16th September 2005, 8:08 AM
Just in case anyone is wondering, I masturbated to the pictures of the Revolution controller last night.
The gun/knife/grenade:
Hold it like a gun. If your gun has a scope you could either press a button to use it, or actually push towards the screen to zoom in. Where you hold the controller, is where the gun goes: Hold it straight down and you hide the gun, point it straight up and you're looking at the ceiling. The Remoko (Japanese name for remote control) has a 'Z Button' like the N64 controller, the perfect gun trigger. Move with control stick attachment. Need to throw a grenade? Select them, now hold the Z trigger on the remoko. Count to 3... now move the remoko in a throwing motion and let go of Z as if you were letting go of the grenade... the harder you throw, the further it goes. I cant help but think of the Resident Evil 4 knife battle which can now be done entirely in real time because of this controller.
Nintendo says: The controller is modular so we can create 'sleeves'. So that the Remoko and the control stick can be put inside a 'shell'. That shell can resemble a gun, another controller configuration, or anything the game requires.
The Steering wheel:
for cars:
1.) Hold it straight up and steer it like a car. :D Forward/back motion can either dictate speed or changing gears. In fact, the remoko could be used as if it were a gear shift, instead of a steering wheel.
2.) Hold it straight, pointing at the TV. Twist to turn, or move it side to side.
3.) Virtual Car. The controller IS the car. This would work with games like F-Zero. Bash in to someone by smashing your controller left or right, speed up by pushing forward, slow down by pulling back.
for flight:
1.) Flight stick. Just like an actual yoke, your flight stick is complete with access to the ship's weapons systems. You hold it straight up for this configuration.
2.) Virtual Plane. (this was done in the demo) The controller IS the plane. Wanna do a loop? Make your controller do a loop.
3.) Arcade flying. This is a combo of the first two, it would work with Starfox. Pointing straight at the TV, your climb, dive, yaw, pitch and angle would all be dictated by the actual movement of the remoko. To do a barrel roll, you simply twist the controller hard, to fly on your side, twist it soft.
Imagine a 'shell' that is actualy round like a steering wheel. For F-Zero, you would steer by.. sterring. Rotating the sheel, or shift your weight by... shifting your weight, leaning side to side.
The sword.
3rd person (Zelda): Use the control stick to move, and one of the Z Buttons on the back to activate a shield, z-targeting, 'run', 'block' etc. With the Remoko, you can jab or slice in any direction. For example, a horizontal slice from left to right. The control stick dictates position. So you run up to your enemy, holding the Remoko up ready for the attack, and as you approach you slice with the remoko and Link splits the enemy in half.
1st person. The remoko IS the sword, where ever you hold it, your sowrd goes, it blocks, parries, stabs, slices, dices, minces, not sold in stores, makes a great gift. You move with the control stick attachment here. Hold down the z-trigger on the remoko and give it a throwing motion; release the trigger as if you were letting it go to fly out of your hands. You just threw your sword. :D DECAPATATION'D
The fighting game.
Method 1.) behind the fighter. Hold two Remokos, left arm, right arm. This is a super punch out type of set up.
Method 2.) Arena fighter (Soul Calibur, SSB). Punch and kick using the buttons, move your character, dodge, duck, flip, jump and run using the Remoko. You can add the control stick attachment here for camera movement, or for inputting combos. Combos and moves can also be inputted through the d-pad.
Method 3.) Barbarian. Control stick moves character, buttons attack. Movement on remoko is used for controlling a weapon like an axe. This 'independent movement' would be awesome for beat em ups where you could be attacking in two different directions at once.
The Mario:
Way too many ideas here... i'd say the easiest way would be a point and click setup. Move the remoko where you want to go, hit a button to jump. Use the control stick to move your camera. But in a Mario game, th level of interactivity between the player and mario would be mind blowing, it's hard to image how this set up would work or feel since you can literaly do anything with full 3-D movement.
Combonations: The new GTA
Driving along using the #1 config for driving. Jump out of the car and use the gun configuration to fire at your enemies. They give chase, jump back in your car and enter new setup: Control stick steers car, remoko aims gun. Push to zoom in and blow out their tires. They crash but you're out of bullets, jump out of the car and grab a baseball bat and enter fighting method #3 and take down the 4 guys.
*cries* it's going to be frucking awesome. Think about what Nintendo is basically saying:
'It's modular"
"It will have shells to create different configurations"
"Full 3-D movement"
Nintendo is literaly saying that this controller can do ANYTHING, you can literaly have a seperate shell and config for every game, making hundreds of thousands of configurations that are exclusive to that game. It's fucking incredible. I'll post my opinion on how the Rev controller will use the virtual console games later. I'm so happy that someone finally went in this direction and is going to bring us what 3-D games have needed since their inception: 3-D movement.
The gun/knife/grenade:
Hold it like a gun. If your gun has a scope you could either press a button to use it, or actually push towards the screen to zoom in. Where you hold the controller, is where the gun goes: Hold it straight down and you hide the gun, point it straight up and you're looking at the ceiling. The Remoko (Japanese name for remote control) has a 'Z Button' like the N64 controller, the perfect gun trigger. Move with control stick attachment. Need to throw a grenade? Select them, now hold the Z trigger on the remoko. Count to 3... now move the remoko in a throwing motion and let go of Z as if you were letting go of the grenade... the harder you throw, the further it goes. I cant help but think of the Resident Evil 4 knife battle which can now be done entirely in real time because of this controller.
Nintendo says: The controller is modular so we can create 'sleeves'. So that the Remoko and the control stick can be put inside a 'shell'. That shell can resemble a gun, another controller configuration, or anything the game requires.
The Steering wheel:
for cars:
1.) Hold it straight up and steer it like a car. :D Forward/back motion can either dictate speed or changing gears. In fact, the remoko could be used as if it were a gear shift, instead of a steering wheel.
2.) Hold it straight, pointing at the TV. Twist to turn, or move it side to side.
3.) Virtual Car. The controller IS the car. This would work with games like F-Zero. Bash in to someone by smashing your controller left or right, speed up by pushing forward, slow down by pulling back.
for flight:
1.) Flight stick. Just like an actual yoke, your flight stick is complete with access to the ship's weapons systems. You hold it straight up for this configuration.
2.) Virtual Plane. (this was done in the demo) The controller IS the plane. Wanna do a loop? Make your controller do a loop.
3.) Arcade flying. This is a combo of the first two, it would work with Starfox. Pointing straight at the TV, your climb, dive, yaw, pitch and angle would all be dictated by the actual movement of the remoko. To do a barrel roll, you simply twist the controller hard, to fly on your side, twist it soft.
Imagine a 'shell' that is actualy round like a steering wheel. For F-Zero, you would steer by.. sterring. Rotating the sheel, or shift your weight by... shifting your weight, leaning side to side.
The sword.
3rd person (Zelda): Use the control stick to move, and one of the Z Buttons on the back to activate a shield, z-targeting, 'run', 'block' etc. With the Remoko, you can jab or slice in any direction. For example, a horizontal slice from left to right. The control stick dictates position. So you run up to your enemy, holding the Remoko up ready for the attack, and as you approach you slice with the remoko and Link splits the enemy in half.
1st person. The remoko IS the sword, where ever you hold it, your sowrd goes, it blocks, parries, stabs, slices, dices, minces, not sold in stores, makes a great gift. You move with the control stick attachment here. Hold down the z-trigger on the remoko and give it a throwing motion; release the trigger as if you were letting it go to fly out of your hands. You just threw your sword. :D DECAPATATION'D
The fighting game.
Method 1.) behind the fighter. Hold two Remokos, left arm, right arm. This is a super punch out type of set up.
Method 2.) Arena fighter (Soul Calibur, SSB). Punch and kick using the buttons, move your character, dodge, duck, flip, jump and run using the Remoko. You can add the control stick attachment here for camera movement, or for inputting combos. Combos and moves can also be inputted through the d-pad.
Method 3.) Barbarian. Control stick moves character, buttons attack. Movement on remoko is used for controlling a weapon like an axe. This 'independent movement' would be awesome for beat em ups where you could be attacking in two different directions at once.
The Mario:
Way too many ideas here... i'd say the easiest way would be a point and click setup. Move the remoko where you want to go, hit a button to jump. Use the control stick to move your camera. But in a Mario game, th level of interactivity between the player and mario would be mind blowing, it's hard to image how this set up would work or feel since you can literaly do anything with full 3-D movement.
Combonations: The new GTA
Driving along using the #1 config for driving. Jump out of the car and use the gun configuration to fire at your enemies. They give chase, jump back in your car and enter new setup: Control stick steers car, remoko aims gun. Push to zoom in and blow out their tires. They crash but you're out of bullets, jump out of the car and grab a baseball bat and enter fighting method #3 and take down the 4 guys.
*cries* it's going to be frucking awesome. Think about what Nintendo is basically saying:
'It's modular"
"It will have shells to create different configurations"
"Full 3-D movement"
Nintendo is literaly saying that this controller can do ANYTHING, you can literaly have a seperate shell and config for every game, making hundreds of thousands of configurations that are exclusive to that game. It's fucking incredible. I'll post my opinion on how the Rev controller will use the virtual console games later. I'm so happy that someone finally went in this direction and is going to bring us what 3-D games have needed since their inception: 3-D movement.