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Posted: Apr 18th 2010 2:32PM dishwasher said

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my arm is tired thinking about playing this..
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Posted: Apr 18th 2010 2:41PM shadodw024 said

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I'm sure its tired from other reasons....
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Posted: Apr 18th 2010 2:58PM (Unverified) said

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I'm pretty sure if it was sexual, it would be my hand tired.
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Posted: Apr 18th 2010 3:08PM armageddon said

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@sandmonkey: if you're less then a foot long.
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Posted: Apr 18th 2010 3:41PM (Unverified) said

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Thats true.
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Posted: Apr 18th 2010 3:55PM MystileArmor said

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I prefer watching porn, but if a little man in a boat is your thing then I gue....

Oh wait...
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Posted: Apr 18th 2010 3:58PM (Unverified) said

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Remember, there isn't a fetish that hasn't been invented yet.
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Posted: Apr 18th 2010 5:36PM anonim1979 said

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"Dave’s avatar was a girl during River Rush, probably because Dave feels like a little princess inside, and I suddenly realized how awesome it would be for my avatar to molest Dave’s. As my avatar rubbed its crotch against Dave’s avatar’s ass the Microsoft folks started laughing and said that was the first time they had seen anyone do that. I was extremely proud of myself. I’m sure millions of little assholes will follow in the wake of my avatar-raping, but I want it to be noted in my Wikipedia page that I was the very first."

Ewwwwww.....

I think Chris Hansen will have a lot more work after Natal ships....
And Move too.
Evvvv ...^2
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Posted: Apr 18th 2010 8:46PM (Unverified) said

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Do you walk on your hands?

"Stepping side to side" Where do arms come in?
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Posted: Apr 19th 2010 10:31AM SoCoolCurt said

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"Remember, there isn't a fetish that hasn't been invented yet."

Rule 34 man, Rule 34.
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Posted: Apr 18th 2010 2:36PM crhennen said

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Doesn't it seem really annoying and counterintuitive to "step" in one way or the other to move left and right while in a canoe! I would imagine leaning would make more sense. Maybe he misspoke.
Can't wait for MadCatZ to start selling the Natal canoe accessory.
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Posted: Apr 18th 2010 2:40PM (Unverified) said

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Is it just me or does Natal actually sound fun? I mean no controller sounds cool.
I haven't really been following the Wii or Playstation Move much, but that's because I don't own the systems, I haven't seen the games for Move either, but I'm sure they are cool too. The Wii has some fun games I've played at my friends house, like Animal Crossing (big fan) and Brawl, but I shouldn't count Brawl because I play it without motion control. Did I mention Mario Kart? They all are innovative, and with the great AND EQUAL graphics of both the PS3 and 360, it should be really fun, I just hope they are incorporated into games, and not a couple.
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Posted: Apr 18th 2010 2:46PM (Unverified) said

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Natal may sound fun, but this game does not...
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Posted: Apr 18th 2010 2:47PM (Unverified) said

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Yeah, I kinda agree. Also, when I said "Actually sounds fun" I wasn't dissing either PS3 Move or Wii.
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Posted: Apr 18th 2010 3:38PM (Unverified) said

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Mario Cart, equal graphics? Whaaaaaaa?
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Posted: Apr 18th 2010 3:40PM (Unverified) said

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I was talking about the PS3 and 360 games having equal graphics.
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Posted: Apr 18th 2010 9:36PM ptcamn said

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If you want to test out how the whole experience with Natal will be go to Gamestop and get an used Eyetoy and a copy of Antigrav for less than $10. Not only will you be able to get a pretty accurate idea of how Natal will work but you also will get a very cool game. You will still need to jump, but you don't need to step to the sides to move around. :)
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Posted: Apr 19th 2010 12:28PM unboring said

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while the majority of games have equal graphics I think it is fair to say with games like GOW3 and uncharted 2, KZ2 etc. that ps3 has slightly superior graphics.
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Posted: Apr 19th 2010 1:51PM sigma8 said

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As presented? No, it does not seem fun to me. The Milo demo seemed cool to me, but not really "fun" per se. Basically, anytime I see anyone using their "body" for Natal, it seems really dumb. But the Milo demo was more of a facial recognition demo, and that seemed to have promise. If the game can really tell if you are happy or mad (frustrated), and it can do something with those emotions, that would be cool. Being able to have real conversations with NPC's--even though i'm sure the experience will be limited in the beginning...that's also really cool.

But hopping around, flailing your arms... And I really mean flailing. We all teased the Wii for encouraging flailing, but the popular Natal demo of "beat back the flying balls by using your whole body!" bring flailing to a whole new level... that does not seem fun at all to me.
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Posted: Apr 19th 2010 6:02PM Tephlon said

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@Scott

All you've done is pointed out that you are not the targeted demographic.

I don't find anything fun about Just Dance or even to some extent Wii Sports/Resort, but that doesn't stop them from selling like hotcakes.

LadyGaga?
The Pet Rock?
Children?
McDonalds?

Just because these seem to be popular things to participate in doesn't mean I have to like them... but I also understand that I'm not everyone. Everyone is entitled to their opinions, just as corporations are entitled to target audiences they think will make them money.

Here's a hint- the Wii sells big with things like Just Dance. This means plenty of people find ridiculous flailing about with friends to be a fun and worthwhile activity.

I'm not saying Natal is guaranteed to sell... but I guarantee there's an audience for such experiences.
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Posted: Apr 18th 2010 2:47PM Mr Khan said

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Canoeing was exhaustive enough as it is. This? Yikes.
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Posted: Apr 18th 2010 2:58PM MystileArmor said

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I'm not jumping in my living room. This is a worse idea then Tony Hawk Ride was.
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Posted: Apr 18th 2010 3:02PM Acosta02 said

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MystileArmor's living room is filled with ornate vases precariously perched on top of bookshelves.

In other words, it's the set of a Jackie Chan film.
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Posted: Apr 18th 2010 3:05PM MystileArmor said

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GODDAMMIT! Who the hell let you in my house while I'm at work?
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Posted: Apr 18th 2010 4:41PM (Unverified) said

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discs will skip
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Posted: Apr 18th 2010 7:09PM Debley said

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I would expect you to be able to "paddle" by picking up a broom handle flailing about and wrecking the room in the process.
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Posted: Apr 18th 2010 3:00PM majg said

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Sounds interesting. Bet it's fun once given a shot. Now, how is it two player? Is it co-op or split screen?
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Posted: Apr 18th 2010 3:00PM JoshMilewski said

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Holy shit, it even rips the Wii series fonts.
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Posted: Apr 18th 2010 3:06PM Acosta02 said

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I can't tell whether or not you are joking, but if you're referring to the article's picture, it actually is Wii Sports Resort. If you zoom in on the paddle it says "WiiSportsResort."
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Posted: Apr 18th 2010 3:18PM JoshMilewski said

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Well, I wasn't joking. But this at least goes to show how distinctive the Wii series' look is.
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Posted: Apr 18th 2010 3:32PM Gral Zerato said

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Wow, just... wow ¬¬
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Posted: Apr 18th 2010 4:27PM Titus8705 said

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The Microsoft Avatars look a lot like the Nintendo Miis, so it isn't too hard to picture the canoe game for Natal looking something like this. When I first saw the picture, I also thought it was for the Natal canoe game for that reason. I just thought it was an Avatar paddling. No need to go and downvote the guy, was an honest mistake.
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Posted: Apr 18th 2010 8:11PM Acosta02 said

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I don't know why Josh got downvoted. There are plenty of people here who made the same mistake. I guess Joystiq was going for a not-so-subtle joke, but it looks like it mostly caused confusion.


(Maybe you guys can change it like you changed the MW2 credits headline!)
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Posted: Apr 18th 2010 3:02PM Courtney said

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Dammit, the screenwriter James Gunn always gets me excited, because he has the same name as one of my old professors, a guy pretty well known for his science fiction from the 60s and 70s. He's also written for TV and movies, so it's easy to get the two confused.
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Posted: Apr 18th 2010 3:04PM armageddon said

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This most interesting thing I take from this is that Natal can track two people at once, Move demands two controls (that will get expensive quick).
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Posted: Apr 18th 2010 3:49PM superskunk said

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I'd say wait until we know the real prices for both of them.
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Posted: Apr 18th 2010 11:11PM Johnnynumber5 is powered by cell said

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fanboy alert
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Posted: Apr 18th 2010 3:08PM Ruben said

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Courier? Is that for sure? I think that's actually pretty big news if the Courier was shown at this event.
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Posted: Apr 18th 2010 3:13PM Biotite said

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That's what I'm thinking. If the Courier was showcased, shouldn't that be just as big of news?
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Posted: Apr 18th 2010 3:26PM Dr Blight said

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I want Courier more than anything.
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Posted: Apr 18th 2010 6:16PM aroGADGET said

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Seriously! Microsoft has always denied the existence of Courier, to little more than a tech demo...

If they are, in fact, showing it off themselves, this should be a major headline over at Engadget!! (Looks like Topolsky wasn't invited to this event!)
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Posted: Apr 18th 2010 7:16PM IllithidDude said

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No, Courier was not there. I had a friend there who said it wasn't. Too bad though, I want Courier more then puppies.
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Posted: Apr 18th 2010 11:13PM JamesHks said

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me too. Courier looks flippin sick.
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Posted: Apr 18th 2010 3:18PM OnToGloryReturns said

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and so it begins...
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Posted: Apr 18th 2010 3:19PM Jason B said

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All of MS's Natal games so far sound like Eyetoy games from the PS2. I sure hope they do something more with this.
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Posted: Apr 18th 2010 7:06PM maveric101 said

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yeah the tech sounds cool but everything i've head game-wise is completely "meh."
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Posted: Apr 18th 2010 3:28PM (Unverified) said

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i dont know . . . . . . this has potential. Remember how skeptical we were about the wii . . .
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Posted: Apr 18th 2010 6:08PM Lucky The Fox said

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Oh yes, I do remember those days when we expected Wii games to be nothing but random waggling. Oh, how pleasantly surprised we were when that wasn't the case.
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Posted: Apr 19th 2010 1:06PM Deuce said

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And the games that turned out to be fun tended to be the ones that made little-to-no use of the motion controls.
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Posted: Apr 18th 2010 3:29PM ArchiGamer said

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Natal: Still not interesting.


FOR THE LOVE OF GOD RELEASE SOMETHING MORE INTERESTING MS!!!
RARWR!!
*nerd rage*
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