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Quick Look: Kinect Joy Ride

Jeff and Ryan take it to the mean streets of Kinect.

Sit back and enjoy as the Giant Bomb team takes an unedited look at the latest video games.

Nov. 4 2010

Cast: Jeff, Ryan

Posted by: Drew

In This Episode:

Kinect Joy Ride

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Edited By Dalai

Hello, you fool, I love you 
C'mon join the joyride!

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Ehhhh.. doesn't look that great to me.

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Can you hold out your hands and shoot your competitor?

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thanks for uploading all the live stuff to the site!

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Edited By yukoasho

Having seen many of these, I have come to two conclusions:
 
1) it doesn't track well, especially for Jeff
2) The best games seem to take a lot of stuff out of your hands.

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@YukoAsho: Actually I think it tracked way better on Jeff, than Ryan. Ryan was having all sorts of problems.
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Edited By yukoasho
@snetErz said:
" @YukoAsho: Actually I think it tracked way better on Jeff, than Ryan. Ryan was having all sorts of problems. "
I dunno, looked like Ryan was doing all the winning (his is the avatar with the crazy ass metal helmet, whereas Jeff's is the lucador mask)...
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Edited By Yummylee

WhoLuvsMySushi?

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Well at least they were having fun....

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Is this the last one so I can finally go to bed?

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Cooking with Ryan Davis: Use Mrs. Dash!

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Edited By first2die

You guys should mirror your video feed, that way Ryan would appear left on our screen and actually control the left side of the split. This would also make it easier to determine who is who how your interactions and movement effect the game.  
 
Just a suggestion for next time.

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Edited By magus213

I LOVE joyrides.  
 
Also Ryan is the master of Kinect.

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Edited By Piranesi

Clearly the only way to play Kinect is naked - saves changing your clothes every 20 minutes. 
 
Outrun + SSX + ModNation Racers? 
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Edited By MachoFantastico

Kinect still seems to janky for it to be taken seriously.

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Edited By vitor
@TrueEnglishGent: The issues with Kinect so far are mostly software, not hardware based (Eurogamer's Digital Foundry have done numerous technical breakdowns that point to this). The more general kinks will be dealt with in time but it's up to developers to not rush out hurried pieces of crap like Sonic Free Riders/Joy Ride. 
 
It's not a damning indictment of Kinect's potential, just a lazy cash grab to be one of the few launch titles.
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Joy Ride looks fucking stupid and I will never buy it!

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@YukoAsho: Yeah, I know who is who, I was just referring to your conclusions (I could have clarified that), after seeing most of them, and think Ryan was having more problems over all. But they were definitely both having some problems on different games.
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Edited By Teaspoon83

Look at me stay in one position to drift... this is fun? 
 
Sigh, it is as if the big developers didn't get the heads up early enough to make something decent so we ended up with all these mini-games. 

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yayyy

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This looks fun... for a kinect game.

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@Ignor: I'm calling it Mr Wiggle Bar.
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that is pretty neat
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looks...okay...

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Edited By NekuCTR

So I guess they aren't posting the "Motions Sports" portion. It was hilarious, but it's probably a good idea. It want very... lets say, "good".

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Edited By mrcraggle

When MS first announced this as a free downloadable game then was like, nah f that, we're gonna charge you for it and make it Kinect only. F them

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Edited By korolev

This looks strictly for kids man. They'd have fun with this. But the seemingly loose controls doesn't endear this to me.

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I hate the new Xbox Dashboard. Fuck Kinect.
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Edited By cassus

I like how people dissed the Wii for being for kids. Queue MS Wiimotioncam, BOOM, combine all the launch titles and it's not even close to as good as wii sports. . . Microsoft.. Awesomesauce.
 
 
Btw, you guys really need to start mirroring the video feed of the players. Cause that's getting freakishly confusing. left guy on right screen doing stuff the oposite way than in the game. blimey.

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This looks good but also looks very much the downloadable game it was intended to be. I'd want to play it but I wouldn't pay much for it as is.

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Edited By squidracerx

looks okay if it came free with kinect, but if i had to buy a racing game... well modnation racers, mario kart, that sonic kart race game, Forza, Gran Turismo, even Blur or Destruction Derby look better than this....

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@cassus said:
" I like how people dissed the Wii for being for kids. Queue MS Wiimotioncam, BOOM, combine all the launch titles and it's not even close to as good as wii sports. . . Microsoft.. Awesomesauce. "
Your statements aren't exactly adding up here. There's no reason why the Wii launch titles strictly targeting kids would be a mutually exclusive phenomenon. It also doesn't quite follow logically that there's some kind of correlation between target demographic on one system being justified by the title quality on the other or vice versa.
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I'm already tired of Kinect.

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Is Ryan really wearing a headband?

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@Dalai said:
" Hello, you fool, I love you C'mon join the joyride! "
So gonna listen to that song after this quick look. Thanks
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watching Jeff's Giantbombing dude mimic him in the back is weirdly funny. YOUR AVATAR IS MOCKING YOU.

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This would be infinitiely improved by holding a glass plate in both hands.

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So far I've seen Motion Sports and this... both look terrible.

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@cjmabry said:
" So far I've seen Motion Sports and this... both look terrible. "
Motion Sports was made terrible by the poor interface choice they made. Obviously they needed Jeff as a beta tester... and this looks like a blast to have on with some friends over... kinda like a lot of Kinect games. 
 
Sometimes your game doesn't need a Strategy Guide to be good ya know.
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Man, the Kinect si amazingl. Evvye h ypeh ses klz vmzxfjksdaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaghh

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@marrec: The interface was just like other Kinect games. It's the game that looks terrible. And I'd rather not pay $50 for a minigame that looks like it doesn't control well.
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@SJSchmidt93 said:
" Is Ryan really wearing a headband? "

No, he has a WWE logo tattooed on his forehead.
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Awful.

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@YukoAsho said:
" Having seen many of these, I have come to two conclusions:  1) it doesn't track well, especially for Jeff 2) The best games seem to take a lot of stuff out of your hands. "
don't they all take a lot of stuff out of your hands... ahaha, you see what I did there, ahahahahaha
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@DivineCC said:
" @SJSchmidt93 said:
" Is Ryan really wearing a headband? "
No, he has a WWE logo tattooed on his forehead. "
Ooooh, oooh shit! That was funny!
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I am gonna go try and do air flips in my convertible now.

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Game looks fun, but I have chevy.

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Watching "Smash" makes me wonder why they didn't include a demolition derby game within the whole thing.  

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Edited By MadaRenrut

 Just got my Kinect today.  I really really enjoy it, it's great fun.  However after I spent about an hour moving furniture to make room for it.  
HUGE WORDS OF WARNING.  You can NOT play two player games if you aren't ATLEAST 8 to 10 feet from the Kinect device.  The minimum is 6-8 and that is just for single player.  You also will not be able to use Kinect ID for it to know who you are since it goes through the process thinking you have a full 8 feet of space. 
If you have the room and the space, which is atleast 8 feet around as well because remember you have to move around, then GET it.  However if you don't have the 8 feet or more then you will just be playing these games as single player games. 
I am going to post this in each quick look, so don't rant against me just want to get the word out before someone with a small living room buys this thinking they are going to have friends over and play.  
 
Oh and also ZERO I mean ZERO problems with it tracking me. 

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meh at best