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REALLY!?! Core Gamers Love Kinect

Posted on Tuesday, June 14 @ 08:46:49 Eastern by Anthony Severino

If you watched, heard about, or read our live blog of the Microsoft E3 Press Conference, then you know all too well that Kinect is going to be invading your favorite "core" titles. It's being added to Mass Effect 3, Ghost Recon: Future Soldier, and many more. When that sad, sad news first broke, you could almost hear the simultaneous sighs and cries from core gamers everywhere.

But the ever-delusional Kinect creative director, Kudo Tsunoda believes that was the sound of core gamers jumping for joy, waving their appendages around to begin prepping them for the onslaught of Kinect-infused core titles.

Kudo, speaking to an audience at E3, said:

I mean, I never really thought that core gamers were in any way hostile to Kinect.

Really Kudo? Maybe you missed the ~~memo~~ entire Internet, but core gamers don't want to make fools of themselves in their living rooms. We're more than happy leaving that sort of embarrassment to the casuals who mindlessly flocked to the Wii, because it was the "it" thing to do at the moment. Also, we're too lazy. We sit on the couch and use our thumbs to play our games. Even that is pushing it.

When core gamers said, "Hey douchebags, you can push this crap to casuals all you want, but don't touch our core games," Kudo heard this instead:

We really love Kinect, and we'd like Kinect to be in the experiences that we play regularly.

That's a real quote from Kudo Tsunoda. Who is apparently doped up on so much opiates that any hate is translated into happy little clouds from a Bob Ross painting.

For the less than 0.0001% of you core gamers that agree with Kudo, then you're in luck:

The number of Kinect experiences we're going to have are going to triple by the end of the year, so there's going to be more different types of experiences in more different types of genres.

Really. We're all in for a world of shit. Let's just pray that they continue to make this crap optional.

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Tags: Microsoft, Kinect, Xbox 360

Comments

BigWoopMagazine
Joined: Jun 2011

Posted: Jun 14th, 2011 at 9:23 am
Kinect is just too much work. Even Move is. Really, if I wanna get up and dance around like an idiot, I'll go to the club, or go outside and play an actual sport. Call me picky, or stubborn, but motion controls just don't make sense to me. It's like inventing the car, and then telling people they need to get out and push to make it go anywhere.

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Daddio
Joined: Nov 2008

Posted: Jun 14th, 2011 at 9:38 am
What exactly is a 'core' gamer? Sound like a buncha old retired farts from the military. Cry cry cry, ***** ***** *****.

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Mobius_Sean
Joined: Sep 2006

Posted: Jun 14th, 2011 at 10:04 am
I'm going to be cautiously optimisitic on this. I use a Track IR On my PC for ARMA 2 and FSX and the ability to look left over your shoulder on the ground or survey a landing zone in a chopper is a real gameplay advantage, not to even mention the immersion factor. However, that all depends on Kinect being superior to the PSEye, which having only used it, I was disappointed in the head tracking in GT5. However if kinect can get near TrackIR fidelity I can see it as a real asset in Forza. Of course what we'll probably get is "punch controller toward the screen for a melee strike" and that'll be it.

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xxmrcyanidexx
Joined: May 2011

Posted: Jun 14th, 2011 at 10:32 am
XBOX is going to kill this motion control fad once and for all. After working all day, I don't want to come home and wave my junk around to get Commander Shepard to do dialogue. Fart. Fart. Fart.

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SweetHat
Joined: May 2011

Posted: Jun 14th, 2011 at 11:54 am
+2 xp for Bob Ross reference

also kinect kills happy little trees, don't force your gimmicky **** on me

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Sammo
Joined: Oct 2005

Posted: Jun 14th, 2011 at 12:02 pm
I feel a strong aversion to the phrase "core gamer" and the term "gamer."

That said, I'm a core gamer and I think Kinect is dumb.

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213EDD
Joined: Sep 2007

Posted: Jun 14th, 2011 at 12:52 pm
I liked Kinect and child of eden was best buy so far. I am a better gamer then most of you all here anyways...

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SweetHat
Joined: May 2011

Posted: Jun 14th, 2011 at 1:15 pm
Whatever you have to tell yourself to go to sleep at nite man. lol

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Italion193
Joined: Jun 2011

Posted: Jun 14th, 2011 at 2:08 pm
What are you, 15? hah smh.

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213EDD
Joined: Sep 2007

Posted: Jun 14th, 2011 at 4:42 pm
Making a profile just to comment on my post, what are you, 12? Laughing at your own shitty comments, what are you terrible?

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danielrbischoff
Joined: Nov 2009

Posted: Jun 14th, 2011 at 8:21 pm
I don't think he made a profile just to reply to you 213EDD. He's commented on other stories already.

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MrrClean
Joined: Aug 2010

Posted: Jun 14th, 2011 at 3:29 pm
Come on guys... the real question here is where is Kudo getting his drugs, and how can I get some too?

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drathbone
Joined: May 2011

Posted: Jun 15th, 2011 at 2:29 am
I bet those drugs is what it takes to make core games fun on the kinect.

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xosdude
Joined: Jun 2011

Posted: Jun 15th, 2011 at 10:17 am
the writer of this article is a pretentious *******. What makes somebody a core gamer? The fact that they will drop 60 dollars on a brand new game that they've never played, take it home, and beat it in one sitting? All the 'core gamers' i know ran out and bought a wii as soon as they hit the shelves.
And I know i'm just belly-aching by complaining about this on a video-game-review website, but my spellchecker is screaming at me about the word 'gamer.' What a stupid word. "Core gamers." I guess that group doesn't include me because I'm just game player.
Love the kinect.

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OniAkuma2126
Joined: Jun 2011

Posted: Jun 15th, 2011 at 10:25 am
Microsoft is picking up on the customers that will feel left out once the Wii scares off its " Casual " Gamers with the WiiU. Its a smart money making move...but its a shot in the foot when it comes to the " Hardcore " Gamers. Casual Gamers pick up a game...play mindlessly for a bit of fun with family. No real skill involved and no real reason for storyline. Hardcore Gamers are in it for production value, Storyline, Gameplay, Skill required and proper Multiplayer aspecs of certain games. You dont just pick up a game like Street Fighter or Call of Duty and wreck faces...you have to work at games like that. Same with Final Fantasy (( pre 13....i love the game but its mindless )). These games take skill and you wouldnt expect your Grandma (( Casual Gamer )) to pick it up and have fun.

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