Thanksgiving and Xbox

[Fairweather Pure]

We had Thanksgiving at my house this year, which we do quite often. There were about 20 people total, with a healthy dose of children thrown into the mix. After dinner, we fired up Rockband 2, which I own truely a ridiculous amount of DLC for. Seriously. They need to organize and allow me to get to songs easier. It's pretty crazy. Anyway, I was on guitar, my sister in law's boyfriend was on bass, my little brother was our drummer and my mother was our singer. I didn't think anything would top my mother's rendition of "Breaking a Girl" by RHCP from last year, but I think "Dragula" by Rob Zombie is pretty damn close. Watching grandparents try to sing along to any heavy metal song is pretty much guaranteed to be pretty hilarious. We played that for almost 2 hours swapping out people from time to time, then let the kids fire up Kinect.

Now, the kids ranged in age from 2-13 and they all absolutely loved Kinect (and the parents/grandparents loved watching them). However, playing with so many kids made some of Kinect's faults rise to the surface. #1 is that the games have way too many goddamn menus to navigate in order to play. The games desperately need quick start options. Kinectimals is the worst offender by far, with unskippable cut scenes. I just had the kids play with my baby jaguar. (Yeah, I play Kinectimals, wanna fight about it?) The youngest children took turns petting the cub and such. Kinect Adventures was a much bigger hit since 2 kids could play at once. But still, when a game was over, both kids would want to control the screen to choose the next game and Kinect would see 4 pair of hands flailing around and didn't really know wtf was going on. I guess thats more of a kid issue, but still... It did handle children of different sizes and ages "hotswapping" out in the middle of games though.

After the kids played around with those 2 games for a good while, we fired up Dance Central and all the adults took turns playing that game. It was a huuuuuuge success as a party game. The little videos and such that the game takes always resulted in a room full of laughter. After everyone had left, we had people calling and telling us how awesome everything was. And it was. Everyone was engaged. Everyone created a memory. Everyone laughed. It was really fun.

Basically, my home was like an Xbox commercial for Thanksgiving.

[Kilmoll the Sexy]

It sounds like they need an X-rated game for Kinect where you can bang your own spouse on it and it will show up as random porn stars or celebrities on the screen. I am thinking I should go online and patent that idea right now before one of you jackals steals it.

[masteen]

It sounds like they need an X-rated game for Kinect where you can bang your own spouse on it and it will show up as random porn stars or celebrities on the screen. I am thinking I should go online and patent that idea right now before one of you jackals steals it.

Too late, fuckface!

[Siji]

Kinectimals is the worst offender by far, with unskippable cut scenes.

This. You can't even cut out of them with the normal controller. It pisses me off every.. single.. time.

[Kilmoll the Sexy]

Mother

Fuckers


http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2010/12/ ... latestnews

[Funkmasterr]

I read about this somewhere else yesterday.. From what I read though the only thing you do in the game is grope women, which struck me as odd, and maybe a little creepy. I mean come on, if you're going to do it, do it right!

[Animalor]

Mother

Fuckers


http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2010/12/ ... latestnews

Fox News - Reporting on anything negative only. Nevermind the really impressive crap that's been put out recently like the minority report stuff.

This is such a non-story though. Microsoft will never approve anything remotely close to this for use on the Xbox and MS isn't the one making the PC drivers so this isn't their problem.

Hopefully the internet beats down Fox news on this like they did with Mass Effect.