At the beginning of this year 123kinect found out that Top Spin 4 unfortunately would not have Kinect support. That was bad, but what was worse is that it was also confirmed it would get Playstation Move support. At that time it was unclear why Kinect support was dropped, but now the official explanation is out…and it doesn’t really cut it for 123kinect!
PAX EAST has officially confirmed that Blizzard and 2K Games are amongst the bigger names attending the show. This would be two of the bigger names to return to live U.S. shows since the Covid Pandemic.
Good to hear. Past couple of years the show floor is getting smaller & smaller, with more space everywhere. Food truck trucks made their way on to the expo hall floor last year. Haven't seen that since 2012.
We stopped going to PAX West and let local team cover it. We could not justify airfare, rental car, food, hotel, etc for indies.
Shaz from Pixel Swish: "The Mafia games have always excelled in storytelling and voice acting. Though Mafia 3 faltered in some gameplay aspects, its story and, particularly, voice acting are tremendous."
Mafia III had a great narrative and some truly incredible performances. The gameplay loop had its issues but the story, acting, world and atmosphere don't get nearly enough credit.
I loved the story elements butbfirnme the gameplay loop went behind issues it was utterly dull and it's structure was it's downfall.
Go to area of map disrupt business through open world shenanigans that feel extremely rinse and repeat many times until cutscenes and boss fight then repeat again
They had so much potential especially in the CIA angle but it was squandered.
I wish they could do it over and focus on the narrative like a more traditional GTA game
First few hours: "This game is incredible!"
Hour 10: "Wait, that's it? I'm going to be doing the same thing over and over for the rest of the game??"
As of November 25, the 2K launcher is no longer required in any 2K published games on either Steam of Epic Games Store.
Much like Bethesda’s & Paradox’s, I never understood even the notion that these launchers should be required. Even from their own business perspective I could never even imagine someone purchasing a game through them and not being recognised as a hinderance more than anything else.
What doesn't cut it about Kinect not being accurate enough to detect minor wrist movements? If you're going to put "top spin" on a ball, the controller needs to be able to detect it. That's why they didn't bother. no matter how accurate the camera is, it won't be able to detect tiny twists of the wrist. plus they knew people would look goofy trying to play laggy handball.
Not to say their implementation of move was much better. I tried the demo, and was very disappointed that they didn't go for 1:1 tracking like table tennis does. It's all gesture based control.
they did explain why they didn't include kinect support.one has depth,one doesn't...
**We didn’t want a ‘lite’ or ‘dumbed down’ version.**
what is it that the creator of this article doesn't understand?
kinect isnt accurate............its too casual
LOL - Frosty and Shadow in another Kinect article.
Who are you guys? and why browse N4G for Kinect article when you can be reading about Move instead.
Edit: Yes we get it, Kinect is not accurate and it will never do hardcore blah blah blah - your message has been herd now please stop commenting the same BS in every Kinect article.
It’s the developers call at the end of the day.
If they felt that they could not get the experience they wanted using Kinect I’m not going to argue that.
However Kinect is starting to see an install base that will be difficult for sports game developers to ignore.
I read in another article some time ago that EA are prototyping a boxing system for kinect, hopefully golf and baseball are not too far behind.
I think Rare has perhaps unknowingly led the way for serious sports games to be developed for Kinect