Re: Hate Thread
My argument is that Kinect shouldn't be forced on the player. Take Fable: The Journey that was announced in E3, that's clearly going to be Kinect heavy from the footage shown and no doubt they'll be forcing its use in other big name games. Obviously industries are going to shape the games developed for their consoles to use their new peripherals and I accept that, and I understand that there's going to be games that Kinect will be more suited for, however for games like Fable it should always be optional.
I've seen the Kinect being used with the new Ghost Recon title, and while the implementation looks interesting, its all optional. Fable Journey... might just be some side story or something. I'm not going to comment on that until I see more about it. Ryse seems like a rather interesting game that could be pretty cool if the Kinect controlling works as well as its shown (it won't but hey).
Still, way I see it, implementing Kinect in these larger games in interesting ways is interesting... as long as its not mandatory as you say. Kinect does hold potential, but I still like my controller so long as this technology is so young.
Still, I see where your ire is coming from. A series one's a fan of suddenly pushed to something else. While this may not be as bad as Resident Evil bailing on Play Station to take root in the Game Cube (simply because Kinect attaches to 360), it's still annoying. However, let's see what else comes about from Fable: The Journey... I've only seen the trailer and as far as I know the player just drives a fucking cart around to set up Fable 4.
I'm blathering now, I know...
