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Kyrsimys wrote:
I'm sorry but that looks really clumsy and boring. The character's turning and movement speed alone looks like it would make me crazy within 10 minuets of playing. Also it looks like most of the stuff could easily be done with the Wiimote.
Yeah the kinect sucks, right... it's so useless it can't even do the dishes.
"Genuine self-esteem, however, consists not of causeless feelings, but of certain knowledge about yourself.
It rests on the conviction that you — by your choices, effort and actions — have made yourself into the
kind of person able to deal with reality. It is the conviction — based on the evidence of your own volitional
functioning — that you are fundamentally able to succeed in life and, therefore, are deserving of that success."
- Onkar Ghate
Bisqwit wrote:
I don't understand why that game has to be kinect-only. The whole kinect control scheme seems extremely artificially tacked onto the game, and it looks like it would be significantly more fluent to play the game with the gamepad (and that's coming from me, who hates playing first-person-view games with a gamepad).
Otherwise it would look like a game I could play if it wasn't for that. (I don't own a kinect nor am I planning on getting one. I don't even have the room space to play with it.)
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Warp wrote:
I don't understand why that game has to be kinect-only. The whole kinect control scheme seems extremely artificially tacked onto the game, and it looks like it would be significantly more fluent to play the game with the gamepad (and that's coming from me, who hates playing first-person-view games with a gamepad).
As I said before, the main purpose isn't to obsolete the controler. It's like the gun in games like Lethal Enforcers or Virtua Cop.
It's a different experience... it's like you're really being part of the game.
It feels much more interesting than using a controller.
"Genuine self-esteem, however, consists not of causeless feelings, but of certain knowledge about yourself.
It rests on the conviction that you — by your choices, effort and actions — have made yourself into the
kind of person able to deal with reality. It is the conviction — based on the evidence of your own volitional
functioning — that you are fundamentally able to succeed in life and, therefore, are deserving of that success."
- Onkar Ghate
Bisqwit wrote:
As I said before, the main purpose isn't to obsolete the controler. It's like the gun in games like Lethal Enforcers or Virtua Cop.
It's a different experience... it's like you're really being part of the game.
It feels much more interesting than using a controller.
I didn't mean "I don't understand why that game has to use the kinect". I said "why it has to be kinect-only". I perfectly understand if someone would want to play it with the kinect. What I don't understand is why deprive those who either don't have the kinect or simply don't want to play the game with it from being able to play it with the gamepad. Why not offer it as an alternative?
(I wonder if Microsoft is paying these people to make kinect-only games.)
And when you find [your wife], she is being actually abducted by this huge monster, and then your train is derailed into this cursed forest in Easter Europe...
...Are they even trying? :D
I'm not saying Amnesia had a much cleverer story, either, but it played it in a lot less boring and cheesy way.
To be serious, there are so many things wrong with this game the tacked on "immersive" control scheme just adds insult to the injury. Newsflash: any game can be immersive, regardless of its controls, when it's compelling and fun. This looks neither compelling nor fun.
Warp wrote:
Edit: I think I understand now: It's my avatar, isn't it? It makes me look angry.
Two of the most immersive games I have played are Mirror's Edge (quite much designed to be such, and quite successfully; pity it was such a short game) and a bit lesser-known one: Medal of Honor Pacific Assault.
"Genuine self-esteem, however, consists not of causeless feelings, but of certain knowledge about yourself.
It rests on the conviction that you — by your choices, effort and actions — have made yourself into the
kind of person able to deal with reality. It is the conviction — based on the evidence of your own volitional
functioning — that you are fundamentally able to succeed in life and, therefore, are deserving of that success."
- Onkar Ghate
Bisqwit wrote:
Joined: 6/11/2006
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I do recall Tom Clancy's End War being released on the PS3 and 360 alike.
I'm still looking forward to a playable motion controller game. Give it some 20 years and we might actually have one.
Warp wrote:
omg lol this is so fake!!!1 the nes cant produce music like this!
"Genuine self-esteem, however, consists not of causeless feelings, but of certain knowledge about yourself.
It rests on the conviction that you — by your choices, effort and actions — have made yourself into the
kind of person able to deal with reality. It is the conviction — based on the evidence of your own volitional
functioning — that you are fundamentally able to succeed in life and, therefore, are deserving of that success."
- Onkar Ghate
Bisqwit wrote:
It's a very common phenomenon with (exclusive) fans of a certain product/company that if the product/company does not offer a feature that the biggest competitor is offering, the feature is deemed as useless, unneeded, if not even detrimental, or at the very least "not all that good" by these fans. Invariably if/when their pet product/company starts offering said feature (or something equivalent to it), it suddenly becomes great (and in many cases "better" than what the competitor is offering).
You can see this with anything. Just think about Windows/Linux/MacOS fans, C++/Java/C# fans, and so on.
the reason My PS3 is used only for blu-ray and exclusive titles: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQ8NhxD0-Ek
granted, it's like that on the 360 as well, but not as severely, and the installing of the game is optional.
Also, if you're bored of sandbox games, go check out Just Cause 2.
the reason My PS3 is used only for blu-ray and exclusive titles: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQ8NhxD0-Ek
granted, it's like that on the 360 as well, but not as severely, and the installing of the game is optional.
I'm actually quite surprised how relatively fast the loading times are on the Xbox360 even if you are playing the game directly from the DVD. I'm amazed at how well they have optimized it.
Anyways, I always install the game to HD before playing it, for two reasons: Firstly, and most obviously, it makes the loading times even faster. Secondly, it's a quick way of checking the integrity of the entire disk. Nothing is more irritating than having played the game for 30 hours and then it giving you a read error. (It's also very convenient that if there happens to be an error, I can go immediately to the store to change it, rather than after several weeks.) (And no, reading errors are not common at all. So far I have had only one case, and that's because one of the disks came in a paper envelope, and this particular game is quite infamous for it.)
