Peter Molyneux is like gold to bloggers. He always manages to present something that is ludicrously cool in concept. Execution, well, that's often another story...
At Microsoft's E3 press conference, Peter brought the pain once more when he introduced the world to Milo, a little boy who lives inside your TV. Milo can be interacted with in a number of ways using the new NATAL input device MS introduced today. In addition to recognizing gestures by the player, he also acknowledges speech and can even divine emotions from the inflections of a human voice.
My mind is officially blown. In the liveblog, Nick and Dale referred to it as "Seaman on crack," and that's as appropriate a description as I can come up with. Milo will be shown to people in closed-door sessions during E3 and we're going to make damn sure we get an opportunity to see what he's made of.
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3:15 PM on 06.01.2009
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PETER MOLYNEUX MUST BE BURNED AT THE STEAK
LMFAO!!!
I need to see more of this and how you can (if at all) change the story with different dialogue.
Friend: "What if I start jerking off? What's the kid gonna do?"
Me: "Open his mouth in anticipation."
Honestly though, this is like the "Hey You, Pikachu!" of the future.
Skynet
Skynet is coming. We are fucked.
But before we're fucked, I'm just going to piss off Milo and make fun of him. Thats when they'll take over.
That aside the programming behind this seems foward thinking, but I'd rather them start small with a dog (since Peter loves dogs) or some other simpler form of life and perfect the responses before trying to mimic people. Imagine Peter Molyneux's version of Nintendogs. Ok that might be scarier than Milo.
say you fucked his mum if your feeling a bit tasty.
Proceed to walk away afterward.
Enjoy!
I don't see how anyone can already proclaim Microsoft the winner off the strength of a multiplatform spin off (MGS) Two Halo games (one that looks shitty, the other not coming till over a year from now) a racing game, and Microsoft's desparate attempt to catch a few more scraps from Nintendo's table. Come on. If you're going to take motion control this far, what's the incentive to pay whatever this will cost to throw water balloons at a virtual wall when you can just... you know... throw water balloons at a wall? I think it's a cool concept insofar as menu navigation, but as far as being a viable format for game control, I think it'll be glitchy at best.
And didn't Sony have a similar patent made public a while back that used some new peripheral along with the PS3 Eye?
good milo