KINECT (Zero Punctuation)

[@DivineTranquillity]

I didn't even have to click on this video to start laughing already. Reading the title and just the thought of Yahtzee giving his opinion on the Kinect in general, is enough to induce tears of joy.

[@dragonkingofthestars]

question: why don't they issue gloves with kincect? black ones with white patches on the fingers that the motion tracker can more easily read. likely solve all the problems wiht it reading stuff

[@Usernamesdontmatter1]

Go apply for microsoft,sony, or nintendo right now.

[@CesarJoseee]

Gloves?! Sounds like a good idea... But I hope they don't make another Power Glove...

[@Warton567]

Brownman But I love the Power Glove it's so bad.

[@AGentertainmentofficial]

What happened to Milo? Oh yeah, another Microsoft proto-HYPE.

[@DkKombo]

DUDE! I had the same idea! Except I would also had little touchsensitive buttons you can rearrange around your gloves and make them into certain commands that you wish for them to do. Like if you wanted to draw your sword instead of just doing the motion you would do the certain action response that tells the controller that your drawing your sword instead of dodging or whatever you happen to be doing. You could also put the buttons on a controller and have the controller have movable handholds so that you can make it the same as a pistol and even add attachments to make it into more of a sniper or machine gun-type weapon. You could also put on ankle wraps for the kinect to sync with as well. No buttons on that though, well...nah too complicated.

[@zion653]

Okay, I need to take a break from these Escapist videos. They're starting to take over my overall manner of thinking, speaking, and ability to put together a coherent, logical, and rational thought without the unnecessary need to necessarily jam as many unnecessary yet, somehow, necessary words as possible into one needlessly unnecessary sentence. Time for coffee…

[@AtruePawn]

just perfect :D

[@Amouat2000]

So true.......I have a permanent British narrator narrating all my stupid thoughts to me.

[@DevilsAdvocateofnazareth]

Breeze Ark that's probably me. I'm not going to stop.

[@Dice12K]

ONE OF US! ONE OF US! ONE OF US!

[@NamelessPlayerOfficial]

I have Yahtzee narrating every single moment of my life... i knew i shouldn't watch too much ZP.

[@Fiery891]

The only game I played that was enhanced by the Kinect was Skyrim. The kinect has a built in mic, and if you have "Kinect Commands" on in Skyrim yelling a dragon shout in real life made so the Kinect triggered it in game. But after about an hour the novalty wore off and I just used the button press, that way my neighbours wouldn't have to come over and see what I was yelling about.

[@jadghalayini1446]

See, I didn't know this. Off to play Skyrim with the Kinect now. Finally, a reason for the thing.

[@BaseCu327]

I kinda want to go steal my sibling's Kinect and play Skyrim with the Windows drivers, because that sounds fun.

[@jadghalayini1446]

The Addiction 2 get the Thuum Microphone mod.

[@aelechko]

There was way too much of a delay using it and if you were in an intense spot it wouldn't register what you said proper. Buttons just work better.

[@smurfydude77]

Bored. Bored. KZbin. Hey there's a Zero Punctuation. Kinect? Have I watched that one? Watch, watch, watch. Don't remember if I've seen that one. Yahtzee: "...Phineas K Douchenstein..." Oh yeah, I have seen that one before.

[@lucien9824]

depression depression was i sad before? six inch no dont care im going to fucking kill myself

[@SwampRats94]

Comment relevance 2022

[@aelechko]

Sometimes it's the little treasure hunts like that which I love. Like the bit at the beginning of remember me when he says the call of duty dog has real time fuck chasing action. So good to stumble across that again lol

[@SigmaSyndicate]

I feel like there are high-up studio executives that watch these videos and then use the ideas. Spellcasting? Fable: The Journey! Mostly using a controller but also use the Kinect? Steel Battalion!

[@femoman]

Tabula Rasa Gaming (TRG Plays) And wouldn't you know it, they fucked both of them up, quadruply so in Steel Battalion's case!

[@stephenramos2824]

Tabula Rasa Gaming (TRG Plays) Similar to what Mass Effect did with voice commands?

[@jacybrooks8566]

And off to the gallows fable journeys goes

[@jaytonhawkins2872]

I have to say, I don't use my Kinect for anything gaming related. More often, I use it to navigate screens, for the facial recognition, to search things using voice command, ect. It does actually work quite well on these fronts. But if I could buy an XBONE without one included, I would.

[@jaytonhawkins2872]

XBone is now 499.00 and being sold without a Kinect. Guess whos gonna buy one...

[@lotsofdoggos7193]

Did you buy an Xbox One?

[@joshgodawful]

I'm gonna have to try out that buffalo style hand-job.

[@T13HS]

When people ask me why I didn't get a Kinect for my Xbox One, I direct them to this video.

[@edisontrent618]

HK-47 What about when people ask you how to kill a force user?

[@T13HS]

Answer: Select grenades, sonic screamers, cluster rockets, and plasma charges. Mines are also effective, since many Jedi will run to meet you in hand to hand combat. Silly Jedi.

[@T13HS]

Addendum: Gas attacks are effective if you can take the Jedi by surprise - inhalation is less effective than ones that work on skin contact, as some Jedi seem able to hold their breath for long periods of time.

[@T13HS]

Cautionary: Still, don't rely on it, since Jedi can fight off the effects, it just distracts them, leaving them open to another avenue of attack.

[@MrPiccoloku]

HK-47 Thanks for telling me, a JEDI, how to get around your attacks ;) *ignites lightsaber*

[@MrFidelmios]

Two months old, and yet still amazing. He could be viewing it for the first time, and therefore it's new to him.

[@ethan2246]

10 years old but still amazing

[@revfunk8823]

CAN'T. ......STOP........WATCHING. ......

[@thegooseinator9614]

6'5"? Damn, Yahtzee is tall.

[@klimpomp]

Ieuan Hunt id tap dat

[@jacybrooks8566]

Well the cartoon character he plays as is quite tall as well, Yahtzee is also one to have great facial features

[@MrPiccoloku]

klimpomp Me2

[@MrPiccoloku]

Ieuan Hunt A damn handsome bloke indeed. (it's just fun to say)

[@dylanelliott565]

I'm seven foot. I met Yahtzee once it was hilarious.

[@jamesfalconer269]

This is the best thing on youtube ever! please never stop!

[@maksimbirch2351]

I just recently tried to sell my Kinect at cex...they offered £3 :(

[@nomadwhy1166]

maksim birch HAHAHA

[@trannyfragrance]

maksim birch isn't it 3£?

[@maksimbirch2351]

+Ple Glu guess your not British because no

[@jordyn.w4129]

Lucky! They only offered me a piece of pre-chewed bubblegum and a used condom

[@emscape2]

the kinect could be useful for determining how scared the player is and making his avatar acting accordingly

[@CuddleMuffin20]

I never learn my lesson do i? Tried watching Zero Punc while eating...

[@Jaceblue04]

The Kinect never gave me trouble. The only thing that did give me trouble was the fact that the room my 360 is in is rather small and has a low, angled ceiling. Whenever I try to use the Kinect, I hit my head on the ceiling by accident.

[@SecretNenteus]

Briallant idea for waving at people you vaguely know! If you know them well, you press the wave button, if you sort of know them, you wave with your hand!

[@danny1111105]

best implementation of kinect for me was skyrim, you yell fus-ro-dah, and the character does it, amazing!

[@belltowersubductions5104]

UntilI saw this video I had genuinely forgotten that the Kinect existed. I can’t say that came as a surprise.

[@AsanpiCh]

So does this mean we should elect Yahzee as Pope?

[@nickfiguredo8283]

If I based my purchases off your reviews, I would own like Two games.

[@candy-ass4915]

Portal and what, like Half-Life?

[@V-Jes]

Le Spy and shadow of colossus, ico, god of war, silent hill 2, paper mario and walking dead

[@candy-ass4915]

mywlan2 That seems like more than two games.

[@legojay800isanidiot]

Le Spy and minecraft

[@Wilford870]

Thank you

[@thu4167]

If you press 2 and 3 really fast repeatedly it looks like Link is stabbing the Kinect

[@sukirai3238]

if you press 3 and 4 really fast repeatedly it looks like he is playing masturbation simulator :)

[@HylianTabby]

Link stabbing the Kinect? Now that's an idea I can get behind.

[@joerivos74]

if you press 2 and 4 really fsat it looks like link is cahnging into yatzee

[@PlanetBobbins]

Thu Collist Kid 3 and 8 and Yahtzee's dancing is making the kinect cry.

[@jamiebragg7820]

If You press 1 and 2 really fast repeatedly you might just give yourself an epileptic fit.

[@muscutt13]

Best discription of the Kinect I have ever herd

[@Jaceblue04]

And no, Yahtzee, my "little white dongle" didn't go flying right out of my hand and embedding itself in the cat, because: A: I don't have a cat for it to embed into, and B: The Wii remote has a wrist strap for a reason.

[@Merick123456789]

fuck the wii wrist strap, i am a man of danger and excitement

[@lodzmawile4490]

Merick That made me laugh way to hard.

[@clairmontcreep]

Merick Fuckin A Right

[@KobanWanko]

Don't you remember? You lost your cat when you punted it into your TV while using the Eye Toy... Ah, repressed memories...

[@Wilford870]

I actually remind my friends to use the little strap because I don't want anything to happen to my TV XD

[@Xidification]

Phineas K Douchinstine is going in my 'list of names to use in future video games.txt' file 😂

[@lolrus5555]

I'm... honestly kinda surprised with how kind Yahtzee was with Rise of Nightmares.

[@malataur]

I had to merge with my couch, too. At least the Kinect sensors can pick up ghosts.

[@bobbluered8984]

Alien Isolation is the only acceptable use of the Kinect.

[@jonasgrant]

Haven't watched the video yet, just saw the title and I swear I giggled and told myself aloud "This is gonna be good."

[@101Crock]

Rise of Nightmares sounds like it would be good in VR.

[@hydrocodonethrone]

He sounds just like ashens :3

[@JealousBishop]

Fuck Ashens

[@GalanDun]

No he doesn't. He sounds very different.

[@jaxsonfanta5420]

I was so excited to see you had done a kinect review that I started laughing before I even opened the link! And you did not disappoint!

[@FimaWWW]

he did.

[@cynicreviewer]

Was Yahtzee a history student before?

[@Interferon5477]

Nah I think he's just very well educated

[@cynicreviewer]

Interferon5477 Yeah but education is usually specific. He seems to make a lot of comments towards history in particular

[@QooperG28]

***** Well the only thing I can add is that he knows german, at least a bit. The amount of his use of the word "Luftwaffe" is quite huge ^^

[@CM-oe9if]

QooperG28 Not that... you need to speak German to know what that word means.

[@Dartmorin]

Steven Miller in his review of brutal legend he said on the endcard that he had studied german.

[@TheOtherGuy27]

The answer to motion controls is not cameras with crude motion recognition capability end of story. Just mount sensors on the user or better yet develop a device that translates nerve signals into input signals, preferably without requiring implantation like devices currently being developed to give motor control to quadriplegics.

[@jaxonnobles]

The only reason I would EVER get a Kinect (And I don't even own a console) is for the dumbass-ery you can do with it in Garry's Mod.

[@smearfo5612]

DarkWingDerpy wait what?

[@madeline1815]

With the kinect, you can use it in Garrys Mod to control ragdolls with your movement. Quite literally the only part of the kinect that even remotely works.

[@HarmoniChris]

"No one can get immersed in a game standing up, except for maybe the guards at Buckingham Palace." My sides.

[@iKhanKing]

Kinect sucks, because like you say, it lacks the physical feedback of the Wii. But I disagree the Wii doesn't have physical feedback. Rumble pretty much takes care of the "hit a wall with your sword" issue. But even if that doesn't do it for you, it's not how you are supposed to use "waggle" motion controls anyway. Just like Rumble brings you into a game by moving the controller in sync with an output, waggle brings you into the game by having you move the controller in sync with an input. The pairing of motion is key, not necessarily you doing exactly what the in-game character is doing.

[@highestsettings]

Rumble does not emulate physical feedback very well. It's impossible to emulate physical feedback unless you can invent a controller that can propel itself in different directions. Like he said, your sword hits a wall and bounces, your hand continues. Not only does that disconnect you from the game, it also hurts.

[@mjc0961]

+iKhanKing Rumble takes me out of the game because it's completely stupid when there is a huge explosion or something and my hands are being vibrated while the rest of my body doesn't feel anything. I always disable rumble at the system level because it's stupid bullshit.

[@RiDaku]

Perhaps it's good that we all start to talk like him. He's well spoken /and/ funny,a perfect combination,so why not?

[@Allison-qk1ws]

Really glad I never bought this. Although once again if I was paid to shit on things I would. I am still jealous of your career, but not in a sense of anger. More in a way that I am proud that you were successful in an endevour that doesn't involve selling out and wish I could do the same.

[@Cairnth]

There was also Cole's mega super lightning death attack in inFamous, which had you tilt the controller in order to change its direction. That was a very good use of motion control.

[@Robson303]

whos watching this in 2025

[@drdogface3]

No one

[@yossarian7420]

Jesus_Christ_himself

[@theclipreaper]

Ho, :) not me mate, I'm watching this in SHUT THE FUCK UP ALREADY!

[@evilbritishguy3581]

I always had this idea for how you could use the kinect to play fps games or games like mirrors edge.I thought that you could map the position of where you stood relative to the kinect to movement.Lean forward,back,left or right as though you were pushing against a l-stick on the floor.By facing off screen,you could move the camera.Tilt your head up or down to look up or down and turn your head left or right to look left or right.

[@theultimatehangover7576]

The whole idea he came up with at the end, where you could play using a controller but every now and then use the motion controls to perform a gesture that effects your environment... that's genius! I can finally flip people off when they catch me reloading, before they plaster my face all over the wall with buckshot!

[@tommangan7]

it was released on the website october 26th 2011.

[@speedyblupi]

There's understanding generally, and understanding in detail. This guy talks so fast it's sometimes hard to hear what he says, but a lot of that's due to the background noise I have at times.

[@TheDukard]

Pope Yahtzee is now my favorite Yahtzee

[@DoctahWAAwee]

i saw a interview with him and his apperence blew me away, he's a pretty tall dude

[@fakemann4390]

Skyrim does exactly what he described at the end, Kinetic picks up voice, so instead of useing the shout button, you can literally shout the spell and it'll work. I want more games to do stuff like that. CoD for example. What if, you could swing your arm, and it would knife? How awesome would that be?

[@computerboy56]

Only when you start watching but it gets really easy to understand

[@squallsrapture]

Mass Effect 3 was nice with the kinect because you basically only used ti to shout which ammo or techyspellsling whatever you wanted to load to make everything more fluid and face paced. And if I recall Steel Battalion 2 did exactly what he described. You mostly used your controller but you could stand up to get out of the ̶M̶e̶t̶a̶l̶ ̶G̶e̶a̶r Vertical Tank and make binoculars by your eyes to use said binoculars in the game. It was pretty neat. I wish they had done more shit like that.

[@izeberamia]

I never saw the kinect as a great gaming advancement, but a great sign of technological advancement in general. But also, Dance Central on Kinect is 100x better than Just Dance for the simple fact that with the Wii you can totally get away with just swinging your arm, while on the kinect you get more points based on how accurate your body movements are.

[@jrjyates85]

In a time where horses, sharp wood, solid metal, and ability to make fire was the pinnacle of military genius and tactic. That is very impressive.

[@JZJora]

What a magical thread we have here.

[@theSkyfisher]

I think it is hilarious that the suggestion on how to use the kinect at the end is more or less how the kinect is used with skyrim.

[@TigerKirby215]

I love it when KZbin glitches out and continues playing the video while it's paused. Then when I come back to my E-mail I hear Yatzee's glorious voice and see "KZbin has experienced an error, we're quite sorry." IE Were a bunch of trolls, and have no idea how Copyright Strikes work.

[@Ryu8907]

Lets not forget the brilliant idea of Kinect dragon shouts in Skyrim~

[@Anitrex006]

Was watching this while on the quiet floor of the library. Needless to say that got kicked out. People didnt take too kindly too all the loud laughing.

[@CleverCrumbish]

That is the most fourteen years old thing I have ever heard but since you asked I did like Psychonauts, both Yahtzee's review and the actual game, which I bought from GOG.com and played around this time last year, discovering that much of Yahtzee's criticisms, good and bad, were fairly accurate.

[@Shadoweaver407]

Thank you for noticing!

[@GmodPlusWoW]

I thought it already had multiple cameras, but actually, I guess I can see what you're suggesting. Having multiple Kinect cameras oriented at different locations, like one facing forward, one to your left and another to your right, that'd probably give a better impression of the player's body, as well as maybe more responsive and precise controls.

[@MartinHerchel]

Like how he says: "Exercise is for people who intend to live past forty." And in a video 2 or 4 years later he says: "I'm a man of principle I wake up, exercise...

[@tehzdood]

"Why hello there Counselor Troi." That right there made my day.

[@chrisvannooten1218]

Actually I saw a guy combining the Kinect with the Wii remote to play Dead Space 2, aiming was done by the wii remote as for weapon switching, but actions like stomping/melee attacks was left to the Kinect creating a true immersive experience without feeling awry (a problem with loads of Kinect controls in games). Extra Credit made a great example of why the Kinect feels to strange to play, it is worth looking up.

[@kwuzie2265]

i personally really like the motion controls in Zelda: Twilight princess. the important stuff like movement, switching items, etc were all done with traditional controls, but the sword swinging and more importantly aiming items like the bow were done with motion. I feel like this struck a really nice balance between the two and i think it's one of the best examples of well-done motion control in games

[@Kingstonlomusic]

I just discovered this series in this week, I still haven't finish all of them, and now there are new stuffs!?

[@minecrafter1305]

what he said happend in (forza whatever the newest one is) you look around and it looks at cars around you, then at the should be flaming wall where you crashed while looking at the shiny cars

[@JncGwen]

rise of nightmares is a game my boyfriend bought. it was too hard to navigate so now it has become a game we tell our friends is awesome to get them to play and then sit back and laugh at them try and moonwalk through it.

[@tommangan7]

you can use it for lots of things in skyrim. shouts, menus, weapon changes etc.

[@y05077]

I think he is, I saw him in a video at I think GDC or something and he was a fair bit taller than everyone else.

[@shenmeowzo]

do you have one? what i mean is, is your hatred based on extensive use? i imagine i would hate it too, but havnt really spent much time with it..

[@TGX999]

Yeah :) that warm fuzzy youtube feeling is back :) thank you :)

[@tommangan7]

I like how yahtzee successfully predicted the Skyrim Kinect update.

[@ladymilliejean4166]

skyrim used the kinect well. you yelled your shouts at it to shout

[@thewhitewolf58]

I know what you mean i did read that they want you to move the furnature before you play but what work achoolic is going to do that

[@andrewtodt7769]

You know what immersion is? It's when you're walking down a hallway in school and wonder if the person on the side of the hallway has a wide enough FOV setting to see you. This actually happened to me...

[@ShunShinimaru]

"Therapy for geometryphoebics" Lol genius hilarious xdxd!!!

[@brownfriendgaming2242]

the only time the kinect's decent in anything, to me at least, is solely in Skyrim. The ability to use shouts on the fly, swap weapons and spells without having to use the quicklist just really helps with the immersion.

[@unwrittenmariposa09]

I'm starting to think like him too, it's weird. Not only that, everything I'm reading a book, when I think of the voices for the characters, his voice pops up. xD

[@thegamer74717]

Thank you very much sir.

[@RealEnerjak]

2:26 I am Sinistar! Run run! RRWWAAAARRRRGGGHH! Thanks for bring up the nightmares I had to go to therapy for Yahtzee.

[@LukeSparrow221]

can anyone tell me which song yahtzee uses in both the intro and outro? it's such a good riff, i wanne know!

[@staringdowna45]

I believe the intent was to describe a dialect, not a separate language. And actually, yes, Mexican Spanish is a bit different from Spanish spoken in Spain. Dialect. Localized differences within the same language.

[@TheVampireEd]

Yes, I am very aware of the holy vessel that is Portal, lol. I just forgot to mention it as the exception, however I was reminded several times by other replies to my post, heh. So I won't soon forget again.

[@abandonedtrash]

omg press 3 and then 2 repetidly at 1:03 it looks like link standing up and the kinect crying in fear

[@ahennessy7998]

Em F what

[@TwoFeetDrum]

I understand completely. Everybody has those days. :)

[@makano1]

I hope people like you end up being the true future of the Internet :)

[@robyJoeProductions]

Well,I've been at Giants Causeway many a time,and my feet are quite sturdy when standing on one.

[@pavkata97]

How is talking like Yahtzee bad? It's a blessing to have that sexy voice!

[@TheHeadHunter1000]

IDEA: The free building/combat aspect from minecraft and garys mod ( as well as MC randomly generated worlds) The game plays with controller or keyboard, but if you want to do something more creative like tune up your gun, or wipe you ass on a window. You would do this separately by using a motion sensor or camera. It might not be a 10/10 idea, but it would be interesting to actually tear down/fix a gun or create a home, using make believe tools rather than just, POINT SHOOT WINNING

[@gll50]

There is a game coming out in which you raise one of either of your hands from the controller in order to do things. Then there are Kinect commands for games like Skyrim.

[@stealthbonus]

I use the Kinect for Skyrim. Lots of frustration there as trying to equip an item requires very specific pronunciation. The shouts are fun if you don't mind looking like an idiot yelling at your game.

[@knoximusprime]

Pope Ben Croshaw the First actually has a nice ring to it

[@4megatiger]

i've never even been to australlia and i perfectly understand this.

[@Driftload]

I think he needs a bigger living room because mine doesn't ever get confused with gestures, but he is bang on about using controllers combined with hand gestures

[@Mustoverus]

Scuse moi, but I was just watching this on theescapist site a couple days ago. I said "I think" because I had not yet clicked to play the video and wasn't sure if this was the one I watched. I can't link to the videos in these comments, but I'll send you a PM.

[@willlu3220]

JUST A PEEK! JUST A PEEK!

[@CaretaTheSwedishBro]

Well its fun to see PDP play it

[@SuperShikaku]

I can understand them just fine,and I'm from Latvia,a country you've probably never even heard of.

[@butchdeadlift10]

The best/worst idea I ever had for a motion sensor; attach it to a total gym weight machine. Replace all of the level grinding with actual grinding as you press weights to level up your magic knights and kung fu masters in whatever video game. But you still PLAY the game with a normal controller on real levels.

[@jamesreid9284]

Hm. Don't... know what to say...

[@butchdeadlift10]

James Reid It is terrible, isn't it?

[@jamesreid9284]

butchdeadlift10 Not exactly. Just... odd.

[@newagetapes]

like that you actually feel pain and crap? that seems AWESOME! DO IT!

[@jacybrooks8566]

XD good luck being sore as hell