If motion control is a “bad joke” to you then nothing I say will make sense to you, let alone persuade you. I have played for many years on every type of controller from the single button joystick of the 2600 up to and including the current batwing MS model. And that very much includes mouse and keyboard.
To me, they all suffered from a huge flaw and that was they kept me from being a participant in the game. No matter how clever the first person camera it just didn’t work. At best I was an electronic puppet master making my pixel puppet dance on screen.
Ten minutes of Wii sport and I knew I would never even look back. Despite the cartoon graphics and opponents with no feet. I was bowling, playing tennis, not just making an electronic marionette go through the motions. If was just a beginning and far from perfect but it already was giving me more fun than the previous 30 years of gaming.
That’s what I mean about first person shooters. Having a zapper in my hand in a gimped down version of COD actually felt better to me than playing the incredibly gorgeous PC version but shooting people with a mouse, and typing a grenade at them.
But I wanted even more. I’m actually a pretty fair sword fighter having been on a collegiate team. No control system let me get this skill on the table. But motion+ will and swordfights will depend on my skill with the sword, not on my speed typing and ability to remember button combinations.
How sublime!
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