Yeah, it's this huge window of timing that bugs me the most about PoP. I understand and have even learned to appreciate the whole no dying thing. But the fact that i don't have to get the timing right at all in order to do the platforming destroys most of the challenge and the fun for me.
If i am wall/ceiling running towards a ring i can press the button for swinging past the ring at any point in my run. that just makes no sense to me. if i am shooting around with elika on the magic plates i don't even need to pay attention to the acrobatics needed to reach the next one. i can essentially take my hands off the controller while i hit the wall near the next plate, wall run automatically towards it and as long as i have pressed y again at some point in there i will successfully shoot off to the next plate.
at the very least there should be a difficulty setting that puts the challenge of correct timing back in place.
PoP is way too easy, but it has nothing to do with the fact that you can't die.
exactly. my favorite part of the nxe is the relative quiet of running a game from the hard drive. especially when playing at night when the game volume had to be down in order to not piss off the room mates, that roaring disc drive drove me up the wall.
the netflix stuff is pretty nice too.
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Yeah, it's this huge window of timing that bugs me the most about PoP. I understand and have even learned to appreciate the whole no dying thing. But the fact that i don't have to get the timing right at all in order to do the platforming destroys most of the challenge and the fun for me. If i am wall/ceiling running towards a ring i can press the button for swinging past the ring at any point in my run. that just makes no sense to me. if i am shooting around with elika on the magic plates i don't even need to pay attention to the acrobatics needed to reach the next one. i can essentially take my hands off the controller while i hit the wall near the next plate, wall run automatically towards it and as long as i have pressed y again at some point in there i will successfully shoot off to the next plate. at the very least there should be a difficulty setting that puts the challenge of correct timing back in place. PoP is way too easy, but it has nothing to do with the fact that you can't die.
exactly. my favorite part of the nxe is the relative quiet of running a game from the hard drive. especially when playing at night when the game volume had to be down in order to not piss off the room mates, that roaring disc drive drove me up the wall. the netflix stuff is pretty nice too.