“What the hell is this gimmick?!” the average Halo 4 fan said.
Well, I’ll tell you.
Kinect may be a “gimmick” to you, but it would deeply help with forging. Drag out a box with your fingers and make it into a block. Select items by moving your hands. Rotate items by making a grabbing motion and turning your hand (which rotation snap would help immensely with).
So let’s say you need a huge floor. Instead of putting hundreds of blocks together, you could just drag one out under your feet - then make it a huge block, like the Colosseum walls - or split it into tiny pieces. Move items by dragging your hands around the screen - yes, it sounds stupid, but it’d be easier to move around. Heck, you could probably drag it in tiny increments by pinching your fingers together and moving your hand. Zoom in and out by flicking both hands in and out respectively. Move your spartan or monitor by walking around. Delete things by clapping - with a toggle-able confirmation message. The possibilites could be almost endless.
It could be forge-exclusive due to the unfair advantage in Matchmaking - and it wouldn’t fit in Campaign or Firefight.
Would’ve been easier to have an actual map editor with Kinect support.
> Would’ve been easier to have an actual map editor with Kinect support.
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If there’s a map editor, it would work even better. You’d be (a) God - if you believe in that sort of stuff - raise mountains, drag out hills, excavate the ground…
I really hope they will make more use of there time on more importnt things in forge not silly gimmicks like kinect. Kinect might be good on the next generations of consoles, but lets face it, on the 360 kinect is sluggish, innacurate, and it’s pretty much just a novelty.
All of those options would still work on a control even if some are still a little more sluggish.
Not every game needs to be injected with kinect kancer. Kinect seems cool and all, but they shouldnt just force it into a game that REALLY doesnt need it. If you like kinect, go play kinectimals. Im not hating, they just need to stick with kinect ONLY games and stop trying to mix it with something that doesnt fit the kinect gameplay
> Not every game needs to be injected with kinect kancer. Kinect seems cool and all, but they shouldnt just force it into a game that REALLY doesnt need it. If you like kinect, go play kinectimals. Im not hating, they just need to stick with kinect ONLY games and stop trying to mix it with something that doesnt fit the kinect gameplay
This. What 343 did with CEA and Kinect was pretty stupid. They introduce this awesome Library and Analyze feature, but if you didn’t invest in Microsoft’s expensive paperweight, you can’t use it. Metroid Prime, a GameCube game, had a similar feature, there was no excuse to not map it to the D-Pad.
If it returns, follow Prime please 343.
> Would’ve been easier to have an actual map editor with Kinect support.
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Yeah, never liked Forge for the soul purpose that i can’t change the landscape.
> “What the hell is this gimmick?!” the average Halo 4 fan said.
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> Well, I’ll tell you.
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> Kinect may be a “gimmick” to you, but it would deeply help with forging. Drag out a box with your fingers and make it into a block. Select items by moving your hands. Rotate items by making a grabbing motion and turning your hand (which rotation snap would help immensely with).
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> It could be forge-exclusive due to the unfair advantage in Matchmaking - and it wouldn’t fit in Campaign or Firefight.
" “What the hell is this gimmick?!” the average Halo 4 fan said. "
So I guess i’m the average Halo 4 fan. The reason I don’t want to see kinect forging, and I have explained this before. Is because the xbox 360 kinect isn’t powerful, it is sluggish, innacurate, and lets face it. It’s going to be no easier to use forge with it. Imagine how difficult it would be to get an angle of rotation with it. Imagine how frustrated you’d be after spending ten minutes trying to get a block the right size because you keep making it too big or too small (due to the accuracy of the kinect sensor). Also using kinect will take a substantial amount of processing power away from the actual forging. No thanks. I’d much rather have a more powerful forge. Kinect not for me, not this generations kinect. Maybe a better one will launch with the next xbox.
If it works good sure why not.