ATTN metroid prime corruption Wiiers

[TheAdMan]

I don't have a Wii nor have I ever played one but I have a simple question for those of you who have played metroid.

What is the targeting controls like, accurate/responsive? How close to the wii can you get while playing?

From the Demos I've seen the controls look to be very intuitive.

[ahofle]

Read up in the consoles forum.  Word is the controls are excellent.

[Kangum]

controls are extremely reponsive. not "gimmic" like nintendo powerglove. sensitivity is adjustable. sensor bar can be placed above or below tv. just make sure the settings match in the program.

you dont want to be closer then 4 feet to the tv.

not much to say other then 90% of the games are for age 12 and under (sarcasm with sprinkled truth)

[javeryh]

The controls are great but take A TON of time to get used to.  I'm about 8 or 9 hours in and I'm still fumbling around a bit.  I sit about 5 feet from my TV and that's about as close as you can get I think (I wish I had more room... maybe in the next house).

[Kangum]

The controls are great but take A TON of time to get used to.  I'm about 8 or 9 hours in and I'm still fumbling around a bit.  I sit about 5 feet from my TV and that's about as close as you can get I think (I wish I had more room... maybe in the next house).

get the warioware smooth moves and you will have no awkwards with the remote ever again.

[javeryh]

The controls are great but take A TON of time to get used to.  I'm about 8 or 9 hours in and I'm still fumbling around a bit.  I sit about 5 feet from my TV and that's about as close as you can get I think (I wish I had more room... maybe in the next house).

get the warioware smooth moves and you will have no awkwards with the remote ever again.

I've been meaning to check that out.  I think my problem is that I'm left-handed and the console was made for righties.  It just feels awkward to use my right hand to point.  I had a similar problem trying to play Zelda.

[Jeff AMN]

The controls are great but take A TON of time to get used to.  I'm about 8 or 9 hours in and I'm still fumbling around a bit.  I sit about 5 feet from my TV and that's about as close as you can get I think (I wish I had more room... maybe in the next house).

get the warioware smooth moves and you will have no awkwards with the remote ever again.

I've been meaning to check that out.  I think my problem is that I'm left-handed and the console was made for righties.  It just feels awkward to use my right hand to point.  I had a similar problem trying to play Zelda.

Wait, what? Can't you just hold the remote with your left hand? Also, a lot of games (like Wario Ware) let you flip things for lefties...not that it makes a huge difference.

As for Prime 3, it took me about 10 minutes and I was just blasting things with pinpoint accuracy. It's REALLY IMPORTANT that you set it to Advanced difficulty when you start the game. The advanced mode has much better and tighter controls.

[javeryh]

Wait, what? Can't you just hold the remote with your left hand? Also, a lot of games (like Wario Ware) let you flip things for lefties...not that it makes a huge difference.

Games like Wii Sports or anything where you ONLY use the wiimote are great for the lefty flip (swinging the bat, racket or golf club and even bowling) but I have been trained all of my life to move the character on the screen with the analog stick and my left thumb.  It just doesn't work with the nunchuck attachment in my right hand (I tried).   

[TheAdMan]

Thnx for the replies, I ask because it seems like the wii technology could easily be used for a LCD lightgun, how does the performance of the wii controller compare to something like the LCD TopGun? Wii uses LED's too right? I'm not a fan of the topgun my set-up just doesn't allow for permanent mounting of the LED strips, and u have to be too far away IMO plus the 3rd party driver issues just add up to a crappy product IMHO (no dis)

[javeryh]

Thnx for the replies, I ask because it seems like the wii technology could easily be used for a LCD lightgun, how does the performance of the wii controller compare to something like the LCD TopGun? Wii uses LED's too right? I'm not a fan of the topgun my set-up just doesn't allow for permanent mounting of the LED strips, and u have to be too far away IMO plus the 3rd party driver issues just add up to a crappy product IMHO (no dis)

I think it would be horrible.  The pointer on the screen isn't even close to where you are actually pointing the wiimote.  There's a youtube video somewhere showing how off it is where someone taped a pointer to the wiimote and there is like a 6-8 inch differnce between the red dot from the pointer and the cursor from the wiimote.

[ahofle]

Thnx for the replies, I ask because it seems like the wii technology could easily be used for a LCD lightgun, how does the performance of the wii controller compare to something like the LCD TopGun? Wii uses LED's too right? I'm not a fan of the topgun my set-up just doesn't allow for permanent mounting of the LED strips, and u have to be too far away IMO plus the 3rd party driver issues just add up to a crappy product IMHO (no dis)

I did a little bit of testing on this and I've come to the conclusion that the LED bar thing just isn't really that great of a solution yet (for arcade games at least).  I found I had to stand about 5-6 feet away from the screen to get rid of the uncontrollable wii cursor shaking.  This is fine for large showcase style games, but not so good for games like Crossbow, Police Trainer, or Hogan's Alley where you had your gun much closer to the screen.

[TheAdMan]

I've had an idea brewing in my head for quite some time now about a way to make a standard or maybe slightly modified lightgun work on an lcd monitor, basically the principle and hardware would be the same (optical censor detecting light emitted from monitor) but it would require some software development skills (of which I have next to none), think it could be a feasible idea tho.