[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJ1Rz2clLS0[/media]
Seems like an interesting concept but I have a few quirks I have with they way they advertise this gadget:
1. They compare "Move & Lift" mouseplay to pressing against the side of the axis, if anything M&L is more efficient because your view is always centered where your mouse is. With that thing if you turn you have to bring the gun back to recenter your view.
2. They advertise this as being a useful device for competitive play; if you combine the recoil of guns in whatever game you're playing, then add the rumble. Your accuracy is going to be terrible, there's no way you're going to take something like that if you're trying to play competitively.
3. They describe it using it as "natural and intuitive", the natural way to handle a gun is to point it at the screen/what you're looking at, like an arcade shooter. Having a gun in a mounted position where you don't actually aim at what you're shooting at would feel very unnatural, especially for those who have held guns before.
Think I'll just stick to normal mice.
Kind of later than late, its actually a really cool mouse replacement.
Look what I just found:
[IMG]http://i304.photobucket.com/albums/nn171/jediburke/DANCING_BABY.gif[/IMG]
I would love to give this a go but I probably wouldn't buy one unless it was like £30 which it obviously won't be.
I'm pretty sure we've seen this before.
[QUOTE=Justin Case;24522625]I would love to give this a go but I probably wouldn't buy one unless it was like £30 which it obviously won't be.[/QUOTE]
Its a little over $250 with shipping in the USA.
Then the pistol grip is around $30 with shipping.
From what I've heard, the CEO is a really nice guy, and he posted a lot of facepunch exclusive discounts a couple of months ago.
Too expensive for something that's useful only in games. But that's just me
This is not a "pistol grip mouse", this is a Novint Falcon, and the Pistol Grip is an attachment for the Falcon.
[QUOTE=Cureless;24522490][URL="http://www.facepunch.com/#"]View YouTUBE video[/URL]
[URL]http://youtube.com/watch?v=WJ1Rz2clLS0[/URL]
Seems like an interesting concept but I have a few quirks I have with they way they advertise this gadget:
1. They compare "Move & Lift" mouseplay to pressing against the side of the axis, if anything M&L is more efficient because your view is always centered where your mouse is. With that thing if you turn you have to bring the gun back to recenter your view.
[b]However, the ability to aim without turning is also a very large advantage.[/b]
2. They advertise this as being a useful device for competitive play; if you combine the recoil of guns in whatever game you're playing, then add the rumble. Your accuracy is going to be terrible, there's no way you're going to take something like that if you're trying to play competitively.
[b]You can turn the recoil off, and there is no rumble.[/b]
3. They describe it using it as "natural and intuitive", the natural way to handle a gun is to point it at the screen/what you're looking at, like an arcade shooter. Having a gun in a mounted position where you don't actually aim at what you're shooting at would feel very unnatural, especially for those who have held guns before.
[b]I have used it, it is incredibly natural. Of course, it takes practice--but so does a mouse.[/b]
Think I'll just stick to normal mice.[/QUOTE]
Misleading title :argh:
[QUOTE=Plastical;24522791]From what I've heard, the CEO is a really nice guy, and he posted a lot of facepunch exclusive discounts a couple of months ago.[/QUOTE]
Yeah he his. I don't have one but seeing a company being so nice is great. A while ago I saw a guy getting screwed over with the shipping fees because the shipping company were jerks. The CEO offered him a free game to compensate even though it wasn't his fault that the shipping got screwed up.
[QUOTE=Nicht Du;24522592]Look what I just found:
[IMG]http://i304.photobucket.com/albums/nn171/jediburke/DANCING_BABY.gif[/IMG][/QUOTE]
:suicide:
[QUOTE=CommanderPT;24523258]Yeah he his. I don't have one but seeing a company being so nice is great. A while ago I saw a guy getting screwed over with the shipping fees because the shipping company were jerks. The CEO offered him a free game to compensate even though it wasn't his fault that the shipping got screwed up.[/QUOTE]
That was John, not Tom.
I have one, it's pretty fun to play with. Just not a viable choice if you actually plan on winning any time soon.
[QUOTE=geel9;24523173]However, the ability to aim without turning is also a very large advantage. [/QUOTE]
This is impossible, in FPS aim is a rotational system like this:
[img]http://img294.imageshack.us/img294/7695/aimrotation.png[/img]
If you aim, you are turning. The only FPS that let you aim without turning are arcade shooters where the camera faces one way and lets you shoot before turning to another direction.
The only way you could "Aim without turning" is if the device strafes left and right instead of turning you left and right when you "aim" with it, thus the only way to turn is to sway the controller to one side of axis in order to turn.
This is a rather substantial handicap considering you can create the same affect by simply strafing while aiming up and down with the mouse.
Either way, it's eyecandy. Something you would try for novelty, not a magnificent piece of hardware as they advertise it to be.
Wait a second. I thought you use this thing with a keyboard.
[QUOTE=Nicht Du;24522592]Look what I just found:
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wow no way!
[QUOTE=Cureless;24524853]Either way, it's eyecandy. Something you would try for novelty, not a magnificent piece of hardware as they advertise it to be.[/QUOTE]
I won one of these a few months ago and I could safely say that if wasn't so bulky and natively supported more games then it would be an incredible replacement for the mouse. From a competitive gaming stand point, yes a mouse is going to be the better option, but when you're just playing to have fun it's an awesome experience. It feels very intuitive to use and you get a huge amount of feedback right into your hand: movement, recoil, weight, directional damage, and it really helps to put you in the game. Now I'm not saying that it's a complete replacement for the mouse but it's a very well engineered control system that provides an engaging amount of feedback and a lot of precision, which all of these other camera and motion control schemes have all discarded in favour of a gimmick.
Two years?... Come on, you're better than that.
I can agree it's probably awesome for having fun Wiggles, the fact they say it's a great competitive piece better than a mouse is absurd.
Other than the exaggerated claims it looks pretty cool.
Either the people playing were really bad at the games they were playing, or the grip makes you have terrible aim.
This showed up on my RSS feed, and I saw it had a new name. I watched the video, and realized that this is old news. I think they just gave it a new name/color scheme and called it a new product.
Like the new XBOX controller.
I'd use it for ever single player game, but there's absolutly no way I would use it competitively, and if I were to, I wouldn't use that SILLY directional damage indicator, since you can hear directional damage through headphones anyway. The fact that I can even say that proves that this video doesn't have it's facts straight.
I would buy one if I won the lottery.
never seen this looks pretty cool
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