I can’t play most of the newer video games they have out now. Xbox controllers have TWO joysticks! I can barely control one! There’s so much stuff going on, and “missions” you have to complete, and 3-D stuff coming at you from all over the place.
I watched my boyfriend, my brother, and a couple of their friends playing some StarWars game on Xbox the other night. I was just completely confused. I’ve tried to play Halo but as soon as I try to use the joystick I just go all over the screen, and I can’t aim my gun and there are like, 47 buttons on the controller.
I miss the 2-D days of Super Nintendo and Sega. Good old flat Mario. All you had to do was walk to the right and jump on stuff along the way. Why couldn’t they have stuck with that?
More seriously, if a game is hard for you to control, either the controls are badly designed, you just aren’t good at that sort of thing, or you haven’t practiced enough. One is bad design, the other two bad reflexes; neither has anything to do with it being “too advanced”. If anything, you need a more advanced system, something that can be controlled more easily. Either that, or a more entertaining one, so you are willling to practice more.
Most games, even the most complex ones out there, are still based around the direction pad and two-three buttons. it’s rare that games use every button for a dedicated function, though certain ones like “Star Wars Battlefront” are really out of control and even have multiple functions per button. Usually, games that do that are those that have been ported over from the PC, with its unlimited keyboard controls.
I miss 8 bit NES also. Talk about doing so much with so little. I have very fond memories of late nights playing Metal Gear, Metroid, Castlevania 2, Blaster Master, Zelda 2 and many others.
And I totally agree that new games are over-complicated (for me). My roommate last year had XBox and Playstation 2 and I couldn’t do a thing with either. With Halo 2, I was usually either staring at the floor, the ceiling or dead. Too bad, because it looks SO fun.
I tend to agree, which is why I usually prefer Nintendo games. Nintendo games are looked upon as kiddy and childish, but the best way to describe them is accessable. Most games they make are very simple and easy to pick up, but have a lot of depth and take a lot of work to master. If 3D’s not your thing, then go with a Gameboy, which continues to have classic 2D gaming, and even has ports of old NES and SNES classics available.
part of the problem with the shooters is simple, fps (thats First Person Shooters) are always a royal pain in the ass to play with a joystick, the entire genre was made for pc and the mouse/keyboard combo not some crappy console with dual joysticks.
You should maybe try some other games, like Super Monkey Ball (which uses only the left analog stick and that’s all! Not even any buttons), Karaoke Revolution (no controller! you sing to control the game) or, if you have a PS2, any EyeToy game (the game “sees” what you’re doing via a small webcam attached to the PS2). Someone else already mentioned that Game Boy games are much more similar to simple, old-school Nintendo games. If you have a GameCube, there’s a gizmo you can buy to attach the Game Boy so you can play Game Boy games on your TV.
Wow…all those were old favorites of mine. I thought I was the only person in the world who played Blaster Master.
As for Halo…I’m 26, and my buddies try to get me to play Halo with them. I absolutely suck. Running around is fine, but aiming with that left analog-stick is SO damn clumsy. I also tried 007 while in the military and I just kept getting shot up by everyone else. I just don’t like FPS’s. :mad: I prefer slower games like RPG’s and if I’m going to have to play a game that involves me using a gun, it’ll have to be something like any of the Metal Gear Solid games, where you have enough time to aim the damned thing.
It’s quite often I’ll go back and play old NES and SNES games. Indeed they did more with less back then.
I miss the old Nintendo games too. The new games look really amazing, but my eyes just don’t seem to want to handle that level of detail! I liked it when games looked like cartoons, not films! I also don’t like looking through the eyes of my character; I want to see its whole body (preferably walking to the right, and jumping on things.)
…because you were the only one to own it? Madden plays hockey now?
…and not that twit on the Devils - he’s not good enough to have his own video game franchise. Especially not even before he made the NHL…
I agree that they’re getting too complicated, not too advanced, too complicated. I’m not going to be spending 20 hours just getting the hang of the controls, I don’t have that kind of free time anymore. I want to pick up a game and start having fun, not frustration. I’ve been playing a lot of flash games lately, they’re free, good for a few minutes of diversion, and there are always new ones coming out every week. The only problem with them is that they aren’t deep enough to sustain interest.
The old style games, while there was a learning curve, you at least had a lot of fun learning, you weren’t just careening off randomly.
Heh, I was going to post a thread on how I sucked at newer video games (kudos to those who freely admit how bad they are at Halo!)
Sim City 2000 good, Sim City 4 bad.
Total Annihilation good, Homeworld 2 bad.
Goldeneye good, Operation Flashpoint bad.
(Good and bad being how well I play them BTW)
Starcraft, Pikmin, Luigi’s Mansion, XIII have honourable mention being games that I’ve played most of the way through then been thoroughly thrashed at the final boss.
And yes, if I persisted I could get better, but then it would seem to be me to be a hollow victory to become good at something i don’t enjoy
Castlevania 2, Simon’s Quest was the first game I ever totally mastered as a kid, but there were no such things as memory cards or hard drives back then. Every save point was a long and random code that was scrawled hastily on some scrap of paper that my mother invaribly threw away.
Because of this, my mind has decided to forever etch upon itself the last code of the game, that gives you the super flaming chain whip, and mad amounts of both garlic and holy water, right before facing Dracula. From memory I give you:
MKGS WVCW T3KU VYZC
If anyone has a Nes console and this game, I dare you to try. I’m 27 years old and this has been on instant recall since I was in 5th grade.
