Samus wrote:GeeZa wrote: That's the problem for developers right there, as was also experienced with SSX. There is the distinct possibility that if one goes too far with the Wiimote you'll end up breaking the game and ruining the playability.
Hey? SSX? It's demanding yeah, but works a treat once you nail it.
I think the point is the Wiimote can simulature (in terms of angle senseing) any thing we can hold with our hands in real life.
So sports with rackets or bats seem absolutely perfect for 1:1, imho.
Sure, you cant represent displacement movement, but for tennis, cricket, golf and baseball the angle change is whats most important for how the ball behavours.
Put simply, things in real life we hold our hands onto and swing, can and should be done 1:1.
It *should* be hard to master these sorts of controlls, but its easy...instintive...to understand. (unlike buttons, which in some case's is visa-versa).
Thats not to say button mapped motion controll cant be good.
Or that "abstractly mapped" ideas like in SSX cant work very well too.
But at its basic level, the wiimote should be used to give us new degree's of controll.
WiiBaseball still stands as the only real example of a type of controll unreplicatable on any other platform.
But the one area where Wiimote motion *is* utilised for ball placement doesn't feel accurate enough, at least not to me. Performing four different spin movements *in addition* could be a nightmare scenario.
Well, I think you have fallen into the trap here that developers are seeming too.
You wouldnt be replicateing
"4 different spin movements" at.
You would just be replicateing
*how a ball would react if hit in this way* (of which the physics has been established for quite some time)
For the player, however, you actualy making it more simple, because your taking away any need to set a shot type. Its all one thing.
Spin, dirrection, timing is all in the hit.
Its not something the player will think about. (for more then the second or so the ball takes to reach them).
Just to be clear however, Simple dosnt mean easy
And, also, I dont think this stuff is at all an easy task for developers.
I dont know how reliable or how much "noise" the wii's angle sensors produce, I just know WiiBaseball is good enough for me and would like to see other developers have a go.
As I said, lets have a fraction of the graphic budget saved spent on more coders. Lets make use of Endorphin-type technologys to have animations generated on the fly based on the actual way your holding that sword/wheel/club ect.
Lets have motion controlls that give us MORE controll, not merely different.
