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Title: god help me, waggle improved something
Post by: Van Cruncheon on June 10, 2008, 12:25:00 AM
re4. i am actually sorta kinda enjoying it now that i don't hafta use the gamepube's godawful notched analog stick to aim, nor am i forced to play button twister with the shitty controls. it's like a little zombie shooting gallery every time i hit the b button. yay! dunno if it'll make the ashley sections any more palatable, but so far, i'm zoomin' right along, headshotting like a mofo.

man, though, talk about some stank ps2-grade image quality. ah well, i needed a little last-gen gaming to remind me how fuck awesome re5 -- note: NOT ON WII -- will be!
Title: Re: god help me, waggle improved something
Post by: Narag on June 10, 2008, 12:28:59 AM
Yeah, the aiming made an excellent game even better. The ashley sections are better as well now that you're a quick draw killing machine so she's never in any danger.
Also, I don't know what black magic they used with the quick knife attack but it always hit whatever I intended.
Title: Re: god help me, waggle improved something
Post by: Van Cruncheon on June 10, 2008, 12:30:33 AM
it's not so much the shooting that made the ashley sections annoying, it's just that i have a major aversion to anything resembling an ai escort mission.
Title: Re: god help me, waggle improved something
Post by: Narag on June 10, 2008, 12:32:05 AM
Ah, no one should ever be faulted for feeling that way. Escort missions are one of the worst things in gaming period.
Title: Re: god help me, waggle improved something
Post by: Bildi on June 10, 2008, 12:32:41 AM
Not even the Wii can ruin the best game of all time.  But seriously, it is fuck awesome with the pointer.

:bow RE4 :bow2
Title: Re: god help me, waggle improved something
Post by: brawndolicious on June 10, 2008, 12:39:44 AM
the downside is that it makes it a little easier.  it was still nearly impossible for me to beat it on Pro though.
Title: Re: god help me, waggle improved something
Post by: Crushed on June 10, 2008, 12:45:28 AM
You don't use the C-Stick to aim in the GC version.  ???


EDIT: Besides, aiming with the IR isn't "waggle."
Title: Re: god help me, waggle improved something
Post by: Van Cruncheon on June 10, 2008, 01:00:55 AM
oh that's right, because if they HAD let me aim with the c-stick I'D BE ABLE TO FUCKING STRAFE
Title: Re: god help me, waggle improved something
Post by: Grecco on June 10, 2008, 01:03:10 AM
I dont know how much ill like RE5. The controler seems like a downgrade But the "Zomg weapons" Zomg Coverz" sounds like it will play more like Gears of War

Wonder if theres a roadie run too
Title: Re: god help me, waggle improved something
Post by: brawndolicious on June 10, 2008, 01:13:58 AM
^what do you mean by cover?  you can take cover behind walls in RE5?
oh that's right, because if they HAD let me aim with the c-stick I'D BE ABLE TO FUCKING STRAFE
99% of the time, you fight in long hallways so there's no reason to strafe.
Title: Re: god help me, waggle improved something
Post by: demi on June 10, 2008, 01:20:21 AM
You don't use the C-Stick to aim in the GC version.  ???


EDIT: Besides, aiming with the IR isn't "waggle."

(http://www.gamewad.com/ul/1325-550x-resident-evil-4-wii-edition-20070413010314309.jpg)

waggle waggle
Title: Re: god help me, waggle improved something
Post by: Crushed on June 10, 2008, 01:21:12 AM
You don't use the C-Stick to aim in the GC version.  ???


EDIT: Besides, aiming with the IR isn't "waggle."

(http://www.gamewad.com/ul/1325-550x-resident-evil-4-wii-edition-20070413010314309.jpg)

waggle waggle

See, THAT'S waggle. Aiming with the pointer (which is what Drinky was talking about) isn't waggle.
Title: Re: god help me, waggle improved something
Post by: Oblivion on June 10, 2008, 01:24:10 AM
I wonder how waggle will be handled with RE5 on the 360.
Title: Re: god help me, waggle improved something
Post by: Van Cruncheon on June 10, 2008, 01:42:09 AM
it's all waggle if it uses a shitty wand and not a real controller

i created the word "waggle" and it is i that will decide its application
Title: Re: god help me, waggle improved something
Post by: Crushed on June 10, 2008, 01:43:04 AM
it's all waggle if it uses a shitty wand and not a real controller
So it's not waggle then, since it uses a NEXT-GEN controller and not shitty button mashy mashy casual controls.  :-*
Title: Re: god help me, waggle improved something
Post by: Van Cruncheon on June 10, 2008, 01:45:04 AM
there is no such thing as a "next-gen" controller

only the subtly evolving dual analog pads and dead-end novelty controllers

"next-gen" is a term only applied to graphics platforms
Title: Re: god help me, waggle improved something
Post by: duckman2000 on June 10, 2008, 01:45:17 AM
I've played through the GC version probably like 5 times by now. And now I'm tempted to buy the Wii version.  :-[
Title: Re: god help me, waggle improved something
Post by: Crushed on June 10, 2008, 01:45:54 AM
there is no such thing as a "next-gen" controller

only dual analog pads and novelty controllers

"next-gen" is a term only applied to graphics platforms
Cry more on your last gen wiggle dual stickies and button mashies.  :'(

subtle evolution: the new subtle beauty
Title: Re: god help me, waggle improved something
Post by: duckman2000 on June 10, 2008, 01:47:16 AM
there is no such thing as a "next-gen" controller

only dual analog pads and novelty controllers

"next-gen" is a term only applied to graphics platforms

I don't know, man. I really think Nintendo hit it right. Not necessarily with the motion sensing (it's far too sensitive to obstructions, for one), but by splitting the controller into two separate pieces. Nothing new really for us who favor keyboard and mouse for select game types, but it's a great solution for a home console.
Title: Re: god help me, waggle improved something
Post by: Van Cruncheon on June 10, 2008, 01:48:48 AM
i'm fine with the separation; just remove the infrared sensing and the gyroscopes, please, and kick the non-gamers out of the hobby altogether

gaming should become more obscure, not more accessible
Title: Re: god help me, waggle improved something
Post by: Crushed on June 10, 2008, 01:49:51 AM
i'm fine with the separation; just remove the infrared sensing and the gyroscopes, please, and kick the non-gamers out of the hobby altogether

gaming should become more obscure, not more accessible

Xbox 720 Xstick :bow2
PS4 PointShock :bow2
Dreamcast 2 Magi Wand :bow2
Title: Re: god help me, waggle improved something
Post by: Van Cruncheon on June 10, 2008, 01:52:06 AM
or better yet, keep the dual analog pads, and pack in a lightgun like every other novelty arcade game out there
Title: Re: god help me, waggle improved something
Post by: Crushed on June 10, 2008, 01:54:09 AM
The last struggles of a dying animal.

(http://i28.tinypic.com/eikyok.gif)
Title: Re: god help me, waggle improved something
Post by: Raban on June 10, 2008, 01:55:10 AM
Did they let you reload and move at the same time? Then they improved nothing.
Title: Re: god help me, waggle improved something
Post by: Van Cruncheon on June 10, 2008, 01:55:37 AM
that was funny back on gaf

don't recycle
Title: Re: god help me, waggle improved something
Post by: Van Cruncheon on June 10, 2008, 01:56:02 AM
Did they let you reload and move at the same time? Then they improved nothing.

no, you hold B to go into aiming mode and then jerk up

it hasn't hindered me
Title: Re: god help me, waggle improved something
Post by: duckman2000 on June 10, 2008, 01:56:34 AM
i'm fine with the separation; just remove the infrared sensing and the gyroscopes, please, and kick the non-gamers out of the hobby altogether

gaming should become more obscure, not more accessible

Yeah... watching the wife's 70-year old baptist barnacle of a father enjoy Wii Sports killed something inside me.
Title: Re: god help me, waggle improved something
Post by: Crushed on June 10, 2008, 01:56:52 AM
that was funny back on gaf

don't recycle

I needed a relevant image. How's this one?

(http://i31.tinypic.com/1118leu.jpg)
Title: Re: god help me, waggle improved something
Post by: Raban on June 10, 2008, 01:59:53 AM
Did they let you reload and move at the same time? Then they improved nothing.

no, you hold B to go into aiming mode and then jerk up

it hasn't hindered me

Fighting IT and realizing you can't reload and move simultaneously caused me to fight that guy a total of 5 times. On the cliffside with his lobster claws? You were given a whopping 2 feet of distance between you and him, and I couldn't reload and move. Smh.

Everything else about the game is beyond perfect, though, minus that lol-tastic final boss.
Title: Re: god help me, waggle improved something
Post by: Narag on June 10, 2008, 02:00:22 AM
Is drinky your EB Amirox, Crushed?
Title: Re: god help me, waggle improved something
Post by: Van Cruncheon on June 10, 2008, 02:02:49 AM
i am the enemy of all ninthings and their nostalgia-addled inclusive gaming ways
Title: Re: god help me, waggle improved something
Post by: Bildi on June 10, 2008, 02:03:55 AM
I've played through the GC version probably like 5 times by now. And now I'm tempted to buy the Wii version.  :-[

I was in a similar boat, and wasn't sure if I'd want to play RE4 yet again in spite of how much I loved it.  Then I received RE4 Wii as a gift - and I realised I was crazy not to get it sooner. 

I don't think you'll regret it if you do pick it up.
Title: Re: god help me, waggle improved something
Post by: Narag on June 10, 2008, 02:04:39 AM
He always wanted Drinky to be his nemesis on GAF, unfortunately Drinky owned him so hard the first time he tried, no one ever took his jabs seriously again.

I give him credit for even trying, though.

I remember now. I like him as a poster but he has a nasty habit of trying to build an archnemesis.
Title: Re: god help me, waggle improved something
Post by: Bildi on June 10, 2008, 02:06:57 AM
If you punch a celebrity, sometimes glitter sticks to your fist.

But if you miss, you look like a twat.

Or something.
Title: Re: god help me, waggle improved something
Post by: Crushed on June 10, 2008, 02:09:42 AM
Did they let you reload and move at the same time? Then they improved nothing.

no, you hold B to go into aiming mode and then jerk up

it hasn't hindered me

Fighting IT and realizing you can't reload and move simultaneously caused me to fight that guy a total of 5 times. On the cliffside with his lobster claws? You were given a whopping 2 feet of distance between you and him, and I couldn't reload and move. Smh.

Everything else about the game is beyond perfect, though, minus that lol-tastic final boss.
http://fromearth.net/LetsPlay/RE4/chapter45.html

Quote
(http://fromearth.net/LetsPlay/RE4/Update%2045/Skysoblue24.jpg)

 “Are you going to turn into a monster like the last three of your subordinates did?”
“It…it’s a really big monster…”
*sighs*


And I attempt to be no man's nemesis. I merely spread the truth in the darkest corners of the... darkness.
Title: Re: god help me, waggle improved something
Post by: duckman2000 on June 10, 2008, 02:11:58 AM
On the upside, Prole, you could always argue that the original control scheme was so far in the dumps that the Wii had nowhere to take it but up.
Title: Re: god help me, waggle improved something
Post by: Van Cruncheon on June 10, 2008, 02:12:58 AM
actually, that's precisely what i feel
Title: Re: god help me, waggle improved something
Post by: Oblivion on June 10, 2008, 02:14:32 AM
He always wanted Drinky to be his nemesis on GAF, unfortunately Drinky owned him so hard the first time he tried, no one ever took his jabs seriously again.

Crush is a pretty decent chap, but That WAS a fairly awesome ownage.
Title: Re: god help me, waggle improved something
Post by: Crushed on June 10, 2008, 02:15:00 AM
He always wanted Drinky to be his nemesis on GAF, unfortunately Drinky owned him so hard the first time he tried, no one ever took his jabs seriously again.

Crush is a pretty decent chap, but That WAS a fairly awesome ownage.
I only vaguely remember this.
Title: Re: god help me, waggle improved something
Post by: demi on June 10, 2008, 02:18:18 AM
can you just hurry up and beat the game already, this thread is GAY
Title: Re: god help me, waggle improved something
Post by: Van Cruncheon on June 10, 2008, 02:19:22 AM
yeah, it's getting a bit homosexual in here

anyway, i got ashley, she's still a dumb cunt, can't wait until i get somewhere interesting
Title: Re: god help me, waggle improved something
Post by: Crushed on June 10, 2008, 02:19:41 AM
yeah, it's getting a bit homosexual in here

anyway, i got ashley, she's still a dumb cunt, can't wait until i get somewhere interesting

LEEEEEYON

HALLLP
Title: Re: god help me, waggle improved something
Post by: recursivelyenumerable on June 10, 2008, 02:19:57 AM
Quote
i'm fine with the separation; just remove the infrared sensing and the gyroscopes, please, and kick the non-gamers out of the hobby altogether

gaming should become more obscure, not more accessible

how does motion sensing make games less obscure and more accessible?   doesn't adding more independently sensed axes allow designers to make control schemes MORE complex, sophisticated and esoteric than before?  I've never understood how 10 or 11DOF is supposed to be simpler than 4DOF.
Title: Re: god help me, waggle improved something
Post by: Van Cruncheon on June 10, 2008, 02:23:10 AM
because it isn't sensitive or effective enough to make that freedom usable in a gaming context

hence we are given "aim" and "waggle" and 40% less buttons and the opportunity to provide the gestural controls that entice shitty non-gamers into the hobby instead of the alienating orthodoxy of cold hard inhuman button presses and thumbstick actions
Title: Re: god help me, waggle improved something
Post by: Hollywood on June 10, 2008, 02:38:55 AM
About time you finally realize its the superior console.
Title: Re: god help me, waggle improved something
Post by: Raban on June 10, 2008, 10:11:54 AM
(http://fromearth.net/LetsPlay/RE4/Update%2045/Skysoblue24.jpg)

 “Are you going to turn into a monster like the last three of your subordinates did?”
“It…it’s a really big monster…”
*sighs*

LMFAO.
Title: Re: god help me, waggle improved something
Post by: Van Cruncheon on June 10, 2008, 03:44:00 PM
i could never grok the gc controls, with all the trigger holding and then slow aiming and then pressing another button and argh. i got about halfway through the game and said NOT FUN. DUAL STICKS PLEASE.

with the wii, i just headshot/legshot through everything, and then throw a bunch of boots to ganado heads, next area, rinse and repeat

wii version has worse image quality than the ps2 version, though, which is quite an accomplishment

and aiiieeee the textures :-X
Title: Re: god help me, waggle improved something
Post by: Narag on June 10, 2008, 04:02:04 PM
I really wouldn't mind another wii RE based around Leon and this control scheme. It'd need to be balanced for the fast aiming though.
Title: Re: god help me, waggle improved something
Post by: Positive Touch on June 10, 2008, 04:33:17 PM
i understand the textures being old shit, but worse than ps2?  ps2 had shittier models everywhere, and it looked like i had taken out my contacts and replaced them with mud.  i haven't been able to play the game again since i forced myself to play through that shit version.
Title: Re: god help me, waggle improved something
Post by: AdmiralViscen on June 10, 2008, 04:34:55 PM
PS2 has 24 bit color.
Title: Re: god help me, waggle improved something
Post by: Rman on June 10, 2008, 04:55:02 PM
PS2 has 24 bit color.

So does the GameCu *coughs* Wii.

It has to do with the Wii's video output, which is even worse than the GCN, apparently.
Title: Re: god help me, waggle improved something
Post by: AdmiralViscen on June 10, 2008, 04:57:17 PM
No, 16.
Title: Re: god help me, waggle improved something
Post by: Rman on June 10, 2008, 05:04:34 PM
Gamecube/Wii?

Wiki says 24 for the GCN.
Title: Re: god help me, waggle improved something
Post by: hyp on June 10, 2008, 05:08:12 PM
waggle improved my wrist strength.  now i can jackoff as furiously as a nintard during SSBB cutscenes.
Title: Re: god help me, waggle improved something
Post by: EmCeeGrammar on June 11, 2008, 01:23:43 AM
The ''waggle'' in RE4 isnt great. I killed merchants multiple times by shifting in my seat. Cranks were a nightmare. Not as bad as Zack and Wiki cranks but still frustrating.

One of these days youll admit to liking IR pointing. Its the best thing about wii.
Title: Re: god help me, waggle improved something
Post by: Bildi on June 11, 2008, 01:32:30 AM
RE with dual analog?  No tank controls?  That's the sort of thing a non-gamer would say.

:bow Tank controls :bow2
Title: Re: god help me, waggle improved something
Post by: Van Cruncheon on June 11, 2008, 01:38:22 AM

One of these days youll admit to liking IR pointing. Its the best thing about wii.

i like it inasmuch as i like packed-in light guns: as an occasional novelty, and NOT as a core control offering.
Title: Re: god help me, waggle improved something
Post by: Van Cruncheon on June 11, 2008, 01:38:47 AM
RE with dual analog?  No tank controls?  That's the sort of thing a non-gamer would say.

:bow Tank controls :bow2

how can anyone enjoy tank controls
Title: Re: god help me, waggle improved something
Post by: recursivelyenumerable on June 11, 2008, 01:46:10 AM
I always liked the RE controls.  Limitations are what games are all about.
Title: Re: god help me, waggle improved something
Post by: EmCeeGrammar on June 11, 2008, 01:49:08 AM

One of these days youll admit to liking IR pointing. Its the best thing about wii.

i like it inasmuch as i like packed-in light guns: as an occasional novelty, and NOT as a core control offering.

Its not like a lightgun very much at all.
Lets say nunchuck setup was standard. Dpad, 1, and 2 buttons removed. Replaced with 4 button diamond and the b trigger. Accelerometers removed. IR remains. Call it a potential new xbox controller.

Whats objectionable? Why would you opt for no ir with this hypothetical controller?
Title: Re: god help me, waggle improved something
Post by: Bildi on June 11, 2008, 01:55:55 AM
RE with dual analog?  No tank controls?  That's the sort of thing a non-gamer would say.

:bow Tank controls :bow2

how can anyone enjoy tank controls

I think it goes hand in hand with the slow pacing of survival horror (what little of it remains in RE4 anyway). A dual analog 3rd person shooter is really a different type of game.

Tank controls work well in RE whether fixed camera or RE4-style.  I understand not everyone likes them but if so, there are many dual analog 3rd person shooters around already.
Title: Re: god help me, waggle improved something
Post by: CajoleJuice on June 11, 2008, 02:10:19 AM
Tank controls are so fucking bad. I'm with Prole on this. I really did not enjoy RE4 as much as most people because of how shitty they are.
Title: Re: god help me, waggle improved something
Post by: Bildi on June 11, 2008, 02:16:52 AM
So you guys are totally uninterested in RE5 as a result I guess?

It is a shame that the controls a hurdle for some, especially if you like the games otherwise.
Title: Re: god help me, waggle improved something
Post by: CajoleJuice on June 11, 2008, 02:20:18 AM
I never liked RE until 4. I'm not uninterested -- I still enjoyed RE4. I just didn't think it was a revelation like a lot of gamers.
Title: Re: god help me, waggle improved something
Post by: Positive Touch on June 11, 2008, 02:21:31 AM
RE2 on N64 actually lets you use "regular" controls if you want to, and it's fucking horrible.  The static backgrounds in most PS1 games just did not work well with a typical control scheme.  Tank controls took a bit of getting used to, but it was still easy enough to master them (especially after quick-turns came into the picture).  Nowadays, I don't I could do without them.  Newer games that use them like RE4 and Godhand just move too fast to make the controls ideal, and you end up feeling hindered while you play.
Title: Re: god help me, waggle improved something
Post by: Bildi on June 11, 2008, 02:45:22 AM
I agree regarding that the faster action of RE4 plus tank controls presented a new challenge -  I guess I viewed it as a mechanic of the game that had to be learned and exploited.

You certainly have to be mindful of your position in relation to enemies, which was not so much the case in previous REs.

I never liked RE until 4. I'm not uninterested -- I still enjoyed RE4. I just didn't think it was a revelation like a lot of gamers.

That's fair enough.