VIDEO: Kinect to Hit November, Looks Exhausting

Nutsos, lol.

It doesn't look like there was any skill needed at all in that game, just frantic arm waving

and thats why you don't smoke crack.

Every user demo of this seems to be just frantic flailing. Is there a demo where they aren't smacking balls into a wall? I wanna see MW2 or Gears2 played on it.

It's the same freaking demo they showed over a year ago. If they don't have something more in depth to show today they should just abandon the project because not too many people are going to spend $150 just to play crap like this. I know I won't be.

In the end you might just see this thing working in rehabilitation center. I don't want to use that and look like a complete retard.

What was the point of the game and how does having an epileptic seizure make it fun?

I want the Milo demo to become "real".

Micheal J Fox would be EPIC at this.

How about a video of it in action and not of the retarded people playing. From the split second the screen was in view, it looked as if the tracking was sporadic....then again there were 4 people waving their arms around like lunatics.

I certainly won't be spending the same amount of money on a peripheral as I did on the system itself. I think I'm getting deja vu....HD-DVD player add-on anyone?

The word "impractical" comes to mind...

That looks so retarded....

Natal Porno. Yeah! I mean Kinect Porno. Yeah!

ummmnn... 4 people.. waving frantically, and about a second of what's on the screen, looked... boring.

Nice job guys ~ those guys look so R-tard. LOL
i don't really see how fun is this ~

Wow...that looked kinda lame. At the end it looked like the writer guy was starting to actually try, but it was so hard to tell what was going on with all the people flailing their arms around.

There is so much potential here it is crazy, yet all we seem to see is people flailing about.

Needs a bigger screen to be played on to be enjoyable imho. And a game that doesn't need you flaping your arms around like a twat.

My honest interpretation: The "demo" appears to have no grip on what people are wanting to see. They are showing us the wrong thing. They want to say "hey, look, see these people using Kinect and how much fun they are having!" Which is true, the people do look like they are having fun at whatever it is they are trying to do... But from the outside looking in, it appears they aren't doing anything much useful. There appears to be no skill involved in what they are doing and in fact, the adults appears to just flail hoping to meet the objective and the children just appear to mimic the adults. I have to ask, how fun is that tomorrow? Remembering back to my days of purchasing a webcam, it came with software much like what we see in this demo. It was sort of like handball but you held up your hand or an object (a pencil, stick or whatever) where the cam could "see" it and you "hit" the ball as it approached the screen from some distant blank wall. I remember taking my hand and moving it violently in front of the screen and successfully hitting the ball each time it approached. Did I have fun? For about 5 minutes. Did I play the game after those 5 minutes? Not even once.

What the demo should have shown is something that's skill related and requires a little bit of talent. Boxing comes to mind. Ducking jabs, landing a right hook, moving around the room and timing your attacks. That would have held so much more value in a demonstration.

If they really wanted to include multiple people playing at once then a demo that showed something similar to Halo where one person could drive a vehicle and the other would man a gun turret on top. An added effect would be leaning your body (as the gunner) to deter the "inertia" of the turns. Lean into the turn to keep your gun aimed in the right direction just like you'd have to do in reality. Your body pushed to one side or the other doesn't offer very reliable aim.

Overall, add skill and movement that appears to be actually playing a game and remove the "look at me spazzing in front of the motion sensor" effect just to say "look at these people having a good time."

Phhh... so that's so much better than the wii...

Stephen Hawking probably isn't too happy that he can't play with kinect.

well for one i am willing to give it a chance. There might be no developers making a game for this right now. They might be on the ropes. So if no games come out by 2013 for this(that is if developtment for AAA games start with natal as the primary interaction device) then ill agree that this is fail. I hope somone makes kickass game for this. But im interested in that kinect vieo though. if i can use it with my msn.
But even i agree that the coference was dumb.

Yes, this looks retarded... But imagine playing CoD on it No idea how, but that WOULD be cool, eh?

Mind blowing example of people looking idiots. It's like the Matrix for dim-witted people,lol.... They should put that bonehead Ballmer in front of it so we can watch him finally have a heart-attack!

Right, so, a couple of guesses that we can now make about Kinect:

1. You'll either break everything in your living room, or will require a warehouse sized room to play it.
2. You'll look like a perfect idiot (especially the whole mimicking a gun, or steering wheel part).
3. Odds are, apart from breaking your house, you'll also break yourself, or a member of your family.

I'd say its going to be difficult to get market penetration and no one will waste resources developing for this. The 360 is already in the later phases of life.

can't wait for the exercise games

Assuming MS will be recording what the cameras see, I hope to hack into their servers some day and retrieve the vids for future extortion from all the dorkyness that undoubtably will transpire.

What Mr. Pink? You are running for congress? I'm sure the public would be interested to see these particular videos

OMG... this is hilarious. It was after the first video played - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=slR [...] r_embedded

It's hard to believe that crap like this made it SO far.

This looks quite promising: http://www.gametrailers.com/video/ [...] tar/101302

This looks quite promising: http://www.gametrailers.com/video/ [...] tar/101302