Comments on: More novel control schemes: Skyrim Kinect

By: Joven

Joven — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 19:23:55 +0000

Also, Forza 4, which uses the Kinect for head tracking, or a virtual steering wheel, is meant to be used sitting down.

By: Jason Thibeault

Jason Thibeault — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 13:32:49 +0000

I suspect that’s a game-by-game thing, Kitty. I’ve seen a tech demo involving playing a virtual cello where the cellist was definitely seated. Which means, they need to build alternate control schemes for paraplegics.

By: WMDKitty

WMDKitty — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 02:19:46 +0000

My problem with the Kinect is simple: It can’t see you if you’re sitting down. I’m disabled…

By: suzysalaksartok

suzysalaksartok — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 20:34:09 +0000

I quit Skyrim because of a crappy broken mission, but being able to use voice to switch between the favorites (which was one of the most annoying things, specially since the hot-keys kept dissapearing) looked cool (although I played a stealth character, so maybe itd be like a Bard using his music to boost a sneak check in DnD and just not make sense lol).

Motion controls on the whole though are annoying, I think. Which is why I haven’t got the new Zelda, even though its supposed to be a decent implementation of it.

By: Sithrazer

Sithrazer — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 19:03:10 +0000

While I am still pleasantly surprised of the support (or at least, lack of antagonizing) Microsoft has been giving to people hacking the kinect, all I have to say about these motion control and various alternatives is ‘no thank you’.

I’m just not that moved (pun not intended) or impressed by it. My parents have a Wii, and I’ve played some games on it. It was a novelty for about an hour, and then I started looking for settings to enable more traditional control schemes.

Notify me when full-immersion holographics takes off (not a fan of Star Trek, but the holodeck comes to mind).