Someone make a silhouette of the knight in the 2nd screen.

Glaiel-Gamer

@Xavoc: I like what you did there... Just think how sick that would be tho... A 1:1 lightsaber dueling game that you can play online. That would be pure Awesome wrapped in bacon.

Mr.SithNinja

I can see it now...

DorkHelmut911373: So L0n3$t4r33, I see your schwartz is as big as mine!

Xavoc

@Mr.SithNinja: I love that pic on the right BTW. He looks ready to "swordfight".

Mr.SithNinja

I'm painting my man bits bright green in anticipation of this.

@Rabid Penguin: The PS3 has a cam but I don't know much about it. I wonder if this would work on my PS3. I would poop myself laughing if the PS2 got a 1:1 Lightsaber game before the Wii. There was an article over on Kotaku about LucasArts being flaming pissed that the Big N never told them about the WiiMotion Plus Wiimote add-on. They could have used it to make Force Unleased more of a 1:1 fighter with it.

Mr.SithNinja

They should have done this years ago. The EyeToy was largely an unexploited platform - most of the games that came out (and there were only a couple) were really not very good. But it was a great idea and had a lot of potential, now lost because Nintendo came and drank Sony's milkshake. Or took back the milkshake that Sony had stolen from them. Or something.

weatherman

@Hectorvex: Yeah "you're doing it wrong".

The Lab

"One-to-one swordfighting might be used pretty well in another industry, if you know what I mean."

No. I don't. And it better not be gay porn.

Hectorvex

whoops, wrong thread!

That Da Blob game is pretty damn fun. You can either tilt it or touch the screen to control. It's mildly addictive.

They're still making games for the PS2? Doesn't the PS3 have an EyeToy? 1:1 though? I've only ever tried out the EyeToy in WalMart, but it didn't seem as responsive as the WiiMote.

Rabid Penguin

We cant access the good posts so we must read this (I'm talking about the one about the OLPC and the iphone gaming one)

The eyetoy is very responsive, it just never got much exposure. Same thing goes for the playstation eye (ps3) but that cam is uber responsive 120hz at 320x240 and 60hz at 640x480. It also has a 4 mic array that can isolate sound for multi location voice capture, and can even suppress background noise.

@Mr.SithNinja:

Microsoft's straw reaches across the yard.

Neverkilled: The complete series

I don't really get things like or sword fighting mothion control on the Wii. When I imagine how this would work it just seems lame without force feed back. You don't have an opponents sword to actually stop your swing. Playing a game like this just seems like it would be nothing but awkward recoveries from blocked attacks that your sword swung completely through.

worsethannormal

Here's the problem I encountered...

I got a PS3 with backwards compatibility, and then picked up a PS3 eye with Eye of Judgment. Now, EOJ is a terrible game, but that's not the main problem. The main problem is that the new PS3 eye does not work with the PS2 EyeToy software. As a PS3 owner, if I want to use any of the PS2 EyeToy software, I need to get a PS2 EyeToy.

Now my TeeVee has 2 eye cameras atop it, one for the PS3 and one for the PS2. Atop that, all games are really imprecise unless the lighting is PERFECT. I really wanted a number of the games to work well, but there are certain times of day where the lighting in the room make the games completely unplayable.

The eye games are great ideas, but I'd rather have my Wii remote any day since it is so much more damn reliable than the flaky responsiveness of the Playstation Eye games, and Sony's stupid move of making the PS3 Eye not backwards compatible with PS2 software.

Oh, I forgot to mention that there us an issue with 2 eye cameras attached. When playing Eye of Judgment, I need to unplug aqll cameras and only plug in the PS3 eye. To play PS2 games, I need to swap cameras again and play the USB game. Things just just freakin' work. If the device is plugged in, and the light is on, it should work.

Kamalot

I can almost hear the brain veins of Lucasarts director popping...

Bokusatsu_Tenshi

If you've ever actually used the eyetoy (or even more sophisticated software for trying to analyze a video image for where to put the sword), you'll realize that this will be absolute garbage. From a math standpoint, it's simply too hard to accurately track what you're trying to track (unless you use multiple "ping pong balls" for motion capture, at least TWO cameras, but better with THREE, and a computer with more power than 10 PS2s...).

Eyetoy games are meant to amuse small children or the simple minded adult. What a joke.

According to a mate of mine, there was a pretty impressive demo of some new eye-toy PS3 stuff at Develop in Brighton( a games conference ) a few weeks ago. He said the tracking was much better than before, head and hands and stuff....so there might be a future in it...

@Kamalot: I csn imagine your house, one idiot waving his arms about in his living room at different times of the day playing kiddies games. When women come round (unlikely) they see two cameras they probably a) huge geek b) weirdo sex pest who lures kids in with kiddies games

ichi1