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Have We Taken Motion Controls For Granted?

Motion controls didn’t benefit every genre, but they were a fantastic addition to certain games. As the dawn of the tablet controller nears, a nagging question crosses my mind: have we taken motion controls for granted this past generation?

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Siren304386d ago

I like the wii for its games but I hate motion controls.

Lord_Sloth4386d ago (Edited 4386d ago )

Needs a sword game that actually feels like wielding a sword. Sports Champion's Gladiator game was done pretty well but is just a novelty title in the end.

Personally I'd love to see a dungeon crawler with sword swingin. If not, I'll continue to take my Shinai to the gym.

kma2k4386d ago

The biggest drawback with most motion gaming imo at least is when you are playing a long gaming sesion like skyrim or even mulitplayer games is it gets very uncomfertable to stand for longer than 20 minutes at a time or hell even hours, while true you can sit with some games having your shoulders up for extended periods of time start to hurt the same areas.

Christopher4386d ago

Furthermore, repetitive motions are bad for your body when done for more than 10 or so minutes. If motion is involved, it should not involve too wide of gestures and should mix up the motions as much as possible.

ignorantsonsof_4386d ago

I've never had the need to stand up playing Wii, or had my shoulders hurt while sitting down because I rest the controllers in my lap and just move my wrist. But most of the time I'm laying down because I have back problems, and even then I have never had any issues playing Wii. Even when I play for hours I never find it uncomfortable or more tiring than playing with a normal controller.

Christopher4386d ago

I didn't have to stand, but the motions I had to perform for Sports Champions couldn't have been done with just the wrist. Especially for the archery. Perform that for too long and, at least at my age, you could have some shoulder problems from the repetitive action of drawing and nocking an arrow.

With No More Heroes, it wasn't so bad, but I still ended up putting the Move away and just used the DS3 controller because it was just kind of not fun with the extra wrist motions involved.

Hicken4386d ago

For granted? I don't think so. I think, by and large, we core gamers expected more out of motion controls than they could give. The Move made some excellent efforts in the FPS arena, and Skyward Sword did very well, too. But that's a handful out of hundreds of games.

Core gamers want and need more precision. We DON'T want things to be on rails. And we want games geared toward us from the start.

Menashe4385d ago

Isn't that the point of the article? He's saying that motion controls themselves can be done well, but they haven't had enough developers make good use of them this generation and it appears they will already be gone by the next generation.

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CoD devs share temporary fix for dev error 5433 plaguing MW3 after Season 3 Reloaded update

The developers have provided a little band-aid while PlayStation players attempt to get back into MW3.

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Why MW 2019 is still the best looking Call of Duty to date

MW 2019 is five years old at this point and on previous gen hardware, but it is still the best looking Call of Duty game to date.

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EazyC22d ago

MW was an excellent videogame. They messed up Spec Ops big time, but aside from this it was a huge step in the right direction initially. Most notably, at launch it seemed to come from a very cohesive creative vision that was felt across gameplay, to story to art style/visual direction. It was also very notably written by prominent ex-Naughty Dog guys that quit almost immediately before release.

That COMPLETELY dissolved through post-launch content and the full pivot to a "cross-mode" narrative that completely obliterated the cohesion in overall story direction. Warzone then "became" the new face of Call of Duty and the franchise completely removed itself from anything remotely creatively "good". It is a pure money machine, so I kinda get why they're doing it....but I personally completely lost interest.

I would love to see Infinity Ward move off CoD and get to make their own product with full control. They clearly have some massive talent in their ranks but it's perverted by Activision's corporate interests.

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Call of Duty Players Disappointed by $80 B.E.A.S.T. Glove Bundle Deal

Recently, players of Modern Warfare 3 and Warzone were met with a new bundle featuring the B.E.A.S.T. Glove, inspired by King Kong's armament in the Godzilla x Kong movie. However, the $80 price tag attached to this themed accessory left many Call of Duty fans feeling underwhelmed.

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Kaii29d ago

Morons that allow themselves to be milked continuously by this company is the definition of irony.
Spend more $$ and you'll end up In easier lobbies so you win both ways when ya spend that cash

melons29d ago

Controversy in the COD community feels like it happens within an alternate timeline. Activision will take the piss with something, there will be a momentary fuss about it, and then they will forget about it and carry on anyway. Repeat this cycle literally every year for the rest of time.

Gridknac29d ago

They call that a crack head! Thats what this is really about, its an addiction. People who dont smoke cigarettes look and laugh at the addicts that spend $8-$10 a pack, but they cant help themselves, they are addicted. That same analogy applies perfectly to the whole MT industry. Only an addict that was not thinking clearly would spend this kind of money on something so frivolous. A round of multiplayer provides the same high a person gets from scratching a lotto ticket, or putting money on a sports bet. MT in general need to really be regulated because you have a generation of kids becoming adults who grew up only knowing the MT era of gaming. Its normal to them and they will in turn teach their kids the same by just being a gaming parent and getting their kids involved with them in gaming. Thats why no matter how ridiculous the headlines keep getting out of the MT industry, it never seems to fade or go away.

X-2327d ago

I'm so tired of hearing about what they're doing with this game, its never going to change and it's never going to value the consumer over money, furthermore the people who engage so heavily in the microtransactions I guess allegedly are having a blast and can't wait to do it some more this year when the new version of the game drops.