Oh, geez, none taken. I’m fully aware of my suckitude.
And that’s the weird thing - I played Goldeneye in college. Definitely not well, but at least I could play a bit. I was no where in the same building as good, or even competent, but I could at least kill my roommate a couple of times. The only way I can shoot my husband in Black Ops is if he stands totally still and doesn’t move.
He’s told me that you can switch the controls around, rather like a “goofy foot” or some such. I’m hoping it’s a little like airplane controls (ie, pull back to go up). I think that’s what I’m expecting, but I’m using the controller on normal, so maybe that’s what’s screwing me up.
I know I’ll just have to practice, but I’m not certain how much fun the practicing is going to be for either him or me.
I’d try flipping the y-axis. But otherwise - yeah, I hate Call of Duty games as well. I’m decent at FPS games, but the new ones are so unbelievably advanced that I don’t have a prayer.
I’m still having the same problem transitioning from PC FPS to PS3 ones. The most difficult thing to get used to is that your movement and “looking around” controls are separate on the console game with the thumbsticks, and they are one controller (the mouse) on the PC.
I too am slowly learning this as I’ve spent a lot of time running into walls, or panicking when attacked and staring at the floor, etc.
As for MLB The Show…I absolutely love it. Its the best baseball game I have ever played. I cut my teeth in college on the Triple Play series for PS1 and later PS2 and this game is so much better than those games.
I too struggle at times with it though. There are so many buttons to do so many things. Before I play I often have to whip out the manual and remind myself that R2 is “return runner” when baserunning and “dive” when fielding without the ball. I have made many baserunning errors…the guy tries to take second when I didn’t want him to, he stops at first when I don’t want him to…all because I pushed the wrong button.
Hitting is tricky but I think that the key really is just that its so hard to lay off pitches and not swing away. I’ve found that really focusing on the strike zone and trying to lay off more often has worked for me. Its funny how the commentators will make fun of you hacking away up there. I recall one of the first times I played it I was swinging at everything and by like the 4th inning I let a pitch go by that was so obviously out of the zone and the commentator was like “I think that’s the first pitch he’s laid off of all day!”…and it was.
Not really true of Hardball - I remember having to pick one of nine spaces to swing through (combinations of high, middle, low and inside, middle, outside) in addition to timing it. Never got remotely good at that one.
Hey- don’t despair- learning FPS controls is a matter of building hand-eye coordination and muscle memory, and then even at that point, it’s a lot of practice until you know what you’re doing without thinking about how to do it.
I had a hard time going from DOOM on keyboard-only, to Quake with mouse/keyboard, and then to Xbox controllers when I got an Xbox.
I’m sure when I have to use some dumb-ass Wii/Kinect scheme to play FPSes, I’ll be terrible and hate it at first also.
I believe Doom was the first one I ever played. And then for a long while I didn’t play any computer games at all as I didn’t own one and I just played a shit-ton of sports and racing games on Playstations 1 and 2 for many years.
By the time I got a computer that could game, it was Battlefield 1942 for me. I’d really consider that my first FPS, actually, because its the first computer game that I spent as many hours playing as I did console games, and PC gaming rapidly eclipsed my console gaming. I merely dabbled in Doom on a friend’s PC.
And of course now that I have a PS3, I play more console games than PC games, but that’s more of a time restriction issue due to me recently becoming a single Dad. I have so many PC titles that I haven’t finished on my PC right now…Battlefield Bad Company, Left For Dead 2, Half Life 2, Fallout New Vegas, Portal…all have active campaigns started but not completed.
Its a heck of a lot easier these days to whip up on the 9 year old in Streetfighter 4 for a few minutes before bedtime than to delve into a time sink like Fallout where four hours passes in the blink of an eye.
And who am I kidding? The nine-year old whips up on me!
