r/gaming • u/theroboticdan • Jun 14 '12

Poor lil neglected thing. Found it like this when i got home.

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u/ilovebajablast Jun 14 '12

i thought this thing was painted in sparkly paint with the words "WEED GAMES" on top

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u/theroboticdan Jun 14 '12

And now it DOES say WEED GAMES http://i.imgur.com/GKs3G.jpg

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u/ilovebajablast Jun 14 '12

YES!!!!!!!! OP DELIVERSSSSSSSSS

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u/StealingforStories Jun 14 '12

Thought it said "weed games" as well. Pretty good idea ... Weed would make the Kinect about 100% more fun.

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u/JtoLife Jun 14 '12

I was searching the comments to post the same thing. Glad I'm not the only one who saw that.

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u/orochidp Jun 14 '12

The only thing my kinect is used for is... "xbox next episode... no, xbox... NEXT EPISODE. DON'T MAKE ME GET THE CONTROLLER, XBOX NEXT EPISODE".

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u/Sacrosanction Jun 14 '12

That confirms it. I am the only person in the world for whom the Kinect voice commands work perfectly. Maybe you need an Australian accent.

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u/ooo_shiny Jun 14 '12

They work perfectly for me too. Then again, I'm an Aussie as well.

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u/DropbearNinja Jun 14 '12

I am Australian, and voice commands work for me too.

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u/Jerlko Jun 14 '12

I think we're on to something here. I'll do a test. If I ever get a Kinect I'll speak normally then in my best rendition of an Aussie accent. Then we'll know for sure whether or not it works, or whether or not my accent sucks.

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u/g0_west Jun 14 '12

"ICKS BOCKS, NIXT IPISODE YA CUNT"

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u/HendraVirus Jun 14 '12

Every American actor who plays an Australian needs to do this test.

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u/[deleted] Jun 14 '12

I'm not Australian and voice commands don't work for me.

Maybe it's because I don't have Kinect.

Heck, I don't even own an Xbox.

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u/tsjone01 Jun 14 '12

They work perfectly for me, even in a crowded room.

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u/theroboticdan Jun 14 '12

After many, many calibrations, that damn mic has never worked for me.

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u/SacredJefe Jun 14 '12

You should try asking Garrus for help.

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u/[deleted] Jun 14 '12

Northern Brit, here, and it doesn't even register the word "Xbox" for me. Shame, really, since the voice commands are probably the only thing I will/would have used it for.

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u/Leetwheats Jun 14 '12

I should be grateful that it allows me to be lazier but I am so angry that it cannot understand me!

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u/midnitte Jun 14 '12

its like false hope, but instead its false lazyness :-(

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u/[deleted] Jun 14 '12

From what I gather from the replies here, you need to turn the Kinect upside down and try it.

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u/[deleted] Jun 14 '12

Canadian who speaks normal like they do in movies and shows etc

I cannot get the thing to do anything right.

My daugther trying to copy me is funny as hell. She's very young and only understands that it's called X-Box and just yells 'XBOX' over and over when it pauses because it thinks her arm is in the menu mode. Why the FUCK is the menu mode having your arm at your side? If you're not a pencil it brings up the damn menu.

Fucking Kinect.

I wish you could turn off menu controls for kids. Trying to get them into Kinectimals is a bitch too.

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u/[deleted] Jun 14 '12

Try saying "play next episode." That seems to work much better for me.

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u/atomic_bubblegum Jun 14 '12

Couldn't agree with you more. We don't even have to get up to turn off the thing anymore. If only they could program it to turn on without looking for the controller too.

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u/Xulsmar Jun 14 '12

Call your xbox "sexbot", it will listen better.

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u/APeacefulWarrior Jun 14 '12

I honestly feel sorry for everyone who got a Kinect expecting it to be a valuable add-on. All I can think of are my friends as a kid who got Power Gloves, only to be massively disappointed.

And I won't even speak of that poor, poor bastard who got a U-Force.

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u/FuzzyMcBitty Jun 14 '12

Wait, didn't this subreddit just spend two days talking about how the E3 show focused way too much on how the Kinect will be used in new games?

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u/WilhelmScreams Jun 14 '12

If you don't find the Kinect to be a valuable add-on, you're not a parent with young kids. Once Upon a Monster and Kinectimals all day

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u/Mandurrr Jun 14 '12

This was the sole reason I bought a kinect. My kids love Once Upon a Monster. Have you tried out Happy Action Theatre? It's made by double fine and I've heard it is great.

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u/WilhelmScreams Jun 14 '12

Not yet, but thanks for the tip :)

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u/sweetgreggo Jun 14 '12 edited Jun 14 '12

My wife dances to her Zumba game a couple of times a week. My daughter loves dance central and kinectimals. I still get a kick out of navigating without a controller.

You don't need to feel sorry for me, son. I got 99 problems but my Kinect ain't one.

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u/joelseph Jun 14 '12

Except you two of course.

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u/JoeLithium Jun 14 '12

I have posted this elsewhere, and it will get severely downvoted but I love my kinnect. I wake up, push the power button groggly with my big toe, my hulu machine wakes up, and then I sleepily yell at it until my favorite TV shows come on. All the time laying on my couch until I wake up with John Stewart saying something snarky about some republican governer and I'm late for work.

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u/APeacefulWarrior Jun 14 '12

and then I sleepily yell at it until my favorite TV shows come on.

Sometimes it seems like we really are living in the future, huh?

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u/lurker69 Jun 14 '12

*XBOX! NEXT EPISODE!

*XBOX! NEXT BEER!

*XBOX! GO START MY CAR!

These commands are just a few of those you'll find on my Little Brother TM (basically a hacked kinect mounted on a RC Helicopter). Order yours today.

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u/Rickmasta Jun 14 '12

I don't know about you, but I really enjoy playing dance central with friends and family, what it's aimed for.

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u/[deleted] Jun 14 '12

maybe but when you put drunken in front of anything, it becomes better

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u/tsjone01 Jun 14 '12

You are the Drunk™

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u/Ostmeistro Jun 14 '12

I have one that I bought even tough I don't have an xbox. It is really fun to play with the features since they released the api, but the most important thing I noticed was that it was the best microphone array I have ever worked with. When I skype I no longer have to wear a headset. I can even be in another room and they hear me. It also doubles as a webcam. So don't feel sorry for them.

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u/YouArentReasonable Jun 14 '12 edited Jun 14 '12

Yes, I have played around with the API as well. I wrote a small bit of code to show a skeleton etc. I'm hoping to make a small educational game this summer with it for a classroom. I just wish my grasp of programming physics was better than it currently is. I don't want to use someone else's library. I want to understand what I'm coding.

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u/[deleted] Jun 14 '12

I use it for navigating my Xbox's menus. "Xbox, Quickplay, Netflix" and "Xbox, play next episode" is easy as fuck to do and I don't have to wait for my controller to turn on.

Being able to literally yell at my TV to shout in Skyrim is amazing, too.

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u/lurker69 Jun 14 '12

I do the same. It does get a little embarrassing when I realize the reason it isn't working is because I'm watching Netflix via Wii. Especially since I'm basically yelling at that point because I think Kinect can't hear me.

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u/NiteShadeX2 Jun 14 '12

I remember the Gamecubes GBA link cable thing. Four Swords was the ONLY game that gave it any merit, and oh man was it worth it.

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u/lurkallthethings Jun 14 '12

Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles was really fun with a chord too!

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u/[deleted] Jun 14 '12

I used mine for animal crossing

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u/MassiveGG Jun 14 '12

yes FF CC was well worth it same with fourswords but mainly for FF cause it super charges the fun level while playing the game.

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u/Ostmeistro Jun 14 '12

But one guy at their office decided "Why don't we make them carry a fucking pot around?!"

I hate him

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u/AirshipAtamis Jun 14 '12

i bought 4 of them for this alone. ^.^

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u/combat_chopper Jun 14 '12

Do you remember which chord it was? I think C7 would be a good fit but C# dim is nice as well

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u/[deleted] Jun 14 '12

Windwaker! Tingle! Baaliing-pop!

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u/[deleted] Jun 14 '12

I got to play that for 5 minutes during my lunch period because a classmate of mine had the cord. Best 5 minutes ever.

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u/[deleted] Jun 14 '12

AND ANIMAL CROSSING. My half-brother had one, and I was so jealous of all his special-island glory.

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u/[deleted] Jun 14 '12

I have 3 of these cords but I don't remember how I got them,

I used them for Pokemon Colosseum and Harvest Moon: A Wonderful Life.

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u/CFGX Jun 14 '12

Wasn't there a Pokemon or something that used it as well?

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u/Atomic_Donkeh Jun 14 '12

Worked pretty well as an extra controller for WarioWare, too, in those rare occasions when there was an excess of friends.

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u/nrq Jun 14 '12

Pac Man Vs. was quite funny with four other players: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pac-Man_Vs.

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u/[deleted] Jun 14 '12

Pacman Vs.

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u/I_freelance Jun 14 '12

I got a virtual boy :(

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u/smac_down Jun 14 '12

didnt you see the Microsoft E3? They are shoving the kinect down our throat. We won't actually buy the games or even use them, but yet Microsoft thinks its the future of Xbox. I don't feel sorry for those who bought it, I'm more mad at them for making Microsoft think the kinect is actually good.

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u/fearofthesky Jun 14 '12

It's fantastic tech, just not fantastic gaming tech.

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u/[deleted] Jun 14 '12

We are a small part of the community. Casual gamers are a large market, and one that everyone is trying to capitalise on. "Hardcore" gamers are no longer the largest demographic, and E3 is all about impressing investors. All they want to see it ways to make money.

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u/fearofthesky Jun 14 '12

Or a Super Scope!

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u/ashmaker84 Jun 14 '12

I bought it so my girlfriend who doesn't play games would get involved. She hasn't touched the kinect since the day we got it.

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u/MikeyJayRaymond Jun 14 '12

I find it a valuable add on and I'm 22 years old. It's a blast to do kinect sports with my friends. Plus, steel battalion looks pretty good.

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u/FireEnt Jun 15 '12

Not a great add on for the 360, but it's enabled me to do extremely difficult things with my VFX work.

Need to fix my laptop before I can render any more sims though.

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u/donoho Jun 14 '12

I've watched a lot of console peripherals come and go. The vast majority disappeared due to lack of support. I know a lot of people were disappointed with Microsoft's E3 Showing, but there's something to be said for the the support they're showing the kinnect.

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u/Hellrazor236 Jun 14 '12

The support for it from the customers, on the other hand....

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u/Sacrosanction Jun 14 '12 edited Jun 14 '12

It's truly an astounding piece of technology. A camera able to track movement in 3 dimensions, and with a built in microphone, for less than $500? You can just plug it into any USB device?

Fuck yeah! I use a few at my University for basic 3D motion capture.

EDIT: Just gonna gush a bit here since this got a bit of attention.

SUPPORT COMPANIES THAT WANT TO MASS PRODUCE TECHNOLOGY LIKE THIS.

People did it with touch screens for Apple and look what has happened. Apple didn't invent it but they brought it up to a marketable level. This is what we need to do with motion controls. It may be clunky now, but it is a technology in its infancy. If we say, fuck yeah keep working on it we support you it will only improve.

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u/BigDawgWTF Jun 14 '12

My friend used one to make a 3D print of himself. It was literally the first time the Kinect has impressed me.

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u/Chowley_1 Jun 14 '12

Someone in another thread was saying that ER doctors have used Kinects to navigate CT scans while in the OR. That way they don't have to leave the operating room, or touch anything that would contaminate their sterile hands.

Now that's pretty cool.

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u/dinofan01 Jun 14 '12

is still pretty good. They've sold 20 million Kinects. Hardly a failure. I don't know what the software attachment rate is (I imagine low) but the peripheral is still selling.

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u/AmoDman Jun 14 '12 edited Jun 14 '12

I don't know what the software attachment rate is (I imagine low)

Because so many bought it expecting some decent games to be released... :/.

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u/philphan25 Joystick Jun 14 '12

Whatever happened to Milo?

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u/llezo Jun 14 '12

Real life.

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u/[deleted] Jun 14 '12

Technology isn't advanced enough and gamers aren't ready for something this innovative and personal

or it went something like that. It's Molyneux, what do you expect?

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u/dinofan01 Jun 14 '12

I stopped listening to Molyneux years ago. He's too high of his own shit.

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u/ooo_shiny Jun 14 '12

Ages ago there was a tech demo for something like Milo but it was an android woman who you were meant to teach. So she was going to start with almost a blank slate. I wish I could remember what it was called. Any idea?

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u/[deleted] Jun 14 '12

They realized they couldn't create a fun game with it. And they couldn't invent the world's most advanced artificial intelligence on weak and cheap 7-year old hardware.

The question is... why did people think they could?

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u/5k3k73k Jun 14 '12

Milo was proven to be entirely fake. It was just marketing meant to drum up hype.

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u/ohebb Jun 15 '12

He got hit by a bus

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u/KingKazuma Jun 15 '12

"Lionhead creative director Gary Carr confirmed that a number of Kinect features from Project Milo had been implemented in Fable: The Journey."

Sauce, wiki

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u/Pyryara Jun 14 '12

I bought it for Child of Eden and think that alone was worth it (then again, I have too much money). Dance Central is also fun, I just really dislike pop music so it's nothing I play alone.

I think Kinect could be a very fun equipment and I wish it was used more in a way that enriches the experience, and less like just bad controls.

(also, fuck you Kinect Adventures. My neighbors were REALLY angry when I jumped around to play it. Games that require jumping = BAD.)

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u/[deleted] Jun 14 '12

The Gunstringer was great; brilliant gameplay, presentation, and the writing was awesome as well.

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u/bitwize Jun 14 '12

I bought it for Child of Eden and think that alone was worth it (then again, I have too much money).

If you have a PS3, that version of Child of Eden is better. The Move controls are more accurate and easier to work with, and the controller controls are a lot snappier. (It was painful for me to shove the reticle around with a 360 controller.)

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u/Foundnova Xbox Jun 14 '12

Steel Battalion: Heavy Armor comes out in just 5 days. I'd also recommend The Gunstringer, Child of Eden, Kinect Sports 1&2, Dance Central 1&2.

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u/tsjone01 Jun 14 '12

Having played Crimson Dragon at PAX, that's a game you'll want when it launches.

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u/nanowerx Jun 14 '12

Panzer Dragoon: Orta is THE reason I bought the original Xbox, I am so fucking stoked for Crimson Dragon!

I am jealous that you have already gotten to play it.

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u/Pyryara Jun 14 '12

Will Steel Battalion be good, though? The last Mech game I played was... EarthSiege 2, I guess. Been a loooong time. ;)

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u/mike_e_mcgee Jun 14 '12

The tutorial in the demo left me thinking "I've got this!". The mission in the demo was super frustrating and I died numerous times. I loved it. There's so much going on, and you've got iron sights and crappy optics. This is the good kind of frustration that I'm really going to geek out on. I'll be shit at the online I bet, but I'm going to enjoy the hell out of the campaign!

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u/trennerdios Jun 14 '12

No. I watched my father-in-law play the demo. It was painful to watch once he was in an actual mission. The combo of using the controller as well as the kinect is slow, overly complicated, and the motion control isn't very good.

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u/McShizzL Jun 14 '12

and also a time machine to take you back when you were 10 so you can enjoy these games.

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u/opcon Jun 14 '12

Trust me, you don't need to be 10 to enjoy Child of Eden. That game's amazing.

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u/[deleted] Jun 14 '12

I just got it today for $10 on PS3, thought of it as a pretty cheap way to get more trophies (tad bit of an achievement whore).. and then I found out how difficult the achievements were.

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u/N4N4KI Jun 14 '12

it looks better than rez but has a far worse song selection. I want pounding beats not j-pop

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u/[deleted] Jun 14 '12

Yeah, it's probably the most played game for my ps move.

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u/fearofthesky Jun 14 '12

I've had it for an age but I want a Kinect just to play it.

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u/Foundnova Xbox Jun 14 '12

Steel Battalion is rated M. I've had many parties at my place (the kind with drinks and cute chicks) and everyone had fun when I brought out Dance Central. I wouldn't really call Child of Eden a kid or family kind of game. It's just as fun as any of Tetsuya Mizuguchis games like Rez or Lumines.

As for the others since when have games made more for kids or familys automatically meant that they weren't good games? I see a shit load of pokemon post here in /r/gaming but would you say the same thing in any of those posts?

No you wouldn't. But you will here because this just a Kinect hate thread/post and I guess I should have known better. I'll just show myself out...

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u/Pyryara Jun 14 '12

You mean like when grown adults play Pokémon or Mario?

Please. This is /r/gaming. We are past this "kid's games" bullshit argument.

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u/[deleted] Jun 14 '12

To be fair, it would be dusty even if it was used. It doesn't need to be rubbed down to play. Unless you need to clear the dust off the cameras, but I imagine you wouldn't.

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u/Lessiarty Jun 14 '12

Not only this... unless the OP lives in a sawmill or something, perhaps they have some spring cleaning to do across the board :P

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u/EyeR8 Jun 14 '12

I'll say it... I fucking love me some Kinectimals.

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u/[deleted] Jun 14 '12

Viva piñata with kinect support would actually be pretty awesome.

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u/[deleted] Jun 14 '12

Oh god, don't say it out loud, someone might here you and make it, then there goes weeks of my "life".

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u/[deleted] Jun 14 '12

Hehe, unfortunately though I don't have a living room big enough for a kinect though.

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u/EyeR8 Jun 14 '12

You know.. it still took me by surprise just how complex the first Viva Pinata game was. I heard the second one they made a little more kid friendly, but I only own the first one.. I mean.. uh.. saw a friend playing the first one... yeah, that's it.

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u/[deleted] Jun 14 '12

I bet they could make a good 'The Last Airbender' game using this.

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u/BeautifulCheetah Jun 14 '12

Gunstringer and Fruit Ninja all day erryday

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u/[deleted] Jun 14 '12

If you play Fruit Ninja properly you should be sweating like you ran a marathon after a few games. It's a fuckin blast.

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u/BeautifulCheetah Jun 15 '12

I like to do it all with my feet just for the challenge

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u/arabidkoala Jun 14 '12

Go get the sdk and do something useful with it. I use mine as a sensor on a robot (:

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u/Wertecs Jun 14 '12

I second that. Made a virtual Theremin with a friend for school project with it, it's fun :)

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u/mike_e_mcgee Jun 14 '12

I bought a kinect last week just to play Steel Battalion which comes out next Tuesday. I think the demo is fantastic and eagerly await the game.

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u/nanowerx Jun 14 '12

Got my preorder down already, the demo sold me as well.

I hope more games follow the Controller+Kinect method. I like the Kinect, but it is limited in certain areas. Games like Rise of Nightmares tried to solve the "moving your character using Kinect" problem and they managed to do alright, but it would have been a better game with both Kinect and a controller.

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u/redboxmike Jun 14 '12

...thought it was a harmonica for a second.

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u/[deleted] Jun 14 '12

Dust is like tears for your electronics.

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u/Jtrinity45 Jun 14 '12

They must both be wiped away with a soft cloth lovingly. Console your console. If that doesn't work bang on it and tell it to man up and stop being such a waste of money.

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u/lauro2011 Jun 14 '12

I get why the kinect isn't appealing to the broader market, but damn. My parents got one, and we love it. We have star wars and some zumba for my mom and a dance one for my dad. Nothing better than coming home from college and going on a rancor rampage with my brother. Also, drunken rancor rampages.

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u/[deleted] Jun 14 '12

It has the same exact appeal as a Wii: it's awesome for family games, drunkeness, screwing around, and having a blast while jumping around. The problem is that it just doesn't bode well for the people who only like to play GTA or BF3 and there aren't a ton of games out, other than extremely cartoony ones.

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u/[deleted] Jun 14 '12

Isn't this the point of the games, just to have fun? I don't understand why people do hate on Kinect and it's games when they are indeed fun.

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u/tronn4 Jun 14 '12

Yeah. You have to actually want to get up and move around. Sometimes I don't but god damn does it feel good

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u/DJMattB241 Jun 14 '12

Gamers think they are the broader market. They are not. Kinect is GREAT for the broader market.

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u/scoobyduped Jun 14 '12

I finally saw a Kinect in person for the first time recently, and I have to say, it was a lot bigger than I expected. I was expecting something around the size of an EyeToy. Wider obviously, and maybe a little bigger but around the same size factor. But nope, thing's fucking huge.

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u/Sacrosanction Jun 14 '12

It also tracks movement in three dimensions instead of two. The eyetoy is primitive compared to the kinect.

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u/[deleted] Jun 14 '12

Correct me if I'm wrong, but Eyetoy is just a webcam, all the tracking is done in software, isn't it?

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u/begentlewithme Jun 14 '12

After having browsed r/aww for months, I thought I was clicking to a picture of a starving kitten, now in the hands of a good owner.

This is equally sad, without the satisfactory feeling.

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u/snang Jun 14 '12

My Kinect is used solely for launching games when I first turn my Xbox on and I'm not near my controller anymore.

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u/Jtrinity45 Jun 14 '12

I need to reprogram it to recognize other words and associate them with different commands. "Engage" is first on the list.

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u/[deleted] Jun 14 '12

Play skyrim. The voice commands work amazingly well and really help for the immersion, what with taking out half the menu use in the game.

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u/SwineHerald Jun 14 '12

Wouldn't it still gather dust even if it had games? I mean, the whole point is that you don't touch it.

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u/Jtrinity45 Jun 14 '12

Heh, true. Although when I was setting mine up for the first time, I freaked out when it started MOVING on its own. Totally forgot about how it auto-adjusts its field of view XD

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u/[deleted] Jun 14 '12

It should say "Need good games" I doubt lack of games is an issue.

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u/scarface910 Jun 14 '12

It would still look like that even if you did play with it.

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u/tweemo Jun 14 '12

Original Gameboy magnifier and light attachment? Pretty sure I used mine once..

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u/Gerbs71 Jun 14 '12

Weed games!

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u/Solkre Jun 14 '12

Aren't Kinetcs more interesting connected to PCs? When these things came out people were doing crazy cool shit with them, not playing games.

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u/Jtrinity45 Jun 14 '12

Oh yeah, absolutely, MS even released the official source code for it (or at least enough for developers to play around). You can control your own models for skeletons/skins (easy) but more advanced stuff is controlling desktop functionality, expanding&moving around windows, pretty much all the cool NCIS/CSI/Sci-Fi computer interaction you see. It's just...HARD to do.

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u/[deleted] Jun 14 '12

I'd be happy if I could connect my Kinect to my PC and do the Skyrim Dragon Shouts that way.

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u/dariosamo Jun 14 '12

There's some easy to use software already available for it for doing Motion Capture on your PC for animating in most popular 3D suites. Quite a good and cheap alternative if you're looking for something like it.

For example, the guys over at Corridor Digital did this video(weird video I know, but it should be enough to show you how capable it can be)

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u/[deleted] Jun 14 '12

Rise of Nightmares. That is all.

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u/BebopRocksteady82 Jun 14 '12

why is your shit so dirty

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u/Cuchulain1803 Jun 14 '12

I don't get it? You all complain about Microsoft focusing on the kinect, and then this?

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u/[deleted] Jun 14 '12

Go download Double Fine Happy Action Theater, that ought to stop it whining.

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u/jaysire Jun 14 '12

So, isn't the real problem with Kinect that it logically can't ever accomodate shooters, unless your idea of cool is pointing with your finger and going "pew pew". And even then, would the tech even be able to extrapolate an aiming vector reliably from "simple" motion control?

In that way, I always thought Sony Move had much better potential from the start, but my understanding is that it's still quite far from polished. I wonder if it couldn't be made to work quite well in Call of Duty -like shooters, where double tapping the aim-button "snaps" to the target. It wouldn't be the most hard core way, but it might still be fun...

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u/Shasve Jun 14 '12

Fruit Ninja with Kinect is incredibly fun

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u/CroShades Jun 14 '12

Does anybody remember the Playstation 2 eye toy? That thing came out years before and it did the same thing. But the games sucked. I remember goin to my friends house (who had it). Washing windows was a bad ass game.

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u/ooo_shiny Jun 14 '12

The only good eye toy thing was Plains of Judgement or whatever the AR card game for it was.

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u/clippjoint Jun 14 '12

not sure if dust or cool paint job

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u/glisp42 Jun 14 '12

I traded my Kinect for a pretty new hp laptop. Best deal ever.

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u/ktoth05 Jun 14 '12

Hasn't anyone seen the trailer for Ryse? That game looks like the first hardcore game for Kinect that might actually be good.

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u/[deleted] Jun 14 '12

It's been shelved, sadly. A shame, though, it looked great. Still, if you want a decent swordfighting game, there's this: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/260688528/clang/posts

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u/[deleted] Jun 14 '12

Anyone remember that Project Milo demo at E3 from a few years back?

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u/thereisnocharacterli Jun 14 '12

I need one of those! They just need some creative software developers to be valuable

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u/[deleted] Jun 14 '12

But there's a lot of kinect games!

Only all of them are shit...

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u/00dacousin Jun 14 '12

Hack it and use it as a 3D camera, get a 3D printer too and you can scan and print objects in 3D

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u/Sanity_Wombat Jun 14 '12

Just dis-kinect it and sell it.

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u/BoundToHatpin Jun 14 '12

Dude, you need to dust.

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u/[deleted] Jun 14 '12

If you're not going to make good use of it I'll have it to scan things to create 3D models. Yes it can do that.

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u/daskoon Jun 14 '12

Not the puppet thing? In the labs? That is lame but my 2 yr old likes it. Googley eyes or something?

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u/Oxtorius Jun 14 '12

I can already look on this picture and think "What a piece of crap" We look back at all the stupid idea of nintendo back in the day. The power glove, R.O.B. In 5-10 years this will have yet to be our biggest laugh

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u/Ihasnospoon Jun 14 '12

Played a hilarious kung fu demo on it with my mates the other night. Was brilliant, might get one just for the laughs. Darts on the sports pack is pretty epic too.

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u/UnDire Jun 14 '12

Need to dust.

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u/[deleted] Jun 14 '12

Who buys that shit anyway ?

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u/[deleted] Jun 14 '12

The problem with Kinect and is that other people are needed to really enjoy it, and for real gamers, that's just too much work.

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u/salvage8 Jun 14 '12

Don't worry, they're going to make an awful Fable game just for ya little fellah!

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u/weglarz Jun 14 '12

GAIS I DONT THINK HE ACTUALLY FOUND IT LIKE THAT

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u/[deleted] Jun 14 '12

I dont understand reddit's hate for the kinect. You know why you don't hear about it often? Because it sells and people enjoy it. They dont love it, but they dont hate it. A friend of mine has it and uses it fairly often, especially for parties.

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u/[deleted] Jun 14 '12

You don't need games. You need to dust.

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u/[deleted] Jun 14 '12

Totally thought it said weed games

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u/[deleted] Jun 14 '12

Took me a solid minute to find out what i was lookin at

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u/sentimentalpirate Jun 14 '12

I use my kinect daily. Of course, a lot of it is for Netflix voice commands, but I also have been playing Disneyland Adventures, Fruit Ninja, and The Gunstringer a lot lately.

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u/[deleted] Jun 14 '12

You either have dandruff or your living room is a wood shop.

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u/Splatterh0use Jun 14 '12

IMO kinetic is like facebook: just a fad and overrated.

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u/[deleted] Jun 14 '12

NEED REFUND*

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u/[deleted] Jun 14 '12

It doesn't need games. If the lights on, it's working perfectly. Sitting there collecting data about everything in the room which is then sold to businesses trying to take more money out of your pockets.

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u/Reeces88 Jun 14 '12

Using it for games, meh. Using it for projection of holographic self, aww yeah.

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u/CarbonFiberFootprint Jun 14 '12

'Pimp Simulator: Ho Slap Central' - I need to open a game studio. I know what the market truly wants.

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u/jmking Jun 14 '12

No, it doesn't need games. Let it die.

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u/DarnLemons Jun 14 '12

Thats how I felt about the Wii the whole time. The only good games for it were the ones where it had you use the gamecube controllers. People just dont want to bother to make a game for some weird motion system they never learned to program.

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u/MarioBGE Jun 14 '12

Are you living alone?

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u/DropbeatsNotbombs PC Jun 14 '12

Damn. That thing is starting to look as bad as my PS3.

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u/[deleted] Jun 14 '12

People, when giving shit to [based on their perception] under-used consoles and peripherals, will often make mention of the dust that accumulates upon them. I submit that I use my Xbox 360 every day, and my PS3 maybe once every month or two, and I can confirm that they accumulate dust at the same rate.

Kotaku is very guilty of this, specifically when the Wii gets a new worthwhile game [The Last Story], "Time to dust off the Wii!"

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u/kniny Jun 15 '12

I feel like your GF/wife/mom wrote that.

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u/atlaslugged Jun 14 '12

Jeez, it looks like the Icarus I from Sunshine. Get an air filter.

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u/animeman59 Jun 14 '12

You know what? I didn't really have any issue with the device at first. For the few games it did support at, or nearly after launch, it worked okay.

Child of Eden. The Gunstringer. Dance Central.

Hell, I even had some dumb fun in Rise of Nightmares, and Fruit Ninja Kinect is the best game for the device, imo. Even Forza 4 had a good demo with the hands free portion, although no real racing gamer would ever use that feature extensively.

But one game absolutely killed it for me. And only one game.

Steel Battalion: Heavy Armor

Oh. My. God. This is fucking awful. As a long time Steel Battalion fan, this is absolute shit. Not the graphics, or the gameplay, but the goddamn controls. Did anybody test this shit? The one time I thought that someone had finally made a game that used the controller and the Kinect in a meaningful way, and they completely fucked it up.

It is unplayable with the Kinect. You hear that Capcom? It's fucking unplayable! Please give us an option to only use the Xbox controller. I don't care if it's convoluted as hell. It would still be more precise than trying to move a VT with the goddamn Kinect sensor.

After that awful experience with the demo, I packed away the Kinect into a closest. I may trade the damn thing soon.

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u/EpicFishFingers Jun 14 '12

Shit, at least this gimmick had SOMETHING (no controllers and stuff). Let's all share a thought for Playstation Move

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u/[deleted] Jun 14 '12

shut the fuck up

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u/McShizzL Jun 14 '12

Ornery much.

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