Question for xbox players : V

» Tue Apr 02, 2013 2:59 am

I was playing skyrim today and something reminded me about the Kinect. Now I've had a kinect since before skyrim was released and when the patch came out that let us use kinect controls i played around with it a for like a week but then never really used again so i was wondering, do any of you Xbox users still use Kinect in skyrim and how useful is it really?

» Mon Apr 01, 2013 11:47 pm

I never use it, looks like a waste of time

» Tue Apr 02, 2013 8:57 am

I did use the Kinnect a little bit, and some of the time saving details like bringing up the map I liked.
But I stopped using Kinnect when I found I could not use powers only Shouts.

» Tue Apr 02, 2013 9:19 am

I was playing skyrim today and something reminded me about the Kinect. Now I've had a kinect since before skyrim was released and when the patch came out that let us use kinect controls i played around with it a for like a week but then never really used again so i was wondering, do any of you Xbox users still use Kinect in skyrim and how useful is it really?

If you're not self-conscious about the vocalizing of commands (I am

) then it is quite useful, imo. You can accomplish more, more effectively, using it.

» Tue Apr 02, 2013 1:16 am

I used it for about a week. Though it got annoying that whenever I or my TV made a noise, it'd flash in the corner of the screen that it did not recognise what I was saying. And that got very irritable.

Worst of all though is when it DOES recognise something when you don't even mean it to. Fus'ing your dining room table or the Jarl by mistake gets really annoying.

» Mon Apr 01, 2013 7:40 pm

So it was a gimmick.

» Tue Apr 02, 2013 8:37 am

There's also Kinect for PC

» Mon Apr 01, 2013 10:36 pm

There's also Kinect for PC

Yup, its called a headset with a microphone, coupled with some freeware voice command software. Its been around for over a decade.

» Tue Apr 02, 2013 9:51 am

I never use it, looks like a waste of time

It is. It was cool using my voice to shout for like 5 minutes before I scrapped it. The organization of the inventory was nice though, but I can live without it.

» Tue Apr 02, 2013 10:38 am

Yup, its called a headset with a microphone, coupled with some freeware voice command software. Its been around for over a decade.

No motion sensor however. Yea, I know. Whupdee do.

» Mon Apr 01, 2013 9:13 pm

So it was a gimmick.

Yeah it kinda was, I actually made a good natured attempt to use it for weapon switching, menu functions etc but eventually I gave up and disabled it.
The npc dialogue getting picked up and triggering new saves was what made me kill it.

I appreciate the gesture from Beth, it being free an' all but in the end it was a pretty throwaway feature.
I also felt that kinect shouts actually made it a less immersive experience.

» Tue Apr 02, 2013 11:03 am

I used it until the 8 year old figured out it recognized his voice as well as mine. He usually used the fire breath shout just as I was getting ready to turn in a quest or something. *sigh*

» Mon Apr 01, 2013 7:59 pm

I used it for a little while when it was patched in. It's alright. It just depends on your environment noise wise. If you live in a noisy apartment like I do, it'll struggle to read your voice. Also, make sure you put your Kinect as far away from your speakers for your TV as possible, cuz the game sound can interfere with the Kinect's voice recognition.

» Mon Apr 01, 2013 11:22 pm

So it was a gimmick.

» Tue Apr 02, 2013 12:35 am

I was playing skyrim today and something reminded me about the Kinect. Now I've had a kinect since before skyrim was released and when the patch came out that let us use kinect controls i played around with it a for like a week but then never really used again so i was wondering, do any of you Xbox users still use Kinect in skyrim and how useful is it really?

Kinect is only good for certain games, I wouldn't waste it on Skyrim.

» Tue Apr 02, 2013 7:15 am

I used it until the 8 year old figured out it recognized his voice as well as mine. He usually used the fire breath shout just as I was getting ready to turn in a quest or something. *sigh*

That's awesome.

» Tue Apr 02, 2013 9:22 am

I found it was actually pretty useful for quicksaves and for inventory sorting, but I could never get it to work very well for shouts or weapon swapping.

I play much more on PC than xbox anyway.

» Tue Apr 02, 2013 12:14 am

XD I never got the hang of the kinect controls, and it was annoying the roommates that I was yelling, and I didn't feel like keeping a cheat sheet of the shouts, and every time I would, it would mistake that I was asking for a save...
I just went back to using the normal controls...