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will motion controls ever appeal to the core?

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oniyide on 20 May 2013
curl-6 said:
oniyide said:

thats still piss poor support though, cant really spin that, i know you dont care and are satisfied with one game, but i assure most people arent. Which is why motion+ gets so much flak, we should have been ass deep in games with how much are out there, its sad that their are less Move and Kinects but they have more games. I think you are letting your Ninty bias cloud your judgement a bit, you would say Zelda was better motion controls or not.

Not just one game; Wii Sports Resort and Red Steel 2 were excellent as well, even if they're not gold tier like Zelda.

Motion plus did have poor support, I never denied that. But so did Move and Kinect. They may have gotten more games, but they never got a truly great game like Skyward Sword.

And how am I being biased?

Sports resort is not exactly a "core" game. Red Steel 2 sold terribly that was a core game to the...core. Leads me to believe that most of core gamers havent really taken to motion controls. or it would have done better IMHO. 'gold tier' thats what im talking about right their, you have a bias for Zelda which isnt really bad, but would you not have bought the game if it had NO motion controls? I think you would have and lookng at the reception and sales for that game its not like the motion controls really did anything for it, some could argue that is actually hurt its sales. Again your using Skyward Sword objectively when you should be using it subjectively, YOU believe that those games on Kinect and Move were not as good as others, doesnt make it true I would say that Portal 2 and Bioshock Infinite are just as good if not better and considering you didnt play the latter...



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archbrix on 21 May 2013
NinjaguyDan said:
EVERY TIME I play a fps on the 360 I wish I could use the WII pointer controls.

Same here.



TripleMMM on 21 May 2013

No, but I was a believer after I tried the motion controllers.



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curl-6 on 21 May 2013
oniyide said:
curl-6 said:
oniyide said:

thats still piss poor support though, cant really spin that, i know you dont care and are satisfied with one game, but i assure most people arent. Which is why motion+ gets so much flak, we should have been ass deep in games with how much are out there, its sad that their are less Move and Kinects but they have more games. I think you are letting your Ninty bias cloud your judgement a bit, you would say Zelda was better motion controls or not.

Not just one game; Wii Sports Resort and Red Steel 2 were excellent as well, even if they're not gold tier like Zelda.

Motion plus did have poor support, I never denied that. But so did Move and Kinect. They may have gotten more games, but they never got a truly great game like Skyward Sword.

And how am I being biased?

Sports resort is not exactly a "core" game. Red Steel 2 sold terribly that was a core game to the...core. Leads me to believe that most of core gamers havent really taken to motion controls. or it would have done better IMHO. 'gold tier' thats what im talking about right their, you have a bias for Zelda which isnt really bad, but would you not have bought the game if it had NO motion controls? I think you would have and lookng at the reception and sales for that game its not like the motion controls really did anything for it, some could argue that is actually hurt its sales. Again your using Skyward Sword objectively when you should be using it subjectively, YOU believe that those games on Kinect and Move were not as good as others, doesnt make it true I would say that Portal 2 and Bioshock Infinite are just as good if not better and considering you didnt play the latter...

You said I was "satisfied by one game". WSR and RS2 also satisfied me, so no, it wasn't just Zelda. I wouldn't have been satisfied by just Zelda.

And I'm biased because I like Zelda? Come on.

Lacking motion controls would certainly have made me far less interested in Skyward Sword. They were one of its main draws.

Skyward Sword's sales weren't lower because it used motion controls. (Twilight Princess sold nearly 7 million with motion controls) but because it required an add-on, released at the end of the system's life, and its cartoonish style turned off some gamers.

And there is no objective measurement of a game's quality. It's ALL subjective.



curl-6 on 21 May 2013
archbrix said:
NinjaguyDan said:
EVERY TIME I play a fps on the 360 I wish I could use the WII pointer controls.

Same here.

Amen.

After the pointer controls of games like Metroid Prime 3, dual analogue feels so slow and clunky.



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Jay520 on 21 May 2013
bananaking21 said:
Jay520 said:
Op, please define "core gamer"


the type of gamer who buys video games on a rather constant basis, one who has a genuine interest in video games. the type of gamer who has been interested in video games for a while and will continue to do so. the gamer who plays games because he is intersted in them not because they are the latest fad



Then I would say the answer to your question is: its already happened.

cmeese47 on 21 May 2013

I am a core gamer and I like motion controls. I think the wii and kinect have made dance games a lot better although I did enjoy some old DDR. I love Wii Sports and probably play it more than any other Wii game currently. I also really liked sports champions, the wii mote for rails shooters and a few other examples.

I have also hated a lot more motion controls than I have liked, but yes the core can enjoy them if done well.