Vintage Paw
dead stare and computer glare
It's well documented I'm having issues getting into fps games on my lovely new shiny xbox. Which saddens me because so many of the great titles are fps.
I lose all sense of spatial context (I have wondered why I'm not moving anywhere when pushing the stick forward, only to realise I'm looking up at a ceiling and not at a wall).
Having to use both sticks to both move AND look in the same direction seems counter-intuitive to me.
I keep dying all over the shop because I can't see that evil fucker around the corner to my left who's shooting me.
I seem to gel much more easily with 3rd person games. You turn to face left automatically when you move left. Plus the ability to see a little way around you is very useful to someone who gets killed easily. You can see the buggers coming.
I'm throwing sandbox vs linear narrative into the mix too. It just so happens that the 2 3rd person games I've played to death and liked since I've had the xbox were both sandbox style games, and the 3 fp games I've played weren't. I can't play Bioshock for more than an hour because I can't handle being alert and mildly freaked out 100% of the time. I like downtime where I can run around and explore or interact in other ways with the game environment that isn't part of a main mission.
Is there any hope for me? Is it possible to re-wire your brain to find fp more intuitive and usable? I feel like I'm going to miss out on so much the xbox has to offer otherwise.
And in the meantime, can anyone recommend any cracking 3rd person games? All I've really played properly so far is GTA IV and Fable II. Obv GTA is the daddy, but I liked Fable II a lot as well, even if it was rather twee. My friend mentioned Fallout 3 and Mass Effect. I haven't checked them out yet, I was looking for other recs before I jump in.
Ta muchly.
I lose all sense of spatial context (I have wondered why I'm not moving anywhere when pushing the stick forward, only to realise I'm looking up at a ceiling and not at a wall).
Having to use both sticks to both move AND look in the same direction seems counter-intuitive to me.
I keep dying all over the shop because I can't see that evil fucker around the corner to my left who's shooting me.
I seem to gel much more easily with 3rd person games. You turn to face left automatically when you move left. Plus the ability to see a little way around you is very useful to someone who gets killed easily. You can see the buggers coming.
I'm throwing sandbox vs linear narrative into the mix too. It just so happens that the 2 3rd person games I've played to death and liked since I've had the xbox were both sandbox style games, and the 3 fp games I've played weren't. I can't play Bioshock for more than an hour because I can't handle being alert and mildly freaked out 100% of the time. I like downtime where I can run around and explore or interact in other ways with the game environment that isn't part of a main mission.
Is there any hope for me? Is it possible to re-wire your brain to find fp more intuitive and usable? I feel like I'm going to miss out on so much the xbox has to offer otherwise.
And in the meantime, can anyone recommend any cracking 3rd person games? All I've really played properly so far is GTA IV and Fable II. Obv GTA is the daddy, but I liked Fable II a lot as well, even if it was rather twee. My friend mentioned Fallout 3 and Mass Effect. I haven't checked them out yet, I was looking for other recs before I jump in.
Ta muchly.