I blame WiiFit.

No, it's actually an innovation for GAMING.  Not just consoles.

Mouse and keyboard wasn't an evolution or a revolution or anything special.  FPS games were created on the PC, where mouse and keyboard were the expected controls.

Dual-analog WAS NOT a revolution.  It was a slight (expected) upgrade from one analog and the C-pad of the N64 controller.  The C buttons in GoldenEye replaced the WASD of PC shooters, and basically served as a wonky joystick.  You had 8 directions including 2 buttons at a time.  Yes, the mouse and keyboard combo was more efficient, but the analog and C-pad of GoldenEye was the control scheme that gave FPS games a fighting chance at all on consoles, and that was on a Nintendo console mind you.

The C-Pad growing into an analog stick wasn't 1% the innovation that the D-Pad growing into an analog stick was.

There have been very few innovations in FPS gameplay as it is.  The first one was the change from 2-D to 3-D.  Wolfenstein and Doom were 2-D if you looked at a top-down map.  You couldn't aim up and down.  Quake was the first game to use 3-D models instead of pre-rendered sprites (only a graphical upgrade, not a gameplay enhancement), and the first game to use true 3-D as opposed to 2-D with height information rendered in 3-D (an actual gameplay enhancement, because it adds a new dimension of aiming).

SINCE WOLFENSTEIN'S KEYBOARD/MOUSE COMBO, the first CONTROL REVOLUTION of the FPS genre was Metroid Prime: Hunters on the DS.  The next was supposed to be Red Steel.  It was ambitious as balls, but fucked up with shitty swordplay and overall sloppy presentation and design (but hilarious story and dialogue).  Metroid Prime 3: Corruption got it right and it's already being followed by other Wii shooters.  You're right in saying that a mouse and keyboard is just about the same as a Wii remote and nunchuck, but here's the difference: if I'm on the Wii, I get to POINT AND SHOOT, at my actual enemies, on the screen in front of me, moving my hand in 3-D space in the real world, and if I'm on the PC, I'm moving my hand on a horizontal plane next to my screen, to control a vertical plane in front of me.  Guess which one is closer to POINTING AND SHOOTING in real life. 

Now we have 2 new ways to play FPS games: with a stylus, D-Pad, and L button, or with an IR pointer, analog stick, and a few buttons.  Thank Nintendo for both.

I'm talking control innovations only here.  Keyboard and mouse is finally getting a challenge.  I'm sure you don't care since you're such a PC elitist, so I'm sure keyboard and mouse will still be good enough for you in 20 years when we're all plugged into crazy virtual reality headsets anyway.

Ghost:  Heh, I'm not PC elitist, I just acknowledge that keyboard/mouse is the best control for FPS. Adding keyboard/mouse to consoles is more important to me than having more shooters on Wii.

I played both MoH:H2 and MP3, and those were not as accurate as keyboard/mouse. oh, throw in RE:UC, which I beat. It might be closer to actually pointing and shooting in real life, but it is NOT direct pointing and shooting. You are constantly aware that pointing at a spot on the TV doesn't necessarily mean that's where the cursor will be. It's still relative motion, like a mouse. It all depends on where the sensor picks up the Wiimote IR.

Dude, don't you know? Everything in the future will use the board, just like everything now uses the Wiimote...

Wii remote + nunchuck + balance board = the future of FPS gaming



Your days are numbered, HD/analog homeboys...

Ghost: isn't your sig too long? I got a message awhile ago saying mine had to be shortened so that it didn't go below the date of the post when you just have a 1-line post. Then again, it's all about the Wii so perhaps the mods...n/m... =)

fkusumot said: RolStoppable said: fkusumot said: Really? I blame OkeyDokey then. You're going to be hurting Rol, when F-Zero comes with Balance Board controls. You've got to be joking. No way that F-Zero will be played with the Balance Board. Some things just don't work and Nintendo knows this. Foot pedals. Acceleration and braking. Maybe it will be optional.

sure, like the Wiimote and Brawl. 

gamers who really think things like the balance board can enhance "hardcore" gaming experiences are way too optimistic. maybe there'll be a few exceptions, like skateboard games.

most likely implementations to incorporate them into games will be clunky at best. i don't mind to be surprised though!