NiGHTS Controlled 4 Ways!!
Here is some interesting news:
“We sat down with the boss of Sonic Team USA, Takashi Iizuka, at the Wii Flat in London yesterday to quiz him on his new game, NiGHTS: Journey of Dreams on Wii – and he revealed an interesting fact about the game’s development. Turns out that of all the four control methods available, the development team all play the game using GameCube controllers
I can honestly say I do not understand why more 3rd party developers are not utilizing the old Gamecube controller or even the “classic” controller that Nintendo released to give us a choice as to how we want to play our games. Don’t get me wrong, motion controls are awesome and I think it’s where the industry needs to go, I just think that it would be nice to have a choice.
What do you guys think?
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I see your point, but are gamecube controllers on sale anymore?
I’m pretty conflicted on this issue. On one hand, it is nice to have a variety of control methods so people can pick what feels best to them, but then again, it almost seems like a cop-out instead of making truly revolutionary controls that work. Mario Galaxy has got amazing controls and plays extremely well, and it only has one control scheme.
Now, with something like NiGHTS, I do appreciate GCN/CC support because it gives a nostalgic factor to the game if people choose to play it that way. With some fighting games, GCN/CC support is there so people can execute combos better if they don’t feel like participating in a waggle fest. But for me, it seems like with what some developers are using this cop-out for, it would just work better to make a Wiimote-Nunchuck control scheme that plays like GCN. It doesn’t need to have motion controls to use the Wiimote.
I don’t know what the development process is like, but I’d push developers to use the Wiimote and Nunchuck primarily and if it really doesn’t work and actually does have crippling problems, jump ship to GCN controller.