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16 years ago
I turned around a corner and found baby rapty jesus. This is what he said:
Has anyone been watching the E3 content this year? If so then perhaps you've noticed something called Project Natal. After watching the vid for it all I have to say is...what a load of crap!.
Ok...when are developers going to get off their asses and realize that most people prefer something physical like a controller. Wii uses motion sensing, but you still have a controller. Project Natal however would have you imagine all that and make you look like an idiot while playing your games.
This thing is supposedly an add-on for an Xbox or something like that, uses motion capture and recognition technology to drive game controls and movements. I think it is rathter idiotic for all but the casual gamer. Lemme give ya an example. Ok, in the video there is a family on a couch with a girl acting like she is driving. She pulls in for a pit-stop and her dad springs up to secure the lugnuts on a tire. Neither of which is holding anything, and the steering wheel the girl is pretending to use it too big even for most busses.
Ok so maybe this is a bad examble? how about this one. In another demonstration you can have the device recognize some of your own stuff for game usage. That in itself is cool, but there is a problem, you can't actually use it while playing the game. What a load of unicorn rainbow shit! Ok, say I have a model of a AK-74 which is better than the one in the game, I would like to actually hold it while playing the game but I can't cause the system only recognizes hand placements. Fuck that...i'm going to go back to a controller.
Oh! something else for you airheads in the gaming industry. Maybe you havn't seen most gamers, but we tend to be lazy, exercise is not high on our list of "things I wanna do today." Not to mention many people play games after work, and are already too tired to even attempt exercise. Anyone that tells you otherwise, either does not work, or isn't a true gamer. Those people probably belong to that trendy group who think gaming makes them cool so they show off how many wives they have in Fable 2 then constantly ask for handouts because someone never told them you could own buildings to make money. Or, while playing Halo 3, CoD4, L4D, hell even in Halo Wars I've seen it, they play and bad mouth other players until things don't go their way then they start blaming others on their own shortcomings and finally rage quit. Grrr, i'm sick of people who do that, some of my own friends are guilty of it.
Anyway, coming back to my point, I don't think Project Natal will be a huge success. I think it is basically an attempt to rival with the Wii, and Sony, and will result in people buying it, then just casting it aside down the road due to lack of interest. Oh, not to mention how much this thing could potentially cost, I dun wanna even think about it.
I'm Mist, I squeak, bite me!
Ok...when are developers going to get off their asses and realize that most people prefer something physical like a controller. Wii uses motion sensing, but you still have a controller. Project Natal however would have you imagine all that and make you look like an idiot while playing your games.
This thing is supposedly an add-on for an Xbox or something like that, uses motion capture and recognition technology to drive game controls and movements. I think it is rathter idiotic for all but the casual gamer. Lemme give ya an example. Ok, in the video there is a family on a couch with a girl acting like she is driving. She pulls in for a pit-stop and her dad springs up to secure the lugnuts on a tire. Neither of which is holding anything, and the steering wheel the girl is pretending to use it too big even for most busses.
Ok so maybe this is a bad examble? how about this one. In another demonstration you can have the device recognize some of your own stuff for game usage. That in itself is cool, but there is a problem, you can't actually use it while playing the game. What a load of unicorn rainbow shit! Ok, say I have a model of a AK-74 which is better than the one in the game, I would like to actually hold it while playing the game but I can't cause the system only recognizes hand placements. Fuck that...i'm going to go back to a controller.
Oh! something else for you airheads in the gaming industry. Maybe you havn't seen most gamers, but we tend to be lazy, exercise is not high on our list of "things I wanna do today." Not to mention many people play games after work, and are already too tired to even attempt exercise. Anyone that tells you otherwise, either does not work, or isn't a true gamer. Those people probably belong to that trendy group who think gaming makes them cool so they show off how many wives they have in Fable 2 then constantly ask for handouts because someone never told them you could own buildings to make money. Or, while playing Halo 3, CoD4, L4D, hell even in Halo Wars I've seen it, they play and bad mouth other players until things don't go their way then they start blaming others on their own shortcomings and finally rage quit. Grrr, i'm sick of people who do that, some of my own friends are guilty of it.
Anyway, coming back to my point, I don't think Project Natal will be a huge success. I think it is basically an attempt to rival with the Wii, and Sony, and will result in people buying it, then just casting it aside down the road due to lack of interest. Oh, not to mention how much this thing could potentially cost, I dun wanna even think about it.
I'm Mist, I squeak, bite me!
