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this is what i have too. this seems like it should be easy to fix, pretty necessary too...Originally posted by sirfunusa:
I am able to exit to the XBox Dashboard using the 45-degree Kinect gesture, but it warns me "Any unsaved game data will be lost". Each day I have to retake the Fitness Test, even though I've started into the next activity each time.
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I just got this game two days ago but I've had this same problem.
I sprained my ankle a couple of months ago and have been unable to ambulate, let alone exercise. Because of this (and because I'm a couch potato) I have been unable to finish the entire fifteen minutes straight of jumping around.
The first time I used the game I was under the impression that I had completed the initial fitness test since it asked me if I was satisfied or if I wanted to do it again. I selected "satisfied" since it wasn't too bad; although I barely made it through a few of the lunges. Then, I played some of the games and was unable to figure out how to exit (the entire GAME not the one activity). I tried everything I could think of. Putting your hand out at a 45 degree angle only pauses it and brings up a menu which does NOT include anything about exiting the game. Only "resume" and "select another activity". No exit. I found this extremely frustrating and ended up just shutting the console off in order to get out of the game. Not a real slick way to get out of such an innovative game.
The next time I played the game it had me do the fitness test over again. Apparently it didn't save it? It saved all of my data, such as age, weight, etc... but not the initial fitness test that I said I was satisfied with.
So, today, my second time playing, I (reluctantly) redid the fitness test and did not notice it saving at any point (you know it's saving when there are three white blocks in the bottom right hand corner of the screen which turn green to show progress). It may have done it but I didn't notice. So, afraid that I'd have to redo the test again I went ahead and selected one of the easiest looking activities ("nice and easy") hoping that at some point it would save and I could quit. OH MY GOSH! After months of no activity and an injured ankle...after the fitness test I was about done but this first activity was approximately 15 minutes straight of jumping on my barely healed ankle; six sets of three different exercises per set(approximately 15 - 18 repetitions, I don't remember exactly). Needless to say (I'm not completely stupid) when it became painful, instead of shutting off the game (for fear I'd lose any progress thus far) I just ran out the clock, sometimes getting 0% accuracy because I was sitting in the middle of the square doing nothing. It finally did save, but not until AFTER all six sets were completed!
Apparently the game ONLY auto-saves your progress at the END of an entire activity. You cannot save your progress manually and therefore you cannot continue where you left off. If you quit before the activity is completely finished you lose any information...including calories burned, I suppose (but don't know for sure).
I was still unable to figure out a way to exit the game without the use of the controller. The best way I found was to wake up the controller and then hit the large silver button in the middle of the controller once; NOT hold it in. That brings you to the xbox guide and to the dashboard. If you hold down the button it shuts off the controller or the console. You don't have to go that far.
This would be my main complaint about this game right from the start...and for such an innovative game I think it's kind of pathetic to leave off such a basic feature as an exit and a way to save what little progress you might actually have accomplished. You're trapped in the session and cannot get out without losing all your progress. Pretty lame if you ask me.
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I had the same issue with the fitness test. I have done the fitness test three times. What eventually worked for me was to actually select a personal training program and do take my first session with that program.
My guess is that the fitness program is a prerequisite for selecting a personal training program, and if you exit the game after completing the test, but before selecting a program, it does not consider that process "complete".
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I only wonder why people want to exit to the xbox dashboard so badly. Before Kinect, you had to press the Guide button, then press the yellow button and confirm that you wanted to exit to the dashboard (= press green button).
With Kinect, there are no buttons. So the Guide gesture brings you to an IN-GAME menu which gives you several options, among them an option to bring up the Xbox Kinect Guide which lets you exit the game and return to the dashboard. This is true for ANY Kinect game, and a requirement made by Microsoft.
So, there's no "quick and hands-free exit to the dashboard"-option
The real question is: "what do you want to do after you exit the game?"
Do you ...
- ... want to turn the console off?
Just push the power button on the console or use a remote to do so. You don't have to exit the game to turn the console off safely (I usually make sure I'm not in a training session/game, then turn it off).
- ... want to start another game from disc?
Press the disc drive open button (or use the remote to do so). Again, make sure you're not inside a session, or you will loose your progress
- ... want to start another game from the hard drive/usb memory drive?
Since you have to use the controller to do so, you have two options:
a) Guide => Left => Quick Launch => Select Game
b) if your game is not in list a) Guide => Yellow Button (Y) => Select Yes, confirm with Green Button (A)
- ... go to the dashboard to do other stuff than the above
a) using no controller/remote: do guide gesture => select option named "Kinect Guide" => select "Kinect Hub" => confirm
b) using a controller/remote: Guide => Yellow Button (Y) => Select Yes, confirm with Green Button (A)
I think that covers it all. This is a console game, running on a console. Consoles were designed originally to run just a game, all that other multimedia stuff (movies, music and so on) was tacked on later on. But to play games, you put in a disc, play, swap the disc (without going back to the dashboard), play, turn it off. I understand why get the idea they have to end the game first, when you have to do stuff like this on every computer/notebook before shutting it down. But here, it's really not necessary. Just don cut the power when the game is writing your savegame!
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We want to save our current progress and get out of "Your Shape" and back to the main xbox menu. Lets just say it gives us a feeling of closure to actually EXIT the game. Plus, we don't like redoing things we've already done unless we WANT to redo it. Options are great.Originally posted by ToastedSoul:
I only wonder why people want to exit to the xbox dashboard so badly.
As always, AFTER I posted my lengthy explanation of my problem, I explained it to my 16 year old...she told me about pause, Kinect Guide, Kinect Hub, Exit game.
I should have known that without even ever playing the game she'd know how to work it! From now on my answer is: "Ask someone under the age of 25" lol.
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Definitely not the best design, but unfortunately a lot of Xbox games require bringing up the console controls to exit. Kinect just adds to the difficulty.Originally posted by Capslock177:
As a game dev myself, this is extremely poor UI design. There should 100% absolutely be a EXIT the game button.
Not sure how this made it past QA. Very basic.
I do software QA for a living and this has very little to do with QA, it's just poor design by the user experience designer -- they have the last say.
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