17th February 2017, 6:15 PM
I think the fire button fits the bazooka style of the thing. I never had too much issue with it's location. It doesn't depress very far though, so it can be tough to tell if you're hitting it too hard or if you clicked it by mistake or not. The button does sit exactly where my hand naturally rests when holding the super scope up at least. Really the bigger issue is how bigly it is, necessitating placing the fire button there in the first place.
As for Zapper accuracy, I can hit the can in the can shooting mini-game, so I think it's accurate enough. I know that many Zappers had trouble aging well. There's a number of factors, from being stored improperly to being exposed to direct sunlight to simply using a faulty CRT. Again, I gotta praise my Trinitron. Still, there are more accurate ones, and the best is the Namco Guncon. Sorry you got a third party knockoff of the real thing, but you've got a Guncon 2, and that's the best there is. I know you may not like using the d-pad while aiming, but it's just there as an option, so it isn't hurting the gun itself. Guncon 3? Throw it in the garbage and set your house on fire. The Guncon 3 sadly had to be designed expecting the user wouldn't be using an old CRT (it was for the PS3 after all), so it's got that Wiimote style design where it uses a light bar placed next to the TV to aim. As you might imagine, you can't aim down the sights of it, and depend entirely on the on-screen cursor, which all such light games would need to have. Further, there's the latency issues inherent in anything beyond the CRT era. The Guncon 3 marked the death of good light gun shooters on console. That's just the way it is.
As for Zapper accuracy, I can hit the can in the can shooting mini-game, so I think it's accurate enough. I know that many Zappers had trouble aging well. There's a number of factors, from being stored improperly to being exposed to direct sunlight to simply using a faulty CRT. Again, I gotta praise my Trinitron. Still, there are more accurate ones, and the best is the Namco Guncon. Sorry you got a third party knockoff of the real thing, but you've got a Guncon 2, and that's the best there is. I know you may not like using the d-pad while aiming, but it's just there as an option, so it isn't hurting the gun itself. Guncon 3? Throw it in the garbage and set your house on fire. The Guncon 3 sadly had to be designed expecting the user wouldn't be using an old CRT (it was for the PS3 after all), so it's got that Wiimote style design where it uses a light bar placed next to the TV to aim. As you might imagine, you can't aim down the sights of it, and depend entirely on the on-screen cursor, which all such light games would need to have. Further, there's the latency issues inherent in anything beyond the CRT era. The Guncon 3 marked the death of good light gun shooters on console. That's just the way it is.
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