18th August 2004, 1:48 PM
Quote:Oh... oh you are absolutely right, what the hell was I thinking?? It's not like the N64 controller was designed for specific 3D gameplay ideas like Mario and Zelda... gosh no, that's not what happened. And the DS wasn't designed with new gameplay ideas in mind either, heavens no.
Uh, the N64 was EXACTLY what I was thinking of. I guess I should have been more specific. The N64 controller was designed for Mario 64. Then, for the next four years game developers had to make things fit on a gamepad that they would probably not have chosen to shape that way. Which was exactly my point: Once you're past the game it was designed for, console games, just like PC games, are centered around what the controller is.
Quote:Joysticks work well for ONE genre. ONE genre.
Yeah, and as I said, it's a big one, that really could be called several different genres... military (flight/tank/sub/etc) sims, driving sims, civilian flight sims, space flight sims, mech games... all quite different categories of "sim"...
More later.