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I fully believe in making games for everyone. I call this is called "equal opportunity gaming" but Microsoft has taken this a step beyond what Nintendo developed for the non-gamer. Motion controlled gaming allows mothers who would normally get confused with the multiple buttons/analog sticks to play and fathers to laugh at grandma shaking her phallic controller. Truly entertaining for everyone. Project Natal has the potential to take gamers to a new realm of reality in gaming. These upcoming games may break into the realm of in-home Virtual Reality.
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Shake it if you love me.
Little do you know about the true intentions behind this new way to game. Microsoft wants to add a population that has never had the ability to fully appreciate videogames. The group I describe are people with vast physical and cognitive disabilities.
The people exempt from enjoying even the simplest controllers are the kid who has to tape the Wii-mote to his flipper or the guy who has to hold the controller with his teeth. Still, both situations are a struggle to press buttons and in the second case unsanitary.
The other segment of the disabled populace would be limited by cognitive capabilities. This group has already taken over voice chat on Xbox Live as every 8 year-old homophobe and teenage Klansman in the USA plays COD and Halo 3. They rarely know how to use a controller and often end up ruining multiplayer games for everyone by killing teammates and forgetting team objectives. The difference between the two groups is controller drool vs hate speech.
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The problems as I see them are:
-If Natal goes online, gamers may start to feel bad about calling others "retard" when they realize they are playing with actual physically disabled people.
-Too many "special" gamers will be given advantage on the multiplayer playing field. Such as games where Grandma and the kid with epilepsy dominate a cooking game by being the best at shaking.
How to break Natal.
-The quality of games will go down the more accessible games are to "non-gamers". Games otherwise known as shovelware. Sports games like; "Walking. Yay!" (the end boss being a straight line) and "Walking 2; Hurry!" or the block buster MMO from EA "Normal" which is just a FPS version of the original Sims. Physical therapy should not be fun.
Game is called Point! So excited I crapped.
-Finally it will give disabled folks a sense of superiority now that they can participate on the same playing field as the un-disabled yet still get better parking than their opponents.
Is Project Natal a conspiracy?