Do I just not have the skill to play 3D games?

[Victrix]

but I liked doing that as a kid

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Originally posted by Victrix
but I liked doing that as a kid

Actually I did too, but I never looked though them when I was playing my Atari.

[Victrix]

hmm, a point I had not considered

(some hours later, my gf is going to come home to me playing prime while wearing a paper towel tube eyeglass contraption and leave me for good)

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!!!

[Clash!]

Sounds like lack of skills. If you have to look at a map because your lost either means, you don't know the area, or have no memory of the place you just were.

Its just like in the real world, people use landmarks and street signs to guide them to places, just like in a 3D game.

Do you have trouble getting around in the real world? After all its 3D.

[Victrix]

you don't have to hit a button to look up or down in the real world :P and you usually don't jump around on platforms and roll into a ball and... sigh, nevermind

it's harder to navigate in most 3d games than it is in the real world, for a variety of reasons

(besides, plenty of people suck at getting around in a car don't they? :P)

[SearchManX]

Descent... wow, I would get confused whenever I'm upside down... that was the only game to get me completely lost.

Otherwise, I've been playing Doom and Wolfenstein and Quake for most of the time it was out so I'm pretty good at navigating my way through FPS games. Some people can do it, and some don't, you can't "force" yourself to get better at it if you're getting sick... of course, it usually happens to older people...

It's kinda like why some people can't draw... I'm by no means a good artist, (after seeing some great works of art in the Galleria), but I could never understand how someone could never draw any better beyond a stick figure... I guess our brains just act a certain way and it's tough to adapt...

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Originally posted by Clash_Master
Do you have trouble getting around in the real world? After all its 3D.

In real life you can see soooo much more than you can thru the narrow scope of a first person videogame.

It's like the example I made above. If you walked around the real world while looking through toilet paper rolls - you might have a bit more trouble getting around!



Anyway, I am not saying FP games are bad or difficult. I can play them w/o problems. They simply don't appeal to me. But the point here is that a FP perspective is not very similar to the real world.

[Mzo]

Hey, I started with Wolfenstein, and that ain't got no map. Nice and flat, though. By now, I can find my way around pretty easy. I think being good at videogames is the same as being good at anything else in life: it takes practice. And if you like it as much as I do, you'd have plenty of practice by now.

About the headaches and motion sickness... I dunno. I always thought it was weird that it happens to people when playing games, but sure. I also don't get sick on boats or when reading in the car or anything like that, so maybe I'm the weird one.

MP has a great map, showing off every corner of every room, with a big ass arrow showing you where Samus is and what direction she's facing. If you have trouble with that, then I don't know what to tell you.

[opa-opa]

I just wish Metroid (or most FPS games) had a compass. At least with that you can always tell which direction you're facing.