Microsoft Sings “You’re The Controller” While Fails To Convince Everyone
I wouldn’t say, I didn’t see it coming, Microsoft leaves another E3 with Xbox 360 fans wondering why there is lack of focus on hardcore ‘AAA’ titles by Microsoft. If you know the answer, enlighten us. Microsoft today during their E3 conference revealed a lot of games but most of the new titles apart from Halo 4 were either Kinect exclusive or were shown to work with Kinect.
I was amazed they didn’t show Cliff Blezenski playing Gears of War 3 using Kinect, may be next installment of the game would do that. Kinect works fine with casual titles like Dance Central 2 but not with big titles like Fable and Mass Effect 3. Their gameplay just doesn’t fit well with the “You’re The Controller” Kinect, it just doesn’t suit these titles.
Though, I must say, I was amazed by how good the Kinect Star Wars and Ryse demo was, but I would still be taking that with a pinch of salt. If you were watching the conference, you could clearly see the instances when the person presenting the demo was having difficulty playing the game. It’s rather simple, Microsoft shouldn’t stick Kinect on every other game coming to Xbox 360, make it casual games specific.
It’s simple, Kinect needs a lot of improvement before it can truly replace the controller. It’s Microsoft that is forcing all the developers to add Kinect support to games that would have done better without it, wasting lot of resources. Kinect exclusive titles are fine but don’t force third parties to add support which would not work out well anyway unless you are truly ready.
From what I can see, even with all these features, Kinect can’t replace the traditional controller when it comes to playing the games like Mass Effect 3 and Modern Warfare 3. Another Microsoft E3 press conference goes begging, showing lots of gimmick which we would have done a lot better without.
Find us on Digg
Our YouTube Channel
I don’t get it, why does Kinect have to replace the controller when there is already a very good one already? Kinect can add functionlity to existing games, they don’t need to make Halo Kinect if it doesn’t work. So they make games like Mass Effect 3 with Kinect features. That to me is pretty cool.
Gears of War, Forza and Halo are all for the hardcore crowd. Kinect is their main focus but you know what, the bulk of most agmes on any platform is and always will be from 3rd party publishers. I think it’s great Microsoft is standing behind Kinect because they know they have great 3rd party support too.
You thought Kinect Star Wars looked good? Oh dear. Lightsaber on??? FAIL
Haha gee I wonder why? Maybe because some games are best played with a controller, and even better played with a keyboard and mouse?
Waving your hands around and hopping around while destroying your knees isn’t going to give you very precise input.
Further, anyone notice how slow and inefficient menu navigation is with kinect? I mean, you have to wave your hand around just to get it to activate, and then you have to hold your hand over an option for a second or two before it chooses it – vs instantly hitting the A button to select it.
Gesture-based input is an inherently flawed concept, and I suspect the novelty of it will wear off soon enough.
Lazy? No, I go to the gym 5 days a week for intense weight lifting and cardio plus I play tennis. That’s REAL exercise.
Further, studies have shown that prancing around in Kinect’s narrow vision range is bad for your knees. I can attest to that after playing Kinect Adventures for an hour. My knees were killing me even though I play tennis and do heavy power squats at the gym.
ME3 with voice control. Once I have read the dialogue options it will take me about a second to pick the one I want with the controller. To say it out loud a few seconds or more. I don’t see the point. All they seem to be doing with Kinect is making things harder to do.
Replacing a controller is actually a good news because improvement of controller is nothing but adding a new features to the games, so it a good news.