etowntwo - You're right on the MMO front. MS could do with an MMO, but not Dust, which looked average at best.
As for a kiddy platformer, they've got Rayman Origins heading to the system by the end of the year, and a fair few platform-style games kicking around on Xbox Live Arcade. Hell, given that only about four people actually bought Banjo Kazooie on 360, they could re-release that if everyone's desperate for something along those lines!
Three of the four games you listed, are out by the end of the year.
What should they have done? Created another first person shooter to compete with CoD, Battlefield, and every other game that was shown at E3? How about a platformer? No, can't do that...platformers are "for kids" after all. Driving game that beats GT5? Done. Sequel to Rez? Done. Every big third-party release available for their system? Done.
I don't know what people actually...
The 1990s called. They want their "hilarious" cat-wearing-headphones avatar back.
What a ridiculous headline for an article.
Disappointment depends on whether or not you were expecting them to look like a TV presentation. If I expected them to look like a NES game then no, they aren't disappointing. If I expected them to look like a 3D Hollywood blockbuster, then yes, they are.
Oh...it also depends on whether you care about a "sport" that's been marketed to 11-year olds for far too long.
One ridiculously blurry image that doesn't show any gameplay, does not equate to "scans" of a game.
Very poor.
Or, alternatively, I wasn't all that interested when I got my VIP press invite to the Beta. Was burned out on shooters, at the time.
Guess you didn't get the memo about everyone having the same opinion of everything.
I haven't played it yet, as it didn't interest me all that much, and I was busy with a thousand other games when it released.
I downloaded the demo last night, then ordered a copy from Amazon, because I enjoyed it.
Does that explain why?
"ENSLAVED: many gamers were interested in the game till we all played the demo and said to ourself this game isn't worth 60"
And these "gamers" want what from their games, exactly? Enslaved was a beautiful, intelligent game with some superb voice acting. It wasn't the greatest game in the world, but given the absolute crap that gets released for $60 these days, I'd say that its up in the top 10%.
The big game releases are big game releases because of hype. Demos help to build that hype.
Plus, just because you don't like Sonic Free Riders or Apache Assault, doesn't mean that someone else won't.
"what can some of us hardcore gamers expect from this creative technology?"
Not much, although Child of Eden is as hardcore as it comes. Most won't realise that, though.
Plenty of coverage out there:- http://www.kinectronic.com/...
I absolutely agree in full, Janitor. Its great too, when folks come over to your house - and they can play it without having to be taught how to :)
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Apologies. Some stores offered Kinect + Kinect Adventures (the actual bundled game) then gave a discount off Kinect Sports. Technically, that IS a bundled game, but individual retailer offers weren't what I meant. To me, the only bundled game was Kinect Adventures.
@rabidpancakeburglar: "Try not to come off as such a d*ck next time you reply to me, thank you" - Indeed. I apologise for coming off as a d*ck, to a man who makes initial comments like a troll.
"Most" of the copies of Kinect Sports were NOT sold in bundles. In the UK, the game was not bundled with Kinect. In fact, the game is still in the weekly UK Top 40, and has been since the day it launched.
"It is not a particularly good game if ...
Classic. The original has sold close to 4 million copies, and you reckon that nobody will buy a sequel.
Well done.
Well, when I did that, my article was rejected.
@sin151 - Yes, it was. I wrote an article about it when it actually was confirmed. Have fun with that.
"This comes as no surprise, the game has looked clutch since the day it was announced."
Clutch? Eh?
I'd love to know what you guys consider to be "hardcore" games. Kinect is not a hardcore player's device. You can't honestly tell me that there's ANY GOOD WAY that an FPS could be done with Kinect, without a gun peripheral at least?
How about a platformer? More than four colours on screen at once, and you brand it as a casual game unless its got Mario in it.
Driving game? What's the point? Its never going to be as accurate as a c...
I would absolutely love to know why that sentence begins with the word "sadly."
I love you guys. You're awesome. You bitch and whine that developers are dying right, left and center, and then the second a "casual" player buys your favourite console and a few games, you hate it because you aren't in some "exclusive" club anymore.
What you forget, is that those "casual" players bring a LOT of much-needed money int...