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

[MechDeus]

Finding your way is simply a matter of remembering landmarks, something insanely important in multiplayer FPS' (weapon locations: NEED memorization). The best way for most FPS' is to play a level over and over again (easy to do online), and most single-player tend to follow a fairly linear path.

It's easier to get lost in Prime thanks to running back and forth through areas so quickly and unlocking new places, so there are only a few key areas that you actually spend much time in for memorizing. I know the door locations in probably only 1/10 of the game, but I'm slowly learning all of it. The map is your friend.

And I tend to get lost easily as all hell in all of the Metroid games, so that's nothing new to me in Prime.

[johnk_]

i've been getting nauseous in metroid prime occasionally..

i find that it's usually when i don't know where to go next.. it's not that i have trouble finding my way around.. the maps are very useful..

but sometimes if i'm in a corner, facing the wall, and i have to spin around and the wall is flying past my face, that gets me kinda sick sometimes..
if only she could turn a bit quicker.

[Viper]

I've never had any real issues with 3D game design. In-game camera programming...now that's something I have issues with.

[SearchManX]

Originally posted by 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.

Man, Wolfenstein was a pain in the ass to memorize the areas because everything looked the SAME! I remember when my friend was watching me play and we would waste an hour going through the entire level pressing the space key hoping a goddamn secret wall would open. Annoying as hell! Ah, those were the days... FPS's have really evolved.

[DHG Otaku]

I'm with ya Opa-Opa...I first noticed this with Doom, which I liked but just couldn't handle any more. That shit gives me headaches and makes me break out into sweat...I just don't enjoy myself. Hence, i'm not into FPS (which is why I think Metroid Prime is FANTASTIC but I would never buy it) and 3D adventure games (which everyone calls platformers). I'm more into action and 2D stuff and then ironically, traditional RPGs. :P