Communication is the future of gaming?

When I look at the pointless comments on youtube or the random messages I get on Xboxlive then I can´t believe that this would be true. Eventhough it´s our main way of interacting with other humans, it´s often just horrible the way people communicate. I´m not even talking about deliberately writing words the wrong way, because as annoying that is I guess language develops over time and as much as the current generation might hate it things do change. No my problem is the type of messages people send to eachother, mostly random nonsense that has no information or worth at all. Of course a random sms is ok, but when people actually reply to messages talking about a kill in a game then I really wonder what the hell you´re doing!

I know that the Kinect is working with voice commands, which helps you control the Xbox One a bit easier. Well I say easier but I think we all know that things are far from easy when it comes to the Xbox One voice commands. Because sometimes they´re a bit rusty and you´ll have to shout or reply the words multiple times to actually see them do something, but other times it works too well when other people can influence your Xbox One with voice commands over the internet. I think that it´s an interesting start of how things should work but I think we´re far from a system that works well enough that most gamers actually want to use that. I mean do you enjoy using the Kinect? I´ll be honest with you, I don´t like it and I don´t think I´ll ever like it. But it´s the future of gaming, at least that´s what they´re trying to sell you.

But we don´t all want the future of gaming, some of us just want to play games and have fun. Ok maybe that´s old fashioned but sometimes the old ways are the best ways. I don´t need a fancy controller with all types of stuff on it to make it even better, I´m perfectly fine with a random controller and a good rumble system in it. I must admit that this is something I like, the vibration which helps you when you´re hit or when you´re seriously wounded (in some games at least). I think that we still have a long way to go before the voice commands work and that communication will actually play a major role in gaming. For now we keep having people who play without a mic and have no interest in communication at all and I can´t blame them. Communication is important, but the way things are now we´ll keep being lone wolves online!

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