Quote from: kvon17 on Jan 21, 2010, 06:42:42 AM
Quote from: AJL on Jan 20, 2010, 07:26:47 AM
Those alien "vent transitioning" things... Everything has to be so damn automated and the automation never really works that well... It never does what you want exactly...
Question: What is there to mess up about "Press A to Enter Vent"?
If you want to enter the vent, press A. If you don't, Don't press A. Easy.
In previous games those vent and such openings were just that... Openings... You could
go through anyway you choose... You could walk, run, jump, strafe, backpedal... You could
go half way through and then change your mind and pull back... You could get out from the
vents to any direction you wanted... up, down, left, right... You had "full" control over what
your character did...
But with this AvP(3) system you have to get close to the vent, aim at it and hit a button
to activate this automated transition... during which you have no control over what is going
to happen... (its like some mini cutscene...) The transition moves you all the way from one
side of the opening to the other, and to some predefined position and orientation which
you have no control over...
This AvP(3) system would have been fine (or great even) if it was an optional helper system
build in
addition to that good old fashioned system. (But if it replaces the old and is now the
only way to go through those vent opening
like it seems to then it really sucks...)