Rumour – Microsoft to “serve the hardcore” at E3 with Kinect reveals

lol

hmmm i do think they are taking a risk with the exclusive line up controller wise, when price drops occur people will look and say box a has this line up and box b has this line up plus all this.

i know they have to invest in kinect but i cant help but feel they will end up alienating core gamers who dont give a shit about the product. its alright saying well it still has the call of dutys, mass effects and so on but they are available on other boxes, add to the cost of xbox live and people may start to wonder.

i’m not trolling its just how i feel about it.

I’m still waiting to see a ‘hardcore’ game that works without a controller.
Can’t be done IMO.

Just keep milking the casuals Microsoft.

Oh yeah… Core games.

If your game have a setting or better graphics and style, that does not make it a “Core” Game, Microballs.

I won’t buy this even if they are going to announce some kind of Gears Of War kinect title where you stand in front of your TV like a douche and trying to slice someone with a chainsaw… uhhh so HardCore!1

Keep your bullshit for fratboys or dudebros.

i’ll believe it when i see it

You can’t base a hardcore game on Kinect, you can use certain features but that’s all. Considering it’s low pixel quality, the PS Eye would be better for those features.

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Dudebro Erth?

You mean like this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kC9pjbei_bc

@7, *Saved the link*

ahahaha Perfection! that video is perfect!

M For Macho !

Guess I’m jacked-out dancing again in Cologne if they show off DC2.

@9

That was some seriously pimp shit last year JC

on related notes. seem project kingdom is kinect game

http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/34544/Source_Layoffs_At_Crytek_Budapest_Kinect_Game_Moves_Foward.php

“first-person melee Kinect game Codename: Kingdoms”

that is interesting. choking virtual person. i guess i will laugh when i see MS E3. just like every year

Crytek, i’m dissapoint.

Crysis 2 dissapointment, now new game is for kinect?

Oh no….

@12

Crysis Party!

@13, there is a trailer already: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jRTXpncI8BI

Again: a game with a mature theme but with on-rails movement and/or limited motion controlled gameplay is NOT a hardcore game.

@Erth

Haha, now imagine that with players doin that dance in real life their front room. -_^

If someone made a Mech games, where the controles were laid out in a see throough over lay hud style type thing. And controled your mech by holding your hands at certian points on the screen as if they were inserted into gloves/on control sticks, and used your hands to touch and select weapons/skills from the dash/screen overlay… you might have something worth playing for the core.

But it still seems to me like it would be clunky and slow and hard to make a run and gun action game with that given what we have currently seen.

I just don’t think it is impossible. Just hasn’t been done yet. Too many folks, devs/pubs and so called core gamers think that anything motion(Wii/Move/Kinect) should be casual party mini puzzle pet exercise or dance games. And I don’t think Wii and Move doing shooter games while useing a thumb pad/controler and pointing at the screen with a wiimote/wand is the best it can get.

I just think it needs the right approach, and a few open minds. But I think more then a few devs see the things as threats and thus aren’t interested in going anywhere near them.

Personally I’d rather they stuck to catering for the audience that’s clearly happy with Kinect the way it is, and just made ‘normal’ games for the rest of us.

@18 That would prolly be the best.

@Blerk, Same here, keep kiddy & casual games on Kinect, the traditional ‘hardcore’ gamer shouldn’t have bought Kinect in the first place. Like to see MS build a few new internal studios rather than focusing on 3rd party partnerships.

I just can’t imagine the majority of that audience even trying such a game, even if by some miracle they did manage to produce something worth having. And the casual fans will just want dancing and sports mini-games, so they won’t get it either. It’s almost certainly just money down the toilet.

oh fuck off Microsoft, nobody cares about your shitty eyetoy, give me real games!!!

“And I don’t think Wii and Move doing shooter games while useing a thumb pad/controler and pointing at the screen with a wiimote/wand is the best it can get.

I just think it needs the right approach, and a few open minds. But I think more then a few devs see the things as threats and thus aren’t interested in going anywhere near them.”

I agree with your first point, however, there’s one complication for the Kinect “peripheral”. You do not need one to operate your Xbox 360, it may even be more hindrance than help to try to do so in fact! But be that as it may, the point stands that by catering a core game to Kinect for a developer to do that, there’s going to be a considerable reduction in the potential pool of players who can readily pick it up. Maybe, it’s just not viable, with the way Kinect is.

The terms “Hardcore” and “Kinect” cannot exist in the same sentence. Nobody gives a rat’s ass about Kinect. Nobody. Give us some real games MS.