Rocking Thunder said:
Whenever I play first person games, from shooters to RPG's, every game character seems to be right handed. While I understand why that is the default setting for game characters, what I dont understand is why there can not be an option for characters to be left handed. I am sure it would not be all that hard to program (just flip it around), and it is really odd for me to see a character holding a sword in his right hand, so why not just have the option? I am fine with a couple of games not having it, but I just find it odd that you can not do that. Thoughts?
What I want to know is why this is
still ignored on the Wii.
You can't begin to realise how awkward it was trying to play red steel in the natural inclination for me, which is to hold the remote in my left hand.
It proved way too awkward, so I had to give up and swap hands.
Lots of other games have given me similar problems to greater or lesser degrees, but almost none give it any consideration.
And what's with Legend of Zelda?
I mean, I found in practice, that having Link be right-handed didn't really matter much in Twilight Princess, but I'm thinking it's going to be a big headache in skyward sword.
But, when asked about it, representatives of Nintendo said they had no intention to give the option to swap the controls around.
This suggests they don't think it matters...
But, if that were true, why is Link Right-handed now?
He's been left-handed in every single game where you could work out which hand he held his sword in...
And Twilight Princess on the Gamecube still has him left-handed.
Yet, to make the Wii version, he became right-handed, and to do this, they felt they had to mirror the entire game world.
(And as a result, the sun rises in the west, and sets in the east.)
But the same thing goes for different games.
We have some games with hugely detailed character creators, where you can change the fiddliest little detail of a character's appearance.
Yet, we can't make a left-handed character?
Ugh.
PhiMed said:
Well, the gun aiming, I can understand. But the swords? In medieval times you either learned to be right-handed or got murderized. So there's that.
Lol. Depends on the culture, and what period in history you're talking about.
There's some suggestion that some of the most dangerous swordsmen around were left-handed.
(And hints that a lot of famous artists, such as Leonardo Davinci were as well. But that's difficult to substantiate beyond some anecdotal evidence.)