8th March 2005, 10:25 PM
I had no problem using the thumb pad with Mario 64 DS... It felt like a weird control stick, to me anyway. But yeah, the DS cries out for an anal stick. It doesn't have to be a super sensitive one, but it should have one.
The demo of Metroid Hunters I played with the stylus controlling your 'look' functions and tapping to shoot was alot of fun. You ran with the D-Pad and jumped with the L button. It felt good to play. I hate it that there's no lock on though, that's the central core of Prime's gameplay mechanics.
but regardless, nintendo wanted to keep costs down as much as possible, so it got a d-pad instead of an anal stick. For 150 bucks more, you can get an anal stick, but no dual screens, no touch screen, no twin CPU's and no microphone. Or wait... does it have a mic?
Anyway, to say a system is a doomed failure or "nintendo's going to fuck us" at this early in the game is definitely not fair. The hardware is good and takes us in a new direction. The software is good, but slow. She just needs time to warm up.
The demo of Metroid Hunters I played with the stylus controlling your 'look' functions and tapping to shoot was alot of fun. You ran with the D-Pad and jumped with the L button. It felt good to play. I hate it that there's no lock on though, that's the central core of Prime's gameplay mechanics.
but regardless, nintendo wanted to keep costs down as much as possible, so it got a d-pad instead of an anal stick. For 150 bucks more, you can get an anal stick, but no dual screens, no touch screen, no twin CPU's and no microphone. Or wait... does it have a mic?
Anyway, to say a system is a doomed failure or "nintendo's going to fuck us" at this early in the game is definitely not fair. The hardware is good and takes us in a new direction. The software is good, but slow. She just needs time to warm up.