Kinect sounds like a broken piece of crap. I am physically unable to use it in my room, thats crazy (and no I am not changing the entire setup of my room to fit kinect). At least the dancing game and cute pets game seems fun. It will be a great party game machine but that is about it. They still need to show me that it can be used in any normal game, which is something Move and Wii excel at.

Arstechnica:

Also, many of these games are fun and the experience really is impressive, but where do we go from here? I get the uneasy feeling that we've already seen most of what the hardware can do in terms of games, at least until Microsoft admits defeat with the lack of buttons and creates games that use both the Kinect hardware and a physical controller. Notice how many games mirror each other, in a thin selection of genres. How many times are we hitting balls coming at us with our hands and body? How many fitness and dancing games do we need? The demos for the upcoming Star Wars and Harry Potter games also seem too similar: you stand there, defeat all the enemies, move forward on rails, and repeat.


The Move side-steps all these issues by having you hold one or two controllers. Sony's solution also allows for more precision in movement, as we saw when we compared the Table Tennis games on the two pieces of hardware. You can twist the Move controller in your hand and your on-screen counterpart rotates its wrist in the same way. With the Kinect, your hands are more like static blocks; there is no fine control.

Which isn't to say the picture is bleak. These games are fun, and they make you sweat, and when it all works well the experience draws you into the game in a way that's absolutely amazing. Every now and again I did get the feeling I was playing something very special, and nearly magical. For casual gamers, and those with a family, this is very cool stuff. The question, at least when it comes to games, is where things go from here.

Now if you will excuse me I am going to play a real game, an action game, with motion controls that work and don't require me to have an entire new room.

Dvader said:

Kinect sounds like a broken piece of crap. I am physically unable to use it in my room, thats crazy (and no I am not changing the entire setup of my room to fit kinect). At least the dancing game and cute pets game seems fun. It will be a great party game machine but that is about it. They still need to show me that it can be used in any normal game, which is something Move and Wii excel at.

Yeah, 6-8 feet with no coffee table ottoman?  That puts it in the "never buy" category for me.  I have a game room.  It's bigger than most of the apartments I lived in for the first 10 years of my adulthood, and Kinect would not work in it because of the way the room is organized with couches ottomans etc...

Lighter-skinned employees...half-casts?

Did anyone catch the name of the url for the gaming forum thread topic generator that was mentioned in the giantbombcast this week?  It was uncanny in it''s ability (and also kind of depressing).  I cannot find it on the web.

Only other thing of note is that Gerstmann had kind things to say about GoldenEye 007, but mostly as a foil for BloodStone, which he described as being "fine" and not much else.

aspro said:

Wikipedia says, "In Australia the term is thoroughly offensive".  So maybe you should try getting a job at Microsoft, you'd fit right in.

Not as offensive as suggesting that someone would fit in at Microsoft, though.

This video popped up on YouTube the other day - Black Man Loves Pokemon.  I've been laughing my ass off and I figured why not share it. You may be offended, but screw it. I think it's funny. Lots of NSFW language here:

gee what a shocker a MS product that doesn't  fully work out of the box

Hi buddies

Sorry I'm late, but I was caught playing Goldeneye which arrived this morning.

I will give impressions later but they will end with this sentence: Forgot about Wii, forget about IR vs Dual Analogue, Goldeneye flat out is a great game regardless.

Game is pretty sweet so far.