Kinect My Fist To Your Face

E3 is the most important event in the year for the gaming community, in my opinion anyway, and anyone who'd argue for something else would still concede it's a really big deal. Now, with that sort of status, it doesn't sound promising that the opening article concerning it is titled: "The Day The Gaming Industry Died: Impressions From E3 2010". And for the love of god, they're not wrong. Tomorrow I'm going to voice my opinion on some of the points, but today I want to focus in on something I think has gotten a bad rap.

Namely; Microsoft Kinect. This is Microsoft's response to motion controls, apparently, and in Cthulu's name, a picture of one demonstration seriously makes me want to kill myself. It's on that link up there, I can't even bring myself to look at it again. The culmination of the demonstrations led to Sony hardly mentioning their equivalent, presumably out of shame and self-loathing.

Kinect is like an eyetoy in that it responds to actual movents you make over video with out a controller. You move, and it interacts with whatever's happening in virtual world place thing.

But I have hope for Kinect. The fact that all the morons at Microsoft could come up with is limited to some ugly white guy dancing like a freak and a little girl imaginary petting a tiger and turning her head and giggling when it licked the screen, as if she could feel it [really?? God some people are retarded] means nothing for what it oculd lead to. [Actually, now that I think about it, they may not have been the only two demonstrations, it's just that they were so traumatising I can't seem to remember anything else.]

Think of what this could mean for FIRST PERSON FIGHTERS. You could actually block blows with your arms. You could fight friends with avatars made from photos of them, and actually punch your mates in the face!! Who knows what could be done by some creative genius for D&D style games. And did I mention that you could punch your friends in the face online!! Or give them the finger if the technology could register it!! How awesome would that be??