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Transient wrote:I don't know about you, Kracus, but I don't want unintentional turns of my head, say, talking to someone near me, to alter my view in the game.

It'll need to be fine tuned but I don't see it being any more of a problem then it would be if you were actualy racing a car and turned your head. Especialy if you have a nice large screen tv where you actualy do move your head to see from one side of the screen to the other.

We'll only know once it's out I suppose.

^ lol, I wouldn't want to use my head as a controller. I'm also not keen on dancing around in front of the tv like a spaz, usually when I play games it's because I want to sit down. I'm still excited about kinect, but more for what the progress means - microsoft experimenting with new technology - than the actual product. I probably won't be buying it.

kinect is a better sell for the casual crowd. Move looks to be way better for gaming, but the problem is you have to buy a fuck load of accessories. The camera, the dildo, the movement keypad. It works out to be cheaper than kinect, for 1 player anyway, but the idea that you only need 1 device sounds like a better sell. Also sounds more intuitive to people who dont understand vidya game machines.

Even though the kinect is a piece of shit, i think it might be pretty successful.

Κracus wrote:

Transient wrote:I don't know about you, Kracus, but I don't want unintentional turns of my head, say, talking to someone near me, to alter my view in the game.

It'll need to be fine tuned but I don't see it being any more of a problem then it would be if you were actualy racing a car and turned your head. Especialy if you have a nice large screen tv where you actualy do move your head to see from one side of the screen to the other.

We'll only know once it's out I suppose.

How often do you require to turn your head (camera) in a racing game these days?

Eraser wrote:
How often do you require to turn your head (camera) in a racing game these days?

Well it depends on the game, In blur for example I do like to be able to see behind and besides me for obvious reasons and I'm fairly decent at Blur. In racing sims I love the cockpit view but never use it cause it's too limiting but imagine if all the gages and info was displayed on stuff that's in the car, like GPS, speedometer, laptop screen to keep race details.

It would be cool if the menu of a game was actualy the cockpit of your car so you would never actualy leave the car to go from race to race. You simply look over to your right (or left if you drive on the wrong side, yeah, that's right, I said WRONG side)

From there you could actualy choose what you're doing, like racing, driving around or whatever from the menu on the screen that's in the game located in the cockpit of your vehicle. I know it sounds silly but it's got it's uses and that comes into play even moreso if they create some glasses that you can wear that displays the screen. It'd be like the old VR stuff they came out with in the 90's except with better graphics and more immersive and less bulky which is pretty much all that was wrong with it back then.


Also useful in the cockpit of a mech type of game or flight sim or space sim etc... I see possibilities.

Κracus wrote: It would be cool if the menu of a game was actualy the cockpit of your car so you would never actualy leave the car to go from race to race.

I kind of like that idea.

Κracus wrote:

Eraser wrote:
How often do you require to turn your head (camera) in a racing game these days?

Well it depends on the game, In blur for example I do like to be able to see behind and besides me for obvious reasons and I'm fairly decent at Blur.

Behind you eh? How you gonna pull that off with Kinect?

You hook up a second TV and put it behind you, duh.

morguen87 wrote:The progress is cool, though. This is more than likely the future of gaming...we're just stuck in a little ugly experimentation stage.

I'm sort of agreeing with this guy.

I'm sort of not.
The immersion in a game doesn't come from some 1:1 physical:virtual synchronicity.
Quite the contrary; all that moving about is fucking distracting, imo.

Eraser wrote:
Behind you eh? How you gonna pull that off with Kinect?

Rear view mirrors?

I fucking pwn at Blur btw, can't wait to see ya eat my dust.

Blur's fun. Unless you get barged and shunted 8 times in a row and go from 2nd to 16th place. Then it kinda sucks.

Κracus wrote:

Eraser wrote:
Behind you eh? How you gonna pull that off with Kinect?

Rear view mirrors?

I fucking pwn at Blur btw, can't wait to see ya eat my dust.

yet i smashed your scores.
fffu--

sp is for losers mp is where the real men play

sounds like an excuse to me.

Bestbuy and Kmart will have Blur on sale for $40 tomorrow.

Print this coupon for $20 off and you can get it tomorrow for $20