Just got Uncharted

[jman8]

Profcrab said:

 

rant

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.

/rant

 I completely disagree about Folklore. I think it has the best motion implementation of any PS3 game with Heavenly Sword being a close second. I thought the boss battles in Folklore were somewhat like God of War except that instead of pressing some button combination to finish the boss off, you're using motion controls in a really satisfying way.