Remember that really creepy demo of Kinect when it was first unveiled as Project Natal last year? I'm talking about the one with the kid who fished and made everyone watching him feel vaguely uncomfortable. At the time, we were under the impression that this was going to someday be a retail product.
Not so, according to Aaron Greenberg. Australian TV program Good Game asked the Xbox boss about the Milo demo, where he stated that the demo still existed and had been refined but there were no plans to make it a game.
It's funny how I'd managed to put Milo completely out of my mind. I didn't even notice his absence at E3 until this mention of it. It's also interesting to note that there wasn't anything on display that demonstrated the same level of technical wizardry. Makes you wonder what happened to some of the grander ideas, like the item recognition, and whether we'll see them again.
28 June 2010 E3 2010: World Exclusives part 2 [Good Game via Kotaku]
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2:00 AM on 06.29.2010
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Anyways, not really interested in talking to some little boy on TV... nor in getting Kinect.
*Price only rumored.
Clever marketing ploy though.
so Molyneux sold a scripted video like it was the second coming of JC.
what else is new?
This year? Not so much.
It's like they took all the cool/interesting/hardcore/game-centric things they promised us it could do, threw them all out of the window and went "fuck it go grab us some Wii games, we'll copy those"
Plus, I would totally try to molest it or at least slap it around a little. Not because I'm a pedo, but like other gamers out there I like to test boundaries and see what's possible and what's off limits.
I dunno. I don't think anything really tops that Kinectimals presentation when it comes to creepiness.
My "comments by others" page is literally 99% spam right now, and it sucks bigtime.
Spammers are really ruining this site, along with the pop ups.
Oh Destructoid of olde, where art thou?
Screw Kinect. It took one of the most interesting technologies to come around and turned it into a means to provide a three times as expensive Nintendo Wii. Worse, Nintendo Wii actually uses motion sensing for interesting and captivating experiences, when it`s not being assaulted by shovelware.
Microsoft deserves a beating for screwing this up. On Molyneux, it`s The Room all over again. I can`t believe they ditched that impressive idea in order to make the crappy Black and White 2 and follow it up with the unbelievably broken and UNINSPIRED Fable.
Don't get me wrong I like the guy he seems fun and B&W games were epic but he doesn't live in reality...Thats not a bad thing cause you need people like him to reach for the stars to make progress.
Downside is though pretty much 70% of the stuff he promises cant be realised with the tech currently available.
Unless, of course, they're working on the thing as a tech demo I can play. Like, say, it's installed on the Kinect demo disc or whatever.
Or if they even existed to begin with.