Red Steel's aiming system sucked pretty bad, right? And The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess seemed to make better use of the aiming although you were planted in the ground. Having to move the cursor to the edge of the screen to "push" your view so you look left or right is a little irritating.
So here is the scoop... Typical first person shooters on consoles require two *movement* sticks, one typically for moving (forward, backward, strafe left, strafe right), and the other for turning your view (looking up, down, left, right).
On the computer you use the mouse for doing all the view moving. And four keys are for doing the moving.
And here is the formula I think would rock first person shooters on Wii...
Have a nunchaku attachment for moving, but also include a device that connects to the Wii-mote (or replaces the Wii mote) that allows for a second thumb stick for your other hand. The only comfortable, responsive way to point "on screen" at objects would be to keep the *movement* stick and the *view turning* stick, but to ADD the *on-screen* aiming.
So one stick would move the character, one stick would turn your view, and the Wii mote would point at different places on the screen (a free-moving reticle, not fixed in the middle).
Of course, the fallback option would be to just have the Wii mote not point on screen, but to just turn your view like a mouse on a computer does; keeping the reticle in the middle of the screen.
i think it should be like re4 sort of aiming run, stop/aim, shoot. run left right forward and back with the nunchuck then hold z or something and shoot with a or b. just like zelda. the problem with red steel was you just hold forward and look around with wiimote... makes me nauseous
I like Red Steels controls, it definently beat analog in my opinion, my accuracy was through the roof. I think a simple control scheme would be to use the motion sensing ability of the nunchuk to move the screen and the wiimote's pointer for aiming simple as that. The harder you tilt the nunchuk the faster you turn, and the analog for moving.
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