So far, Microsoft's precious Project Natal has been associated with waving your arms and feet around like an idiot, and ... well ... not a lot else, actually. It certainly hasn't been associated with Halo, and franchise creator Bungie reckons that it just wouldn't work, at least with a proper Halo.
"I think that Natal has some really cool technology," says senior designer Lars Brakken. "Obviously it doesn't make sense to use Natal for a full Halo control scheme. At least in my brain I can't think of a way for that to work right now. That doesn't mean that it can't work in the future but I think Natal could enhance things. It's so far off it's hard to think about how it could work in a Halo game."
Hopefully, Microsoft will keep its original franchises as they are, and keep Natal for a bunch of gimmicky, "casual" crap in yet another failed bid to ensnare the soccer moms and grannies that Nintendo has under their thumb. That said, I wouldn't be surprised to see Master Chief's Crossbow Training appear at some point in the future.
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10:00 AM on 07.25.2009
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And it will sell.
Imagine the tight asses it would give our youth!
Otherwise it just won't feel right.
I'm sure someone can think of some ingenious way to do it, it's just going to take a whole bunch of brainstorming. And failure.
Agreed.
So, can I paraphrase you as promising that you would quit gaming?
Over dramatic response, in my opinion. Woogity never said he'd quit gaming, he just prefers to not take part in the fad that is motion controls. Proper controllers will never die, so he has nothing to worry about: he has the right to choose not to purchase mediocre $50-$60 games that are attempting to be cutting edge.
@Magnalon
"Over dramatic response, in my opinion. Woogity never said he'd quit gaming."
Not bashing your opinion but:
"if games are going this way then I really have to interest in the future of the medium."
Is a pretty clear statement of saying I'm gonna quit (Well if that to is supossed to be a no)
"have no interest in the future of the medium [of motion controls]"
I think the statement was pretty evident.
They would have to develop a single handed controller like the Wii-Mote or the Playstation motion controller, & that goes against Natal's no controller philosophy.
Can't think of much else apart from maybe some sort of mini game puzzles to open doors, but then Halo was neve really about that.
Wow.
At least that's what Microsoft thinks will happen, I severely doubt it will work out that way though. Either way its still taking away resources from the Hardcore games to make all this casual stuff, so hardcore gamers will still loose out either way. Everything that people are complaining about Nintendo right now, will be the same complaints about Microsoft in a couple of years from now. Which is ironic because that's probably the same time that Nintendo will come out with their next console in HD.