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Peter Molyneux explains why his infamous Kinect game Project Milo was never released (www.videogameschronicle.com)
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[–] [email protected] 59 points 3 weeks ago

it could be that he is a fucking liar.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Hardware being changed up makes sense. Feels funky that MS would pull a bait and switch for a game project, but its hard to say if that was MS or Molyneux being funky since they both have a history.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Kinect being nerfed is something that was known.

The device was supposed to handle the movement analysis on its own with an internal processor, but they cut costs and had it processed by the console instead. Causing a lot of extra load on it, and because of that kinect games probably performed a lot worse than they could have, and were probably simplified quite a bit.

Stop Skeletons From Fighting has a good video about kinect : https://youtu.be/MmJ3LICVtsY

Of course, Molyneux is Molyneux, and just because of that, even with the superior kinect prototype, I'd call bullshit on almost all of the Milo demo.

[–] superglue 11 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

The kinect was near useless but I had fun with it. At one point I set it up to control Kodi with hand gestures. It was clunky but kinda cool. Good times.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

I really liked the potential of Kinect as the first one had some good stuff for it.

I liked the fitness and dancing apps, I thought the Forza Motorsport integration was very subtle but good for immersion and the voice control of Mass Effect 3 was also immersive.

They were all promising improvements that could have gone somewhere with the second version. But then they fucked it up and it went nowhere.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I have one in the attic becuase I saw a cool project to do with a raspberry pi...then I realised im shit at that so there it sits

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

Mine still exists for almost exactly the same reason. Its excellent tech and it can be used for great things. One day I'll learn how to do stuff like that and then I'll be as a god. I mean not today obviously I got stuff to do I'm a busy man, but one day. Probably. Its nice to dream.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Knowing how actually amazing the sensor suite in the Kinect is: It is far from useless. It's just far better utilized in avenues other than video gaming. lol

Though I hella would like one for VR, as it makes for an excellent FBT unit.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

I liked almost everything made for it. Even the cute little game where you play with animals.

[–] _cryptagion 3 points 3 weeks ago

I was never interested in this, but I did enjoy the Connect, for nothing else but being able to control Netflix without getting up.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Is it because the whole thing was absolutely bullshit? The dude was trying to sell it as if it were an actual artificial intelligence years before LLMs were even where they are now (and they absolutely fucking suck rn).

Edit: lol "I want to sit down and smoke what I smoke, drink what I drink and not dance around like a twat."