Anyone get Kinect yet??

murphyebass

Anyone get Kinect yet??

Thoughts please. Seriously thinking of getting this for xmas now.

Drunken madness in front of the telly for all

Cheers.

allanb49

Will let you know what it's like after 6pm.

murphyebass

allanb49 wrote: »

Will let you know what it's like after 6pm.

I'm goin to wait till xmas day. Get the whole buzz of opening a present on xmas morning and playing it all day.. only difference will be I'll be drunk as a monkey by well lets say 11am or so.

Gunmonkey

murphyebass wrote: »

I'm goin to wait till xmas day. Get the whole buzz of opening a present on xmas morning and playing it all day.. only difference will be I'll be drunk as a monkey by well lets say 11am or so.

Thats probably the best way to play Kinect

Owen

My pre-order is sitting in town waiting to be collected, but I'm off on hols this afternoon. I'll probably just wait to get it until I get home, I'm meh about the whole thing after seeing the reviews.

allanb49

Bottle of Capt Morgans and a banker friend coming over on friday, Videos will be on youtube saturday.

Crackity Jones

just picked up my bundle. Will be setting it up soon

rizzla

Crackity Jones wrote: »

just picked up my bundle. Will be setting it up soon

How much you get that for and where, any good console bundles with a couple games anywhere?

Crackity Jones

rizzla wrote: »

How much you get that for and where, any good console bundles with a couple games anywhere?

needed a new Xbox so held on for the standard Xbox 250Gb + Kinect bundle. Its 349 in all the main stores as far as I could see with Kinect adventures included. Picked up sports as well. Got mine in Gamestop as I had store credit there.

Crackity Jones

All set up and initial impressions are.. Its hilarious!! I'm smiling here and its been a while since I've done that with a game. Calibration didn't take long and I can't notice any lag. Only played kinect adventures so far though.

Its definately a party / family type gaming experience. We've never had a Wii so can't compare but its cool using whole body. I was jumping around like a mad thing testing the response and gesture actions and its great! Photos at the end the game of me are hilarious. So all good so far. Looking forward to some kinect-less Black Ops now.

Edit to say just tried voice control on sky player... works really, really well. Tried speaking normally, fast, low, high and it picked it all up. Am impressed.

allanb49

So it's picking up the irish voice commands.

Also pics or gtfo of you making a fool of your self

jcrowbar

allanb49 wrote: »

So it's picking up the irish voice commands.

Also pics or gtfo of you making a fool of your self

I've had it for a while now (was in the beta) and have to say it's well worth it. Kinect sports is great fun. Kinect Adventures isn't bad either.

Also, here's a pic of me making a fool of myself :rolleyes:

DARK-KNIGHT

after saying for months ill wait to see what this is like before i buy it in a few months i was like an xbox junkie walked into gamestop tallaght and bought one 149 euro is it well spent we will know later lol

jesus i cant help it i have a gaming addiction:(:):D:pac:

murphyebass

DARK-KNIGHT wrote: »

after saying for months ill wait to see what this is like before i buy it in a few months i was like an xbox junkie walked into gamestop tallaght and bought one 149 euro is it well spent we will know later lol

jesus i cant help it i have a gaming addiction:(:):D:pac:

Dark Knight I feel your pain but have told the missus its what I want for xmas to stop myself buying it!

I'm quite jealous though and am sooooo tempted to go and get one today!

No I wont. NO!!!! I can wait..... ... ... cant i?

allanb49

murphy you can and should, what if they all sell out you won't get one for christmas, your just making sure you get one and that she's not dissapointed come christmas, its all for her. just her.

budhabob

murphyebass wrote: »

Dark Knight I feel your pain but have told the missus its what I want for xmas to stop myself buying it!

I'm quite jealous though and am sooooo tempted to go and get one today!

No I wont. NO!!!! I can wait..... ... ... cant i?

Or do what I do, claim you have no memory of asking for it......you do this enough times and you set the precedent!!! I get away with it the whole time now. :D

Blazer

you definitely need a big room for it...I'm using it in my bedroom and it's tight..
Boxing is great fun and definitely more responsive than the wii plus you don't have a controller to worry about...I'm bollixed after a few rounds

I'd recommned putting this in a downstairs room as some of the games involve jumping with both feet of the ground.


So far great fun...and those pics/vidoes of me playing will never see the light of day

okla

allanb49 wrote: »

So it's picking up the irish voice commands.

No voice commands don't work in Ireland at launch, AFAIK Our Northern Irish friends can use the voice control.
Its supposed to be patched in early in the new year.

mossie

It is great fun, and I didn't notice any lag. I can just about get away with using it in my front room but very tight on space. Game are probably not going to have long term appeal but can see it having some fun uses. Pity abou voice recognition, anyone know why not here?

Crackity Jones

okla wrote: »

No voice commands don't work in Ireland at launch, AFAIK Our Northern Irish friends can use the voice control.
Its supposed to be patched in early in the new year.

Voice works fine for me and my locale is Ireland.

okla

Crackity Jones wrote: »

Voice works fine for me and my locale is Ireland.

Really ??
It hasn't worked for me at all (with the Ireland locale).
If you changed your locale to UK it used to work to just let you sign in and once you were signed in it stopped working.
I was part of the Beta programme for Kinect and MS said on their forums that Voice control for Ireland would not be available at launch.
Anyone else have it working (not that I doubt you Crackity jones):D

Crackity Jones

okla wrote: »

Really ??
It hasn't worked for me at all (with the Ireland locale).
If you changed your locale to UK it used to work to just let you sign in and once you were signed in it stopped working.
I was part of the Beta programme for Kinect and MS said on their forums that Voice control for Ireland would not be available at launch.
Anyone else have it working (not that I doubt you Crackity jones):D

I should qualify that by saying I've only tried it on Sky player

Darksaga87

Held off on getting a new xbox till kinect came out. I knew there would be some sort of deal. So i got the €350 deal with kinect, plus i got sonic for free cause the dude in HMV drogheda is awsome!

Got it this morning at 9, and lets just say, apart from an hour of balck ops, the xbox has been running kinect adventures, kinectimals, and sonic non stop all day, people only poping over for a quick hello have stayed all day to play it, my mate has just left after getting here at 11. Its great fun.

The photos that are taken during the games are brillant.

Space is the main thing that is bugging me, its not a small room, bt its not huge either, so i end up falling onto the couch half the time.

So yeah thats it then, black ops has taken a back seat for a few days.
Also: anyone that has it, i recomend checking out joy ride demo, its great!

murphyebass

is the kinect usable in a normal 3 bed semi detached housing estate house thats what I wanna know.

every add/picture I see of it is in a huge living room which is just not normal in Ireland.

ps the picture in the post above is epic.... I can only imagine the drunken madness that could happen.

Darksaga87

murphyebass wrote: »

is the kinect usable in a normal 3 bed semi detached housing estate house thats what I wanna know.

every add/picture I see of it is in a huge living room which is just not normal in Ireland.

ps the picture in the post above is epic.... I can only imagine the drunken madness that could happen.

My room is small enough, works grand, just move a bit of stuff around to have enough room.

Thanks for the pic compliment . No drink involved......yet.;)

DARK-KNIGHT

Being honest I was a massive sceptic with Kinect and how wrong I was I impulse bought it with just adventures game and I'm dripping with sweat smiling from ear to ear and played for 3 hours solid lol it's brilliant can't wait to get more games for it now lol oh I live in a standard 3 bed semi and my living room is actually small and works fine with 2 people my wife had a ball and she hates games or gaming

Well done ms this could potentially be awesome

DARK-KNIGHT

Would also like to point out I have black ops and Kinect kept me away from it for 3 hours believe me that's a major compliment to this console and kinect

Captain Chaos

DARK-KNIGHT wrote: »

Would also like to point out I have black ops and Kinect kept me away from it for 3 hours believe me that's a major compliment to this console and kinect

Black Ops is a ton of cack in fairness, Reach is a far better game IMO and I wouldn't be a fan of Halo at all.

I'm interested in Kinect now from reading this thread, I had it all but a write off. Will have to investigate further. Might invest in the new 250Gb Kinect pack as a prezzy to myself.

silvine

Tried speech recognition there, not working

DARK-KNIGHT

Captain Chaos wrote: »

Black Ops is a ton of cack in fairness, Reach is a far better game IMO and I wouldn't be a fan of Halo at all.

I'm interested in Kinect now from reading this thread, I had it all but a write off. Will have to investigate further. Might invest in the new 250Gb Kinect pack as a prezzy to myself.

I'm still playing it and I swear I wouldn't say it unless I meant it it's great fun can't wait to see what games are gonna come out like FIFA for this or maybe cod or bad company 3 will they be Kinect ready? I know they said fable 3 will have some sort of Kinect capabilities later on but meh

DARK-KNIGHT

Btw if anyone on boards in the Laois Kildare area near monasterevin that are unsure and would like to try this send me a pm I'll allow boardsies over to try it

Captain Chaos

DARK-KNIGHT wrote: »

I'm still playing it and I swear I wouldn't say it unless I meant it it's great fun can't wait to see what games are gonna come out like FIFA for this or maybe cod or bad company 3 will they be Kinect ready? I know they said fable 3 will have some sort of Kinect capabilities later on but meh

I have read rumors that GT5 will ship with a head tracking in game feature with the Eyetoy part of Move, if stuff like that happens on the 360 with Forza 3.5 or 4 with the Kinect they have a sale right now.

Like Track IR with GTR on the PC.

calex71

DARK-KNIGHT wrote: »

Btw if anyone on boards in the Laois Kildare area near monasterevin that are unsure and would like to try this send me a pm I'll allow boardsies over to try it

Careful guys, I hear he has a forced labor camp set up ready for boardsies to help work off the cost of his Kinect

Seriously, fair play though !!!

DARK-KNIGHT

calex71 wrote: »

Careful guys, I hear he has a forced labor camp set up ready for boardsies to help work off the cost of his Kinect

Seriously, fair play though !!!

Lol ah yeah nice 1cal ruin my concentration camp for me lol

Seriously though it's expensive I risked it today and luckily love it I'm wrecked now though lol but times are hard I could luckily just afford it trying this could make santas ahem decision up without costs killingchim

I also get a lot from the site so don'tind giving something back

GTR63

Kinda regret buying Black Ops,EA MMA & Fable III recently,if i'd to review each in order it'd be Too Hollywoody,too spammy & the worst final 3rd of a game in Years.Doubt this would work in my bedroom would want to play it privately. Can't afford it now saving for Christmas. Would it be able to work with about 4 foot of width & 7 feet length of area.

Blazer

GTR63 wrote: »

Would it be able to work with about 4 foot of width & 7 feet length of area.

barely...it's the width that could kill you in some games as you need to sidestep etc..
I'm working with about 7ft x 5 I'd say and I'm finding it very tight..

allanb49

Have ours set up in the sitting room, about 4/5 steps back (think making goals out of jumpers steps)

Working grand could only afford the kinect and no other games other than adventure, but had a good laugh playing it last night with the OH and a mate, responds well, tried watching the Guild to see what the video play back was like and that worked well too,

Think we need to create a thread of all the pics it takes, :P anyone else up for making an ejjit of themselves?

Crackity Jones

With two players we are about 7.5 feet back from sensor - in the 'best' zone according to Kinect display. Still works though I would say about 6.5 ft from sensor. I've read you gain more space by placing sensor on top of tv (ours is on bottom). Need 5-6 feet widthways to play two players comfortably.

bennyc

Is there a fitness game out for this yet , might be able to get it for the missus for XMas as shes been on about the wii.

Gunmonkey

bennyc wrote: »

Is there a fitness game out for this yet , might be able to get it for the missus for XMas as shes been on about the wii.

Theres about 3 out right now, couldnt tell you which is the best but the one by Ubisoft (Your Shape) looked good at E3.

J-blk

bennyc wrote: »

Is there a fitness game out for this yet , might be able to get it for the missus for XMas as shes been on about the wii.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Your-Shape-Fitness-Evolved-Compatible/dp/B003RWTMXO/ref=sr_1_sc_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1289470887&sr=8-1-spell

Disclaimer: no idea what this is actually like, I don't even have a Kinnect .

Darksaga87

allanb49 wrote: »

Think we need to create a thread of all the pics it takes, :P anyone else up for making an ejjit of themselves?

Only myself and another guy were brave enough to post the eejit pics that get caught.

wheres yours???????

allanb49

Due to work i can't post them up right now, but they are coming, and its true, playing naked doesn't affect gameplay, It does affect the family though.

Darksaga87

I wonder if i got the biggest loser game and told the female friends it only works if wearing as little as possible.

0.o.....

allanb49

There is interferance from the rafting game with mainly just womens clothes due to the amount of jumping it picks clothes up incorrectly, so the less clothes worn the better. Also i have disabled the camera so its only tracking you in infrared

god_dos

silvine wrote: »

Tried speech recognition there, not working

Yeah. Mine doesn't work either. Read that it won't work til the spring (online on my phone, so I don't have a link, I'm afraid).

Mr Freeze

allanb49 wrote: »

Due to work i can't post them up right now, but they are coming, and its true, playing naked doesn't affect gameplay, It does affect the family though.

So Rule 34 applies!!!

Reading this thread tho, I have gone from Not Getting it, to a Maybe, I better not see it in action some where cause I will probably purchase there and then if I do.

cynder

Got the kinect and xbox bundle form smyths yesterday, have to wait till the kids are out so i can set it up (its there santa pressie), too stuck for time tomorrow so i recon i will play it ooppps i mean set it up on Monday while they are at school/preschool. Cant wait.....


Got sonic riders and motion sports.

Karmafaerie

Picked it up.
Very impressed.

Got Kinect Sports with it too, and I gotta say it's a must get if you have Kinect.
The guy from E4 does the voiceovers, the chart music blasting out when you win or score.

The Chariots Of Fire during replays on the athletics.
Great fun.
Had a friend over and we laughed our asses off.
Looking forward tothe weekend when I have a group over and drinks will be taken.

No look on getting the Voice Commands working, but the Kinect Chas was ridiculously impressive.
chatting away to a friend while out in my kitchen and he could pick me up grand!

cynder

Karmafaerie wrote: »

Picked it up.
Very impressed.

Got Kinect Sports with it too, and I gotta say it's a must get if you have Kinect.

!

Didnt look that good on you tube. thats why i went for motion sports.

Karmafaerie

Trust me man, it's very good.
I haven't played Motion Sports yet, buy Kinect Sports is great fun.



Anyway, I've figured out the Voice control.
We do have it, with a catch.
You need to set your locale to either USA or UK, and then log off from Xbox Live.
It won't work if you're online, but will if you're offline.

Set you're local to USA or UK, go through the audio calibration, and then disconnect from live.

Say "Xbox" and away you go.