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Sun 30/03/03 at 18:57
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Okay, I just got Metroid Prime today, and I've only been playing it about 2 minutes and I'm worried already. Do you really have to push down the L button to strafe? That's crap! So you can't turn and strafe at the same time? Rubbish! I can't see anywhere in the options to change the controls. You can't even use the camera stick to move your view around, can you?

Someone tell me this isn't so, I need a control system I can use or I'll never play it.
Sun 30/03/03 at 18:57
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"Pouch Ape"
Posts: 14,499
Okay, I just got Metroid Prime today, and I've only been playing it about 2 minutes and I'm worried already. Do you really have to push down the L button to strafe? That's crap! So you can't turn and strafe at the same time? Rubbish! I can't see anywhere in the options to change the controls. You can't even use the camera stick to move your view around, can you?

Someone tell me this isn't so, I need a control system I can use or I'll never play it.
Sun 30/03/03 at 19:00
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You suck.
Sun 30/03/03 at 19:03
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Posts: 10,437
Don't worry - the further you get into the gam,e the more you'll realise that the controls are fine, at first I had my worries too, but if the normal FPS control system was used, it wouldn't be the same.
Sun 30/03/03 at 19:06
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"Pouch Ape"
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So I can't change them? That really is crap. I'm finding it impossible to even move around normally. The camera stick doesn't even do anything, why couldn't that be used to strafe? And look around? Huh?
Sun 30/03/03 at 19:08
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"Pouch Ape"
Posts: 14,499
Hmm, I appear to be monkey_man, when I am in fact Snuggly.
Sun 30/03/03 at 19:10
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"TheShiznit.co.uk"
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That's better.
Sun 30/03/03 at 19:14
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Posts: 11,875
The C-Stick is used to select beams in the same way the D-pad is used to select visors.


You just don't have any others yet.
Sun 30/03/03 at 19:20
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Posts: 11,038
When you get further on in the game, you realise that if you had used, eg, the TS2 controls, the game would be impossibly hard to play, it wasn't until after a few hours I actually used the controls as if, they were, a part of me... damn I sound retarded...
Sun 30/03/03 at 19:20
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"+34 Intellect"
Posts: 21,334
I thought the same thing when i first got it, but after half an hour you realise that the controls are amazing, bear with it and you will understand.
Sun 30/03/03 at 19:26
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"TheShiznit.co.uk"
Posts: 6,592
I don't like them - end of story. I shall now have a hissy fit and throw the game out the window. Not being able to turn and strafe in a first-person shoot 'em up is disgraceful, like not being able to fire your gun.

Bah.

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