time?

We'll see how Deus Ex 3 goes, but I am enjoying them and other RTS/RPGs/Action Adventurs/Various Mods for Various Games infinitely more than playing Mario/Zelda/Metroid regurgitations.

 

[bigdog5994]

i play the wii all the damn time Black Ops is fun as hell on it

 

[Reginleif]

You're just mad because he's right. And yes, I am enjoying my montone fps for the 1000000 time, its better than a gender confused elf who doesn't respect other people's property and a plumber who does way too many shrooms.

Now for real real, I don't know anyone who actually uses their Wii often enough that when they do they don't have to dust it off. I think all or almost all of the kinect games are child-friendly so far. Except sonic freeriders which was so bad Angry Joe hasn't reviewed another game all month.

So you admit your a casual, that;s good for you. The genre of casuals is fps.

 

[cardgame]

casual gamers don't play multiplayer FPS games for hundreds of hours, especially the same one.

 

[Maniacal]

casual gamers don't play multiplayer FPS games for hundreds of hours, especially the same one.

Casual gamers can addictively play the same simple game (like peggle or something) for hundreds of house. What they probably don't do is play Metro 2033 twice. In a row. if at all. Or Red Orchestra. I've played a lot of FPS games and most of my favourites involve a great setting and/or a variety or deeper game mechanics. Not ot mention the 100s of hours I've put into strategy and RPG games.