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Possible boxart for Kinect
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RelentlessRolento
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That curve design makes me think I want to take Ambien
Dash Kappei
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glaurung said:
I swear to god my gf just passed by when I was looking at this thread and said "wow, they've borked that Xbox pretty hard"
Now I can't unsee it, damn
Graphics Horse
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dankir said:
I've always liked green and purple together, they are good complimentary colours. They aren't using REAL PURPLE though, it's mostly blue, like indigo or something.
Here is what it should look like with REAL PURPLE. Still awful, but that can't be helped.
So Kinect has come to the stage where it's being bashed for the sake of it now?
There's nothign wrong wit the package design. Yeah it's nothing amazing, revolutionary or clever, but fuck, what did you want?
I've done some package design in my time, and I have a fair idea of the sort of brief that designer would have been given to create that and I can tell you, there isn't TOO much else he probably could have done.
Of course, you'd need to factor in how much time he/she had to do it.
There's nothign wrong wit the package design. Yeah it's nothing amazing, revolutionary or clever, but fuck, what did you want?
I've done some package design in my time, and I have a fair idea of the sort of brief that designer would have been given to create that and I can tell you, there isn't TOO much else he probably could have done.
Of course, you'd need to factor in how much time he/she had to do it.
Anasui Kishibe
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why aren't the people sitting on the couch having fun?
TheHeretic
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KevinCow said:
Conventional controllers are too complicated for pick up and play, and unless people want gaming to remain confined to a small audience that has to change.
If you don't spend hours on forums a lot of technology is extremely confusing, no need to be a condescending jerk about it.
It seriously does look like the kind of graphic design you see in bad pharmaceutical ads.
You have all the bullet points, fake picture of overly happy family, bold bright cheerful colors, and a simple bold font proclaiming a short 1-2 sentence description of your product.
Note, that I'm not blaming the actual designers here, it's likely they were working to a strict plan given down from on high, and they seem to have done a competent job actually arranging it. I'm blaming the marketing and advertising hacks who came up with the plan. It is completely uninspired focus group bullshit.
You have all the bullet points, fake picture of overly happy family, bold bright cheerful colors, and a simple bold font proclaiming a short 1-2 sentence description of your product.
Note, that I'm not blaming the actual designers here, it's likely they were working to a strict plan given down from on high, and they seem to have done a competent job actually arranging it. I'm blaming the marketing and advertising hacks who came up with the plan. It is completely uninspired focus group bullshit.
RevenantKioku
PEINS PEINS PEINS PEINS PEINS PEINS PEINS PEINS PEINS PEINS PEINS PEINS oh god i am drowning in them
Why does the 360 look like it's bent over moping?glaurung said:That's cos it is.
It's as though to cut the costs of R&D they decided to have an intern go and design all the in-store material as that purple and green looks like something you'd find in a newborn baby's diaper.
But of course since GAF doesn't like it or Kinect you know it's going to sell really well.
But of course since GAF doesn't like it or Kinect you know it's going to sell really well.
davepoobond
you can't put a price on sparks
purple?
really?
really?
Graphics Horse
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Sentry said:
Now this is more like it!
Why For? said:
So some one deliberately went to the trouble of making it look like it was bent over moping?
DeaconKnowledge
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knitoe said:
NO.
GAMES GAMES GAMES. Fuck ease of use; the difference between Kinect and Wii has been, is, and always will be the games.
When these two go up against each other in the store, it won't be Kinect Motion vs Wii Motion, It will be Wii Sports Resort vs. Kinectimals or Wii Fit vs. Your Shape. The tech is only the vessel through which to play the games, nothing more.
ashbash159
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I have no idea / can't remember if Xbox 360 games packaging is different in the UK than it is in the US. Therefore will the Kinect box art differ in regions?
Freezie KO
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I like purple. Everything should be purple.
Virtua Ben
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Combichristoffersen said:
dat ass...
Graphics Horse
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ashbash159 said:
See, this is how you do green and purple. REAL PURPLE.
Hawk269
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To me this is not too bad...pretty catchy in fact, but this is Gaf and this is something to do with Kinect so it is natural for folks around here to shit all over it...it could be a designed by God himself and Gaf would still shit on it...so dont be suprised about all the comments.
all this purple hate just makes me think about this
btw i don't like it either <.<
and the "you are the controller" slogan just makes me think about this:
they should come up with something different, even if i actually understand that none of the casual crowd is going to remember about the activator existence.
btw i don't like it either <.<
and the "you are the controller" slogan just makes me think about this:
they should come up with something different, even if i actually understand that none of the casual crowd is going to remember about the activator existence.
Ease if use is why Wii became so popular with casual gamers through Sports / Play. Those aren't my idea of "Games." More like simple tech demo showing casual game play. Take Wii Sports Tennis vs Kinect Sport Tennis. Both don't let you control your character movement. All you do is swing to hit ball. Which one will be easier and more natural for someone having never touch them before? Anyone saying "Fuck ease of use" is ignoring the Wii's current #1 selling point to moms & pops, elderly and so on.DeaconKnowledge said:
knitoe said:
I don't know about you, but its much "easier" and intuitive for me to pretend my Wiimote is a tennis racket then to pretend I'm holding an imaginary tennis racket. In fact, the latter is just awful and awkward. If you are trying to bring up an ease of use debate, the Wii wins hands down. I can see a lot of people getting up and not having any idea what to do with Kinect and just flailing their body around (which sadly is actually how you play these games).
Why do you have to pretend anything is a tennis racket? Do you really hold Wii remote and pretend it's Tennis racket? When I play real tennis, don't remember having to hit button on the racket to the hit ball... It's trying to mimic real life natural motion in the simplest possible way that's the key to capturing uniform casual gamers.Jeels said:
In all seriousness, Kinect Tennis will be closes to playing hand ball. How many people haven't seen, heard or know how that should be played? Do people go flailing like crazy playing hand ball? Think all this "flailing" myth comes from ricochet demo. When all the balls come flying at you, that's all you can do to hit as many balls as possible. If you are flailing trying to just to hit one ball, either games hit detection is way off or you're not remotely coordinated.
conman said:Purple and green? Makes me think of the stacks of boring ass stuff you see in a computer store. I mean, shit, that graphic design job is about as exciting as this:
Exactly what I was thinking. Not eye-catching or remotely attractive at all. It also just doesn't fit with the ultra shiny black xbox.
blame space
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:lol real talkKevinCow said:
blame space
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eek5 said:
and thus, the level at which this leak occurred is instantly clear.
SatelliteOfLove
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Majine said:
"Challenging" and "Monetization" murdered them in cold blood and wore their skins.
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