Natal - Milo

[kane_magus]

I have to say, this looks pretty amazing.

Granted either it was all entirely scripted or else she knew exactly what to say and how to act so as to prevent friend Milo from exploding into a horrific display of pure Turing Test fail.*

But even so, I definitely see huge potential here.

* - I say this mostly to dampen my own enthusiasm over this, even if only somewhat, because otherwise there would probably be tap-dancing involved in some way. It's that freaking cool.

Comments

[korby.livejournal.com]

I'm betting it was scripted and preplanned. Tonight on Jimmy Fallon, they sent Jason Sudekis to E3 and they told him no cameras were allowed in the Natal demo room. Preventing something from being filmed is a great way to damage control an incomplete technology. If it was truly awesome, it wouldn't be behind closed doors. It would be accessible to the public and exposed to a variety of random inputs from real users, and not just some PR person. They would be inviting cameras to film such interactions.

[kane-magus.livejournal.com]

*edited for typos*

Given that Natal itself is new as well, there were likely to be any number of potential screw-ups either with the Milo software or with the Natal hardware, so it's not really surprising that they wouldn't want to show it off to the general public via unscripted video footage just yet. Someone coming out and saying it doesn't work yet is a lot better than someone coming out with footage of it breaking spectacularly.

As cool as it would be if they could do it, I really doubt that they'll be able to get Milo to be consistently awesome to an even remotely reasonable degree. At this point the Milo thing is probably little more than a gussied up ELIZA or something similar, if even that much. I'm hoping that I'm wrong of course and that in the end it's way more cool than that, but... well, it is Peter Molyneux here. He has a horrible habit of making these huge claims about unproven stuff (*cough*Fable*cough*BlackandWhite*cough*) and then ending up having to eat his words.

I find it amusing that Lionhead claims to be "taking precautions (http://www.destructoid.com/e3-09-lionhead-taking-precautions-against-touching-milo-134902.phtml)" against allowing people to act like a perv around Milo. Given that a good number of the responses to Milo that I've seen from around the Internet has been stupid shit like "I'm gonna show him my dick!" or something along those lines, I can see why.

[kane-magus.livejournal.com]

Most of the comments seem to be "OMG SKYNET" though. Which is retarded, of course, but that's Youtube for you.

[owsf2000.livejournal.com]

Indeed. Like we're ever going to hook the planet's nuclear missile defenses up to a PS3. *nod self*

If we ever do, it's game over with or without Natal.

[owsf2000.livejournal.com]

Mind you I'm just picking a random console to be funny. And my explanation of this to avoid confusions over what Natal may be aimed at in the future only kills my joke. THANK YOU. IT'S DEAD JIM. WHAT DID MY JOKE EVER DO TO YOO?!?!

[kane-magus.livejournal.com]

Well, if the PS2 was good enough for Saddam Hussein (http://ps2.ign.com/articles/089/089251p1.html)... ¬_¬

But anyway, yeah, Natal is for the 360. (*insert nuclear apocalypse-themed Red Ring Of Death joke here*) The PS3 supposedly has something somewhat similar in the works, but I haven't really looked into that one much, not yet having a PS3 and all.

[owsf2000.livejournal.com]

Well, as is, it won't tempt me to pick up a 360.

Remove Milo and insert sexy drow elf maid and I'm in.

*blink*

[kane-magus.livejournal.com]

Three responses I could make to this, and since I can't decide, I'll make all three!

1: "Dude, this is the reason they're 'taking precautions' about 'inappropriate behavior' you know!"

2: "Well, supposedly, the full title of the game, or whatever it is, will be Milo & Kate. I don't know about a sexy drow elf maid being named 'Kate', but eh, could be possible."

3: "Hells yeah. Totally."