"Better with Kinect"

We don't want your subjective BS declarations.

The people who say its better with kinect are obviously non gamers completely unfamiliar with game in question (at least in MS's Better with Kinect trailers)

You make it sould like Bethesda is all of a sudden the first to do this. FYI - axe body spray won't make women follow you around and stick to you.

Everything is better with kinect!
*Gun shot*

>.>.... I really really dislike annoying advertisemant..

See as a pot head I cannot assign my bow under anything else then bow, I just do not have the brain cells to remember what it was after a little while of play . I have tried it and it just pisses me off to no end I'm glad you didn't take the chance for a " newfie joke "
Until they fix the speech recognition the kinect will only be used by the kiddies and not for Skyrim, it adds more headache then it improves IMO.

No [censored] they made a deal. I wasn't talking about the deal, I was talking about the fact that Microsoft is overly advertising the Kinect. It's garbage and makes no difference in SKYRIM GAMEPLAY. If it was useful, it'd be a different story.

Doesn't bug me any, it's advertisemant. It's how people make money.

Those commercials are the most idiotic publicity stunts I've seen on TV. I'd much rather use Old Spice Body Wash. At least their commercials are funny and interesting (for the most part)

Well it works really well for me and the envoiroment that I have it in. So I guess that would mean the issue isn't the product itself but the envoiroment you have it in. I can't hear on my cell phone very well when I am in a loud enviroment...doesn't mean its my cell phones fault.

*shrug*

Being able to sort the inventory is pretty nice.
Verbal follower commands are nice.

Fast equip a designated weapon by type, also nice.
In fact all inventory navigation by voice is smooth, intuitive ("my books... their books" etc) and "better" than not having it imo.

I'm pretty happy with it, there's a lot more commands than I listed... funnily enough the one thing I don't really use it for is shouts, because your character still shouts after you give the command and I'm not really down with that.
But yeah, it's a lot more than "shouting Fus Ro Dah at my TV".

That said, I use kinect a lot outside of Skyrim, navigating xbox live, youtube, netflix etc etc so it's kinda become something I expect from xbox games and apps.
It's not a gimmick, I'm sorry but it's not, voice and gesture commands are something we have come to expect from our media technology, if only as an option.
Microsoft wanted a way to make voice and gesture viable for their machine, that's Kinect.

Cellphones, computers, smart TVs are all making voice a standard control option.
Kinect plus the incoming Smartglass on Xbox live will really make this feel natural and complete, linking up all your machines with voice and gesture without you needing to buy a single new piece of hardware... that's pretty savvy of them imo and I'm looking forward to it.

Kinect has few decent games because developers don't know what to do with it yet but using it to augment existing games is a good start.
Mass Effect 3 also did it with great aplomb imo.

But Kinect is not really about dedicated games, even if it can be used to enhance games... to make them "better" with Kinect.
It's about making control of the system fluid, natural, casual and increasing your options.
Most 360 owners know by now the machine is being built into something more than a games console.
Kinect is the only hardware extra needed, the rest is free updates.

All I'm saying is I know its "cool" to bash Kinect to show what a hardcoe gamer you are, but like I said, it's not really about games, you might want to relax until you have seen it's full potential.

Being from Washington State, I'm often asked if I'm Canadian when someone first hears me speak. But maybe having an accent similar to a Western Canadian means I won't have too much trouble with the Kinect.


I can't remember the thread title, but I read a post in which someone said their dog barked and caused their character to do a fire shout which set a Whiterun guard on fire.

True. Its not Microsoft's fault my apartment complex owners think its a good idea to have a loud air conditioner running all the time, instead of quieting it down.

Naw, no newfie jokes here. There are alot of newfies out here in alberta in the O&G field, haven't met one that I didn't like. Plus I am originally from sask, in no position to make jokes about anyone, lol.

they're a business and businesses make money. money makes the world go round.

Unfortunately true. But that's what the free market is all about.

I love Alberta, that's where I was born Moved here when I was 5 so I'm a Newfie now
If they would just fine tune the speech recognition it wold work wonders, when it does decide to work it's the best thing since sliced bread. But there's a couple impotent commands that it just doesn't pick up on and the only explanation that I can come up with is that it just doesn't understand me, I can back this up because if I try my best to use an America accent then it works just fine. But it's rather hard to not sound like a Newfie

edit : to those who don't know what a Newfie is or how we sound then here's a very good example http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gEfcx5cFajM&feature=related

I dunno...I can't seem to play Skyrim anymore without my Kinect plugged in. I've gotten too used to the "verbal hotkeys". *shrug*

I find it perplexing that some people got fooled into buying a 100$ microphone. What's next? A 200$ hyper precision controller that uses advanced lazer technology to get the best precision and speed ever seen on a modern gaming console?

You do realize that it's more than a microphone, right?

Not only did I buy an expensive microphone, I got the Kinect Bundle - so now I have a nice, shiny new 250 GB Xbox to go with it. It was fun watching my money floating away.
Seriously though, my original Xbox was chugging along so badly I thought it was going to catch fire, so I fished in for the Kinect at the same time I got a new xbox.

Voice commands in Mass effect, voice commands in skyrim...

Nope I don't realize it's more than a mic.

I personally think its a gimmick and its not somethin i would shell out any money for.

But it is smart for Microsoft to advertise its product.

I'm only looking at things through a Skyrim perspective. Seeing as I only use my 360 for Skyrim and MW3, I find that promoting the Kinect in a Skyrim video, let alone a Skyrim EXPANSION video, which doesn't have anything to do with the expansion, is a pathetic idea. Which is why I call the Kinect useless.

Why is there no like button for me to smash next to your post?

Yes the advertisemants are annoying IMO it's a gimmick.

They just call it a "free market" there is nothing free about it.

You'd be surprised.