Panzer Dragoon coming to Kinect?

[sj33]

http://kotaku.com/5639357/kinect-gets-its-panzer-dragoon

Huge dollop of salt because it's Kotaku, but looking at those pictures, it looks like it might be the real deal.

Great, now I have to buy Kinect.

[PeteJ]

It's true, was announced at TGS.

[Neon Ignition]

Surprised they're bothering doing this. Given the gameplay execution of the series I can't imagine Kinect would give the accuracy required for a proper entry. Plus, after the sales bomb that Orta ended up being it's clear the core audience on Xbox doesn't care enough to warrant another exclusive and there's no chance the casual audience will. Good old Sega.

[sj33]

Yeah, I'd much prefer to see them stick Panzer Dragoon Saga on XBLA/PSN so more people get to play the game, and use that to guage the feasibility of a sequel.

[abigsmurf]

Sega continue to rape their classic brands

[Phar]

Has this even been confirmed as being published by Sega though, seeing as it's not officially a new Panzer Dragoon.

[EvilBoris]

Surprised they're bothering doing this. Given the gameplay execution of the series I can't imagine Kinect would give the accuracy required for a proper entry. Plus, after the sales bomb that Orta ended up being it's clear the core audience on Xbox doesn't care enough to warrant another exclusive and there's no chance the casual audience will. Good old Sega.

In terms of aiming, the hand tracking for the cursor is about the same as that of the cursor on the wii channel screen. Both in terms of accuracy and responsiveness

[Neon Ignition]

It's not so much due to having issues with the motion controls in itself, I imagine it'll be great for Children of Eden but for Panzer there's a level of accuracy and control that motion control gaming doesn't give. Banking left whilst performing a barrel roll in between a hail of enemy fire through a stone archway whilst also being attacked from the side and firing back with charge shots and rapid fire? By waving my hands? Nope. Just seems a really ill suited franchise for the tech.

[abigsmurf]

In terms of aiming, the hand tracking for the cursor is about the same as that of the cursor on the wii channel screen. Both in terms of accuracy and responsiveness

You can rest the Wiimote on your lap though. This will require raised arms most of the time which gets uncomfortable after about 10 minutes.

[Giga_Death]

In terms of aiming, the hand tracking for the cursor is about the same as that of the cursor on the wii channel screen. Both in terms of accuracy and responsiveness

Also this is very similar to orta, if not a complete rip-off, albeit without the shooting. I'm guessing some gameplay adjustements will be needed of course.

Child of Eden with kinect

[averybluemonkey]

It's not so much due to having issues with the motion controls in itself, I imagine it'll be great for Children of Eden but for Panzer there's a level of accuracy and control that motion control gaming doesn't give. Banking left whilst performing a barrel roll in between a hail of enemy fire through a stone archway whilst also being attacked from the side and firing back with charge shots and rapid fire? By waving my hands? Nope. Just seems a really ill suited franchise for the tech.

One hand for movement, one hand for aiming I'd imagine.

[fishbowlhead]

One hand for movement, one hand for aiming I'd imagine.

While the kinect is a good idea, its current implementation is no where near good enough for twitch gaming like this, but like xbox live im sure MS will improve it hugly over time.

On the other hand there's a good reason the wii was and still is so successful, it offers people something totally new, but still keeps a good button layout and quality traditional controls for the games that need it.


Itle be interesting watching kinect grow and evolve, but from what ive heard about the unresponsive controls of games, not to mention the half arsed implementation of the dash controls, its a long way off where it should be even at this early stage.

[Team Andromeda]

Surprised they're bothering doing this.

It's coming from SEGA and its not Panzer Dragoon. I don't think a classic Panzer would work on Natal anyway, not just because of the moment of the Dragoon, but also the series classic use of shoulder buttons to quickly alter the camera view