Besides, even though people love to riff on it, Kinect Star Wars was actually great if you ignored everything but the Galactic Dance-Off mode. A very competent rhythm game where half of the songs are Star Wars filk? Sign me up!
My kids were like 3 and 5 when Kinect was released and they bloody loved it. Also Dance Central was superb for drunken adults.
Plus if Alien Isolation wasn’t scary enough already, a Kinect would dial it up a notch.
Definitely limited appeal and the tracking wasn’t great on the 360 version, but for those first two scenarios (younger kids and late night dancing) it was a superb party game.
“If you make noise in real life, then the alien will hear you in game.”. As if A:I needed to be any more terrifying than it is.
Still - it’s a very expensive bit of hardware to implement the microphone feature that eg. the Famicom had, and the ‘tracking’ functionality only benefits a couple of games. Bizarre decision to make it mandatory as part of the console.
It was a doomed piece of hardware from the moment a Microsoft exec decided that console games should have registration keys. The only thing people talked about leading up to the Xbox One/PS4 launch was how evil Microsoft is for wanting to do that. Even after backtracking on it and apologizing, the narrative was set: the PlayStation is for gamers, the Xbox is for Microsoft’s C suite. The technology of the Kinect was never the subject of discussion.
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Besides, even though people love to riff on it, Kinect Star Wars was actually great if you ignored everything but the Galactic Dance-Off mode. A very competent rhythm game where half of the songs are Star Wars filk? Sign me up!
My kids were like 3 and 5 when Kinect was released and they bloody loved it. Also Dance Central was superb for drunken adults.
Plus if Alien Isolation wasn’t scary enough already, a Kinect would dial it up a notch.
Definitely limited appeal and the tracking wasn’t great on the 360 version, but for those first two scenarios (younger kids and late night dancing) it was a superb party game.
“If you make noise in real life, then the alien will hear you in game.”. As if A:I needed to be any more terrifying than it is.
Still - it’s a very expensive bit of hardware to implement the microphone feature that eg. the Famicom had, and the ‘tracking’ functionality only benefits a couple of games. Bizarre decision to make it mandatory as part of the console.
It was a doomed piece of hardware from the moment a Microsoft exec decided that console games should have registration keys. The only thing people talked about leading up to the Xbox One/PS4 launch was how evil Microsoft is for wanting to do that. Even after backtracking on it and apologizing, the narrative was set: the PlayStation is for gamers, the Xbox is for Microsoft’s C suite. The technology of the Kinect was never the subject of discussion.
Are you me?
I loved tinkering with the camera and I also had just a few games.
Played the shit out of Fruit Ninja, though.