Epic Boss: Next Gears of War will have Natal Support

Pennywise - 73 days 19 hours ago

The 360 had the hardcore appeal to it. Slowly over time that appeal is vanishing and once the dust settles all you will see is people flailing their arms around.

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Xbox Avatars Shoe - 73 days 19 hours ago

I wonder if Marcus will do the same motion as my N4G avatar...

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GWAVE - 73 days 19 hours ago

I'm laughing right now at all the people who mocked Wii motion controls and the PS3 Eye, and now they're jumping for joy at the idea of "virtually" giving Marcus Fenix a nice big bro-hug while they play Gears 3.

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thegood33 - 73 days 19 hours ago

I can't wait to chainsaw some fool with my own arms LOL, I'll even scream like Marcus AAAHHHHHH!!!!!

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chaosatom - 73 days 19 hours ago

:)

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darkride66 - 73 days 19 hours ago

I can't wait to come home from a hard day and jump around my living room like a hyperactive toddler, ducking behind furniture and holding my fingers like a pretend gun.

"Pewww Peewww! Take that, Horde! Pewww, pewww! Now I'm hiding behind my ottoman! Can't see me, nasty Horde!"

Oh wait. That's not the game I want to play at all.

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u got owned - 73 days 19 hours ago

@ Pennywise

Sad but true, this motion trend is the end of hardcore gaming.

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Nineball2112 - 73 days 19 hours ago

Is Natal going to have gamers looking like this:

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vhero - 73 days 19 hours ago

Read the god damn article people not 1 place in his quotes does he actually say anything about a gears of war title having Natal support. He said future games they make will support it he says NOTHING about GOW! The poster of the article from the original website is just guessing. He clearly states the ENGINE will support it I quote "I have no idea where we're going from a game standpoint, but from an engine standpoint, it's definitely cool stuff and we will support it". There you have it. They will add Natal support to the unreal engine obviously as they hire this engine out to other devs and it would be madness not to add support for it. Thye are not saying they are adding it to the new Gears game

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Alcon Caper - 73 days 18 hours ago

seriously. what a crap title. he never says that gears of war will support natal.

the article title is misleading.

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The Meerkat - 73 days 18 hours ago

So will I be able to put my couch in front of my TV and pop up from behind it every time I want to take a shot.

Could be fun........for about 5 mins.

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StanLee - 73 days 18 hours ago

Edit: Fail title.

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Tony P - 73 days 18 hours ago

This kind of article is the sport of hit seekers and flamebaiters. It just proves further that you can take a quote and put it in any context so long as you're willing to stretch the truth. This is almost an outright lie.

-The REAL question asked-

Q: "Are you currently focusing on allowing your licensees to use Natal better, or have your studios had any time to start experimenting with the dev kits?"

A: "Actually, we're just sitting down with them in the next two weeks I think, to bring our studio guys in to have a look. I have no idea what we're going to do from a game standpoint, but from an engine standpoint, it's definitely cool stuff and we will support it. I think any future Xbox games we make will have some Natal support. We always want to have something that exploits the unique capabilities of a platform."

-The question asked specifically about Gears and Natal-

Q: "Do you think Natal has applications for traditional hardcore games, such as Gears of War or Halo?"

A: "Yeah, I can totally see myself sitting in front of my TV using Natal to play games like Gears of War, Call of Duty, or whatever first-person shooter with my buddies. I want to do a hand signal that tells my friend, "Go over there." Instead of even saying it on Live, I just want to motion, "Go over there." Or if I want to throw a grenade, I just lift my right hand off the controller, throw the grenade, then put my hand back on the controller.

I don't think we're going to change the hardcore experience that so many people love so well. Look at Gears of War, we sold over 11 million games - people clearly like that kind of experience. Call of Duty sells millions every time it ships. People clearly enjoy that experience. You wouldn't change Halo, but you could, if you had Natal, at least to simplify some of the controls.

In other words, you could get away with a simpler control scheme, as it's really easy to remember throwing a grenade when it's really throwing. I can see that working in multiplayer games, then you get your hand right back on the controller and keep playing, stuff like that, maybe a wave, maybe a taunt. I'm sure that when more people have this technology you'll see some of the hardcore games adapt to it.

But I don't think it's necessary, I don't think that's their goal, I don't think you need Natal for that kind of game. The thing I like is selecting your movies by swinging your hand, right and left, that just seems so natural and obvious, and that's kind of what you do with your own DVDs, you go, "Uhh, which do I want?"

A lot to read, I know. But if you're not here to read news on News 4 Gamers, I don't know why you bother showing up.

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Hoolock - 73 days 18 hours ago

Game designers arent stupid, christ theyre gamers like all of us. They know its not fun to dance around and pretend to be in cover. Im intrested to see what they do but the article makes out intergration will be minimal. I just wish people would calm down, no one is going to dance round the room for hardcore games and they know this.

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jcgamer - 73 days 18 hours ago

N4G in 2010 will be CRAAAZAAY...

lol :)

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ceedubya9 - 73 days 18 hours ago

Thank you.

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lowcarb - 73 days 18 hours ago

Natal is not the same thing as the wiimote or eyetoy. It's controller less which is completely different. Eyetoy and wii mote are nothing more than 360 and ps3 wireless controllers with a different shape. There's a lot of potential here which hopefully one day you understand.

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PS3 slim - 73 days 18 hours ago

It's going to me a day to figure out what is making the PS3 fanboys mad this time.

It would be nice to give voice commands to the AIs in Gears of War 3 and other Epic games.

EDIT

I figured it out and posted the answer in the original comment. The PS3 fans are mad because they hate Natal and Epic said "Future Epic games will have Natal support" excluding possible future PS3 games or PS3 versions of them.

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Elvfam511 - 73 days 18 hours ago

sell the game with a lancer gun and use that like the game House of the dead in the arcade

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DarkTower805 - 73 days 17 hours ago

Check it out, how lame!!!

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The-Warranty - 73 days 17 hours ago

LMAO!!! That should be fun!!

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lowcarb - 73 days 16 hours ago

I remember that clip lol. That's to freaking funny. Honestly i wouldnt be caught dead playing a game like that unless it was maybe karaoke night or I could scan in a gun.

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DarkTower805 - 73 days 15 hours ago

@lowcarb, that's actually the first time I've seen the clip, believe it or not. I was rotfl so hard, especially towards the end where she goes off. Good stuff.

But yeah, I think it would be more of a karaoke type party thing more than anything.

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artsaber - 73 days 15 hours ago

Bubbles for that! That was my first time seeing that too. It was hysterical! I couldn't imagine playing a game like that. You could NEVER keep a girlfriend... imagine her walking in on that moronic sequence. Granny sounded like a chicken by the end of the video.

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jav0918 - 73 days 15 hours ago

just because the game will have natal support does not mean the game will be made wrong. I mean even after all the glitches and stuff it could be retarded but no one ever put a gun to your head and said you have to play the game using natal. No one ever said its mandatory. Especially in a big game like gears I doubt natal will be mandatory.

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pixelsword - 73 days 13 hours ago

I say above average because the motion controls for UT III on the PS3 had mixed results: the hooverboard had excellent controls, but the redeemer controls were too sensitive.

So i am confident if done right, it could be above average to excellent, depending on the degree of integration they choose to implement; although I will hate to see how many people might throw their controllers into their televisions on accident.

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Lifendz - 73 days 13 hours ago

to watch youtube vids of people using Natal to play Gears. Let the laughs begin

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darthv72 - 73 days 13 hours ago

you play like you always did but then coming across access terminals and using your hands to simulate pressing in key codes. It isnt like they will make this into a holodeck game (although...that would be cool too) but rather at certain points require virtual input instead of watching a cut scene doing it for you.

By removing some things you press a button for and making them more interactive lets the devs use the buttons for more meaningful purposes.

Man, the haters just want to hate even if it is something that they will never play themselves.

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4Sh0w - 73 days 13 hours ago

They might be laughing at you, instead of with you.

People should wait and see what Natal has to offer before declaring it a failure. Why do people who clearly favor the ps3 side of the fence hate Natal so much? Why not avoid Natal news when you've already made it clear the last time you commented on Natal that you don't like it?

Great post JOY.

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ThanatosDMC - 73 days 12 hours ago

Why would you want to let go of your controller while playing Gears to do a hand signal? That's just suicide or just having your body asked to be chainsawed.

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4Sh0w - 73 days 12 hours ago

Are you being serious? Nevermind the fact that Gears is a tactical shooter where you move from cover to cover, and thus you could give voice and yes hand signals while doing so, but really thats sort of a really weak criticism imo, since not every moment in anygame do you have to be holding the controller with both hands at all times, I've played my fair share of games on every platform and never played a game that intense, besides if its built from the ground up with Natal it should be a seemless part of the gameplay experience and a wave of the hand only takes a second.

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mal_tez92 - 73 days 12 hours ago

I'm just wondering howsomething gimmicky like Natal or Eyetoy would work in a shooter game. My guess is that it doesn't work, and is just used in order to promote Natal's "many uses".

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mal_tez92 - 73 days 12 hours ago

I'm just wondering how something gimmicky like Natal or Eyetoy would work in a shooter game. My guess is that it doesn't work, and is just used in order to promote Natal's "many uses".

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Shepherd 214 - 73 days 11 hours ago

who said anyone was jumping for joy? Im a Gears fan and i certainly do not want this. I do not want motion controls for gaming, it imprecise and feels less competitive. I dont want my arms to be all up in the air when i plan my games. I chose the 360 over the Wii because i hate motion controls. So why is Microsoft not acknowledging the decision customers made when they purchased a 360? Hardcore owners are the Xbox's core strength, and over the past couple of years they have not been catering to the hardcore fans like they should.

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ReservoirDog316 - 73 days 11 hours ago

Ugh...

Great, just great...

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Maddens Raiders - 73 days 10 hours ago

..there goes the neighborhood..

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evrfighter - 73 days 10 hours ago

SDF sure were quick to cover their ears and start screaming while jumping up and down.

it's as if Natal is the monkey under their bed

ROFL

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Thugbot187 - 73 days 10 hours ago

Why the hate and the games not even here. If they do something dumb with it yes by all means call it out. However if they enhance GOW and makes a something cool i'm all for it.

I'm going to sit back and let them do there job which is to inovate and create a good game for me to play. As a customer I will tell them if I like it or not when I play the game.

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ApocalyPS3 - 73 days 9 hours ago

Pennywise, what's hardcore about sixaxis, ps3eye, and a wand then, tell me!

The same arguments you guys are using against Natal can be used against PS3's gimmicks. But because it's Xbox it's got to fail. This site is so much of a joke that I can't believe somewhere out there is a proud admin of the servers that run this place.

N4G RIP POS SOL FUD, TTYL WTF?

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IaMs12 - 73 days 9 hours ago

This better just be an OPTION an OPTION nothing more, better not be mandatory because at the sametime it freaking awesome if they can pull it off.

What im starting to think tho is companies are going to incorporate both motion and controller at the same time. EX. you move and shoot with the controler but yell commands or motions to do other stuff that you do not have enough buttons on the controller to do.

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cgoodno - 73 days 5 hours ago

Natal support could mean just navigating menus with your hands rather than the controller and similar functions.

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Alvadr - 73 days 4 hours ago

No good can come of this

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thesummerofgeorge - 73 days 3 hours ago

I'm sure you'd have to use a controller withit too... I think Microsoft is a little bit lost without a plan. I certainly don't wanna jump around my living room.

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jjohan35 - 73 days 14 hours ago

I really don't care if they have Natal support or not as long as I can disable it and use my controller. I'd also like more ONLINE support to fix all the buggy issues with Gears of War 2. Bring it back to the roots of Gears of War 1, the true epic game of 360.

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corneliuscrust - 73 days 18 hours ago

article MERELY said that it would have price cuts similar to how a console gets the same treatment, NOT that it would enter the market at a console pricepoint.

Between that misleading title and now this one, this place has become like DIGG... people just read the headlines and comment on what they assume the damn article was talking about

what the hell.

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chaosatom - 73 days 19 hours ago

MS also seems to be dumping on hardcore gaming all together /XD

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EpicGamerSwordsman - 73 days 18 hours ago

I thought the Next Gears wasn't releasing until Next gen?.. Also MS Never said anything of their Future console supporting Natal.

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36T - 73 days 18 hours ago

You people seriously need to learn how to read. Let me guess, the majority of you are from the US? Makes perfect sense to me.

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slayorofgods - 73 days 13 hours ago

"You people seriously need to learn how to read. Let me guess, the majority of you are from the US? Makes perfect sense to me."

That comment doesn't even make sense, everyone above your comment is talking about how they disprove of Natal support as stated in the text "I think "ANY" future Xbox games we make will have some Natal support"

Learn to comprehend. No wounder you only have 2 bubbles and thank god!!!

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Lifendz - 73 days 13 hours ago

MS probably considers Natal to be the "next gen."

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skv007 - 73 days 10 hours ago

I hope its optional.
Coz GeOW is awesome atm. I dont need it to be turned into a carebear game with natal.
If its not optional, they just looking for a way to get natal to sell. =/

Then i'll just stick with GeOW2/GeOW

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PopEmUp - 73 days 5 hours ago

are you gonna dodge and cover behind the couch, while playing Gear 3 lol

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EpicGamerSwordsman - 73 days 18 hours ago

of you to say.. look at your previous comments on other articles & Then talk about being pathetic.

lol disagree because its the truth eh?

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36T - 73 days 18 hours ago

So EpicGamerSwordsman, does that mean that he's wrong??? Why don't you call out a few of your Sony buddies and see what happens.

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EpicGamerSwordsman - 73 days 17 hours ago

WTF is that suppose to mean, Im saying hes pathetic because he trolls non-stop & Decides to call 2 of these guys Pathetic, Yet hes one of the Biggest 360 fanboy who Says Nothing positive on the ps3. do you take it offensive if im calling this retarded excuse of a 360 fanboy a stupid little troll & you decide to back him up out of Nowhere as if you where his B*tch?

Take a look at your comments numbnuts, Your just as much of a Fanboy as MGR is you Twat.

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skv007 - 73 days 10 hours ago

*looks up*
yeah.. I'm not sure if you should be defending MGSR..
Your comment history doesnt look too hot either -.-

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The Iron Sheik - 73 days 14 hours ago

Nah we are just amazed that you bots are hyped for this kiddie casual crap.

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PHIL1017 - 73 days 5 hours ago

RFOL!!!!!! (hard laugh!)

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Xlll - 73 days 9 hours ago

No it wasn't..it was a clone of the 1st...even the ending was the same.

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themyk - 72 days 21 hours ago

why waist peoples time with such a stupid video.

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