EdGuila said:
I loved my DS like yourself, until I finished my first game New Super Mario Bros. Lots of games on the DS that had potential ruined themselves with the touch screen gimmick. Firstly, the touch screen is in the middle; what does that mean? You got to stretch your thumb from the comfortable edges near the buttons on the right all the way to the middle. They expect you to play more than 20 minutes? I played Metroid Prime Hunters and the whole time I had to hold my thumb 4" to the centre of the touch screens. PSP has buttons which are convientaly located where?? Where you'd natural put your thumbs. Imagine playing n64 but inside of using the analog stick by using your left hand to hold it from the center, put your left hand and hold it from the N64 controller from left and then stretch your thumb to the middle and try using the analog stick on the N64 that way and you'll know why I mean. PSP is way more ergonomical. You are expected to control lots of things with the touch screen?? I'll explain using Metroid again. It's been a year since someone blessed me by offering me $100 to take my DS away from me but if my memory serves me right, jump, roll into ball, shoot, change weapon are all on the screen along with direction. What does this mean? You got to control all that except you can't feel what you are pressing. On a PSP I can easily tell where my finger is because I can feel the buttons. On a DS I'd moving using the touch screen for direction and then all of a sudden Samus would jump, roll or turn into a ball, why? Because since I can't feel what I'm pressing, I had no idea my thumb was at the border of "move" and passed over into "roll" and screwed me over. You shouldn't have to look at the controller if the game has good controls; your eyes should be on the playing screen, but if you can't see them or feel them how are you supposed to get a feel for it? Every game has a different layout of moves on the touch screen so it's like mixing the buttons around for every game. On a PSP you always know where the buttons are. For shooters the PSP offers you 4 socom games, killzone, metal gear, syphon filters and many PS1 shooters you can download for dirt cheap and play using a real control scheme. Sonic Rush was the worst visual experience since my friend let me try his Virtual Boy. One minute he is on the top screen then goes down a hill and he pop up in the bottom screen. I've been playing video games on one screen for the past 20 years, naturally every time Sonic shifted screens(every 10 seconds) I'd spend 1.5 seconds focusing my eyes on the dramatic spontaneous positions he'd end up in, now I'm up, now I'm down game play. PSP offered me Genesis collection. 12 Genesis games including a bunch of sonic. The sonic games that defined the hedgehog not the crap they've been making since 2001. Star Fox same idea as Metroid Prime if I remember correctly. Except buttons are in different places and you got to do things on your touch screen that hardly make sense to fly the airplane. Slash from corner to corner means do a hairpin??? Make a clock wise o-shape means decend, counter clock wise o-shape means ascend??? Uhh....yeah....no thanks, I'd rather use the nub on the PSP and tilt it up and down. I'd rather play Ace Combat. I have Mario 64, Yoshi's Island already on N64 and SNES and haven't played either in 12 years so I could justify buying them. Wario Ware is the worst game I played on the DS. Mario and Luigi break dance and I'm supposed to move my stylus in the same style....um yeah not that fun. I'd rather play Daxter, Clank, platforms from PSN, Rachet. Other games I borrowed were point and click games *yawn*. I'll bring up one, Lost in Blue. You are on an island. Click on bush. Food or no food? Food! Eat it or don't eat it? Eat it! That's fun for 15 minutes. Lost in Blue was the boringest piece of software I played on the DS. I'd rather play GTA stories games or jean d'arc. There is quite a bit of side scrollers from PS1 days and older games that I can download on my PSP. Music is a bonus however I already have a 6GB Sansa which serves me well enough. That new video service on PSN is the fatality for the DS for me. Games I never got to try were Kirby but judging from the torture I had to go through with the other games from developers trying to capitalize on the double screen and touch. I decided to have the DS taken from my hands ASAP before getting a chance to play it. My friend I was going to school with project/study partner kept his long enough till Zelda came out and he let me try it. Press on the screen where you want link to go? What the hell was wrong with just guiding his direction? Even using the touch screen Metroid style was better. Played Dead Monster or something I forget the games name but it sucked big time. Mario Kart DS was boring unless you were playing against another person. I bought my DS to play during my bus wait and ride to school and to play over those 4 hour breaks at school and to take a rest from my 6 hour in the library studying and working on assignments and projects. %80 I was played solo. Need for Speed series on the PSP would of been waaaaaaay funner. Also the link feature failed %80 of the time for more graphically intense games like Metroid and me and my classmate were taking a break from studying right next to each other. Either the DS wireless sucks or on of ours had a defect. Mario wireless link games were you had to pretend to inflate ballons worked fine though. I have a PS2 and PS3 but you cannot call me a PS fan boy given I bought the DS over the PSP because the price was cheaper, I like the protective clam shell design and PSP had yet to be slimmed down and still weighed alot, games "looked funner", touch screen had me curious. But that is my DS horror story.
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Wonderful: Glad we could turn this thread into an anti-DS tirade. Anybody else want to join Ed's support group of recovering DS users?
