Couldn't help but think this as I saw the demo at the press conference. It seemed as if there was significant delay between the action and animation, not to mention odd synchronisation issues between the character's motions and how they affected enemies. Overall I thought it looked absolutely terrible, but then again I was severely distracted by the dumb grin on the kid demoing the game.
 
Anybody think it was good? I'd love to hear why.

i though it was a pile of crap. jaunty, and sluggish. 
 
play fighting with your friend would be more fun.

Looked terrible indeed. And incredibly boring as well. Also, if I'm going to pretend that I have a lightsaber in my hand, I want to hold something.

i though it was a pile of crap. jaunty, and sluggish.  play fighting with your friend would be more fun.

Got a video? I have to see this.

My response after viewing: THIS HOW YOU DO ME STAR WARS?!!?

Who the fuck want to play!?

In a press conference full of janky-ass looking Kinect games, this took pole position as the shittiest of the bunch.

Swipe arm to float over to enemy Too Human style.

A NEW way..

"Lightsaber on!"

I don't think we can necessarily take that presentation as being representative of the final product, but the thing I did notice was that the guy doing the demo seemed to be making slow, sweeping motions so that he wasn't moving too fast for the Kinect. If there was a delay in the gameplay then it certainly wouldn't be the only Kinect game shown with that problem, which is a little worrying.

It looks really bad and "LIGHTSABER ON" was just horrible.

you should turn it on with a fistbump

I muted the stream during the Kinect segment.

"Lightsaber on!"

I have a feeling it's going to be very repetitive.

dude was just swinging his arms jumping and leaning, dumb ass game.... 
 
@LostRebel: watch the Microsoft press conference don't be lazy.

very janky. disappointed. Kinect HAS to do better or its gonna sink!

Kinect shot first.

LIGHTSABER ON

My favorite part was the HALF-SECOND LAG!

Force Unleashed already did this.  Any game where a lightsaber isn't a 1-hit kill on a stormtrooper is garbage. 

I always cringe whenever I see a motion control demo not work properly and having to struggle with the controls. It was so painful to watch the "demoer" try to lift that tank thing with the force

Game looked awful, son.

Yep.  I thought it was funniest when he attempted to pick up the Separatist tank, and then proceeded to drop it.  Then had to clumsily pick it up again and throw aside.  This was one of the bigger disappointments simply because, although I didn't expect the game to be uber impressive, I at least expected it to be just a neat little side show to be able to wield a lightsaber. 
 
My complete thoughts on all the Kinect nonsense are summed up in this video. 
  

I repeat "ugh... Kinect."

you have found a way to make light saber uncool

I;ve got a friend who was at E3 and played with this. He said the press conference demo really misrepresented the game. The demo he played, while it was the same demo, was much more responsive and felt kinda fun. Told me to watch out for it.

I;ve got a friend who was at E3 and played with this. He said the press conference demo really misrepresented the game. The demo he played, while it was the same demo, was much more responsive and felt kinda fun. Told me to watch out for it.

@Zereta said:

I;ve got a friend who was at E3 and played with this. He said the press conference demo really misrepresented the game. The demo he played, while it was the same demo, was much more responsive and felt kinda fun. Told me to watch out for it.

I'm guessing he played it for a couple of minutes. Imagine wildly flailing about for hours and hours, all the while never having any control over your character's movements.

lightsaber on

I'm surprised that nobody has brought up the fact that press conference demos are never interactive. They tape that shit beforehand and then have somebody mimic the movements. If it looks janky, then blame the guy trying to sync up to the video.

I'm sure that at some point someone got all excited about developing a star wars game for kinect because it would allow you to actually wield a light saber, forgetting that anyone into that would likely want to actually hold something.

To be fair you apparently don't have to say 'lightsaber on'.

I think that the Star Wars universe would be much more entertaining with shouting 'lightsaber on' to get it to work,  especially if anyone can say it to turn them on (ie. some space advertisment asking people if they are tired of keeping their lightsaber on their belt & have the damn thing go off slicing through anything nearby, someone asking the jedi if they have their lightsaber nearby & they say it resulting in it cutting a hole in the ship,  ect.). I'd get back into enjoying Star Wars at that moment.

Didn't millions of geeks make lightsabers uncool 30 years ago? haha 
 
EDIT: And yeah, that demo looked like horseshit.

The Kinect SW game looks terrible.

But lightsabers have been made uncool by any game that uses them as nothing but glowsticks. If you're going to use lightsabers, you need to do them properly. The Jedi Knight games were able to have one hit kills with lightsabers and there was no problem with the difficulty.

I think that the Star Wars universe would be much more entertaining with shouting 'lightsaber on' to get it to work,  especially if anyone can say it to turn them on (ie. some space advertisment asking people if they are tired of keeping their lightsaber on their belt & have the damn thing go off slicing through anything nearby, someone asking the jedi if they have their lightsaber nearby & they say it resulting in it cutting a hole in the ship,  ect.). I'd get back into enjoying Star Wars at that moment.

Idk if anyone else noticed how lame it was that it took place on Bespin, but during the prequel era. All that star wars has going for it now is references to the original trilogy. And I like star wars.

If they had managed to get the star wars kid for that demo it would have been perfect. I guess he doesn't look like the star wars kid now...

Now I sit and think about it, Kessler looks a bit like the star wars kid. When this game comes out they should make him do a quick look.