Dear Kinect, I am Sick of Dancing!

Gaming Irresponsibly's Ryan Hillis writes: With E3 looming just around the corner, tons of speculations have begun to arise about the future of gaming. This time last year, we were treated with a flurry of motion control peripherals that were sure to make a splash on the market and take gaming to the next level. And they did, for a bit. Now that those little cameras are next to our televisions and our patients with niche family games wearing thin, what can some of us hardcore gamers expect from this creative technology?

[slinky123456]

Dear xbox, i am tired of shooters.

[CrimsonEngage]

All platforms have hundreds of shooters, don't generalize.

At the topic at hand, i'm sick of dancing games.

[agentxk]

Almost every shooter that Xbox has, ps3 has as well. Xbox is just more popular with them.

[Max_Dissatisfaction]

Then maybe its time to buy the highest rated racing game this gen?

[Bell Boy]

blasphemy

[xstation79]

Seems to me like the ps3 has more exclusive shooters now with resistance, killzone, and socom just to name a few.

[Just_The_Truth]

i agree look at the only two exclusive xbox has HALO and GEARS and while Sony does have more shooters like KZ3 and UC3 it also has God of War, Infamous, Little Big Plant, MGS4, Demon Souls, Final Fantasy, WarHawk, and i'm not just listing games these are my favorite ones that i've played and loved which everyone should experience but if xbox only owers feel that 2-4 exclusive repeated every other year are enough well so be it but i'm with Slinky

[agentxk]

Looking forward to Child of Eden

[Knushwood Butt]

I was too, until I saw someone playing it.....

[Rybakov]

dear playstation, im sick of horrid online

dear nintendo, im sick of rehashes and want a new ip and for a not gimmick system(s)

stop complaining if you don't like something don't play it and its not like the wii or how the ps2 use to be and have zillions of dancing games....they have all of 3 as far as im aware (dance central, Dance masters, and zumba)

[DJMarty]

Point is the controls are boring and repetitive.

Step left, step right, jump on spot, run on spot, lean forward.

BUTTONS Required

[agentxk]

I think the point is that we aren't getting a fraction of what the kinect games are capable of. Let's get away from dancing and get into other fields

[blitz0x]

Agreed.

[Rybakov]

what do you call shooters?

run hide shoot reload (repeat)

or Rpgs
talk to person, run here, kill (x) things, run back, talk to person

everything is repeatative its how much enjoyment out of it

[YourCall]

Really dude, okay let's see.

Roll playing game, walk around, take a quest, complete the quest, repeat.

Sports game, shoot the ball, hit the ball, catch the ball, repeat.

Slasher, press button repeatedly

Puzzle game, move this over here, move that over there, repeat.

Dude you just discribed almost ALL games. You will play nothing that doesn't have elements that will be repeated.

[KMxRetro]

"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.

[YourCall]

Dear Gamers, take control of your gaming lives and buy your games with more variety instead of writing blogs complaining about a specific genre. Tire of dancing, then sit the hell down, pick up a controller and shoot some shit up.

Tired of shoot things, play some portal 2, or pick up a move controller and place some tigerwoods 2012 (if you own both systems.)

Or better yet, open that 7 foot tall object connected to your house called a door and go out and take some pictures or a nice hike. You'll be amazed as to what it will do for both you gaming and social lives.

But, if non of these things appeal to you, just do me one favor...Quit Bitching.

[Bigpappy]

My thouhts exactly. Why complain about dancing games when there are many other choices.

I would like to see a more diversed selection of games for kinect, but they don't need to be core games, just unique and fun.

[Solidus187-SCMilk]

then why the hell did you buy a Kinnect? its all about dancing, playing fake sports and moving. What the hell did he expect, motion gaming to suddenly not be mostly for women and children?

I will be down with motion controls once they make the gun and camera move separately, like VR. I did a trial for a military training VR and the idea was awesome. horrible grafix and horrible training program, but the camera moving as you look and the virtual M16 that you moved around by moving the plastic M16 in your hands was awesome. in the future we will have games like that. You will look around by moving your head and then you will hold your plastic gun up to your eyes and actually look down the irons to aim it in the VR world.

If they adapted that system for games it would have been awesome. The gun was actually a 3d floating M16 and you could aim down the irons by holding the plastic m16 in your hands up to your eyes and move the camera by moving your head around. If you held the plastic M16 sideways in your hands, the 3d M16 would be sideways in the VR goggles.

I just thought it was awesome looking around with the VR goggles because view of the virtual world moved with your head, and the virtual gun was moved with the plastic gun you were holding independently of the camera. Whatever you did with the plastic gun in your hands was done with the virtual gun you saw through the VR goggles.

When I did that I thought it would be awesome to use that tech in games. Maybe we wont have VR gogles anytime soon, but maybe something like head tracking and a gun. That Still would not be the same but someday some FPS may use small "future" VR goggles and a gun that you control independently of your view.

Its hard to explain, but it would be awesome if they made a game like that in the future.