For me it was mostly a matter of:
a) understanding that aiming is affected by both hands - bring your trigger arm down, and you aim up, bring your bow arm up and you aim up also
b) nock your arrow properly as the instructions tell you - place your bow arm/hand at the correct height, which is generally a little below where you are going to be aiming, bring your arrow holding hand to the same position and properly pull the arrow straight backwards from there.
c) you are holding your hands higher than with most other games (beach volley excepted), so for me personally I was having better results kneeling with one leg on the sofa to bring my position a little down versus the television.
Your aim is only affected by your leading hand. I am not sure if your other hand affected trajectory, but since it controls power, so it's most likely does to certain extent. But archery isn't so hard IMO, real life archery is way way harder. But I enjoyed it more than Boccee and Disc Golf. Maybe I just like faster paced game, which archery is.
You really kneel on the sofa ? awesome. The other day I was just thinking what's the best PS Move set up. Because TVs are typically set up for sitting down. When you stand up the TV is typically a tad too low. But not all PS Move games will be played standing up, so mounting the TV eye-level when standing up would be sort of a waste. But I am considering a dedicated room for PS Move
Maybe when more games are out.
I'm surprised that I like as many of these games as I do - for Bocce and Disc Golf there are quite a few different environments and tracks to play around in, that in the case of Bocce at least can get pretty wild too with loops and everything. But I certainly can understand others not liking them as much. I didn't like golf in Wii Sports Resort nearly as much as I liked disc golf, and I thought the disc/dog thing in Wii Sports Resort was rather excellent, and is probably the one thing I would have wanted to be in SC the most
(though with more hardcore scoring, of course).
Well I typically like faster paced games. I do play slower games, but the graphics, eye-candy and arts have to be exceptionally good. Sports Champions is not bad in that area but far from good, definitely not exceptional. The control in Boccee and Disc Golf is very good. But still I'll probably finished all the cup, but I do get bored of them after beating one or two opponents. I played Gladiator a lot more.
Demo or full game? I'm definitely not rushing, but I don't know that the demo allowed you to choose the completely hardcore swing option that has no assists at all? I haven't checked yet.
Demo, how good is the hardcore swing option in the full game ? Anyone ? It is too bad they didn't include it in the demo to try. I am aware of the feature as I seen video of it, but I thought it was canned or something along that line.
I played through the first half of the very substantial full game. Last thing I encountered was having to build a tower that has wind-turbines blowing at it at various directions and height, with the various block materials coming into play in a big way.
Yeah I just played through the demo getting all the stars and stuff. The demo was rather brief, if that game had lots of levels, its a very brief demo. Anyway if they ever improved it for proper disc release instead of PSN title, I might pick it up. Does it have endless mode like Tetris ? Or is it always level base with goals ?
Nearly done being getting bored, completing gold cup, or completing the unlockable champions cup? I'm not even sure I will be good enough at any of these events in the near future to get to the champions cup, let alone defeat it.
Nearly done as I am getting bored. I am just beating the opponent one by one and getting bored. Although the game controls very well with Move, if you strip the Move controller from it, the game mechanic is very shallow. Is not even the original VF level of depth.
For defeating AI the easiest method is to ring them out. You can sidestep and step backward your way towards the edge of the ring. Just move around till your opponent near the edge and just hit as hard as you can, he/she'll lose balance and just a simple trust will ring him her out.
The other method I like to do is to dizzy the opponent. At Gold the CPU can dizzy you with one hit. You can do the same, but typically for me it take two hit. The easiest to do this is to block low and hit low very very hard, my bicep was sore from all the swinging. At higher level the CPU high defence is pretty much impenetrable. So go low and hard. Once dizzy, the best combo to ring them out is hard overhead (opponent will hit the ground and bounce), backhand vertical slash (will sort of twist the opponent in the air), and thrust ( this will send them flying out of the ring, even if you're near the center of the arena). Timing is important but once you get the groove of it, it's pretty standard.
The other way to ring out, is when the opponent falls to the ground, instead of a pounce, run toward them and hit low very hard, for some reason there is a high probability that you'll send the opponent flying out of the ring. Bug ? who knows ? but it works pretty well for me.
KOing the opponent is pretty hard work at higher difficulty and I find it more tedious instead of fun. Basically Gladiator is a very slow game, You can read the AI from miles away, if you know this you can blocked pretty much what they throw at you, the thing is the AI will block everything you throw at it too. You just have to play wait, the one that attacked first will lose. This is a crappy design for a fighter. But this dev haven't develop a fighter before so I guess its not so surprising.
But there are lots of elements missing in this game, that make it pretty poor fighter. But its not something they can't fix with sequels or something. At least they get the motion control working well and that's a good start IMO.
Proper titles will of course depend on the player's preference, though. I think you might like Hustle Kings, it has pretty good Move controls, using the z-tracking properly to allow you very precise potting (once you realise the importance of choosing the proper starting point, being the position in space that you want to pretend the point will be that your cue hits the ball).
Hustle Kings is what sort of game ? Snooker game ? I'm really not all up to date with what are announced out there. If it is a snooker or pool, how does it work ? Does it map the whole table and augment you into it or what ?
