project natal oficially renamed "kinect"

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Anybody who cannot understand a controller after honestly giving it the time of day to try and learn, doesn't deserve to function in today's society.

Flipping burgers requires more hand-eye coordination than a controller, at least to operate it at the most basic functional level.
 
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Even ethnic minorities can play!
 
barrier? it's the only way to play the fricken game!
 
i hate the new name, Netal was so fresh, Kinect sounds racist or just dumb, almost like hooked on phonics
 
It was Natal, not netal. As in birth. As in, ugly, slimy, blood covered shrieking baby. I like the new name a lot better.

Raziaar said:
Anybody who cannot understand a controller after honestly giving it the time of day to try and learn, doesn't deserve to function in today's society.
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Nah, I can see where they're coming from. Take Baseball for instance. For lots of people the baseball bat is the barrier. I mean, people just look at the thing and go "man, how the hell do you use this thing? Now... if I were able to just... I don't know... swing my arm at the ball instead, THEN I'd be all over this game".

I hear it all the time man. You don't even wanna know how confused people get when trying to figure out a tennis raquet.
 
Warped said:
i hate the new name, Netal was so fresh, Kinect sounds racist or just dumb, almost like hooked on phonics
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I don't understand this post on any level.

Also kinectic aesthetic.
 
lolllll, did he say "it's bigger than dad!"?
 
Yeah anything with those kinex guys is too new to be cool.

The newest thing I had was the solar powered motor, that thing was ****-awesome.
 
Eh 'Natal' always sounded like a mix of the words 'Nasal' & 'Anal' to me (I dunno why, it's just what popped into my head).

But 'Kinect' sounds like M$ are just trying to be down with the kids by intentionally misspelling 'Connect'.

So really both names are shite. Actually though it was primitive 'Six-Axis' has been the best name for motion controls. Better than 'Wii', better than 'Move' & WAY better than 'Kinect' or 'Natal'.
 
i misread that as kinetic at first and thought it wasn't that bad actually and kinda works well to a casual audience :)

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then i read it right -_-
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i should work for MS' marketing, i can come up with a better name by accident than them :p

also did anyone hear of the light up ponchos at the event? That event sounds like it is going to get some serious slagging come post e3 podcasts and the like. It sounded unbelievably....well strange is a word for it :|
 
It's a play on Kinetic energy and connect, so I guess it's appropriately named, due to it being controlled by movement.

I don't like it, but it doesn't really matter I guess. It's not half as bad as Wii, and that turned out alright for Nintendo.
 
Move > Kinect

also every add Kinect to Firefox's spell checker if your still using it
 
i love how in the space of a year from e3 last year natal went from the "next innovation of gaming" to an absolute laughing stock and move has slightly improved (relative to kinect anyway)

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So guess worst e3 this year goes to MS? Not suprised if this were true. Something is wrong when people are more excited for nintendos (a proven e3 embarassment usually) than yours microsoft ;)

EDIT: BEST REACTION TO KINECT EVER!

" For me, the highlight of the evening was watching Ninja Gaiden creator Tomonobu Itagaki walk into the event in his white robe, taking in the scene behind his traditional sunglasses. He looked around a few times, stood quietly for a few moments and then turned around and left."
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http://xbox360.ign.com/articles/109/1096874p1.html
 
It's as if the people who design Rainforest Cafes got incredibly high together and decided to spend $1 million.
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Trees are so much more awesome inside buildings.

Anyway, it sounds pretty hilariously awesome.
 
*<RJMC> tryes to conjeture words trough all the laugh vomit,still cant speak correctly*

http://kotaku.com/5562462/dont-these-kinect-games-sound-awfully-familiar

USA Today's story (since pulled) on the newly renamed Kinect highlights several of the titles we'll be seeing for the eagerly anticipated device when it launches later this year.

Unfortunately, it's a pretty disappointing list.

We were expecting some sort of revolution, but then we were expecting a revolution from Nintendo, before they renamed the Revolution to the Wii. Perhaps that explains the similarities between the games.

Let's take a look at what's been revealed so far.

Kinectimals let's you train and play with 20 different virtual cats. Or perhaps that's Catz. With tigers and lions in the mix, this is hardly Microsoft's version of Nintendogs, but the Petz series from Ubisoft has touched on tigers before.

But wait, we're interacting with them on a screen, without use of any sort of controller! That's new and exciting, right?

No, that's EyePet, already released in several regions, but retooled for North American release alongside the PlayStation Move.

Then there's Kinect Sports, with its boxing, bowling, beach volleyball, track and field, soccer and table tennis. It's Wii Sports, without holding anything. Hell, during the early days of the Wii, Wii Sports often turned into Wii Sports without holding anything, albeit while gaping at your newly cracked television screen and wondering where your Wii remote flew off to
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Your standard fare gimmick games.

PS3 Move will get these too. They'll be announcing MOOve at E3 where you take care of pet cows. With realistic milking action.
 
This seems like a horrible joke. I am laughing at the reactions of like everyone I know about this. The games suck and the idea that controllers are somehow things of the past or difficult to understand is ludicrous and insulting. They should have aborted this fetus while it was still Natal.
 
Personally, I wish they'd abort the concept of motion controllers period, I do not find games with motion control particularly enjoyable, except where said controller is used as a pointer(Dead Space: Extraction on the Wii for example.)

If I had it my way, both Sony and Microsoft would abort their plans.
 
Yeah, not really seeing the marketability of this. They say it's for people who are intimidated by controllers, but if you're that stand-offish about games are you really going to put down a few hundred bucks for something like this? The only people I can picture getting this are people who already own a 360 (or who've been thinking of getting one) who have kids or something who might use it... heh, if you think of it like that, it's almost like they intend it to be a gateway drug to gaming. D:
 
Bad^Hat, I agree, it's obvious a desperate attempt to try to cut into the "casual-market" which is a big part of what made such a huge success.
 
Jim Sterling is exactly as annoying as I'd imagined him.

Still, that sounds pretty ****ing bogus.
 
There is also the fact (that I can't believe no one mentioned here) that apparently as it stands* now you have to be standing to get Kinect to work properly. It cannot handle skeletons sitting down and trying to control it. When you look at a lot of the ads for Kinect, families are sitting down playing games. Currently, this falls under the category of false advertising.

Details here.

Sitting on a couch with a controller is how I like to drive cars in games. having to stand and simulate driving motions would be ridiculous in the extreme...even holding my hands out for too long if I were sitting would be a pain (quite literally). This may work slightly better for everything other than games, but for most people with the system, the games are the draw. We will see if Kinect will actually connect with MS's gamers or whether it is just a kitschy little fad likely to crash and burn except with silly idiot casual families.


*everyone see what I did there?
 
I haven't seen the demo but I basically get the idea of what the Kinect is.

I just want to play a boxing game where I beat the **** out of online opponents for the world championship. Every move perfectly choreographed to my actual movements. Punching, dodging and shit. The harder you punch, the more damage is done.

Another thing It should track my face and face movements so I can make this face :angry: while I fight and it should basically be me you are fighting. A very high quality graphical representation. Like you know, photoshoped faces and custom body type, color and hair adjustments, etc. so it looks like me and you are ****ing each other up.

There should be different weight classes and leagues and child/adult age groups.

Well, what happens when you get hit, how do you keep someone from 'hundred hand slapping' that ass continually and making it lame? Well, when you get tired (in game stamina or something) or hurt (health bar, are you with me?), the screen could fade and fade until you just can't see anything and during this time, your punches become less and less effective.

When you are knocked out, the screen is black and you hear the referee's muffled counting, and the crowd cheering.

Can you do something like that on Kinect?
 
From everything I have heard/read/seen it sounds like if you want a realistic 1for1 boxing game, you need to look to Playstation Move. Kinect just can't detect and react with the same fluidity and precision, nor can the Wii. I don't think any of them will frankly ever provide a serious contender to real boxing though. Humans are just too quick no matter how fast your processor is. :)
 
THIS proves kinect is fail and sums up EVERYTHING

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Anyone who thinks Natal was a better name is retarded. It means Christmas in Portuguese for fuck's sake! Not to mention the many birth and pregnancy connotations.

I don't get the hate for this, I can't say I'm really looking forward to it, but the technology is solid and full body motion detection is a definite improvement over the waggle-fest that is the Wii.

This preview makes it sound pretty decent:

http://gizmodo.com/5565657/xbox-360-kinect-teases-the-next-era-of-computing

And there is still much potential.
 
Shigeru frowning? XK-End-Of-The-World-Class Scenario.
 
Why is the xbox logo in the second frame not an X? Of all the things to **** up.
 
Who can't operate the Xbox 360 dashboard?

That's some epic fail.
 
I don't think Kinect is intended for people who actually play video games, really. Maybe the only game they ever played was Dance Dance Revolution at the mall. See, Microsoft is trying to get a crowd of new consumers that don't yet exist in home console markets, like what Nintendo did with the Wii.


I think they should make a motorcycle racing game so you can lean to the side to turn, like in the arcades. It could even be used to consider weight distribution bias towards the front or back of the bike to affect traction, like on a real motorcycle.

Or how about going fishing? Invisible fishing rod.
 
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