RANT: Fast Button Pressing

mrgstiffler

mrgstiffler

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I can't stand it when a game requires you to press a button as fast as you can. Sometimes I will hammer away at the button as fast as my fingers will go and it wont be fast enough. Other times I'll be going all out on the button and it will cause me to miss the next button press (God of War). I really don't think that this is a good game mechanic. Anyone else agree?
 
Yeah, its pretty lame even though I can do it without much trouble. I really hate the button pressing sequences like you mentioned in God of War the most. Same stuff was in Heavenly Sword and Marvel Ultimate Alliance.
 
Bit tricky sometimes, you cannot send signals down your arm to your fingers to press the button fast enough (at least in some games) you need to make your finger shake quickly, your arm sort of goes into spasm.

Kinda like the shooting games where you have a light gun and you do a challenge to spend so many rounds shooting something in a certain amount of time, most of the harder ones you can't do by gripping the gun normally. Who here hasn't cheated and put their finger in sideways (at a normal to the trigger) and rapidly thrust their entire hand backwards and forward so your finger knocks the trigger?

I've played a lot of Guitar Hero 3 recently, with the keyboard and mouse and the long sections of repeated notes are hard later on in the game because they require very fast but steady rapid pressing, and when you end the sequence and switch to other notes that can also be tricky.

So I sort of agree that they're a good mess around but if you make them too hard then people just start "cheating" like this, it's not really cheating per say, but it seems stupid that we have to do these things just to pass a section.
 
I disagree.

This very mechanic is what makes Gold Medal Challenge '92 for the NES great for me.

I wish more games incorporated fast button smashing although not necessarily timed events like God of War.
 
I think it worked in Lost Planet multiplayer. Frantically pressing the capture button to raise a control point while enemies were bearing down on you was pretty fun. Much better than just standing and waiting for the point to change.
 
Yeah, Daily Thomsons Decathlon on the ZX Spectrum, the key mashing used to wreck the rubber keyboard lol.
Brilliant game (in its day :))
 
I remember the torture scenes in the Metal Gear Solid games sucking. Sometimes I would have to give the controller to my cousin to pound through them.
 
Oh NES Advantage, how I love thee.
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I agree on some level but you can't have a good party game without em'. It makes people spaz and look dumb, which incorporates laughter and joking.
 
haha yeah, thats what im talking about. That's not him sending individual signals to tell his finger to press the button, he's just making his whole hand/arm spaz out like a sort of shiver
 
Oomps said:
Oh NES Advantage, how I love thee.
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I was going to mention that very controller.....Ahhh, gotta love the Turbo button....no more of that constant button pressing. Do they still make controller with a turbo on them, heh...
 
SAW said:
I was going to mention that very controller.....Ahhh, gotta love the Turbo button....no more of that constant button pressing. Do they still make controller with a turbo on them, heh...
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I know there are guys and tutorials for modding controllers and putting a "turbo" button in them.

Very popular thing to do with the Xbox controllers for halo 2 so you can doubleshot (which involves proper timing as well).
 
Use a controller that lets you set them up. I have a Mad Catz PS2 controller that lets you set up macros
 
I use the super fast hand twitch motion. My friends and I call it "The Weasel Fingers." When my friends and I get together and play a game that requires really fast button presses, it's not even a contest. :D
 
i have never had trouble with these type of games. but i can see how it would be near impossible for some. back in the Nintendo days i had a turbo button on my controller and it did all the work for me, the easiest hammer throw ever.
 
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