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General => Video Game Bored => Topic started by: pilonv1 on May 20, 2008, 02:17:27 AM

Title: Imagine a platformer with the shittiest controls ever
Post by: pilonv1 on May 20, 2008, 02:17:27 AM

sup lost winds.

Making me jump via the remote is stupid enough, but making it so I have to precisely make movements UNDER my character to perform double/triple "gusts" (jumps) is distinguished mentally-challenged. The idea is interesting, but the execution is a epic fail.

Still it looks better and is more fun than Boom Blox, and about 1/4 of the price so it's not all bad.

Title: Re: Imagine a platformer with the shittiest controls ever
Post by: demi on May 20, 2008, 02:18:49 AM

You dun fucked up

Title: Re: Imagine a platformer with the shittiest controls ever
Post by: pilonv1 on May 20, 2008, 02:20:26 AM

i dun, thanks blue. :-*

Title: Re: Imagine a platformer with the shittiest controls ever
Post by: Bildi on May 20, 2008, 02:34:38 AM

You're not enjoying Boom Blox? :(  I don't have it but wanted to get it one day when it's cheaper.

Sorry, I have no idea what Lost Winds is - I saw a long thread on GAF but I didn't really care enough to read it.  I wish developers would stop using sudden flicking and shaking of the wiimote or nunchuk for so many things.  It sucks.

Title: Re: Imagine a platformer with the shittiest controls ever
Post by: gibletsngravy on May 20, 2008, 02:45:34 AM

Imagine: Platformingz

Title: Re: Imagine a platformer with the shittiest controls ever
Post by: recursivelyenumerable on May 20, 2008, 07:38:15 AM

you're right: waggling doesn't make things simpler, it makes things more complex, obviously.  because it gives you more dimensions of control, 6 axes (or 11 including the nunchuck) instead of 2 or 4.  the more dimensions, the more potentially intricate the controls.   that's why I like the concept of waggle, because complex sophisticated games > simple games.

Title: Re: Imagine a platformer with the shittiest controls ever
Post by: pilonv1 on May 20, 2008, 07:44:52 AM

the problem is that the wii remote is great for sweeping motions that require zero accuracy. anytime you're using it as a precise pointing device it fails miserably

Title: Re: Imagine a platformer with the shittiest controls ever
Post by: pilonv1 on May 20, 2008, 07:53:58 AM

Anyone who's played a reasonable amount of time on a PC game would laugh at the suggestion that the Wii Remote is precise.

Title: Re: Imagine a platformer with the shittiest controls ever
Post by: demi on May 20, 2008, 07:54:25 AM

Nobody should pay for this crap. Buy Zeruda and use Twilight Hack.

Title: Re: Imagine a platformer with the shittiest controls ever
Post by: tiesto on May 20, 2008, 07:57:49 AM

Lost Winds has nice graphics and serene music, the control isn't bad (if you try and play the game a bit like Canvas Curse), but the slow pace and backtracking is making this game a bit of a chore to play.  :-\

Title: Re: Imagine a platformer with the shittiest controls ever
Post by: Bildi on May 20, 2008, 07:09:37 PM

I do like the pointer best of all about the Wii.  It's no mouse but I prefer it to moving a cursor around with an analog stick and it works well in RE4, RE:UC and Metroid.

The motion control is good too when used right, but flicking and also pushing the remote forwards in space are the crappiest uses of it so far.