People Are Still Making Terrible Games For Kinect

16 responses to “People Are Still Making Terrible Games For Kinect”

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   ftwstewieg

   May 13, 2016 at 2:19 pm

   Why didn’t Microsoft use Kinect as the launch pad for a VR system? Seems to fit imo.

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      vanit

      May 13, 2016 at 2:59 pm

      For the same reason that no one managed to make any good games with it; it’s too low fidelity.

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      mrtaco

      May 13, 2016 at 3:51 pm

      In addition to the above, I believe it also has extremely high latency too which is no good for VR. Well, at least in terms of head tracking. It’s a bit more tolerable for hand tracking and such, Doc Ok did a bunch of experimentation with it: http://doc-ok.org/?p=965

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         ftwstewieg

         May 13, 2016 at 4:30 pm

         Cheers guys as someone who never used one i had no idea about that. All i remember is Microsoft harping on about it changing everyone’s life and crap.

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   beeawwb

   May 13, 2016 at 2:23 pm

   Boy, the Beat Ninja sure does like furniture from IKEA.

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   cffndncr

   May 13, 2016 at 2:26 pm

   Actually @markserrels this is a port of a 5-year old game.

   That being said, the original one was hands-down the best Kinect game I ever played. I own it, I played it quite a lot, it was easily the best party game that I have ever played. It’s super-easy for non-gamers to get into, since you’re basically just whirling around in the living room so there’s no fine motor skills or learning controls required – also, using the camera to superimpose the actual player into the game was a stroke of genius in terms of party games.

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   leigh

   May 13, 2016 at 2:26 pm

   Kinect was a shameless and bald-faced attempt to do what the Wii did.

   Or, to be more exact, steal away the audience the Wii had identified.

   Apple went and did that though.

   I got my 360 in the middle of 2010, and part of the reason for that was Xbox (rightly) assumed its catalogue of games could stand to be left in a holding pattern for a while as it courted that market. I have always hated the ‘hardcore’ and ‘casual’ terms and always will, but I saw that I could safely ignore Kinect and instead enjoy the literal buffet of great games the 360 had amassed by that point.

   I still have more faith in Kinect than I do VR however. The E3 demos alone made Kinect at least a little bit worthwhile.

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   excelneko

   May 13, 2016 at 3:00 pm

   “XBOX, Pause.”

   “XBOX, Play.”

   Only use.

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      troutmonkey

      May 13, 2016 at 3:25 pm

      “Xbox Go To Netflix”and “Xbox Turn off” gets pretty good use by me

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         Jonathan the guest

         May 13, 2016 at 3:49 pm

         Except that AppleTV is halfway through an episode before the Xbone has even turned on and signed in to Live…

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            troutmonkey

            May 13, 2016 at 4:38 pm

            Yeah the boot times are really long, but once it’s on it goes quick enough. Definitely less hassle than dealing with Apple products or having to plug my PC in.

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      grummm_didley

      May 13, 2016 at 4:40 pm

      And launching my digital games, and switching apps like “xbox, go to youtube”.

      I got just dance 2014 at launch on the x1 and the missus and I have played it twice, once on launch day and once since. But that is as far as it goes with gaming on kinect 1 and 2.

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   excelneko

   May 13, 2016 at 4:38 pm

   Halfway through TV Show

   *Hello [insert profile name here]*

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      grummm_didley

      May 13, 2016 at 7:01 pm

      Ah. I fixed that by turning my kinect 2.0 round and pushing it up against the bottom of the tv. Still gets voice commands, but sees nothing.

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   awkwardlizard

   May 14, 2016 at 1:20 am

   I play the hell out of dance central spotlight and xbox fitness.

   I actually love my kinect and I wish there were more games for it

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   4rowan

   May 14, 2016 at 11:24 am

   set up a garage with a projector around kinect games. It really begs for a video game arcade to do the same. there was a game police 24/7 (2001) which did this. remember getting sore thighs from a boss whose front end loader you had to duck when he tried to run you over. a lot. way ahead of its time. Kinect is still ahead of its time imho.

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