Kinect to your MMO

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• Creslin321 Member Posts: 5,359

  December 2010

  I think that this specific application of Kinect is novel, but really just a waste of time.  After all, WoW was not written to have motion control.  It's cool that those guys got it to work with Kinect, but they only got it to work by "mapping" movements to traditional keyboard commands.

  For example, you can clearly see that "lean forward" means walk forward, "lean back" means walk back, and right hand forward is some kind of spell macro.  So in reality, it's not any kind of "VR" control over the character, you're just making an unnecessarily complicated method of control.  This is similar to how the Power Glove for NES worked, all in all, it was a gimmick.

  That said, I think there definitely are applications for Kinect and other motion controllers in the MMO field, just not as most people would think.  I don't think we're going to see 1 to 1 control mapping your body to an MMO character for some time.  But that's not to say there aren't other uses.

  Instead of thinking about how Kinect can make our current games better, maybe we should be thinking about what new types of games could be created using Kinect that weren't possible before?  For example, there could be some kind of wizard duel type game where you had to memorize actual movements to cast different spells, and apply these spells strategically in the duel.

  Are you team Azeroth, team Tyria, or team Jacob?
• Corthagath Member Posts: 291

  December 2010

  its interesting but im not sure if it would actually work that easily with mmos... would be funny though... seeing that all hardcore kinect mmonerds would be actually in better fit than athletes because we all want to play mmos 24/7