[QUOTE="VeeArSick"] Hmm. That's odd because I find games developed in this day and age to be much easier to play and much more user friendly than games developed in the past. So, no... I'm not worried about that. I just don't find motion control fun.roxlimn
Easier? Clearly, you haven't played Cooking Mama. That game is a beast. It was probably unintentional, of course, but the learning curve for the controls of that game are a nearly vertical wall. Games on the HD consoles are generally easier to play and more user friendly. This is actually not so on the Wii, probably the least forgiving and most hardcore of the current generation consoles. In fact, games like Baroque are so hard and so opaque that most reviewers simply gave up and panned the game without really knowing what it was all about. You'll see this when you read most reviews about that game. In fact, the game is a Roguelike, and as Roguelikes go, it was actually pretty decent and somewhat innovative. There are two other such games on the Wii - Shiren The Wanderer and Chocobo Mystery Dungeon. I do not believe any of them use motion control. For brawlers, I'd put Muramasa up there with the first Ninja Gaiden - it's at least that hard on the hardest setting, though it could be closer to the second one. Nothing matches the third. That game was just cheap. In any case, I can't comment much on your not liking motion controls. That's a subjective thing. That said, there's more to motion gaming that flailing about in front of the TV like you just got tazered. Generally, that won't get you anywhere useful in most games. Perhaps that is why you're not having fun. My suggestion: game more, flail less.I guess sloppy controls do make things more difficult (any game would be more challenging if the character only did what you wanted them to do a percentage of the time) but most core gamers value precision and want challenge to come from the game itself, not the need to fight the controls. If sloppy controls are hardcore, then we should all bow down in praise of not only the Wii but old games like Lifeline (where the voice recognition often failed, resulting in your character dying).
http://www.gamespot.com/wii/action/cookingmamacookoff/review.html?om_act=convert&om_clk=gssummary&tag=summary%3Bread-review
Cooking Mama seems like it ought to work just as well on the Wii as it did on the DS, but multiple problems prevent this from being so. For starters, the motion controls just aren't reliable. Some are overly sensitive, as in the egg-cracking minigame that can't quite seem to decide how much remote-tilting force is too much, and some aren't sensitive enough, such as the stirring and rolling pin games that require extremely exaggerated movements to register properly. Even the games that seem the most consistent aren't 100 percent guaranteed to work. As shallow as the DS version of Cooking Mama was, at the very least the controls worked pretty much exactly how you wanted them to. The same can't be said for Cook Off.
The greatest challenge the game has to offer is getting a grip on the controls. There's no challenge to be found within the recipes themselves.
http://wii.ign.com/articles/774/774342p1.html
exact motion recognition can be a bit wonky.
Once the shredder gets clogged up, you shake the Wii remote up and down to clear out the cheese. This action may work 9/10 times, but when it doesn't, it's extremely frustrating. We had moments where quick actions, slow actions, banging the controller on our knee, or smacking it in our hand still wouldn't result in a simply "down/up" motion, and that can be extremely annoying during a heated culinary competition. The result - Cooking Mama: Cook Off has some great moments of control, but also has more than a fair share of detached instances as well, which tend to frustrate.
Cracking an egg isn't a 1:1 motion, so it ends up being a guessing game.
*Shrugs*But if fighting sloppy controls is the highlight of your gaming experience, good for you.
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