Quick Look: EX: The Gunstringer

This looks like a terrible shallow game with awful gameplay, but you use your hands to play it, so HYPE HYPE HYPE!

THIS makes me wish I had a Kinect.

I am not ready for Pokecapn and crew to become celebrities on this next level.

Whoa there frame rate.....

I love everything about this game, I really do. But it's just not enough to buy a Kinect. I'm sure that's what a lot of other people are saying. I'm a big Twisted Pixel fan, but my small apartment and lack of Kinect will make this one a waiter.

I'll buy it. But I'll be shattered if this is the best ever game for kinect.

@roguehallow: Don't worry about it. The "insult" part was definitely more directed at the other guy in the quote tree than you ( I don't like being called an ass kisser for thinking a game looks good). I love the look of it because it looks like some kind stage puppet show where everything is constructed out of everyday materials.

This looks very good. In fact the first game for kinect that looks any fun. It's only fault is that it is for kinect and I will never buy one so will never be able to play it. =(

Oh Twisted Pixel. Just please don't have this game after two minutes of playing become hard as fuck. I noticed damage was turned off for this video, so I wonder how often he would have died. Granted, he was looking at Ryan more than the screen, so someone paying attention shouldn't get hit as much but still.

I feel like the kid who has to point out that the emperor had no clothes. This game looks nothing beyond okay and watching the dev (who seems like a nice guy) play while absent mindedly talkiing to R. Davis makes me wonder as to just how imprecise you can be.

Possibly the least embarrassing game to play om Kinect. No jumping up and down or running in place bullcrap. 

It's great to see more game companies recognize Let's Players. I'm actually really interested in the game now because of that.

@saskbob said:

I feel like the kid who has to point out that the emperor had no clothes. This game looks nothing beyond okay and watching the dev (who seems like a nice guy) play while absent mindedly talkiing to R. Davis makes me wonder as to just how imprecise you can be.

This was exactly what I thinking. Seems cool and all, but I dont want games to be something I can do while casually holding conversation.

With the game sounds being so quiet and a bit unclear on the background, I keep thinking about the guy from Garshap as the narrator...

Looks terrible, like just incredibly ugly and way simple.  The comments from people desperately trying to justify their Kinect purchase made me laugh though.

What a great quicklook EX.

what

mediocre kiddy game 

I am so glad I won't be paying $40 for this.

It looks like it does have left handed mode, unlike Child of Eden. Not exactly forthcoming about that, but it shows in the achievements.

Good that they are putting some Let's Play internet celebrities to work, that sort of thing should happen more often.

Now if we could just get left handed on Child, we'd have a game I would want to play on Kinect.

Have twisted pixel actually made a game thats anything better than say an 8/10? Splosion Man 1 I guess?

This has been the kinect game i've been waiting for!

I dunno guys....

@BrianP said:

@saskbob said:

I feel like the kid who has to point out that the emperor had no clothes. This game looks nothing beyond okay and watching the dev (who seems like a nice guy) play while absent mindedly talkiing to R. Davis makes me wonder as to just how imprecise you can be.

This was exactly what I thinking. Seems cool and all, but I dont want games to be something I can do while casually holding conversation.

Then Kinect is not for you, sir.

@BrianP said:

@saskbob said:

I feel like the kid who has to point out that the emperor had no clothes. This game looks nothing beyond okay and watching the dev (who seems like a nice guy) play while absent mindedly talkiing to R. Davis makes me wonder as to just how imprecise you can be.

This was exactly what I thinking. Seems cool and all, but I dont want games to be something I can do while casually holding conversation.

I would guess the dev. has played the game a thousand times by now, so I would not hold it against the game if he can play it while casually having a conversation.

I don't want to sound rude but I seems like they just pushed a XBLA title to disc, threw in Fruit Ninja Kinect and called it a day.

Great another hyped up motion game that is pretty much nothing more than translated d-pad and button inputs to motion gestures.

This looks absolutely horrible.  

I heard a bunch of comments about Child of Eden being the best Kinect game and now I am hearing the same about The Gunslinger.
 
Anyone notice that those are both rail shooters?

This looks stupid

this game is a joke. you barely move. If this is the best they can do with the kinect then why bother. you want motion controls buy a wii.

I love Twisted Pixel, but even at $40 with free DLC and Fruit Ninja Kinect this game just isn't that enticing.

Wow people are really not liking this huh? I think it looks like the best kinect game so far, however that's not saying much.

Alex quote is so spot on

Saw a live demo of this at PAX and it looked fantastic.  Not sure why, but this quick look looked pretty crappy, must be the slow streaming on my computer.  Anyway, this is a solid addition to the Kinect "must buy" list: Dance Central, Kinect Sports, Child of Eden, Fruit Ninja Kinect, and now... The Gunstringer.

You know what? Twisted Pixel has never made a very good game and it looks like this isn't going to change that. Might be alright at best, but it sure doesn't look great.
 
At best, they are sometimes pretty funny as far as the menus and stuff go.

What is this game for?

@ikwal said:

Wow people are really not liking this huh? I think it looks like the best kinect game so far, however that's not saying much.

Yeah, this is what I was going to say. It looks like an awesome Kinect game, which means a kind of shitty regular game. I like the Twisted Pixel guys though, and if I had a Kinect, I'd probably get this.

This would be a must-buy if Child of Eden didn't exist.
 
It looks like it plays well and has plenty of content but I wish it looked nicer (art design is fine, just looks muddy like a last-gen game).
 
I can see myself picking this up down the road if I need a new Kinect game.

I was hoping for a a lot more from this game but just like pretty much the rest of the Kinect stuff it's all just so very basic. Shame, guess I'll just be waiting for Kinect Sports 2 and Dance Central 2.

Looks like nothing I'd want to play - like any other kinect game. Even if it's slightly better than most of them.

This makes me want kinect and having Alex Navarro in it is just awesome.

I thought it actually didn't look too bad - there seemed to be more variety than any other Kinect game out now.
 
Still, not enough to make me buy a Kinect.

Thanks for the QL, gonna skip this one now that I've seen it.

Not having any interest in this from the little I'd seen so far I was pleasantly surprised, it might just have sold me. That or the Quicklook itself was just really funny. Either way I don't even have an Xbox so it doesn't really matter.

Watching this actually makes me less interested in this game than I was prior. I don't know what I was hoping this game would be, but this sort of looks like a less visually interesting Child of Eden. Would have gotten it if it were a reasonably priced XBLA but as it stands, prolly not gonna pick this one up. I played through and beat Comic Jumper and that game tapped out all the good will I had towards the company. Super bland gameplay with some good humor. Meh.

"Microsoft saw our title and saw how much content was in there, and so they wanted to get it out to a larger audience and support us more." 
 
Translation: "Microsoft saw our title and saw how much content was in there, and so they wanted to charge full price for it instead."

Looks like there is no reason for this to be Kinect. It would probably control much better with a pad.

I already knew it would be stupid just because it's Kinect but I was hoping Twisted Pixel would come up with something interesting to do with motion controls.