Left handed....

[richard misiak]

funnily enough I never noticed what you're talking about until I tried making my character in skyrim left handed, bugged me a little but I forgot about it soon afterwards

 

[simple64]

How little do you need in order to become immersed? How much do you need to imagine in order to become immersed?

Well, by the definitions tossed around here, I am NEVER immersed.

I mean, if we're using any sort of practical definition, "immersion" would be the point at which you start to miss these exact qualities people are complaining about. But "immersion" is being dropped like crazy because it's a buzzword. It's like "edgy" or "innovation."

Really, in terms of actual immersion, you shouldn't be paying attention to which hand someone uses. In that, it takes little imagination for me to be immersed. And I maintain a lot of people lack even that.

But honestly, before "immersion" became a buzzword last year, did we have large bodies of people complaining about lefty Link? "Omg, this breaks the flow of the game, I can't play a left-handed character!" I don't think most people cared, honestly. This generation, it's now an "immersion breaker" all of a sudden.

I do mind games that focus on handiness...without the left handed option. I'm looking at you, Wii.

Now this I agree with.

Everybodys value of immersion is different. I get what you mean, I really do, in that if something as simple as handiness is enough to ruin your immersion, then it wasn't too good to begin with. However, it would be great to play as a lefty. I do almost everything with my left,and seeing a character (in first person, at least) do things with their right throws me off a tad. Just a tad, as my Redgaurd in Skyrim feels like I'm playing me, even though I'm pretty much forced to play lefty.

I wouldn't mind seeing more lefties out there, though, as, to me, that is usually a sign of the devs thinking more about their character traits. Chronos (Chrono Trigger) was a lefty. You may have never noticed it, but he was. A good little bit of characterization, if I do say so myself. That why I wasn't too pleased to see Link lose that aspect of his character. As if Myiamoto was saying "well, here are the masses, @#$% characterization and story-telling, MOAR RITIEZ".

I exaggerate, of course, but it went down something like that, my conspiracy theorist tells me.

 

[TehCookie]

Skyrim annoys me so much. Why does the left click control the right hand? I know that's the main click and main hand, but I don't think of it that way. Left click should be left hand, it's the same reason I don't invert controls when looking (back of the head tilts up to tilt your face down) I am not controlling the brain I am controlling the character. I would much rather just play a left handed character. Or even for Twilight Princess, I would rather use my left hand to play since Link is left handed but that's not even an option. My left hand isn't deadweight I am able to use it even though I prefer my right.