There is a fairly proud tradition of games publications reviewing minor games, often those aimed at an audience outside their core readership (Pony Friendship Academy, Harry Potter Wandmaking School and the like), and giving them a taste of the shoe leather, ultimately competing to see who can deliver the most devastating witticisms. In general, this is good clean fun, and highlights an important point – that games designed for younger audiences should not talk down to them or their expectations of gaming. In this, as in so many things, Double Fine stand out - Costume Quest refuses to talk down to its audience, offering sawn-off but wholly recognisable gaming experiences.
Kinect Star Wars, a groundbreaking game released in April 2012 for the Xbox 360, utilized the Kinect motion-sensing peripheral to plunge players into the heart of the Star Wars universe.
One of the worst things to happen to Star Wars was it being exclusive to Kinect when PS Move could have been a better version because of "buttons" per Kevin with better tracking. And the controller looking like a light saber hilt. Or, had an actual light saber game similar to the dojo in Vader Immortal.
But the miming lies on the Microsoft E3 stage was icing on the cake of this garage. Wasn't even live gameplay. Just bad acting. Nothing ground breaking about this travesty.
Joy Ride Turbo launched 10 years ago today. The first title was Xbox Kinect exclusive, yet this sequel failed to support the device at all.
Cultured Vultures: "Sadly, not all hardware is created equal, and no matter how much developers might try, some gaming hardware just fails to hit the mark. We’ve compiled a list of 10 gaming hardware fails, and boy did some fail hard."
I would label the Power Glove, Kinect, and that Tony Hawk skateboard more as hardware addons hardware failure would be like the Virtual Boy and one day Stadia.
The picture should be the 360 RROD. When I think of gaming hardware failures that's what springs to mind. Kinect and it's bundled price tag definitely hobbled the already underpowered Xbox One though for sure so I would give it a close second place.
Lol I had the Atari Jaguar, surprised its "competition" the 3DO isn't on the list too, both as "popular" as each other.
Stadia is a weird one. It hasn’t sold at all well but in terms of how it works it’s still miles ahead of Xcloud in terms of stability and performance. Xcloud is still a way behind and that needs sorting but it will be in time. Stadia for me is one of those things that will go down as a what could have been moments. With better marketing it could have been a roaring success. I still play it and it remains the best place in my opinion to play CyberPunk 2077. Only platform I have played it on without having any issues at all. The tech is great. The concept is fine. Marketing terrible. Shame really.
The Xbox One was Microsoft’s Nintendo Wii U. Undercooked, undersold and just an unholy mess. The thing is with any of these failures is to learn from them and thankfully both Nintendo and Xbox did just that to the benefit of gamers everywhere.
Seriously? This guy is all giddy over a lame dancing mini game in a terrible game? WOW
Hmmm, ok. As long as we're all trying to be different for the sake of being different here, Jar Jar was the greatest addition to the Star Wars universe since the Ewoks, and my favorite scene from the prequels would have to be when C-3PO got his head switched with a battle droid. Just all around good stuff. Don't you DARE stop going crazy, Lucas.
I have actually gotten some use out of my Move controller with Kinect star wars....no thats not a misprint. Using the ps move controller actually made the game more fun since it felt like i had something in my hand. lol I was cracking up thinking about it but its true for any multi system gamers give it a try it makes swinging the lightsaber actually bareable. Ill probably finish the campaing tonight then send it back to gamefly. For the love of god though i would never ever suggest anyone actually buy the game!
Funny to hear core gamers cry about this title, well duh it wasn't aimed at you.
Smoke and mirrors is MS game thats why people are upset. Are some of you guys kidding me? Dont tout something as the next coming of christ and this ultra futuristic accessory when its bs and the tech isnt doing anything better than the competition. Its a shame that tacked on move controls as many of you like to call them create a better motion gaming experience than dedicated games. Sh@t killzone 3 with move controls is better than any dedicated motion control game built from the ground up on Kinect that is a shame.