Agnates said:

http://www.earth-seeker.jp/

Original reveal with artwork and game/world details, for those who forgot what it is. Action + booze bribery.

Translation of the scan from andriasang.

http://uk.xbox360.ign.com/articles/110/1108080p1.html

IGN Kinect Impressions

Volunteers to step up onto the stage to have a go at Dance Central were thin on the ground, but everyone else was keen to have a go at the four other games on offer – Kinect Sports, Kinect Adventures, Joy Ride and Kinectimals – to finally get a chance to see whether Kinect can justify its £130 price tag.

Joy Ride – a cartoony kart-racer - was surprisingly difficult to control, and most of the seasoned gaming journos spent half the time spinning off the track. Waving your limbs around in front of a screen, regardless of how simplified the game is, isn't an intuitive control system.

The system's responsiveness also seemed a little off balance and only time will tell whether this gets easier with practice. You can see the potential for Kinect, but it feels like Microsoft was still either keeping its cards close to its chest, or had over-promised with the initial reveal.

Kinect Sports and Adventures seemed a better fit for the new interface, but for most of the time trying the ball-dodging mini-game in Adventures was spent flailing around at random. Whether this was caused by the infamous 'lag' that seemed to plague early demos was difficult to tell, but when you have to resort to waving your arms like a semaphore enthusiast at a rave whilst you're trying to do something as simple as bat a ball back at the screen it can get frustrating.

Here's what you get for your cash, but will it be worth it?

Our final demo was with Kinectimals, which was shown to us in a curtained off area of the showfloor, seemingly to enable voice commands to be heard by Kinect. The system really struggled in the darkened area, with the sounds of Lady Gaga still heard through the thick curtains, and the on-screen lion cub responded to the demonstrator's commands only sporadically.

It seems silence and solitude are needed by Kinect for optimum performance - conditions seldom found in homes with young children – Kinectimal's target audience.

From what we were shown, there is little that Kinect has to offer for the hardcore gamer from its opening titles, with the casual gamer clearly their number one target.

The games being shown were clearly just designed to demonstrate the peripheral's capability at a very basic level, but until Microsoft begins to utilise some of Kinect's more exciting features in a – dare we say it – cooler way, then it may struggle to convince even its most fervent fans to part with £130 when it finally becomes available later this year.

As it stands, PlayStation's Move looks a much more accessible piece of hardware and the tech demos we've seen blew Kinect's flailing displays out of the water. Nintendo is still ahead of the game when it comes to motion sensing, and both Sony and Microsoft still have a long way to go to catch up, but so far Kinect seems like the lame donkey in the race.

ASK_Story said:

LP2's failure is probably why Capcom took him off of RE6.

RE5 is their second bestselling game though. I believe it was Takuchi's own decision to give up on the RE series after trying to live up to RE4 owners expectations.

I loved what I saw of LP2 when I first saw it, that huge frog like boss. Then I sort of realised that it was a massive bullet sponge. The reviews really did kill it though. Hardcore gamers read the reviews and know when something is worth buying.

aspro said:

Agnates said:

Because they're developing it and are known for slick visuals, fast action, and the like, all of which are present in Other M? I mean, the face modeling alone is miles beyond Retro's...

You and I are in agreement. But I want Bobovich's take.

 There's no take, just annoyance that people can't seem to remember the shit I told them thousands times before.

Metroid other M is a collaboration between Team Ninja, Team Metroid (I am not sure what their official name is) and D-Rockets for he cut scenes. If you think the game is going to be crap, that is your right, but don't blame it on Team Ninja.

For 2 reasons I say this.

1) They are in collaboration with 2 other teams, including the Metroid guys. 

2) Yoshio Sakamoto actually contacted Team Ninja and asked for their collaboration. He was not forced to do that. And even if Team Ninja does something wrong, he is still the producer and can stop and correct things. Heck in a interview it was said that Team Ninja wanted to use the nunchuck, while Sakamoto inspired by NSMBWii wanted to go Wiimote only. 

Some people don't like the story focus and blame Team ninja for that. Well guess what Sakamoto wrote the scenario. Even better he wrote the whole fucking Metroid manga.

There are some design decisions in Oher M that I do not like, but let's be honest here people. All responsibility falls on Sakamoto's shoulders. He hired those guys and he had the power to stop some decisions. Actually most of the controversial decisions have been made by him. So quit the crap and stop scape goating Team Ninja.

And and another point. If you say you don't trust Team Ninja, you are saying that you do not trust Sakamoto, for he was the once who approached them. 

gamingeek said:

Earth Seeker looks interesting, pics are so small though.

Like when Zelda team members headed up Wii Fit? You were adamant that it wasn't the zelda team but you're now adament that its the Metroid team making Other M.

Metroid team, with Team Ninja and D-Rockets. Together. Totally different from Wii-Fit which had some Zelda team members, but also people from other games. Nintendo is known for shuffling team members around. Koizumi of Galaxy fame, worked on Link's Awakening and other Zelda games before. 

Your second argument was that if Wii Fit was not released we would have Zelda Wii by now, but you forgot that two Zelda DS games were released in that time. Guess who made? Team Zelda. 

And from interviews Zelda Wii was saved by the Wii Sports Resorts team. So suck at that for a while. Really getting tired of discussing things with you. You say I am wrong, we get in a fight and eventually you agree. Let's just skip all these steps and start agreeing with me from the beginning. Saves a lot time

Yodariquo said:

robio said:

I totally got caught off guard in a big way. I just received a phone call for Power Level Marketing.  Someone with a Playstation 3 game just set up a meeting with me for next week. Huh... maybe I do know what I'm doing.

Yes! You're our ticket to the top!   Good to hear.

I'm still kind of shocked as hell.  I had kind of put it hold until after Labor Day (Sept. 6th) when I had more free time for it and hadn't done anything else to promote it since last month. Got to say I think I earned myself a beer.

robio said:

I'm still kind of shocked as hell.  I had kind of put it hold until after Labor Day (Sept. 6th) when I had more free time for it and hadn't done anything else to promote it since last month. Got to say I think I earned myself a beer.

Sweet! We are here to help in any way.