Think of new, fun ways to utilise the SIXAXIS on PS3 games

[StefanS]

If you ever played Die By The Sword, then you probably know that game was really lame. It's probably still best to have canned attacks based on button presses. Even in Red Steel on the Wii, you are limited to canned attacks activated by gestures.

They've changed that no more gestures, but accurate swings based on the direction and speed.

 

[Npl]

What Id like to see is subtile horror-games silently recognising patterns of your movements and trying to understand your current mood, and then act based on that.
ie. That guy has no fear of spiders, but each time a flying enemy shows up he`s twisting the pad like mad - wait till he has calmed down then occasionally freak him out with sounds/shadows of his biggest fear

Prolly not limited to motion-sensing, but I always thought horror-games should adjust to the player.

 

[crosseye]

I think there are some very unique uses for it and you guys have brought up a lot. The concern I have is how will it actually feel after an extended period of time. I'm not sold on the viability of the Wiimote and that lets your hands move independently. How can I expect the Sixaxis to be confortable over a long period of time if both my hands have to move?

I eagerly await serious playtesting from reviewers.

 

[ban25]

They've changed that no more gestures, but accurate swings based on the direction and speed.

That's good to hear. However, I imagine they probably still use gestures for more complex moves, like the cross/X slash.

 

[Arwin]

So I thought maybe this could be a good thread on collecting actual use of the sixaxis in games as well. Here's Tony Hawk:

Most of the Sixaxis implementation feels obvious and natural. You'll steer with slight twists to the controller, and all of your rail and manual balancing is done by tilting the controller sideways for grinds or forward and back for manuals. A quick down-up or up-down motion will get you into a manual, and a quick twist will do reverts if you're landing on a vert ramp or pivot if you're in a manual. From there, things get a little more complicated, because you can also do all of your tricks by hitting the face buttons while moving the Sixaxis around. The controls are mapped the same way they'd be on a D pad or the analog stick, so simple tricks like kickflips and heelflips are left or right and the square button. Diagonals get you varial heelflips and such, and double-tap tricks are done by moving the controller in the same direction twice. You can even pull off a no comply or a boneless by jerking the controller up before letting off the X button.

While many of the controls are just the same Tony Hawk controls mapped to a new style of input, a few things change more dramatically when you start tilting the controller. New to Project 8 is "nail the trick" mode, a slow-motion mode similar to the focus mode found in previous games but with a lot more depth. You drop in to this mode by pushing in both analog sticks. When you're playing with the regular controls, you need to grab both analog sticks and hold them in various directions, with each stick corresponding to one of your skater's feet. When the board is in the proper position, you can then move to different directions to branch off into another trick, or if the wheels are facing the earth, you can left off and put your skater's feet back on the board. With the tilt controls turned on, you still need to hit both analog sticks to drop into slow motion, but once you do, you tilt the controller around to do tricks, the idea being more that you're controlling the spin of the board, rather than each of your skater's feet. It seems as though nail the trick will take some time getting used to regardless of which style of control you use, but it also immediately seems like a powerful new addition to the series with some great scoring potential.