Help needed for Xbox 360 FPS retard...

highon2str on 08/12/2015 - 17:04

So I finally buy my first FPS game from the infamous DS sale: MOH warfighter. I was advised by the young sales guys that if I wasn't big into MP then warfighter was a good single player FPS.

Put the kids to bed, fired up the sexbox and it wanted to do 50 updates. Never got to the main screen. 2 days later attempted to fire it up, put the game in and it took another 3 years to install to the hdd, after which I start the game and it wants to install super special HD content?!

Day 3: finally got into the single player and started the first mission. Last time I played an FPS was quake/half life with WASD and a mouse. The only time I'd ever played a FPS with a game pad was wolfenstein 3d on a gravis game pad (commander keen was alot more fun). So anyway, all good, go to the menu and look at the 500 different controls mapped to the buttons on my (more like kids and wife's) 360 controller and away we go.

Is there no training mode with this game?! What about old dumbos like me who've never played a console FPS?! 2 mins into the first mission you're meant to plant a charge on a truck which I got NFI how to do and must have tried 3 or 4 replays before turned it all off and went to cry in the corner.

Please for the love of God someone tell me how to progress beyond the 2 min mark of this game. The gamers at work tell me I should have bought BF3… Kinda regret not picking up a copy when it was $5 at Jb last night. Would that have been more n00b friendly?

Gaming Electronic Arts

Comments

  • Bonsaichop on 08/12/2015 - 17:32
    +1

    WASD + Mouse for life my friend.. I'm also in the 'too old for this controller crap' club I feel your pain!

    The last fps I played was modern warfare 2 (quite good!) but that was years ago on the PC.

    • spackbace on 08/12/2015 - 17:51
      +1

      Agreed, just got an XB1 and grabbed GTAV, and dammit it's hard getting used to a controller lol

  • noyesmaybeok on 08/12/2015 - 17:32
    +1

    Halo would be a cheap buy to acclimatise you to console gaming. Not too many buttons (shoot, jump, grenade) and on easy you have enough time to orientate yourself to kill people. It's also quite open i.e. no "do this within 2 minutes", so fine to take forever. Whatever the game you're going to struggle if you can't use the two sticks well, along with doing an action at the same time.

    I'm sure there would be game walkthroughs either in text or on youtube for that specific level.

    Once you can put the right actions into the controller to do what you want you'll be fine, and it just takes some time to practice. Once you can use a controller you can jump into any game on that platform and do alright from the start.

    I'm sure you could use the same couple of buttons (shoot, move, action) for now, write them down. Later on worry about grenades, stealth, zoom, crouching etc. There's some games where you can (on easy) pretty much run through the entire game without ever really doing anything, so you don't truly need many of the actions.

  • Axelstrife on 08/12/2015 - 18:12

    you should look at getting a cronus max plus or any other alternatives so you can play console with mouse and keyboard.

  • pointless martyr on 08/12/2015 - 19:21
    +1

    In the time you spent writing the post, i reckon you could have learned through trial and error!

  • ATangk on 08/12/2015 - 19:47

    If you got BF3, you probably would have been dumpstered by other players in MP.

  • scrimshaw on 08/12/2015 - 21:40

    Just go back to playing Arena shooters like Quake 3 or Unreal Tournament. Good fun and games people still play… I think. or buy yourself CS:GO. But for god's sake don't try to play CS on a console, you'll hang yourself.

    It's a shame that when people think of FPS shooters, most kids nowadays think of COD and BF4. I think at the core of FPS gameplay was the super-competitive stuff we had back then — Quake, Team Fortress, Unreal, and Counter Strike. You know what these games had in common? Great gameplay, simple mechanics. They were also easy to play, but hard to master.

    And this also pretty much sums up games back then and now:
    http://static.giantbomb.com/uploads/original/6/68178/2077570…

    • spackbace on 08/12/2015 - 22:11

      You missed starsiege: tribes :)

      1 of the first to truly be a 3d shooter afaik. Duelling whilst running and jet packing… Now that separated the men from the boys!

      • scrimshaw on 08/12/2015 - 22:43

        I've never heard of that game until several years ago when I saw marketing for the F2P Tribes remake.

        Prior to me owning my own computer, I've always played in Internet cafe's. None of which had starsiege tribes.

        • spackbace on 08/12/2015 - 22:48

          You missed out!

  • outlander on 08/12/2015 - 22:14

    Generally with xbox, left thumb=move, right thumb=look, right pointyfinger=aim, right fukcyoufinger=shoot
    Grenades are either left fukcyoufinger or mash the colored buttons

    edited to add profanity

  • FrankMcFuzz on 09/12/2015 - 09:57

    Welcome to one of the negative points about the oversaturation of the shooting genre. Devs think you've already played the game before because people have likely played all the other, better renditions of the same thing.

    Is there an instruction manual? Likely not considering it's not a PS2 game, but if there is, controls are usually pretty close to the front. Man. Remember in the PS2 era when they didn't have GIGANTIC FLASHING PROMPT BUTTONS for everything on the screen all the time? That was pretty cool.

    • scrimshaw on 09/12/2015 - 10:02

      Some games did in the PS2 era, but the concept of QTE's back then weren't all that common.
      https://dextreme88.files.wordpress.com/2015/01/re4-qte.jpg
      http://www.godisageek.com/wp-content/uploads/God_Of_War_QTE.…

      • FrankMcFuzz on 09/12/2015 - 13:35

        Probably not THE first, but God of War certainly was one of the first to implement it so HARD AND FAST, flashing R1 and square and X and BAM. But, see, in the context, that was okay, because the same buttons were used for so many different mechanics. These days you can't walk up to a door without a big PRESS A TO ENTER. And you know what? That's okay too, it lets you know you're in range of the door….. It's the "Press x/square to light attack" after 8 hours of gameplay that gets me going lol. If you don't know how to attack by that point you're better off playing Undertale lol.

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