A. Add Kinect and ME3 is getting yanked from my buy list.

B. That boxart is awful. Why the hell does the Omni Tool have a blade?

Hey, it's Bioware. I'm sure it'll be fine.
And if you don't want to use it you don't have to. I fail to see the problem here.
Yes, I have a Kinect, and I probably won't play ME3 with it. Unless it is like the coolest thing ever.

I don't have Kinect as MS hadn't given me a compeling reason to purchase it yet.

However I'll hold off judgment until I've seen more info
on how they plan to
support. I'd love for them to incorporate (optional) Kinect funrionality in a way that enhances the experience.

Ok guys, if this IS real you're forgetting one thing: This is fucking BIOWARE, they wouldn't even think about doing this if there was any doubt it wouldn't work.

Omni-tool blade looks neat.

am I not the only one still reeling from the fact that a spambot apparently just spoke? I think dpipi has taken his first step on the path toward sentience

@Crunkiss, unless it's diversifying the world in DA2. OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOH I went there. Just giving you a hard time bro, I've given BioWare damn near all of my money, ever since the Infinity Engine graced my desktop.

It'd be cool if the kinect acted as EDI in the game and could interact with you.

@Foodlegs

I am also, its like hearing a voice from beyond the grave. Or it could be becoming self-aware. Im frightened...

who cares?

they already fucked up DA. You didn't think they'd be able to fuck up ME?

Wompwomp.

that's a cool cover btw. much better than ME2 (i mean what the fuck were they thinking on that one?)

As long as it's optional, I don't care. Do not want and will not accept

Having optional Kinect support wouldn't hurt the game in any way. We don't know if this is real and certainly don't know how it might be used so calm down.

@Crunkiss

See: Dragon Age 2.

That cover art looks way too sketchy and weird to be legit. Take a look @EA Logo, and then look the one @ME2 Cover Art:

http://media.photobucket.com/image/recent/HairForce1/masseffect.jpg

In the case it turns out to be real....then next week Bioware will indeed have a lot to show off, not that I'm complaining in the end this is all optional.

But something tells me I'll end up getting Kinect sooner or later.

We'll see...

I've said it before and I'll say it again -- Something like Kinect WON'T WORK WELL with a traditional controller. (And before people come in here yelling about how it could be used for voice control, ANY mic can be used for that if the game is programmed correctly.) Either Kinect is going to be used as the sole form of controlling a minigame, or they're going to ruin the entire game and force Kinect down gamers' throats.

Bioware's usually a smart company, though, so I don't think we need to worry about that second one.

Waiting to have Bioware say they're after the Wii Sports audience like DA2 was after the CoD audience.

Having Kinect or PlayStation-Move support would be a plus, if they were integrated well into the gameplay actually adding to the experience, or facilitating a menial sense of 'this belongs here' or rather 'this feels right'.

Kinext support for Mass Effect 3 would be neat as something you could have in the backround, toggled on, going to a menu and being able to move your hand, manipulating a VR screen or interface (in the case of ME cannon probably an omnitool) but, and this VR thing is a big 'and if' because 1-1 tracking isn't something kinect is really known for. So it would be doubtful for it to be integrated into something like that. Perhaps, it could do some very basic face mapping or image importing for a custom character? Speculative. All of it is highly speculative if and when.

Same goes for PlayStation-Move, which unlike the Kinect has the ability to (with the dongle/knuckle secondary controller {navigation controller}) be a fully integrated controller with 1-1 motion for combat and etc. (Unfortunately, even though it's a PS device, I still think of Wiimote shaking things in Wii games.)

What would they do with Kinect other than for short moments that are away from the action?

What would they do with PlayStation-Move aside from full integration?

*shrug

The hardware is somewhat limited, limited how?

*shrug

This doesn't bother me that much, but if I have to buy kinect just to get the full ME3 experience, I'll be pretty pissed.

Haters' gonna shit their pants.

All these people flipping shit over something like this reminds me why I hate gamers.

Selecting dialogue options with voice commands would be pretty cool.

I could photoshop that Kinect Compatibility bar in and out in less time that it'd take for Conrad to post this blog. You wouldn't know the difference either. I want to hear this from the horse's mouth.

Kinect for gay romance?

@pedrovay2003

source? Why wouldn't Kinect work WITH a controller? Why must they always be separate? Sounds like you are dumbing down Kinect in your own head, not the developers.

People see this and assume its the whole control system thats kinect enabled, could be something as subtle as what they are doing with forza 4 with head tracking for in car view. Relax and wait for an actual announcement guys.

I don't really care about being usable with Kinect...What I do care about is that tragedy of a cover. Seriously, that is fucking DIRE boxart.

To hell with your optimism.!.if this true, it is very possibly the reason the release date was pushed back even further..I know ME is popular, but I imagine that a game like mass effect isn't exactly high on the list for a lot of kinect owners(kids,casual gamers, "social/party gamers who only play with a group of people) I know there are regular kinect owning gamers as well, but I'd wager that they are a smaller portion of all kinect owners

Sweet!

Good God, have the majority of you people bitching even TRIED Kinect yet? If it's supplemental to the controller, then I'm all for seeing what they can do with it. If MS is supposedly serious about wanting to capture the "hardcore" with Kinect that's the way it'll have to be done. I just don't see a Kinect Only game lighting the world on fire.

It's almost certainly optional. I'm curious to see what they do with it, but I'm still pretty reserved about it. The fact that it's Bioware makes me feel a little better though. If anyone can find an unobtrusive way to integrate Kinect, it's Bioware.

I want to use it to imagine I'm a Reaper and stomp Earth's puny cities as Harbinger.

I actually kinda hope this happens. Kinect has voice recognition software. How awesome would it be to actually talk to the NPCs? None of that conversation wheel, you just literally read and interact with the NPC. Or scan your face to make your version of Shepherd. Or, you know, be able to do all the crazy stuff Joker's always doing at the helm. While they may be a little gimmicky, it might be enough to get me to get a Kinect.

It's pretty obvious this will only be for 2 things.

1. Navigating the map (MINORITY REPORT)
2. Mining Planets (Only problem how do you feel the vibration?)

Anything beyond that could be pretty dumb

Also putting your face in the game is another obvious use. Just like EA did with Tiger woods, and let me tell you, that works really well and makes the game infitnitely more involving and cool.

Unless bioware confirms no need to freak out. Even if true it'll have to be an optional thing for those without kinect. Things like scanning your face, charting your destination maybe some mini games and use in the menu. It wouldn't make me go buy kinect but nice for those who own one.

ME3 could use Kinect all it wants, I won't be however.

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To everyone mentioning the possibility of Kinect for face scanning:

I don't quite see how that will work, after all there's a lot of Mass Effect players that are male, but play as a Femshep, and a lot of female players that play as a ManShep.

Imagine. Femshep running around with a hairy manface on her. Unless they also implement a face morph algorithm, it just won't work right.

I want to find out just what they're going to do with the sensor. Don't have one myself, but I'm intrigued.