Gaming Lounge

[Koh]

I've never been one to be fond of unnecessary stiff controls in video games. If they loosen them up, they can make the challenges more skill based, instead of based around stiffness. I'd like for it to feel like when I lose, it was because I wasn't skillful enough, rather than "If we could actually CHANGE THE MOMENTUM midjump like any other game, that jump wouldn't be so cheap." It's even more ridiculous in platform shooters, when they make it so you can't aim your gun in certain directions, but always put enemies there, so it becomes impossible to deal with them. Most common offense tends to be enemies that are on the ground, where you can't point your gun for some reason. Contra had to have the best platforming shooting controls, and was still a challenging game, making it far more skill based than stiff-control based.