This is a video of Parade Magazine's A.J. Jacobs playing Natal with his family. It shows a game we haven't seen before in which you are rafting down a river, attempting to avoid rocks while flailing around like a madman in real life. It also makes me not want to play Natal.
After his play session -- which also included the oft-shown dodgeball game and another newish one that's essentially an obstacle course -- Jacobs admitted, "you have to be okay with looking like a drunken maniac about to be arrested on Cops."
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I didn't think it was possible but this looks even stupider than when that girl at last year's e3 was playing it. I really hope this fails I'm not too excited at the possibility of all this motion shit being the future of gaming.
What you didn't see is that end of that play session Jacobs lost his kids while walking them to his car. He desperately searched for the in a crowd of people in the parking lot, but no amount of yelling he son's name helped.
What amazes me most is the incredible amount of floor space required. I wouldn't call my lounge or bedroom small but there's no way in hell 3 or 4 people could get in front of the screen.
These people look pretty silly; but the overall concept of Natal is pretty cool. I don't get why people hate it so much.
The fact that MS and Sony will actually have to compete against the Wii should hopefully ensure that they market their respective waggle-rich features to real developers, whereas nintendo just has to rake in all that sweet, sweet licensing dough.
@Whitezombie, ah, yes. Sorry, I forgot to think in internet logic where one piece of media instantly decredits something altogether. I won't let it happen again.
@ robotbebop, this video does blow ass, but it doesn't help that I haven't seen a single natal (or move for tht matter) video that was even remotely interesting. I mean what else do we have besides the stupid dodgeball thing, and the staged video of the chick talking to robot boy?
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@WhiteZombie, I just find it odd that people are losing their shit over NATAL/Move like it's going to spell the utter doom of gaming as we currently know it.
Seriously though, Natal obviously won't be as bad as they made it look here, but I think it's interesting to turn the camera away from the screen and onto the players. Natal could be a lot of good, clean, family-fun, but there will definitely be nothing "cool" about these full-body games in action.
I don't think I've read a single positive comment on this article, lol. I just hope Move doesn't make me look like an idiot; I don't think the industry can handle so much stupid.
@robotbebop, i agree. although i think natal/move/wiiwaggle is retarded, i think at the end of the fad (which it is), we'll have a smaller, condensed version in all gaming that will only improve on gaming. A little movement here and there in games can be fun, but basing entire games on the gimmick is silly ( that goes for 3D too)
And people make fun of Wii players for waggle! Well let the wiggle-fest era begin. I'm sorry, but this is so stupid. How many people have empty rooms in their house, to play a video game? I don't know about anyone else, but my living is not the size of a empty conference room, in a office building.
The four of them playing together, almost took up the whole space and for what? To wave around and spaz out, like retards on speed. The more I see of Natal, the more it just turns me completely off, of the whole freaking thing. It looks like nothing more than a supped up EyeToy.
I don't think you'll see huge, sweeping, narrative heavy games like MGS or Halo jumping all over this in some way. But the kinds of games that can be made specifically for it should be compelling. Which is why I said that MS and Sony need to do a good job of promoting it to reputable devs instead of sitting back and sucking up the licensing cash from shovel ware developers like Nintendo.
I actually read this article in Parade this morning. I was thinking about how much of a wiener this guy must be by looking at the inset pic of him flailing his arms around lookin' like Christopher Mintz-Passe. Now that I've seen the actual video, he's leveled up in wiener-ness.
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Now the fun part is reading the comments where the fanboys have to justify this shit.
The fact that MS and Sony will actually have to compete against the Wii should hopefully ensure that they market their respective waggle-rich features to real developers, whereas nintendo just has to rake in all that sweet, sweet licensing dough.
@WhiteZombie, I just find it odd that people are losing their shit over NATAL/Move like it's going to spell the utter doom of gaming as we currently know it.
Seriously though, Natal obviously won't be as bad as they made it look here, but I think it's interesting to turn the camera away from the screen and onto the players. Natal could be a lot of good, clean, family-fun, but there will definitely be nothing "cool" about these full-body games in action.
The four of them playing together, almost took up the whole space and for what? To wave around and spaz out, like retards on speed. The more I see of Natal, the more it just turns me completely off, of the whole freaking thing. It looks like nothing more than a supped up EyeToy.