I never played the first two, so this was my first foray, and I had heard good things about how creepy this series is.
Someone on IRC pointed out that a survival horror game is different than a first person shooter. Maybe so, but you'd expect your character to be able to fucking move properly in both.
Or maybe this just adds to the tension of trying to survive... it sure as hell gets a lot fucking harder to do so if it's a pain in the ass to move adequately and you have to press all kinds of extra buttons to go into "defense" mode etc. Plus I hate the lack of being able to change the direction of where you're viewing from, with the mouse in a first person shooter you can have the character pivot on the spot and view around themselves, in SH3 you're limited to what the game allows you to see, which is sometimes the view in front of the character from behind her, and sometimes it means you're staring into her face as she comes towards you. Not exactly handy for seeing if there's something approaching you, or for trying to walk to a specific point.
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Someone on IRC pointed out that a survival horror game is different than a first person shooter. Maybe so, but you'd expect your character to be able to fucking move properly in both.
Or maybe this just adds to the tension of trying to survive... it sure as hell gets a lot fucking harder to do so if it's a pain in the ass to move adequately and you have to press all kinds of extra buttons to go into "defense" mode etc. Plus I hate the lack of being able to change the direction of where you're viewing from, with the mouse in a first person shooter you can have the character pivot on the spot and view around themselves, in SH3 you're limited to what the game allows you to see, which is sometimes the view in front of the character from behind her, and sometimes it means you're staring into her face as she comes towards you. Not exactly handy for seeing if there's something approaching you, or for trying to walk to a specific point.