[QUOTE="Mystikef"][QUOTE="Javy03"][QUOTE="EtherTwilight"]I can't believe that the loss of rumble is such a big deal. Your controller vibrates. Whoopty-doo. It honestly adds a) Little, or b) None to the actual gameplay at hand. Instead of game developers whining about the "loss," why not do something neat with the technology on hand? Use the tilt functions for stuff that would actually be neat or interesting, and make you feel more intuitive with the game, which rumble is supposed to do but doesn't. Use it for leaning. Use it for quick movements. Use it for complex reloading of guns, pumping shotguns, slamming mags, pulling pins on grenades. There are a ton of possibilities, but saying "zogm it's not teh wii" or "zogm it duzn't have teh rumble!!!1111shiftoneoneone" is ridiculously tactless, ill-informed, and honestly, a bit bias. The fact that some developer doesn't know how to think outside of the box hardly quantifies as news.EtherTwilight
I agree 100%. I see more possibilities with six axis then the vibrator. Especially if you have 5.1 surround sound. THe controller shaking doesnt add anything my nice subwoofer doesnt do.You two are noobs. Rumble desn't add anything? It adds another complete sensory input? Sight, Sound.... TOUCH.
The human brain responds fastest to touch. That means you can react quicker to game information with touch, than by sight and sound alone. Not to mention... it can add information to the game. For example.. getting hit by a sniper that is out of earshot. You can't see him, hear him... but you FEEL the bullet hit you. You can also FEEL the road in driving games, giving you additional information to work with.
Calling rumble "just vibrations" is so very noobish. That is like calling sound "just molecule vibration" or vision "just light wavelength and intensity variations." Rumble has come a long way, and on the 360 the controller can vibrate in mutiple ways with multiple intensities transmitting a great deal of information through touch, which add another complete level of feedback into the game. Of course... if you don't like it... you can just turn it off. On the PS3... you can NEVER turn it on.
Noob? I believe not. I've been playing videogames long enough that I remember when rumble was new. "So have I, you're still a noob!"
Heh.
See, the problem here, champ, is that all of those "neat" little features with the rumble are entirely aesthetic, and purely subjective. Does a rumble feature actually add anything to a racing game? Being able to "feel" the "rumble" of the road. . .in your controller? If it does for you, then cool! But it doesn't do anything for me except become irritating.
Feeling a shot but not hearing it? Please, it's called a shot indicator, and is used in pretty much every shooter on the face of the planet. And there are plenty of other ways that this can be better incorporated into games - For instance, vision going blurry, sound going fuzzy, etc. The "rumble," again, is not a core piece of the actual game - It's just an added feature.
Say it with me now: Added feature. And one that's entirely subjective.
However, on the other hand, the "tilt" function of the sixaxis controller is more than an "added feature." It's an entirely new concept that I believe, once developers with your mindset get their heads out of their rearends, will add a whole new side of game playing. Take a look at the examples I already provided. Think of some more on your own. Go ahead. Are ideas brewing yet? I bet you've got a couple.
Now think about what the rumble's going to do. It's gonna vibrate...in your hand. That's really rad, my cellphone even does that! It enhances the experience of me getting a phone call!
If you like rumble, that's all well and good, but really, don't praise it as being anything more than it is. And certainly don't examine it as being anything more than a subjective and aesthetic aside.
Yes, yes... I played Intellivision when it first came out. It doesn't make me right... nor does it make you right.
As I said, if you don't like rumble, there is a way to turn it off. But pretending like it doesn't add anything to a game is STILL a noobish thing to say.
Rumble tech is to the point that you can tell what kind of bullet is hitting you... not just IF a bullet is hitting you. If you are getting sprayed with machine gun fire and sniped at the same time... that rumble feature might come in handy. Especially since there is plenty of visual info that you already need to be focused on.
The there is the heartbeat in horror games...Â
The feel of the road in driving games....
The clunk of objects as you bash them....
And so on. Rumble has hundreds of uses. So stop being a noob and comparing rumble to your cell phone vibration. Rumble is interactive and adjustable vibration and can be used to transmit hundreds of different data type. The reason I am calling you a noob is because you keep making comparrisions to something like a cell phone... which is either vibrate on or vibrate off. Rumble changes the frequency, intensity, and length of vibration... which then can convey hundreds of bits of information through that variation.
By your reasoning... sound could be considered obsolete. You don't need to "hear" the bullets... there are shot indicators. Of course if you don't like sound... you can turn it off. Just like Rumble.
Don't keep trying to sell me on the tilt. I have no problems with tilt. I have a problem with the supposedly "most advanced" of the consoles losing a standard feature that all other consoles have had, do have, and always will have. And they will always give the choice of turning it off to the 10% to 20% of gmaers, like you, that do not enjoy it.
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