"The Conduit is generic"

[Shanobi]

Torillian said:

I have played with a mouse, and usually the aiming reticule remains steady in the center while the mouse turns you, this allows for fast turning based on how quickly you move the mouse, while you can still shoot. With a Wiimote the situation is different, turning depends on you pointing at a certain part of the screen, I would suspect that this would make turning and shooting more difficult on the Wii than on the PC or the gamepad. For certain games this works fine, such as RE4 since the console version doesn't allow you to strafe anyway and you always have to stand still before you shoot, but other games such as Unreal Tournament where turning has to be extremely fast and precise it would be a detriment.  This, coupled with the fact that noone holds a wiimote as steadily as they do a mouse, and I think the difference between the mouse and Wiimote are much greater than you are assuming.

I don't think the Wiimote is better in all FPS situation as you seem to think, I believe the two are just different, and which you prefer will simply come down to preference and particular situation.

 

You seem to forget that the FPS games on Wii, all that I've played, feature one button that will lock the screen as well, allowing you to point anywhere on the screen without looking in any direction. Add to that adjusting the size of the aiming window, and you can have precision of any kind you want.

 

I'm somebody who is an elitest snob when it comes to FPS games. I won't touch that dual analogue crap. PC has always whipped the shit out of it, and anybody who says otherwise would get slaugtered in any match where they'd go up against a mouse and keyboard, with dual analog. That said, the Wii is at least equal to the mouse and keyboard to me. Tearing people up online has never been so easy, or fun. If you can aim a gun in real life that is.

 

If you have no sense of aim, I guess you're screwed. (But hey, we're all playing games aiming with guns, so this is the natural progression of things.)

 

Next gen: Head tracking, and movements based on things like the Wii Balance board!

 

The future is going to rock. (And if you can't let go of dual analog, enjoy your rocking chairs and commence whittling.)