Natal now Kinect, with weak ass games for launch•Kinectimals lets you train and play

Link?

 

http://kotaku.com/5562418/project-natal-officially-renamed-kinect-more-games-revealed

 

Sounds lame. I'll pass.

 

Wow that's bad. Also I think they should have used wave (even though it's too close to Move, which should have stayed with Arc in t he first place).

There better be nicer games then those at E3 or MS is fucked..

 

Wow, I'm trying to follow the active topic on neogaf but it's simply giving me a headache. It seems like the natal event going on right now is a total train wreck. Tomorrows Ms press conference better be solid or its going to be a train wreck on neogaf for a week.

 

The casuals want dumb games, we get dumb games.

Money goes where money is, and since casuals outnumber us by the millions companies make games for them, not us.

Plus those games probably requiered a budget of $50 and one microwave burrito, and not the $70 TRILLION DOLLARS AAA games require these days.

 

Its not that. It seems tonight's even was a total WTF is going on, are you high? deal.

Here is a recap from neogaf
RECAP.
somebody add it to the OP.


* The line is massive.
* Kojima and Itagaki are there. So is Cliffy B.
* Everyone is being asked to don “interactive white ponchos”. Pat included. They have massive shoulder pads in ‘em.
* A mermaid is sitting on a rock.
* There is a “forest” one has to climb into, a television as well.
* A family is suspended in the air on a couch.
* Michael Cera, Billy Crystal, Nadine Coyle (which Johnny is pissed about) and Raven-Symone are there.
* Peter Moore is in the house.
* It all looks very Heaven’s Gate-ish or maybe Logan’s Run. Can’t decide.
* Acey Bongos just said: All the Cirque folk are dressed up like the blue bunch from Avatar. But not blue. All very natural and relaxing. There are pan pipes.
* D’toids Nick Chester just tweeted that a Cirque de Soleil performer wearing a sardine can on his ear was handing everyone tin cans on strings. He also said that: “There’s some kind of electronic hardware hidden in the shoulder pads of these robes they made us wear. Weird”.
* Christina Hendricks is there.
* Pat just told me he was standing next to Itagaki.
* BioWare’s Stephaie Bayer just said the ponchos made her fell likr she was at a Gallagher show.
* Pics of the show floor here.
* Here’s Itagaki in a Poncho. Per Johnny Minkley.
* Cliffy too, per Cliffy.
* Pat just said everyone is just listening to music right now.
* Per Pat: “More music. Some screaming men. We’re going to be here until 9pm apparently.”
* There’s a scene of Avatars up on the walls walking around in a forest. Over and over again. Forever (per Pat).
* Matt Bertz from Game Informer just said it looked like KKK rally there.
* Pat just said there is no music anymore. Everyone is just standing around.
* A green rectangular screen just descended from the ceiling. Says “prologue” on it and is showing a video of people drumming.
* Drumming getting faster. The couch is coming down from the ceiling.
* The performers are circulating through the crowd.
* The Avatars are no longer on the screens. A kid walks on stage. Then a green ball is being thrown around the crowd.
* All the performers are going “mental” at the front of the stage.
* Kid on stage
* They3e throwing a green ball around in te crowd
* All the actors going mental the front
* They’re all up on stage now
* Dancing ended, clapping
* Voice talking about discoveries
* Massive elephant walking through crowd (thanks, David)
* Completely new horizon
* Humans will be at the center and the machines will be the one that adapts
* Illusion of folks walking on ceiling
* Something about to happen
* Flying game on screen
* Kid controlling it with his hand
* Now a third person thing with cartoon action
* Something that looks like Kameo
* It’s Kameo
* Massive xbox logo rising on stage
* Kid’s standing on it
* Kid’s avatar appearing on screen in front of him
* He’s controlling it
* With him arms obviously
* Jumping
* Kinect is the name
* Clapping
* Screen turns into door
* Rotating
* Door falls away to reveal living room and family
* Kid rising up to walk into room
* Pictures of rooms with tvs and kinects allover the walls
* Just showed the logo
* Green waves around the xbox globe
* Family playing a driving game
* The room’s upside down with all the people in it
* Controlling avatars
* Flickingthrough book with hand motions
* Raft game
* Racing down a river
* Two of them playing it together
* Jumping off things
* Mine game. Mine cart. Like -Indiana Jones
* Collecting balls
* Ducking under things
* Jumping over things
* Two player mom and kid
* Driving game
* Kart style racer on a track
* Four players
* Boosting, ramps
* Shortcuts
* Stunts
* Avatars driving
* Car on halfpipe
* Car flying through clouds
* An avatar on each wing
* Disney castle
* Fairy flying round the screens
* Fireworks
* Star Wars game
* With light saber
* Force powers
* Darth Vader YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
* Fighting Darth Vader, big cheers
* Some kind of well being thing
* Its yoga or tai chi
* Elastic woman character matched by orange ghost Avatar
* They’re making the crowd cheers for boys and girls
* Sports game
* Hurdles
* Guy running and jumping to control it.Running on the spot
* Replays
* Now the girls doing the same
* Javelin
* Bowling
* Beach Volleyball – two players at a time, and one on one over live.
* Now there’s soccer
* Goalie and striking movements
* Running a race
* Social stuff like twitter on screen
* Showing movie selection
* Game on an island
* Girl stroking a tiger and playing with it like a cat and making it skip.
* Four different cats, just like the USA Today piece said.Kinectimals.
* Now on to the music game.
* It’s a dancing game, like reported earlier and Pat says that you match the moves on the screen – three can play together.Kinect Dance
* Now showing a video chat via the Dashboard control
* You can also pick between apps by moving a white glowing ball
* They’re showing people reach to grab photos in chat with hand movements
* Screens are now being lifted up on on the walls to reveal dancing families behind them – real ones, apparently, in large rooms.
* Dancing stopped.
* CliffyB just said everyone in a poncho was glowing (?) Ok.
* The kid is back and standing on the Xbox logo
* Avatars flying through space on the screens
* Everyone’s ponchos are turning green, and now purple
* The performers are now all bowing and dancing out of the room
* Per Pat: “GOD. They’re trying to make everyone dance. It’s over. Fuck me.
* Signing off. More details at the press conference tomorrow.

 

And thats how the robot apocalypse begins...

Anyways, yo subbie got the URL of that thread?

EDIT: nevermind

 

Almost forgot:



$189.99, thats right, almost as much as a Wii

 

If this is meant to be the future of gaming honestly I'm really skeptical. I wonder which one of those games Rare is putting out >.<

 

Yawnnn....if you really wanna play those kinds of games, wouldn't it make a lot more sense to buy a Wii, instead of spending twice as much on a 360 and this thing? Can't understand what Microsoft are thinking. And Kinect is a stupid name.

 

Is there a source for that price?

 

So I've just done a search turns out Rare made the Kinect Sports game. Seriously how can one of the top developers of the 90s and early 00s be made to produce crap Wii clone games :banghead: Honestly Nintendo selling Rare to Microsoft in my opinion was one of the worst moments in gaming.

 

**A wii costs $199.99 with with Wii Sports Resort and wii motion plus

**A Xbox 360 Arcade [new version] costs $199 with platinum hits banjo kazooie and Viva Piñata. Even a refurb 20gb is the same price if you didn't mind refurbs

Now the price of kinect seems bad because if you've just spent $199 to get a 360 or if you already have one are you really going to spend an extra $189 for kinect with what seems like poor launch games when you could get a wii with wii motion plus and have a vast amount of games to choose from at a much lower price point that kinect and a 360 and just $10 more than kinect on its own.

**prices from amazon.com

 

I dont think that price is going to be real. It would be suicide for MS to price it that high.

 

Fnck Kinect, fnck NeoNAF, fnck Microsoft, fnck waggle and fnck flail.

 

Hm ...

One could compare this release with MEGA-CD all way back to 1991... :lol: