gear.ign.com— With all the commotion surrounding the Wii and PS3 controllers at E3, it's hard not to get the feeling that motion tracking is the only new controller innovation out there.
May 18, 2006View in Crawl 4
It's as simple as this; some games are best played with a control while others are best played with a mouse and keyboard. I personally don't like trackballs since they wear you down (the joints in your thumb start hurting after a while). Trackballs lack precision and spatial acquaintance which is essential for gaming; for exzmple, how much do you have to roll the ball to, say, turn 35° to your left? Is it possible to measure that? So the same also applies to analog controllers, but this has more to do with the stick tilt and time activated. Personally I prefer an anlog controller because it's much more comfortable. The BodieLobus is a good try, but honestly doesn't interest me.
i actually believe the boomerang controller might have worked good. it might have looked funky but i believe if people would have actually gotten hands on witht the control they would have changed their mind. i personally believe it would have made a good controller.
I'm still trying to figure out how you would turn. Do you motion the wiimote to the side? Do you tilt it? Or is the nunchaku your "mouselook" and the wiimote (gun) completely seperate? I wish I went to E3. =*(
zukeftMay 18, 2006
It's as simple as this; some games are best played with a control while others are best played with a mouse and keyboard. I personally don't like trackballs since they wear you down (the joints in your thumb start hurting after a while). Trackballs lack precision and spatial acquaintance which is essential for gaming; for exzmple, how much do you have to roll the ball to, say, turn 35° to your left? Is it possible to measure that? So the same also applies to analog controllers, but this has more to do with the stick tilt and time activated. Personally I prefer an anlog controller because it's much more comfortable. The BodieLobus is a good try, but honestly doesn't interest me.
gxcdesignMay 19, 2006
Wow all the Wii fanboys are taking it hard...God does it really bother you guys what others think?
Closed AccountMay 19, 2006
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superpendejoMay 19, 2006
i actually believe the boomerang controller might have worked good. it might have looked funky but i believe if people would have actually gotten hands on witht the control they would have changed their mind. i personally believe it would have made a good controller.
lycolocoMay 19, 2006
Simply amazing, considering unless you went to E3, you wouldn't have touched one yet.
mike_pMay 19, 2006
I'm still trying to figure out how you would turn. Do you motion the wiimote to the side? Do you tilt it? Or is the nunchaku your "mouselook" and the wiimote (gun) completely seperate? I wish I went to E3. =*(
cleversharkMay 19, 2006
I think this would probably be very unnatural for driving games like GT4.