Firefly: Microsoft's First Game For Surface - Kotaku Comments

Firefly: Microsoft's First Game For Surface

bluelightningflik — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 13:50:20 MST

@realyst2k: So, basically stop doing everything making ridiculous amounts of money and focus everything on the cool stuff that isn't currently making money but happens to amuse you. Right. Just be glad they're willing to throw insane amounts of money into R&D so people like you can "ooh" and "ahh" without any real understanding of what goes on at MS. Thanks.

bluelightningflik

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L_K_M — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 08:17:15 MST

Hm, having one of these in the livingroom with a few neat games could actually be pretty cool. It could even serve as an interactive tabletop gaming board, similarly to the PS3 game with the Eye. I think I might just pick up one of these once they actually start selling them...

L_K_M

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kyosuke9999 — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 07:02:37 MST

Yeah, I'm gonna buy a 15,000$ table so that I can move balls of light over a still shot of grass. WOW.

I think the surface tech is cool, but this game is mega fucking lame time.

kyosuke9999

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beddo — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 04:13:05 MST

This looks really boring.

beddo

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boopadoo — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 00:54:58 MST

How is Surface any different than those "video mat games" I see kids at the mall stomping on? The real appeal I can see for surface is if they elongate it about 6 feet and make it a training tool for masseurs or surgery students. That's a freebie, Microsoft!

boopadoo

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supercrap — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 22:49:14 MST

I demand digital touchscreen Mega Monopoly NOW!!!

supercrap

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Crusoe — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 22:08:53 MST

"Curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal"

Crusoe

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Eville1 — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 21:20:13 MST

With a holographic 3d display above it (or not really, doesn't matter.) Ton Clancy's Endwar would be super bad ass to control with a surface table. I remember the video had the commander controlling his troops as little triangles on a touch map that relayed his orders. So basically it was..this.

Eville1

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Strangelove — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 20:36:58 MST

Virtual air hockey, pool, or any momentum game where you pushed something and it bounced around the walls of the surface would work pretty well. A game where you have to "catch" falling objects would work, too.

Strangelove

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ArmyofJuan — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 19:58:00 MST

I think this technology would be served well as showing a mock presentation for how to deploy units in war. The next step would obviously to have holographic display....

ArmyofJuan

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okenny :) — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 19:54:11 MST

@FunkyJ: It's Microsoft news so it's to be expected :) I remember when people yesterday were oohing and ahhing over face tracking technology implemented on the PS3. People forget that the more natural the interaction, the harder it because to process the information. We aren't giving away honors for complexity here but it seems rather annoying when people cant understand the impact of excellent concept realized.

okenny :)

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Fyren — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 19:48:36 MST

It sounds like a prescription for Arthritis.

Fancy tech demo, really not much else.

Fyren

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Benjamin Linus — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 19:29:58 MST

Ermmm, kind of cool...

Benjamin Linus

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I_Hate_This_Place — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 19:11:45 MST

@Jonn: Been here long enough to remember the people who comment and their usual patterns. Stick around, it doesn't take long. And did I say the majority, as I highly doubt the majority have even posted in this thread. Oh, and if you want to know if someone is fanboyish, just check their post history. I am a fanboy of games, which is why I have more systems than I have time to play.

Also, there usually isn't a pursuit in making an observation.

I_Hate_This_Place

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Jonn — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 19:02:27 MST

Mildly interesting. I can imagine playing Freecell on this thing. And before you suggest actual cards; I'd just end up cheating.

@I_Hate_This_Place: So, you've profiled the majority of the commenters on this site who cheer the stuff Sony does and track their comments? Ignoring the difficulty of such a task, why would you want to pursue it?

Or are you just a fanboy?

Jonn

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Final — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 19:02:23 MST

You could have made it simplier and made it Pong or a glorified electronic air hockey game and I would have still liked it. The potential is there for it to be a great product coz I could see it as something that would get my wife into gaming like the wii did...

but everybody cried, moaned and laughed at the the wii tech demos as well

Final

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unmarkedone — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 19:02:23 MST

How is this different than other touch screens, other than the size? And wow, they picked one awful demo to show off the multi-touch capability.

unmarkedone

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realyst2k — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 18:44:58 MST

Dear Microsoft:

Focus on Surface and Photosynth. You bought these techs from truly innovative people, you may as well use it proper.

Promote the guy who came up with the 360 concept. Fire the guy who came up with the 360 hardware.

Stop it with Windows: No one likes having Vista crammed down their throats. XP works grudgingly, even fairly solid after SP2, and every other bloody OS works 10x better.

Allow other people to improve your piss poor office suite because I swear if Outlook crashes on me at the office again because it has trouble connecting to a fucking 15k rules file I will grab a flight to Redmond and beat all of you to a bloody pulp with the heaviest wooden chair from the La-Z-Boy store..

Fire all your goddamn lawyers. Burn Balmer on a stake. Forget Bill Gates ever existed.

Then I may look at you seriously again.

realyst2k

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kuzuboshii — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 18:38:22 MST

It seems like the game is justifying the control rather than the other way around.

kuzuboshii

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Slothboy — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 18:20:21 MST

NOOOOOOOOO!!!! Moment of hope... Destroyed! This has nothing to do with Mal Reynolds, does it?

Slothboy

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thaKingRocka — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 18:13:17 MST

if they were to take this idea and run with it, i think they would have a japanese arcade hit on their hands. this would fit in beautifully on the first floor of most japanese arcades with the ufo catchers or maybe near the mushi king / love & berry type games.

thaKingRocka

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Hiyono — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 18:12:01 MST

"So Firefly is a simple game that we asked Carbonated Games group downstairs helped us with making, and our task to was come up with a fun, simpmle game that we could use to test Surface. I don't know if we're ever gonna see this deployed anywhere - it's just kind of a fun way to interact."

In other words, this was just a tech demo, and not a real game. But hey, hating on Microsoft _is_ a game, and one a lot of you seem to love, so I guess they succeeded at entertaining you after all.

Hiyono

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AzureDrag0n1 — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 18:01:21 MST

This looks like the ultimate board game table. You can have D&D campaigns with this thing. Or play any sort of board game in existence.

AzureDrag0n1

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thelastdestroyer — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 17:39:47 MST

Doesn't look very fun.

Looks like they're acting.

But yeah this thing has major potential.

thelastdestroyer

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Erwin — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 17:36:03 MST

@Bluecell: I knew it!
Bonus points for great avatar.

Erwin

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McPaper — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 17:28:07 MST

This device has potential. Don't just look at the video and think "FIREFLYSUX", did you even listen to what the guy was saying? This was just a little technical demo to show the basics of the devices use, they mentioned simultanious touching by other people suggesting it would be great for multiplayer games. A 2 player RTS game would certainly be cool with the enemy sitting at the opposite end of the table.

McPaper

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Xax — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 16:59:03 MST

This isn't quite the "Firefly" game I had dreamed of.

Xax

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I_Hate_This_Place — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 16:54:21 MST

Hmm, I'm noticing that the people who normally cheer the smallest advancements that Sony make are in here downplaying this. Suprised? No. I can almost garuntee if this was a Sony product it would be a different comment thread. Hell, it might even get 3 seperate posts on the front page!

I_Hate_This_Place

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Bluecell — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 16:43:06 MST

Believe it or not, the insects actually took their name from the TV show.

Bluecell

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Covert_Knight — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 16:29:41 MST

It's like an extremely expensive version of Hungry Hungry Hippos.

Covert_Knight

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CrispyCrunch — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 16:14:03 MST

This fancy device might have potential!
But the video was somehow sad :-(
Gute Nacht

CrispyCrunch

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kidko — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 16:02:15 MST

They should hook up with Milton-B and release all the good boardgames with it. It would be nice to be able to set up a scrabble game and save it mid-way, switch to something else like Risk, save that, load up a website to check email, then go back to scrabble, ect.

We could actually play a game of Risk over a weekend without worrying about the cats jacking it all up

kidko

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OmegaX123 — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 15:57:37 MST

Day I buy anythin' with the name Firefly on it don't have nothin' to do with my favorite crew o' spacer outlaws, be the day this whole ruttin' rock's humped (ie: Armageddon, end-time, what-the-hell-ever you wanna call it).

OmegaX123

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khronos27 — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 15:52:57 MST

i think this would be awesome to play an RTS on, like supreme commander or something like that.

lol it would also be sweet for endwar, because this is pretty much what the general in the endwar trailer used

khronos27

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Tull — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 15:37:26 MST

The system would be great for RTS-type games. Be cool to be able to move units around with just the touch of the screen. Starcraft II is tailor-made to be played on this Surface.

Tull

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Xerxes 8933A — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 15:32:02 MST

HOW DARE THEY! How dare they use the word Firefly to describe anything other then an 03-K64 Firefly-class mid-bulk transport, such as the beautiful Serenity.

Xerxes 8933A

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Ping5000 — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 15:29:22 MST

Son of a bitch, Mr. Kotaku. I thought this was Firefly-related. You've destroyed me.

Ping5000

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PapaBear434 — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 15:27:20 MST

@justhesh:

I get the point of the tech demo. It's just fun to make fun of it. It's nothing hateful against MS, it's just that the tech demo doesn't really show off what could be done with this kind of a program.

PapaBear434

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drywaller79 — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 15:24:41 MST

The point of this isn't supposed to be the game, rather a tech demo in the form of a game. If you actually look beyond the game, you will see that they are able to have multiple points of contact on the table. Thats what it pretty much demostrates. It also demontrates the 'pushing stuff' with your hands feature. It looks interesing, although I was hoping to see a lot more from Surface than this.

drywaller79

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Erwin — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 15:24:17 MST

@FunkyJ: See here: [en.wikipedia.org]
See why we're sad?

Erwin

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PapaBear434 — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 15:22:54 MST

@Darth Navster:

I was thinking the same thing. As a self proclaimed Browncoat (Darth Navster) called it) I am very upset.

/fake outrage off

As far as the game goes... It's a very slow paced "Hungry Hungry Hippo's," except with a ton of fingerprints.

PapaBear434

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heretrix — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 15:20:27 MST

@FunkyJ: I agree 100 percent..

I'm digging the potential of it all, not the actual execution in the present. The dude said the game may not see the light of day beyond that demo so I don't understand why people are wasting their time dissing it.

I think it's cool as hell.

heretrix

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Ashurahori — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 15:15:08 MST

@FunkyJ: The reason everyone's pissed, is because the name if this game hita bit close to home on the geekyness.

Ashurahori

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KillerBee — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 15:08:38 MST

He stated that this was a very simple tech demo to test the surface multitouch functionality and highly doubted it would ever be released. Why then would you guys express your complete disappointment and hatred for it. It is a little goofy tech demo is all, nothing more.

I personally think surface is awesome and I look forward to using it at the office in a number of ways.

KillerBee

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RotatingRingKing — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 15:02:41 MST

hungry hungry glass jars??

RotatingRingKing

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You_Remind_Me_of_my_Famous_Friends — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 14:58:05 MST

For a tech demo, it exhibits some cool ideas.

BUT if there WAS a game based off the firefly TV show, I would be the first to buy it.

You_Remind_Me_of_my_Famous_Friends

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Sap_My_Sentry — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 14:56:16 MST

Dammit Microsoft and your misleading game titles

Sap_My_Sentry

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marlblank — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 14:55:04 MST

If you payed attention, you might have noticed that this is still a rather 'newer' form of technology. As in 'not used much, especially commercially'. The new macbook will be the first real affordable thing that might incorporate multi-touch. But I might be wrong on this.

So there. Does that suffice for a reason why they just made a tech demo of a game that might never be deployed. To show off capabilities. To open new perspectives. It's a start.
Really funny how some people expect an rts, or a full fledged game for that matter. Almost no one has surface yet. It costs a part of your pure soul to get one in your home, but still they should have made a 'proper' game?

Personally, I found this quite interesting. I'm still waiting OLED and multitouch together, where they belong. But as far as new games and techniques go, this has me interested.

marlblank

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FunkyJ — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 14:52:09 MST

Goddamn you people are a bunch of miserable bastards...

If you people can't imagine this kind of thing in a bar, for one example, and the potential it has for games and gaming and bringing people to the gaming table (pun intended), then I suggest you stop playing video games for a while because it's obviously destroyed your imaginations.

I swear Kotaku had to be the inspiration for this:

FunkyJ

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RockstarLlama — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 14:52:03 MST

@Darth Navster: I have been deceived.

RockstarLlama

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Gunloc — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 14:45:08 MST

@Darth Navster: Is there room for me in your club?

Gunloc

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wtf007 — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 14:43:35 MST

wow what a stupid idea for a game... how about going outside during summer with a jar? that would be like super high def 3d!

wtf007

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sakipooh — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 14:40:15 MST

Horrible game idea and execution. I saw this thing having some potential for the RTS genre where you could deploy your troops from your corner of the table. Not some lame "gather pixels into your circle" game. I hate it.The end.

sakipooh

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huginn — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 14:36:29 MST

@Darth Navster: my hopes have been quashed as well.

Merit the rumored firefly mmo is still out there with the White wold WoD mmo

huginn

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Bluecell — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 14:35:39 MST

@Rajio: To be fair, the Sarcastic Gamer guy did mention the possibilities for RTS games using a surface-like interface.

It's just a glorified tech demo.

Bluecell

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Tyber_Zann — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 14:33:53 MST

I'm ruttin' pissed.

I feel like Jayne Cobb when...well, on any given day.

This has nothing to do with the show!!!

Tyber_Zann

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Dukeman330 — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 14:26:01 MST

"Aggressively integrate all 10 fingers"? Sounds kinky.

Dukeman330

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justhesh — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 14:19:21 MST

@lifeinthefridge: No, it's just "Microsoft sucks" season. I like the squashing and blocking stuff, that's kinda neat. It'd be a keen little party game. I could see a Monoply-style game working on there, letting you "throw" the dice, move your piece, and pick up your cards. Tron cycles. Some kind of Tetris knockoff. Something along the lines of Mariopaint (especially the bug minigame). There's definitely potential, people are just being pessimistic and missing the point that it's just a tech demo.

justhesh

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Rajio — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 14:17:04 MST

Its totally a less-fun hungry hungry hippos. lame.

://www.hiptechblog.com/2006/04/02/video-multi-touch-table-demonstrated-with-warcraft-iii/

warcraft is much better on it.

Rajio

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Struct09 — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 14:14:59 MST

Curse the person who named this game D*:

Struct09

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Fishstick — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 14:14:33 MST

That's like Hungry Hungry Hippos in slow motion and sans hippos.

Fishstick

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Erwin — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 14:14:26 MST

Not shiny.

Erwin

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Sabastian_Chadwick_McGirt — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 14:10:56 MST

Wait, so this has nothing to do with Firefly the show?

BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!

Sabastian_Chadwick_McGirt

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StevenRafael — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 14:10:03 MST

They should have ported flaming finger.

StevenRafael

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seafisch — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 14:09:58 MST

@Darth Navster: Me too. When I realized it wasn't, I stopped caring.

seafisch

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DugDawg — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 14:09:00 MST

Not impressed. There is a mini game in that "New Super Mario Bros" Nintendo DS game that basically involves the same idea, except using the stylus instead of your fingers. You try to collect a ton of like-colored little bomb guys and move them into pens.

DugDawg

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wild_world_girl — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 14:08:16 MST

Wow, this totally bores me.

I see this being useful for corporate brainstorming, maybe one of these the size of a boardroom meeting table, but that's about it.

wild_world_girl

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dexterr — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 14:05:13 MST

oh my its old galaga nothing new.

dexterr

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grimdeath — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 14:04:14 MST

MS should use this technology to port board games into this format it would be kinda cool for those people who like playing board games.

grimdeath

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fuchikoma — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 14:03:10 MST

@Darth Navster:
I kinda knew it wouldn't be that, but hoped it would... Actually when I was watching Firefly was the same time I played Eve Online for a month...

Still, this looks like an ok casual title. Too bad Surface costs a zillion bucks and doesn't exist anywhere. :/

fuchikoma

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DeadlyRaptor — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 14:01:31 MST

@Darth Navster: My eyes lit up when I saw the word "Firefly", and then they filled with tears when I saw it had nothing to do with that shiny show.

DeadlyRaptor

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Indrajit — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 14:00:56 MST

Looks nice, but that's about it.

Oddly enough though, this is still far superior to the show.

Indrajit

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Cogito — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 14:00:15 MST

@Modus_Operandi: Zing!

Also, count me in the "disappointed browncoat group." A real firefly game needs to be more like this: [xkcd.com]

Cogito

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ittekimasu — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 13:59:34 MST

I dare say that the Surface table would make an excellent Hentai Game Console.

ittekimasu

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joelface — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 13:59:15 MST

well, i guess one cool thing about that is that my mom could play it.. my grandpa could play it... etc.

it could be fun, and i saw like 5 jars... maybe 5 people could all play at once.

and once you started squishing other peoples fireflies.. that would add a fun element to the game as well.

there are definitely other games that i think i PERSONALLY would find more fun, but i do think msoft Surface does look pretty fuckin cool.

joelface

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Sinharvest — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 13:59:13 MST

Would be pretty cool to make a warhammer 40k table top game, cept no expensive minis.

Sinharvest

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deathsyth8888 — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 13:59:09 MST

Really, what "casual gamer" would buy Mircosoft Surface just to play firefly?

deathsyth8888

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Neo Deus — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 13:57:26 MST

Needs more Joss Whedon.

Neo Deus

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Gadgetron — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 13:56:19 MST

that was so unimpressive, I almost want to say "well done".

Gadgetron

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Sparx — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 13:56:10 MST

Considering the lack of depth, I'll bet EA had a hand in making it =)

Sparx

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lifeinthefridge — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 13:55:49 MST

Am I the only one who thinks this is actually really cool?

lifeinthefridge

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FIRST!!! — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 13:54:31 MST

But does it have Achievements?

FIRST!!!

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deathbunny — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 13:54:28 MST

I like the idea of bringing physical interference into gaming. In the sense of trying to cover someone in basketball, for instance.

deathbunny

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sUKi — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 13:54:06 MST

if that becomes real i expect someone to smash the table because they got frustrated.

sUKi

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Garro — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 13:54:01 MST

@Darth Navster: That's exactly what happened to me.

Garro

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Sparx — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 13:53:03 MST

That's a game? Hmm, didn't seem like there was a point to it

Sparx

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Hauler — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 13:52:52 MST

It's really cool technologically, but obviously I don't think that in five years we will all be sitting around playing it.

Hauler

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KrsJin — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 13:52:07 MST

If it wasn't a new or cool technology, there would be no appeal to this lol. This is like hungry-hungry hippos only you don't get to smack the lever. I guess it's ok to pass the time while all hanging out at a coffee table but... >.>

KrsJin

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Ess — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 13:52:00 MST

There was simply nothing impressive about that demonstration.

Ess

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Babygames — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 13:50:39 MST

I could see a lot of people getting their fingers broken if this was in an arcade...

Babygames

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Modus_Operandi — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 13:50:36 MST

Oh yea I much rather play that then.....anything else.
There is a plus side though. When the table RROD's its still usable as a table.

Modus_Operandi

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ToKeN2k6 — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 13:50:35 MST

i don't understand, this is a sarcastic gamer video, but nothing about this is sarcastic?? It is a video showing off the REAL MS Surface and a REAL app for it...maybe Sacastic Gamer should change its name to Factual Gamer and then make stuff up, thus being inherently sarcastic...

ToKeN2k6

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Maldron — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 13:50:29 MST

@Darth Navster: Yep. Some browncoat's gonna come in here and get pissed.

Maldron

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Darth Navster — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 13:50:03 MST

Dammit. Given the title I was hoping for a game based on the prematurely killed sci-fi tv show.

Darth Navster

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dsmx — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 13:48:13 MST

Yes people the future is a big ass table.

dsmx