I got my nan to try playing Crash Bandicoot on the ps1 once. We were both cracked up as she failed about ten times trying to jump past the first obstacle the game threw at her.
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Controls take time to learn, even though I've been gaming for 22 years, it takes me a day or two to fully get the controls mapped to my thought patterns and finger movements so I don't have to look at the controller.
Now I will mention that my mom stopped playing video games when they went 3D. She would always say that she just can't play because everything in such games is like a maze and she gets lost to easily.
After that, I've always wondered how she ever lived and got around in the real world.
Now I will mention that my mom stopped playing video games when they went 3D. She would always say that she just can't play because everything in such games is like a maze and she gets lost to easily.
After that, I've always wondered how she ever lived and got around in the real world.
That reminds me of my grandma playing the original Mario Bros. 20 years ago.Professor Idle said:
With the knowledge I have of gaming today, I think my grandma was unknowingly predicting the motion controls.
Practically every time she would make a jump over a hole in that game, she herself would jump out of the chair. The harder the jump, the higher she would jump out of the chair.
I find it funny these days, but back then, it really annoyed me for some reason.
I think it comes down to just plain preferences. I grew up with both PC and console gaming, and I've always preferred controller gaming. I find it easier to control because there are less extraneous buttons to get in the way, and I only have to be mindful of one control device instead of two.Elmoth said:
I played FPS games on the PC first, and I was always a little awkward at them, but when I started playing them on consoles, I got better instead of staying at okay/awkward level of skill like on PC.
Then when it comes to controllers, I think the Xbox 360 controller is perfection, while I find PlayStation controllers to be awkward in setup.
I've been a gamer since the mid 80s and I've played on all kinds of systems. I can get by on console controller, but I'm not good with them. I usually get disgusted and annoyed with them and quit. They are just so grossly inferior to using a keyboard and mouse that I say screw it and go back to the PC. This is reflected by how console games have utoaim levels and PC games that weren't ported from a console almost never do. I don't think controllers are very intuitive, instead require practice.
Some girls "fake" being bad at games because that way, the guy can help them and it offers plenty of space for relationship development.johnnybravo said:
I sometimes pretend to be a noob at things I'm familiar with, just so the girl I'm with can help me and we can spend more time together. Girls do that too, you know.
On the other hand, I know a girl who likes to play strip-Soul Calibur and so far, out of the 100-200 battles I had with her, I won 2.
I'm a guy. Been gaming on the PC for 10+ years now, and I'm pretty good at strategy games and RPGs, and fairly decent at online shooters too. However, having never owned a console before, I simply can't get the hang of using a controller. The analogue sticks are actually very counter intuitive to use, and it is really confusing to move yourself and the camera at the same time, and the aiming, is simply impossible.johnnybravo said:
It's not girls. It's actually pretty hard to learn to use a console controller, you just on't realise it cos you are so used to it.
I think this is the direction the responses are already tending, but that's just inexperience. Has anyone ever tried to get a non-gamer to so much as walk around in a 3D game? Or, worse yet, in first-person with dual analogue? For gamers its all second-nature, but for inexperienced people, male or female, the connection between the weird thing in their hands and what they're trying to make happen in the weird game on the screen is difficult to successfully establish.
I'm male, and have been playing first person shooters since 1992 or 1993 (Ahh, Wolfenstein 3d). I'm not awesome, but I like to think I don't embarrass myself too badly. And I remember my first few console FPS games. They were hell. I went from being a reasonably skilled player to feeling like I was aiming with an Etch-A-Sketch. It took multiple games (Medal of Honor and MoH: Underground), start to finish, before I achieved basic, but still embarrassing, competence.
So to take someone who has never played a FPS, park them in front of a modern FPS, and hand them a gamepad, a device they've likely never used before and which has 15 or more inputs, well, yeah, I'd expect the first few hours to be pretty painful.
So to take someone who has never played a FPS, park them in front of a modern FPS, and hand them a gamepad, a device they've likely never used before and which has 15 or more inputs, well, yeah, I'd expect the first few hours to be pretty painful.