TNL's GotM: October 2006

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Originally Posted by bVork

I said what I meant and meant what I said. That's why I specifically mentioned 2600 Battlezone and not the arcade one. I used the word "tank" because it has the additional connotation of being slow, unwieldy, and ponderous. Tank controls sucked in Alone in the Dark, they sucked in Resident Evil, and they suck in God Hand. Katamari Damacy's control kinda sucks too.

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I know what you meant, but it's a bad term that's frequently misapplied. I didn't mean to imply that you made it up or anything. It's just not as accurate as saying "Character-relative controls" (as opposed to screen-relative)

And I rarely ever hear the term applied to first person games like 2600 Battlezone, or Doom 1 and 2. I think it stems from Combat, actually, which was top-down, but you still moved side to side to rotate and up to move forward.

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Originally Posted by Frogacuda

I know what you meant, but it's a bad term that's frequently misapplied. I didn't mean to imply that you made it up or anything. It's just not as accurate as saying "Character-relative controls" (as opposed to screen-relative)

And I rarely ever hear the term applied to first person games like 2600 Battlezone, or Doom 1 and 2. I think it stems from Combat, actually, which was top-down, but you still moved side to side to rotate and up to move forward.

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You're right. That term IS better, especially when you contrast it to "screen-relative." I also agree that Combat is probably the original game to which the term was applied.

I still don't like the control scheme, though. Differentiating between character and screen relative is meaningless when the camera is always at a fixed point relative to the character.

That sig is AWESOME, but really fucking huge.

I voted for God Hand, because its the best game I have played all year.

You need to play at least two games this year to be able to vote, IMO.

Shut up Joust. You didn't play any.

He played Splinter Cell: The Zelda of Stealth games.

No, because no game series does stealth better these days. Zelda has been surpassed by tons of games.

Wait, you didn't play Splinter Cell: The Zelda of Stealth, or you did? I read it's supposed to be the second best one, after Splinter Cell: The Final Fantasy of Stealth.