Is 'Mature' Kinect Gaming a Bad Idea?

Sega's Rise of Nightmares does not bode well.

Like the google-eyed face clutched by the creepy claws on the front of the box, it's kinda hard to miss: In fact, it's right there in the marketing taglines for Sega's Rise of Nightmares: "An unashamedly mature title in a sea of family-friendly titles on Kinect."

Let's consider: Mature games for Kinect. Yep, it's a notion that makes about as much sense as Olive Garden deciding to serve tacos and enchiladas alongside its all-you-can-eat shrimp carbonara.

[zeal0us]

Wasn't this same thing said about the wii at one time?

Usually M titles produce by mainstream games developers it tend of sell better.

Kinect at this period of time seem to be surrounded by E rated titles an M rated title could be good or bad thing. Good for gamers who been wanting a kinect game with some violence. Bad for parents who thinks the kinect is a safe-haven for child/children friendly games.

[BlindGuardian]

I really like that the title refers to Rise of Nightmares as "mature" and not hardcore

because there will NEVER be a Kinect core game

[ApplEaglElephant]

for any sort of complicated and hardcore games.

[Technical World]

Kinect gaming in general is a bad idea...

[fluffydelusions]

I saw picture in picture walkthrough of rise of nightmares. To say the least the controls are pretty horrible and that is all the commentator kept talking about was how crap the controls were. Search dspgaming rise of nightmares on youtube and you will see.

[DigitalRaptor]

Yeah, just watched it and well...

[DigitalRaptor]

Oh edonus, just don't... just don't embarrass yourself like this.

Too advanced? How is that gameplay advanced? It's like saying House of the Dead is advanced... smh!

I've heard you parade this BS in every article for this game, and i'm sorry to say but it's sounding like sincere buyer's remorse with an unhealthy dose of denial.

The controls suck based on many accounts of people who have played it and no matter of you telling people they suck will change that. It could be put into question that the players aren't used to it, but really, if and when they do adapt to it, would they really want to play this game once they've struggled through it once already? Probably not.

You say players want a hardcore game with a challenge, and that's true. The challenge they crave is in the methodology and strategy, not the challenge of grasping the sucky controls.

And I can't believe you're stooping to insulting people for being "awkward" "nervous" and "weird". Putting yourself on the pedestal and acting as if you're the normal one. No normal person would give this game more praise than criticism.

BTW, you can tell that as the walkthrough videos progress, the guys get a lot more used to the controls, and even then they think it sucks. You cant pull that excuse from your ass.

Advanced... ROFL!

[gogospeedracer]

Motion controls on any system is a bad idea.

[TXIDarkAvenger]

Y do u have disagrees?

Your completely right! We don't need motion controls on our systems. There horrible. Kinect, Wii controls, and Move are all bad ideas imo.

[kneon]

Kinect is fine when used where it's appropriate. Forcing it's use where it doesn't belong leads to poor games that will just annoy people and leave a bad impression of Kinect. It's just not capable of handling all genres of gaming.

[Ayepecks]

Exactly. The Gunstringer's fantastic, Fruit Ninja Kinect's fantastic, Dance Central's fantastic, Kinect Sports and Kinect Adventures are good, etc.

Kinect gaming isn't inherently bad. Cramming crappy ideas into a new medium just because it sells well, however, is.

[BabyTownFrolics]

your opinion is not as valid as mine

[smashcrashbash]

What people don't realize is that the hardcore STILL don't care and the casuals won't buy them because they most likely brought it for their kids. @ zeal0us if you look at the Wii most M rated titles like House of the Dead, Madworld and Conduit sold worse then Mario and friends.

[Shadonic]

My answer is no its not always a bad idea.

[C_Menz]

It is when the games trying to mature Kinect suck.

[Agent_hitman]

Is 'Mature' Kinect Gaming a Bad Idea?

answer:
No, kinect is not just for casual audience it is also good for other genres like hardcore games/horror/action/hentai... LOL

Sex simulaor

[rjdofu]

lol sex simulator? I'd rather have sex with my hand than pretending to f*ck the air in front of my tv.

[cond3m3r]

well you know some people go crazy to making out with air. its not too far away from the japs making love to their lifesize anime pillows lol

[Darkspade]

not if it works but will be hard to get it right

[WhiteLightning]

Microsoft have kept saying ever since they revealed Kinect that core games were coming. They said that after Kinects reveal in 2009 as Project Natal, then in 2010 when Project Natal became Kinect and it seem downgraded as what we were shown from the previous year, plus not to mention E3 was full focused on Kinect but Microsoft didn't learn and this years E3 it was also a Kinect-snooze-fest.

So Microsoft....where are the core games that actually work

They keep saying it over and over then have the cheek to say in the next sentence "Core gamers LOVE Kinect"....are they so in denial that there hopeing that if they say it enough it will become true. It's pretty obvious that core games just won't work on Kinect, so Microsoft just come clean and say it wasn't meant for us from the start.

[Beastradamus]

They may be in denial but the darn thing sells like hotcakes.

[just_looken]

don't forget the wiibrator that spiked wii sales and helped chicks everywhere:
http://www.shinyshiny.tv/Wi...

why don't ms do a virtual thing you know safe sex sells.

oh this aswell:
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1...

[ShaunCameron]

I say that M-rated gaming in general is a bad idea. It's 2011 and the industry still haven't fully recovered from the impact Mortal Kombat and Nintendo's refusal to allow real blood on the SNES version made.

[Beastradamus]

Not a bad idea, just bad execution.

[KidMakeshift]

Not if it's done right. It's just unfortunate and predictable that both Sony and Microsoft would pretty much abandon motion control after 6 months.

There's barely anything available for either and what is there works better with a controller. It pisses me off when there's so much potential for both.

I still want to see that Ultraman mod become a legitimate game

[Jazz4108]

Um ms has a lot of kinect titles coming. I don't play kinect or move but you were wrong on saying ms has abananed kinect which is just not true. Sony I can't speak for but if you say they forgot about move then I believe you but its just not true for ms. Now I do wish ms would forget about kinect and go back to what made them the console to own for the first four years.

[KidMakeshift]

Yeah and look at the list:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wik...

The Kinect might as well be for the Wii because it's all shovelware and the few promising games like Steel Battalion play like shit from the previews I've read.

So I stick with what I said because it's rather true

[Anon1974]

What on earth are you talking about? Doesn't Move have something like 60 games already with a a bunch more on the immediate horizon? How is that abandoning motion control? And Microsoft, did you not see E3 this year? It was all Kinect.

As for mature Kinect games, that market will sort it out. If there's a market for them, developers will make them. If they don't sell, forget it. How is Rise of Nightmares doing sales wise? Anyone know?

[KidMakeshift]

Like I said before, look at what's actually coming out for both. 90% of it is the kind of shovelware shit you see on the Wii. The rest is either controller based games with optional crappy motion control implementation to appease Sony or Microsoft or motion control only games that work better solely with a controller.

They are not trying and there's next to none first party games for motion control.

So yeah I still stick with what I said

[beast242tru]

nah any kinect game is good imo people out there paid 150 for the camera so having variety of games is nice

[TXIDarkAvenger]

Is 'Mature' Kinect Gaming a Bad Idea?

Not not at all. But we want GOOD games for Kinect. Appealing to both mature and younger gamers. But in my honest opinion, just forget about Kinect and stick with a controller.

[Knightofelemia]

Personally I find rated M games good on the Kinnect all it has had so far is excersie games and kids games

[gazgriff2k12]

kinect is a bad idea all together, microsoft putting all they money, time and effort in kinect is suicidal. for me kinect should be an arcade platform or stand alone console aimed at kids imho