Kinect has actual games

Hello, I thought considering this has been my critique for a while it's my obligation to bring to your attention the fact that Kinect has actual games slated. No, not Pony Dumparoo and Girl Party Slam Dance Edition, actual !@#$ing games. I previously did not know that they existed, probably due to the fact that Microsoft has been spending all their advertising budget making middle aged women scream over their videogame console.

These were all shown at TGS and the recent issue of Game Informer brought them to my attention. Evidently the Japanese demand actual video games instead of nonsense like Bash Party 6 or whatever that Breakout knockoff they showed off at E3 was. We all profit. Enjoy the following list (with accompanying teaser trailer):

Haunt (kiddy horror game....has most interesting concept in teaser thus far):

http://www.gametrailers.com/video/tgs-10-haunt/704594

Project Draco (basically Panzer Dragoon):

http://www.gametrailers.com/video/tgs-10-project-draco/704584

Codename D (Suda 51 is involved....trailer's kinda abrasive and confusing, but promising):

http://www.gametrailers.com/video/tgs-10-codename-d/704567

Rise of Nightmares (Sega, horror game):

http://www.gametrailers.com/video/tgs-10-rise-of/704570

Steel Battalion (replaces cockpit controller with Kinect somehow):

http://www.gametrailers.com/video/tgs-10-steel-battalion/704561

So I'm just gonna say it's time to elevate the discourse, I think, from "lol Kinect has no real games" to "how the hell are these games going to find an ingenious use for Kinect controls?" Are these concepts sufficiently titillating to renew your interest in Kinect?

As godly as Suda51 is, I doubt even he could make a good Kinect game.

No Child of Eden?funsohng

i didn't see any gameplay videos for those trailers, just teaser trailers and come on, theres only so much you can do with a camera that doesn't use buttons of any kind. either pew pew pew or your moving your hands around to controll something. Honestly if you weren't crazy about the playstation eyetoy i don't understand you would be crazy for kinect. since your essentially getting the same experience, heck the ps3 with the eye toy has a couple of games for the eyetoy.

Yeah, I know I'll get a Kinect as soon as Suda 51's game comes out. That man made the Wii fun, he can do anything :D

Half of them will be moved to regular 360 controls due to incompatible and clunky Kinect hardware and controls.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_games_compatible_with_PlayStation_Move

I want Project Draco if it's like Panzer Dragoon, though I need Kinect...

so you're basing the 'hardcore' games with some trailer? lol.

well then, Dragon Age is actually like this:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-iFrHRaH0Os

and Dante's Inferno is as epic as this:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UUOZRRU_Dyg

Again, I'm going to have to see it to believe it. So far, everything has been unappealing.

Hello, I thought considering this has been my critique for a while it's my obligation to bring to your attention the fact that Kinect has actual games slated. No, not Pony Dumparoo and Girl Party Slam Dance Edition, actual !@#$ing games. I previously did not know that they existed, probably due to the fact that Microsoft has been spending all their advertising budget making middle aged women scream over their videogame console.

These were all shown at TGS and the recent issue of Game Informer brought them to my attention. Evidently the Japanese demand actual video games instead of nonsense like Bash Party 6 or whatever that Breakout knockoff they showed off at E3 was. We all profit. Enjoy the following list (with accompanying teaser trailer):

Haunt (kiddy horror game....has most interesting concept in teaser thus far):

http://www.gametrailers.com/video/tgs-10-haunt/704594

Project Draco (basically Panzer Dragoon):

http://www.gametrailers.com/video/tgs-10-project-draco/704584

Codename D (Suda 51 is involved....trailer's kinda abrasive and confusing, but promising):

http://www.gametrailers.com/video/tgs-10-codename-d/704567

Rise of Nightmares (Sega, horror game):

http://www.gametrailers.com/video/tgs-10-rise-of/704570

Steel Battalion (replaces cockpit controller with Kinect somehow):

http://www.gametrailers.com/video/tgs-10-steel-battalion/704561

So I'm just gonna say it's time to elevate the discourse, I think, from "lol Kinect has no real games" to "how the hell are these games going to find an ingenious use for Kinect controls?" Are these concepts sufficiently titillating to renew your interest in Kinect?

Brownesque

Winter is coming up. Can I play Kinect lying down on a couch with a blanket over me? There. Kinect FAILS AGAIN.

[QUOTE="Brownesque"]

Hello, I thought considering this has been my critique for a while it's my obligation to bring to your attention the fact that Kinect has actual games slated. No, not Pony Dumparoo and Girl Party Slam Dance Edition, actual !@#$ing games. I previously did not know that they existed, probably due to the fact that Microsoft has been spending all their advertising budget making middle aged women scream over their videogame console.

These were all shown at TGS and the recent issue of Game Informer brought them to my attention. Evidently the Japanese demand actual video games instead of nonsense like Bash Party 6 or whatever that Breakout knockoff they showed off at E3 was. We all profit. Enjoy the following list (with accompanying teaser trailer):

Haunt (kiddy horror game....has most interesting concept in teaser thus far):

http://www.gametrailers.com/video/tgs-10-haunt/704594

Project Draco (basically Panzer Dragoon):

http://www.gametrailers.com/video/tgs-10-project-draco/704584

Codename D (Suda 51 is involved....trailer's kinda abrasive and confusing, but promising):

http://www.gametrailers.com/video/tgs-10-codename-d/704567

Rise of Nightmares (Sega, horror game):

http://www.gametrailers.com/video/tgs-10-rise-of/704570

Steel Battalion (replaces cockpit controller with Kinect somehow):

http://www.gametrailers.com/video/tgs-10-steel-battalion/704561

So I'm just gonna say it's time to elevate the discourse, I think, from "lol Kinect has no real games" to "how the hell are these games going to find an ingenious use for Kinect controls?" Are these concepts sufficiently titillating to renew your interest in Kinect?

Heirren

Winter is coming up. Can I play Kinect lying down on a couch with a blanket over me? There. Kinect FAILS AGAIN.

I'd say you can do that as much as you can do it with move or the Wiimote

Winter is coming up. Can I play Kinect lying down on a couch with a blanket over me? There. Kinect FAILS AGAIN.

Heirren

I think offering an indoor physical activity when its cold and wet out is a better selling point.

All of them will be garbage:twisted:

so you're basing the 'hardcore' games with some trailer? lol.

well then, Dragon Age is actually like this:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-iFrHRaH0Os

and Dante's Inferno is as epic as this:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UUOZRRU_Dyg

rawr89

just as dumb as basing them as "casual" from the same trailers.

[QUOTE="rawr89"]

so you're basing the 'hardcore' games with some trailer? lol.

well then, Dragon Age is actually like this:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-iFrHRaH0Os

and Dante's Inferno is as epic as this:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UUOZRRU_Dyg

alfredooo

just as dumb as basing them as "casual" from the same trailers.

[QUOTE="alfredooo"]

[QUOTE="rawr89"]

so you're basing the 'hardcore' games with some trailer? lol.

well then, Dragon Age is actually like this:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-iFrHRaH0Os

and Dante's Inferno is as epic as this:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UUOZRRU_Dyg

kuraimen

just as dumb as basing them as "casual" from the same trailers.

please skip to 3:40 or even better watch the whole thing

No Child of Eden?funsohng

Hello, I thought considering this has been my critique for a while it's my obligation to bring to your attention the fact that Kinect has actual games slated. No, not Pony Dumparoo and Girl Party Slam Dance Edition, actual !@#$ing games. I previously did not know that they existed, probably due to the fact that Microsoft has been spending all their advertising budget making middle aged women scream over their videogame console.

These were all shown at TGS and the recent issue of Game Informer brought them to my attention. Evidently the Japanese demand actual video games instead of nonsense like Bash Party 6 or whatever that Breakout knockoff they showed off at E3 was. We all profit. Enjoy the following list (with accompanying teaser trailer):

Haunt (kiddy horror game....has most interesting concept in teaser thus far):

http://www.gametrailers.com/video/tgs-10-haunt/704594

Project Draco (basically Panzer Dragoon):

http://www.gametrailers.com/video/tgs-10-project-draco/704584

Codename D (Suda 51 is involved....trailer's kinda abrasive and confusing, but promising):

http://www.gametrailers.com/video/tgs-10-codename-d/704567

Rise of Nightmares (Sega, horror game):

http://www.gametrailers.com/video/tgs-10-rise-of/704570

Steel Battalion (replaces cockpit controller with Kinect somehow):

http://www.gametrailers.com/video/tgs-10-steel-battalion/704561

So I'm just gonna say it's time to elevate the discourse, I think, from "lol Kinect has no real games" to "how the hell are these games going to find an ingenious use for Kinect controls?" Are these concepts sufficiently titillating to renew your interest in Kinect?

Brownesque

Well actually, you are 1 month+7days late to the party and they had been trash-talking since they mentioned on the SW forum. Just don't waste your time to discuss them here again because the fanboys and the haters alike will shoot them down like there is no tomorrow".

Steel Battalion (replaces cockpit controller with Kinect somehow):

http://www.gametrailers.com/video/tgs-10-steel-battalion/704561

Brownesque

Wait, what?

Either kinect functionality afterthought

or

OMG, butchering am confirmed!!!

[QUOTE="kuraimen"][QUOTE="alfredooo"]

just as dumb as basing them as "casual" from the same trailers.

alfredooo

please skip to 3:40 or even better watch the whole thing

please skip to 3:40 or even better watch the whole thingalfredooo

Bad example, because if you listen to his explanation of how Kinect works, he has absolutely no idea about it. Kinect has TWO cameras, not three. The third lens like object is a LIGHT (or projector, actually). Second, it's not using a stereoscopic approach to get depth. It's also not using time of flight, which is also claimed so much I even believed it for a while. It's using "light coding", which is a nice trade marked word with little explanation I could find. Afaik the patent is still pending, so getting any more details might be difficult for now, but it does sound like it's simply projecting a special image that allows to analyze the scene.

http://www.primesense.com/?p=514

Bottom line, making a point by linking to a video that is just utterly wrong isn't helping (shame, because I generally enjoy his videos). Can it technically do more than an EyeToy (detecting outlines of players)? Sure. Will it make a difference? Only if the games take advantage of it. Calling the hardware itself an EyeToy 3D is still pretty appropriate. And so far none of the games seem to go that much beyond EyeToy territory. But that's ok, since Kudo basically declared the minigame collections as appealing to "core gamers" because they "require skill", so according to him the launch titles already are "kinda core" (which in combination with always wearing shades leads me to asking: is this guy just constantly high?)

But the hardware isn't the big deal. The big deal is looking at what is essentially the depth buffer of a scene and figuring out where the people and their limbs are. And so far I've only tech demos where it started glitching whenever limbs were overlapping or getting too close to each other, because it simply can't tell the difference between crossing your arms or having them at a weird angle, ie. between having them like this: X or like this >

Steel betallion, and rise of nightmares have been known for a while and thought to be comming stateside....so...yeah maybe look around some before you make such claims as they are unknown titles.

Oh cool, zero gameplay

Zero interest. Come back when you have a game to show.

Has anyone else noticed Wii sales lately and how they basically have been going away slowly...there are only so far casual gaming can get you. I really just want all this motion controls stuff to go away already.

ugh. still not interested.

[QUOTE="funsohng"]No Child of Eden?ohthemanatee

Source (Destructoid is offline at the moment - the link isn't broken, but check it out at some point if you want)

Alright, now what are the games?

*pushes away trailers*

Nononono, I don't want ads. I want gameplay, dangit!

Also, how do we know Kinect won't be a horribly unresponsive Eyetoy with voice recognition?

The E3 show floor demos, from what I heard, weren't that responsive...

As godly as Suda51 is, I doubt even he could make a good Kinect game.

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