Games Where You Fight the Controls

[Z-Beat]

This seems like it has enough entries to be a new genre but I thought I'd check with all of you. You know those games where your worst enemy is the control scheme? The goal is usually pretty simplistic (run forward, basic platformer, talk) but the controls are made in such a way that you either only have control over a very minute part of the character or you have too much control and have to manually operate all parts of the character. What are some other games that fall into this category?

 

[Hilbert]

Manual Samuel was pretty fun, and it was on gamepass for a while.

 

[TrashHeap64]

Eternal Darkness does this at some points. Once your stress meter gets full the game starts trolling the shit out of you. Sometimes the controls get inverted/screen goes upside down/etc

 

[ClickyCal']

Kid icarus uprising

 

[Chuck795]

Octodad?

 

[KillstealWolf]

Have up to 4 players control a limb each.

And then the limbs can randomise as you progress through the game, so you swap between walking and grabbing.

 

[Brivs]

In Clock Tower 3 for PS2, your character becomes erratic if her panic bar fills up, and she actively fights you when you're trying to make her run; sometimes she even just stops and freaks out for a moment.

 

[Brass Body Dave]

Why this sounds like GunValkyrie.

 

[Platy]

Octodad and Sugeon Simulator are my favorites

Surgeon Simulator is specifically extra funny because it messes with the idea of "doing something simplistic" so you getting trouble just holding a tool makes it 3 times more hilarious

 

[Alvaro]

Skyward Sword.

 

[Lobster Roll]

Celeste with a Switch Pro controller.

 

[molnizzle]

Kid icarus uprising

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This post triggered phantom pain in my hands. Ugh.

 

[Video Kojima]

god of war the thread

 

[ThreepQuest64]

Skyward Sword.

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The reason why I dropped it despite loving it. I just couldn't cope with the controls with Link almost never doing as intended. It felt like a massive chore.

 

[Numberfox]

I Am Bread

 

[Minky]

Shadow of the Colossus.

 

[StarPhlox]

I mean I loved Star Fox Zero but it was such an unintuitive nightmare for nearly everyone who tried it that it probably shelved the series for another 10 years.

 

[Doskoi Panda]

The reason why I dropped it despite loving it. I just couldn't cope with the controls with Link almost never doing as intended. It felt like a massive chore.

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There's a way to make Skyward Sword's controls (mostly) consistent but it's a pain in the ass

You basically have to play the game in a room with covered up windows and absolutely no IR interference...

The game doesn't use IR for any player-facing gameplay purposes, but the Wii Remote passively recalibrates the gyro controls while you play, using the sensor bar as a reference point.

Works fine when the only 'sensor bar' in your play space is the one on your TV. Not so much when the Wii Remote catches an errant beam of IR light from something that isn't directly in front of you - just like that, the reference point is skewed, suddenly the game thinks that the window to your left is actually forward position, and your control gets fucked.

I had a lot of fun with the game but I had to literally cover my windows with blankets to keep the motion controls consistent

 

[DiipuSurotu]

 

[cyba89]

Red Dead Redemption 2

 

[Alvaro]

There's a way to make Skyward Sword's controls (mostly) consistent but it's a pain in the ass

You basically have to play the game in a room with covered up windows and absolutely no IR interference...

The game doesn't use IR for any player-facing gameplay purposes, but the Wii Remote passively recalibrates the gyro controls while you play, using the sensor bar as a reference point.

Works fine when the only 'sensor bar' in your play space is the one on your TV. Not so much when the Wii Remote catches an errant beam of IR light from something that isn't directly in front of you - just like that, the reference point is skewed, suddenly the game thinks that the window to your left is actually forward position, and your control gets fucked.

I had a lot of fun with the game but I had to literally cover my windows with blankets to keep the motion controls consistent

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I hope they remaster this game on the switch so i can finally play it.

 

[Deikard]

I guess Flappy Bird could fall into that category.

 

[bnx]

Yakuza Dead Souls.

Took almost the whole game to get used to that control scheme

 

[Zelda]

Resident Evil 4

 

[Edgar]

The witcher 3 and RDR 2

Spoiler

just kidding

 

[piratethingy]

I guess I can't be mad at you all for your terrible jokes about games with controls you don't like instead of intentionally difficult controls seeing as how the OP took almost every example lol

 

[OtterX]

Human Fall Flat. But in a good, best played while drunk kinda way.

 

[SpokkX]

Kid Icarus Uprising
Zone of the enders 1/2

loved them but man those controls...

 

[Hyun Sai]

GTAIV. I endured 10 minutes of it before giving up.

 

[Labyrinthe]

All those platforming sections in FFXV. Jesus Christ, who thought that was a great idea? That Pitioss dungeon is horror.

 

[antitrop]

Sexy Hiking, but I only know about it because Bennett Foddy talks directly about how Getting Over It was inspired by it in his narration.

 

[Torpedo Vegas]

I was playing Switch a lot recently, and just went back to playing PS4 and OneX so right now everything.

 

[Thardin]

Monster Hunter games on PSP.

 

[Mechaplum]

god of war the thread

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A joke?

 

[aevanhoe]

Hello, sir, I would like to ask you for directions to.... <pulls the gun out and shoots>

RDR2