Sucky controls on Super Meat Boy?

[i7omahawki]

I'm aware that Super Meat Boy is a difficult platformer, and that that's where the joy supposedly comes from. And I quite enjoy difficult 2d platformers, I loved Tower of Heaven which seemed pretty hard...

Anyways, I'm only a few stages in, still on the first world, and it seems impossible. I'll press space, (or A as I've now reverted to an 360 pad) and about 50% of the time he won't even jump...which makes the game stupidly hard/mostly about chance rather than skill.

Anyone else had problems like this? I'm trying to conjure reasons in my mind as to why it may be happening...maybe my laptop isn't up to scratch, but the fact that it can play games like Portal just fine tells me it should be able to handle a 2d platformer.

Alternatively, maybe the window to press jump is just tiny, and you have to get used to it. I don't know, but at the moment it seems like it has terrible controls and I really can't enjoy the game because of it.

 

[eclipsed_chemistry]

Sorry to hear that, but I haven't had any problems with Super Meat Boy's controls, just the painful difficulty of the game. In fact, some of these levels would be impossible without having really tight controls and that's one of the strengths of the game. Maybe there's some kind of lag issue with the visuals? I don't know what else to tell you.

 

[tlozoot]

Hold down the jump command. If you simply tap it, you'll simply perform a tiny hop. If you hold it down then Meat Boy will leap up high. This means that you can release the jump button mid-jump to drop slightly faster. It's the only thing I can think of anyway.

 

[ciancon]

I know what you're talking about and quite frankly i've just gotten used to it. I guess i've decided to take it as just one more step in the difficulty of this bloody game! Got two more levels left in THE END though so woo!!

 

[i7omahawki]

No it's not that.

It's that he (sometimes) won't jump at all, it happens when I hold space or when I press it quickly. He doesn't do a tiny hop, just nothing. And it usually happens when I'm sliding down an eroding block...so it usually ends up with me dead.

 

[Altorin]

you're playing it with a keyboard, there's your problem. The game has perfect controls if you play it with a controller.

 

[scorptatious]

Funny, when I played the game, I had very few problems with the controls. Besides the fact that movement is slightly slippery, although what can you expect from a character made of meat?

But yeah, the game gets REALLY hard later on. So hopefully you get this issue sorted out with, because things are going to go uphill from where you are.

 

[Outright Villainy]

you're playing it with a keyboard, there's your problem. The game has perfect controls if you play it with a controller.

I found the exact opposite problem.