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Kinect sucks ass (lemmy.world)
submitted 9 months ago by to c/memes@lemmy.world
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[–] 9 points 9 months ago (2 children)

My kids were like 3 and 5 when Kinect was released and they bloody loved it. Also Dance Central was superb for drunken adults.

Plus if Alien Isolation wasn’t scary enough already, a Kinect would dial it up a notch.

Definitely limited appeal and the tracking wasn’t great on the 360 version, but for those first two scenarios (younger kids and late night dancing) it was a superb party game.

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  • [–] 3 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    "If you make noise in real life, then the alien will hear you in game.". As if A:I needed to be any more terrifying than it is.

    Still - it's a very expensive bit of hardware to implement the microphone feature that eg. the Famicom had, and the 'tracking' functionality only benefits a couple of games. Bizarre decision to make it mandatory as part of the console.

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  • [–] 4 points 9 months ago

    What are you talking about? It wasn't mandatory for any console. They packaged it in with some, so you'd get it in the same box, but you never had to plug it in.

    And all the voice functionality worked with headsets as well. Definitely watched old roommates do Skyrim shouts that way for around 10 minutes until the novelty wore off.

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