Poll: RTS games on consoles
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Console RTS games tend to suck for the same reason that motion control games tend to suck: you need to make your gameplay with the input device in mind and make sure that your gameplay is best suited to that device.
If consoles ever do get their Starcraft, it will be a game that can't be replicated on a mouse and keyboard.
If consoles ever do get their Starcraft, it will be a game that can't be replicated on a mouse and keyboard.
I reckon it can be done with motion controls. You could use the pointer on the Wii or the move in a similar manner to a mouse. Granted you would end up with less hotkeys, but the main control scheme in most RTS games I've played seems to revolve around point at units and click to select, click elsewhere to do something (move, attack, gather resources etc.). A mouse is basically a pointer and two buttons after all.
Eh, fair enough if it's just not your thing, I never really had a problem with it myself, but I can see where you're coming from.omega 616 said:
There are far worse done RTSs on consoles, I'd name one in particular but it was so bad I blocked it from my mind.
I maintain that they can be done well though, it just needs some creativity.
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Playing RTS games with a controller is terrible, but I can't help but think that Kinect could be the best thing to ever happen to console RTS games if it gets implemented right. It's really a shame that Microsoft is focusing on making Wii game knockoffs for the Kinect instead of doing something even moderately interesting with it.
Indeed, I liked endwar, up until that I thought it couldn't be done, and that is one of the very few examples that work, and although it is possible for it work, and I'd like to see more good ones on consoles, the genre should mainly stick to PC'sJedihunter4 said:
Something makes me doubt the Kinect for RTS games. I can't help but think, "wave hand in general direction of screen, trying to select infantry, accidentaly select tank and order it to attack my own base." Other motion controllers could work though. As an example, consider the A and B buttons on a Wii controller as analogous to left and right mouse buttons. It's a pointer with two buttons. You could almost port most existing RTS games onto that without too much change in the control scheme.Dirty Hipsters said:
This is, of course, entirely conjecture on my part.
There has never been a good RTS on consoles, and there likely never will be until Mouse and Keyboard becomes an acceptable control interface for consoles.
Actualy I vehemently oppose the FPS/console arguement, I find tha they generally work fine, I don't even think that analouge sticks are that much worse than a mouse set up, I just think that devs overcompensate with autoaim, when all it really needs is to be made slightly smoother.omega 616 said:
I wasn't kidding, I genuinly can't remember what it was called, or even what it was about.random_bars said:
All I remember i that I played it on the PS2 about 6 - 8 years ago and there were two factions, one that had larger numbers but worse equipment and one where the opposite was true.
That and it was horrible.
It's perfectly possible to make a good RTS on consoles, but reworking the controls so that they actually WORK on a console is no easy feat.
My opinon is that youshould make better polls.
That, and true RTS games work fairly poorly on consoles and I thin ktehy should be left to the PC until people ship them with a mouse and keyboard.
That, and true RTS games work fairly poorly on consoles and I thin ktehy should be left to the PC until people ship them with a mouse and keyboard.