This. Would have dropped it less than 1h in if not for a sprinting mod.
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Games where the simple aspect of movement felt like trash?
- Thread starter BossAttack
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Final Fantasy XI was the first game I thought of lol. I enjoyed my time with it, but engaging combat and leaving combat in that game is absolutely dreadful
Hope you changed to performance mode, because the bug is known and AFAIK not in performance mode. Movement in that game is so good, sad to see that lag ruining that experience.
The initial movement yes. But the patched option for crisper movement made it pretty much fine for me.
Also:
GTA5 and Red Dead Redemption.
How can you have a game of that scale and quality but have controlls which make you feel like you want to throw the game away. Even if you aim for realitisic animations why not give an option for more accurate movement to actually make it enjoyable....
Yep, feels much more playable in performance mode, and still looks good. Didn't realize it was a bug, maybe they'll get around to fixing it some time.
Lemme take you all back to this PS2 gem
Onimusha
where you control like a tank. I was 3/4 through the game before the control scheme started feeling somewhat comfortable.
Iirc it controlled based on camera position, so it had that great effect of you running and the camera changing positions only for the control to register as a different direction.
Onimusha
where you control like a tank. I was 3/4 through the game before the control scheme started feeling somewhat comfortable.
Iirc it controlled based on camera position, so it had that great effect of you running and the camera changing positions only for the control to register as a different direction.
The Witcher 3: The first game I've ever finished that had me dodging combat encounters like they were covid cuz fuck I hate the Witcher's combat, movement, and like everything else but Gwent. Gwent is a banger and I only played TW3 for so long looking for more people to duel
Fortnite: I installed it, got into a game, ran maybe 10 steps, jumped once, quit out, and uninstalled it. That game feels horrific in a way I genuinely don't know how to describe cuz I'd have to redownload it to do so and lord knows that's just not an option
RDR2: I booted it up once to see if Rockstar Games did indeed play as awkwardly as they look and indeed they do
Fortnite: I installed it, got into a game, ran maybe 10 steps, jumped once, quit out, and uninstalled it. That game feels horrific in a way I genuinely don't know how to describe cuz I'd have to redownload it to do so and lord knows that's just not an option
RDR2: I booted it up once to see if Rockstar Games did indeed play as awkwardly as they look and indeed they do
Naaaah man.
It definitely feels different, the aiming can feel odd after coming from a more traditional TPS but that game was so responsive.
It's by far the least satisfying experience in a Mario game when it comes to just controlling Mario. You're not allowed to do anything cool, ever.
Mario's top speed is pathetic, and so much of what you do just kills your momentum altogether. Luma's spin jump isn't half as versatile as either FLUDD or Cappy. Every power-up except the Ice Flower is boring to use. And worst of all, the challenge level is so consistently low throughout the game that you're not even asked to show much competence at the limited abilities Mario does have at his disposal.
If there's one specific aspect of this game that really encompasses my disdain with how it controls, it's the Fire Flower. Every time you throw a fireball, Mario grinds to a literal halt, and he can't even change his direction of fire from one shot to the next unless you wait for his fireball animation to completely finish, then reorient your position/aim. The game just eats all of your directional inputs otherwise. It may not sound like much but it's the most disgusting feeling action that I can recall having to do in any Mario game to date. He's so much more acrobatic in literally every other game.
I will grant that it's been probably 30 years since I played Corporation on the Amiga so my memory could be a bit off, but I'm still confident it had the worst movement of anything mentioned so far. If I recall correctly, looking was done with the keyboard, and the mouse handled the movement. There was an on-screen circle that you moved the cursor around like a virtual joystick on a modern smartphone game. To be fair it came out in 1990, so it was one of the very first 3D fps games, coming out two years before even Wolfenstein 3D.
But I do remember liking the game outside of the very real struggle to move anywhere, so looking up the game to double-check the title I was happy to discover there's a Genesis version I didn't know existed.
But I do remember liking the game outside of the very real struggle to move anywhere, so looking up the game to double-check the title I was happy to discover there's a Genesis version I didn't know existed.
Super Mario Bros. 2 (USA)
Even for NES Mario standards, characters are too slippery and move too fast. From 0 to 100 like nothing.
Even for NES Mario standards, characters are too slippery and move too fast. From 0 to 100 like nothing.
Dark Souls II and The Witcher 3 go without saying. I don't even have to explain them.
I have to add The Division (1/2) into this as well. Moment to moment movement, walking through the city and even sprinting from one point in the map to the other is serviceable. It absolutely takes a nosedive in combat unless you literally play pop and shoot whilst in cover. If you wanted to actually move whilst engaging the enemy outside of those pre-tracked cover transitions, the movement feels horrible! Strafing side to side or pushing up/falling back just feels terrible, imo.
I have to add The Division (1/2) into this as well. Moment to moment movement, walking through the city and even sprinting from one point in the map to the other is serviceable. It absolutely takes a nosedive in combat unless you literally play pop and shoot whilst in cover. If you wanted to actually move whilst engaging the enemy outside of those pre-tracked cover transitions, the movement feels horrible! Strafing side to side or pushing up/falling back just feels terrible, imo.
Lost Levels is one of my favorite games ever but I'll argue that Luigi's ice shoes in that game are way more unwieldly than anything else in the NES Mario games.
Fable 2 and Killzone 2.
Movement in Fable 2 just never felt great to me. As funny as it sounds, walking and running is one of the things I'm most anxious to see how Playground does with their Fable game.
Much has already been said about Killzone's input lag--and yeah, it's bad. I never understood why people excused it as feeling "weighty."
Edit: Oh, and old Assassin's Creed games. I really wanted to like AC4, but the controls just put me off. Origins is the first one that felt good to move around to me.
Movement in Fable 2 just never felt great to me. As funny as it sounds, walking and running is one of the things I'm most anxious to see how Playground does with their Fable game.
Much has already been said about Killzone's input lag--and yeah, it's bad. I never understood why people excused it as feeling "weighty."
Edit: Oh, and old Assassin's Creed games. I really wanted to like AC4, but the controls just put me off. Origins is the first one that felt good to move around to me.
Killzone 2 full stop.
To this day I still have no idea what defenders of that movement system are smoking.
To this day I still have no idea what defenders of that movement system are smoking.
I was gonna say Xenoblade 2. There's also the fact that you have to do some absurd sidequests and grinding to unlock incremental run speed boosts. The game just before felt amazing to run around in and they just went the complete opposite direction.
Conversely, for me, all of the recent Assassin's creed games I tried control wonderfully (and make other third person climb/parkour games feel clunky). Yet there's so much other Ubisoft jank and filler that weighs it down.
Persona 5 : the movement speed while walking is way too fast and deson't match the animation at all. It's also imprecise as hell, making the walking sections less pleasant than they ought to be.
Assassin's Creed Odyssey : it's near impossible to walk in this game, stick sensitivity is way too high and you end up half assedly running 80% of the time. Sad thing is, AC series used to be a referenve for me in terms of being fun to walk around in.
Assassin's Creed Odyssey : it's near impossible to walk in this game, stick sensitivity is way too high and you end up half assedly running 80% of the time. Sad thing is, AC series used to be a referenve for me in terms of being fun to walk around in.
QWOP, Red Dead Redemption 2, Resident Evil 1/2 (originals), and any extended slippery ice or swimming levels.
Final Fantasy XIII - Now I actually love this game, but it's like Dark Souls 2 where it never feels like the character is connected to the world, more like they are hovering right above it.
I remember running across the beach on PS3 and seeing that tracks wherent even left in the sand when Lighting was running in boots.
She has the same traction and move regardless of it being Ice, Crystal, even jumps. I know most games are like that, but they don't feel like it in quite the same way as DS2 and FFXIII.
I remember running across the beach on PS3 and seeing that tracks wherent even left in the sand when Lighting was running in boots.
She has the same traction and move regardless of it being Ice, Crystal, even jumps. I know most games are like that, but they don't feel like it in quite the same way as DS2 and FFXIII.
The Last Guardian. The boy can only tiptoe or sprint; there's no analogue movement control and nothing between those two speeds. Combine that with huuuuge animation priority, low framerate and what feels like a hell of a lot of input lag and it's just a nightmare to make your character go where you want him to. Lining yourself up to pull a switch is one of the hardest tasks in the game. And beyond just walking around on flat ground, they took the manual grip system from Shadow of the Colossus and replaced it with a system where you just automatically grab anything close enough, which makes climbing on Trico (and specifically getting off Trico) an utter chore.
I see you got it covered
8 directions only, terrible lag on starting and stopping to move. Play this after 1 or 3 if you hate yourself.
I cannot stand the movement controls in this game. Drives me fucking nuts.
The Saboteur.
One of the most infamous "rose-tinted glasses" games, everyone remembers it for it's Black And White world mechanic, and how driving out the Nazis restores colour to the world.
The game controls like garbage. They tried to implement an Assassin's Creed style climbing system and it was bad in 2009, let alone now.
One of the most infamous "rose-tinted glasses" games, everyone remembers it for it's Black And White world mechanic, and how driving out the Nazis restores colour to the world.
The game controls like garbage. They tried to implement an Assassin's Creed style climbing system and it was bad in 2009, let alone now.
I never really liked how movement and especially jumping feels in the Kirby games. Wheel power is the obvious exception.
GTAV and literally every David Cage game. And a reminder that it's not a bad take to name drop rockstar games. They literally have a larger than average dead zone that makes the player feel a disconnect.
Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon (the original NES game) would be borderline unplayable without the 2x speed multiplier in the Switch localization. It's soooo slow and almost ruins an otherwise decent NES game.
I'll have to take your word for it. Never played Lost Levels and honestly don't plan to.
Resident Evil 7. I haven't played a first person game with controls that sluggish in a loooong time
