rocketpig said:
I hate it because it's superfluous. There's no reason for it and it jars me out of what I was doing with the analog sticks. While the grenades aren't quite as bad, they still bug me. I really don't want to stop and worry about my controller position in the middle of a firefight when it's far more effective to just slap the right analog up to get the desired effect. I need to check to see if I can turn them off but I want to see if there are other implementations later in the game that don't bother me quite as much. So far in the PS3 world, Heavenly Sword is the only game where I thought the motion controls were well done. Every other game I have played with motion controls felt as if they were tacked on because the Sixaxis had that feature, not because they added to gameplay. |
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My current opinion is that motion controls are one of the worst features of the PS3. I have nothing but unreserved loathing for what developers have included in PS3 games to take advantage of this "Next Gen Feature". For every halfway decent implementation like Heavenly Sword, there are several games with motion controls tacked onto them like an extra fake breast surgically attached to Jessica Alba's neck. I'm not saying motion control is the devil, I'm just saying that it is really detracting from the gameplay of many PS3 games.
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Take Folklore. I like Folklore. It had a good story and decent gameplay for the most part. The process needed to rip Ids from many larger folk, however, amounts to a minigame that rips you out of the action of the game. I still liked the game, overall, but the motion controls did more to annoy me than anything else.
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I was ok with the steering of the dragons in Lair until they did the same thing and tacked on those stupid fucking motion control minigames. The only time I want to make jerk off motions with my hand for long periods of time is when I am actually jerking off.
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Thankfully in Ratchet and Clank, they kept the motion controls to a minimum.
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The Wii took the motion control idea and ran with it. They designed everything around it and it works great and makes the system something truely different and entertaining. On the PS3, it is like an extra steering wheel to control the back wheels on a car. Maybe something cool can be done with it, but most of the time its just flat fucking useless.
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