That Alone in the Dark game they did for the PC a couple of years back. The game punished you for not using a controller.
Have you ever refused to play because of crappy controls?
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Need for Speed: Carbon on the Wii.
Now unlike a lot of folks in this thread, I actually don't mind the Wii's motion controls at all. For me, they can either be really fun at the best or just slightly awkward at the worst, I don't despise them at all. There's only one exception, and that is NFS: Carbon. A Wii launch title that has shittons of control schemes available... and none of them feel comfortable at all! Even the bog-standard 'holding the Wiimote on its side and tilting it back and forth like a steering wheel' just felt plain old off, and to make matters worse to access most of the menu functions you had to have the nunchuck plugged in. The nunchuck. Plugged in. While holding the Wiimote SIDEWAYS. Try to do that and tell me it feels comfortable to wrap your hand around an end of a bloody stick with a wire sticking out of it.
[small]Spoiler Alert: it doesn't feel comfortable at all.[/small]
Now unlike a lot of folks in this thread, I actually don't mind the Wii's motion controls at all. For me, they can either be really fun at the best or just slightly awkward at the worst, I don't despise them at all. There's only one exception, and that is NFS: Carbon. A Wii launch title that has shittons of control schemes available... and none of them feel comfortable at all! Even the bog-standard 'holding the Wiimote on its side and tilting it back and forth like a steering wheel' just felt plain old off, and to make matters worse to access most of the menu functions you had to have the nunchuck plugged in. The nunchuck. Plugged in. While holding the Wiimote SIDEWAYS. Try to do that and tell me it feels comfortable to wrap your hand around an end of a bloody stick with a wire sticking out of it.
[small]Spoiler Alert: it doesn't feel comfortable at all.[/small]
Looking at some of these comments on bad controls, I have 3 words for you all. Predator Concrete Jungle. That game is my most favourite PS2 video game I ever owned, but it's controls...it's controls were worse than any, ANY of the games put up un this thread. You will seriously bust a blood vessel in your eye trying to play this game on any difficulty other than easy because of the controls (and the unforgiving/borderline unfair AI).
That game has taught me how to look past nearly ALL games that have somewhat awkward controls. No seriously, Predator Concrete Jungle will make Fatal Frame III, Zelda Twilight Princess, Dark Souls, Silent Hill Homecoming, Assassin's Creed (PC), Mirror's Edge, Fable, Assassins Creed 3, Mass Effect, and all the other games mentioned on this list look great. If you don't believe me, watch Two Best Friends Play Predator Concrete Jungle, or better yet go and look at the reviews.
That game has taught me how to look past nearly ALL games that have somewhat awkward controls. No seriously, Predator Concrete Jungle will make Fatal Frame III, Zelda Twilight Princess, Dark Souls, Silent Hill Homecoming, Assassin's Creed (PC), Mirror's Edge, Fable, Assassins Creed 3, Mass Effect, and all the other games mentioned on this list look great. If you don't believe me, watch Two Best Friends Play Predator Concrete Jungle, or better yet go and look at the reviews.
Yup. Other M was the first one I can remember. Alot of people hate it for its many other flaws, and no doubt they would have gotten me eventually, but it was the utterly horrific controls that made me quit. Especially the bloody stupid missile thing. UGG.
Metroid Prime 3 was a more unusual example. The first few times I played it, no problem. It wasn't ideal, but I never had too many problems. When I tried to start again a few days ago I found it almost completely unplayable. So many stupid problems. That might actually be a hardware issue though.
Metroid Prime 3 was a more unusual example. The first few times I played it, no problem. It wasn't ideal, but I never had too many problems. When I tried to start again a few days ago I found it almost completely unplayable. So many stupid problems. That might actually be a hardware issue though.
Day Z.
So clunky...so unintuitive. It simply wasn't fun. I still love the concept, but using ARMA II...bleh.
So clunky...so unintuitive. It simply wasn't fun. I still love the concept, but using ARMA II...bleh.
Unless you're on the Wii, in which case, the number is much higher because they tried to add in bad motion controls to otherwise good games.j-e-f-f-e-r-s said:
I don't get the need for apologetics.
I bought Grand Theft Auto 2 on the Playstation years ago and I haven't even beaten the first area because of controls. The controls are most similar to those from the Asteroids arcade game except you turn left and right with the DPad and press X and [] to move forward and back, so its basically driving controls for a game where you need to shoot accurately. I always die during gun fights since I have to slowly turn using the Dpad in hopes I have lined up with the enemy, which never has a problem targetting me.
Yes and it was The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword i absolutely hate the way it controls. i just want to push buttons damn it!
Yes. Dead Space. I'm a lefty and I play on the numpad. Occasionally, a game doesn't recognize keys and the numpad. Battlefield 2, for example. Usually just one or two though and I can get by. But Dead Space didn't recognize enough numpad keys that I couldn't make it work. I tried switching to the keyboard (PL;') but that opened up a bag of hurt. I ended up pressing the wrong keys all the time and gave up.
I almost gave up on The Witcher (1) because I couldn't figure out what to do. In the tutorial level, when you first have to fight a dude, I couldn't for the life of me. I always jumped over him. Don't know if it was my fault or if they fixed it for the Enhanced Edition, but when I gave that a second chance, I had no such problems. Thank $deity.
I almost gave up on The Witcher (1) because I couldn't figure out what to do. In the tutorial level, when you first have to fight a dude, I couldn't for the life of me. I always jumped over him. Don't know if it was my fault or if they fixed it for the Enhanced Edition, but when I gave that a second chance, I had no such problems. Thank $deity.
I found Mirror's Edge to have quite easy to use controls, both on xbox and PC. Though I'll have to agree with you on AC III, I found the changes they made to be awkward and couldn't get used to them.Esotera said:
The Getaway is the only game I can think of that I stopped playing strictly because of bad controls. Ass Cree Three I was willing to play with the awkward controls but I couldn't get invested in the story. It's a shame because I was really looking forward to it.
The Skate series I nearly walked away from, but I'm glad I didn't because once I got the hang of it the game felt so natural and I had so much fun that I now barely play the Tony Hawk's games.
