Peter Molyneux has been taking time off from making games to talk about Kinect. Again. Mr. Molyneux is a big fan of the forthcoming motion control system so his praise for two of the big launch titles for the new motion controller seem somewhat.. subdued.
“I’ve played [Kinect] Sports,” said Peter, “I’ve actually played a hell of a lot of Sports. And it’s pretty good. And [Kinect] Adventures is pretty good.”
Just ‘pretty good’, not ‘fantastic’, ‘superb’ or ‘awesome’, just ‘pretty good’. Peter continues,
“Considering the amount of time, I think they’re pretty good experiences. I think anybody that gets Kinect that and buys those titles, they’re not gonna be disappointed.”
Again the games are ‘pretty good’ but what is more interesting is the phrase ‘considering the amount of time’ which seems to suggest the Kinect titles have had a shorter development time than other games. This is strengthened by Peter’s next comment,
“They [gamers] should really, really be excited by what comes next. ‘Cause that’s what I judge Kinect on is what the next step is.”
So to summarise: Kinect Sports and Kinect Adventures are ‘pretty good’ but the second wave of games will be much more exciting. Are a couple of ‘pretty good’ games worth spending £130 on? Not long till we find out…
Source: Joystiq
rht992
well i’m sold :P
cc_star
Well done Mr Molyneax for telling the truth. 1st wave games are never as good as 2nd or 3rd wave, just look at the rubbish that accompanies console launches. This is no different. It’s not like the slow laggy and unresponsive The Fight or Kung Fu Rider, The Shoot & Move Party is as good as Move is going to get, is it?
Quinlank
Dead Space Extraction is going to be an early Move title, and it was quite simply incredible on the Wii, and this is a FREE game don’t forget, free with the LE of Dead Space 2, which is the same price as the standard version.
Likewise the best version of Resident Evil 4 is widely regarded to be the Wii version given how good the control scheme worked with it, and Resi 5 PS3 will get that same control scheme with the Move on day one or something isn’t it? That’s just a couple of actual GAMES confirmed that will be available for use with the Move in addition to others. It at least has some really impressive options outside it’s Move-only titles, which is something Kinect does not have. All it’s shown so far is the same dance em up exercise mini game dross and pretty much nothing else.
Basically saying that Move is showing a lot that caters to both core and casual from day one, whereas with Kinect we’ve yet to even hear any talk of titles that move beyond the narrow, simplistic focus the games so far seen seem to have.
Molyneaux doesn’t appear to be telling the truth as much as simply having no clue what else to say. The truth would have been to say here’s what we have, take it or leave it. I suspect people will do the latter.
cc_star
All correct, but it doesn’t change the fact that 2nd & 3rd wave titles will be better than 1st wave.
Look at Sorcerery, coming 6 months or so after launch, Dead Space Extraction about 4 months after launch, Killzone 3… The list goes on and on. Titles coming out post-launch are always better than launch titles and titles released next Christmas will be even better than those, this has happened throughout all of history and will happen this Autumn when Move & Kinect are released.
TSBonyman
If i read between the lines, he’s saying wait until it’s ready, then they can excited because it’ll be working in the way they intended.
TSBonyman
*be excited
CrawFail
Given the fact this guy has the charisma of a cactus playing Warcraft I doubt he’s played it. Can you imagine him doing it? It’d look like Holly from Red Dwarf playing Ace Ventura in a remake of the films.
I think if this guy smiled, jogged or lifted his arms high enough to wipe his own spume from his own lips he would shatter.
jonny_bolton
Yeah, there’s something that’s off about him isn’t there…
Raen
I have to say you’re completely wrong. Having seen him talk in person he has a lot of charisma and energy.
Quinlank
I’m still having a hard time not laughing at the irony of Microsoft and it’s fanboys currently trying to sell the public on an overpriced piece of hardware with no games with promises of “potential” and hyping it’s non-gaming features.
Anyone else feel like they’ve stepped back in time to 2006?
Quinlank
Or at least some Bizarro World reimagining of it…
stonyk
i dont think I’m going to spend several hundreds of pounds that I don’t have on something that is pretty good. Surely the most basic of games should be better than pretty good. At least the sports will be free like wii sports won’t it? Can’t really complain about quality of the game unless it was being sold at full price of £40.
spekjemean
So the’re crap then ?
Porcupine_I
going by his reputation, lowering his judgment to “pretty good” would translate to “worthless” for any other human being :-D
MXZ
This guy doesnot sound that excited, in fact he sounds extremly dissapointed (what do i think of the games? oh there pretty good)
pretty good isnot worth 150.
if the 1st wave of games are only pretty good then i despertely want to know which wave it will be when (and if) Milo
Klart
“pretty good considering the amount of time” = rushed rubbish
Only the games will make or break Kinect/Move. It’s not looking good for Kinect.