+Aliken+ said:
I don't understand all the people say it's shit. They wanted a revolution, you wanted a revolution... what do you expect the same Pad configuration as ever? I mean before you talk should you try it?
They wanted a revolution.
I didn't. That's the problem I have with this. I never found myself waking up in the middle of the night thinking, 'What if I could play a game with...
bongos? Or control my character by
drawing on a touchscreen? Or waving a controller around in the air like a spaz to attack things? Whoa! That's
much better than a gamepad!'
Like I said, I still intend to get a Revolution. I'm just disappointed in this. Moving something around in the air seems both less precise and more fiddly (harder to keep your hand perfectly still in a particular position, as opposed to holding an analog stick in place, too sensitive to unintended movements--I can turn away from the screen to look at somebody talking to me, for example, but I might end up killing myself in a game if I did that with the Rev controller--etc.) than a conventional gamepad. And I personally don't give a shit who thinks it makes me sound fat and lazy, waving my arms around in the air for a couple of hours after work doesn't sound like much of an entertainment experience, no matter
how light the controllers are. I doubt you'd have many people watching television if it required them to semaphore constantly, either.
Looking at the responses in this thread, I also wonder how much of the support from people who say they're 'tired' of games the way they are now is just restlessness, born of a desire for 'something different' regardless of whether or not it's any better than what we've already got. I mean, I see ideas in this thread, but
none of them have made me say, 'Gee, that's a much easier and more precise way of controlling my games than the controllers I already know are.'
