Re: Pure analog...
The removal of stride timing in ZPA and the ridiculous "swing" to the left and right in the new "Zone Analog" hitting mode absolutely murdered the immersion and sense of realism for me. I can't describe how much I loath this year's version. Just can't get used to it, and frankly I don't want to relearn the game using what I consider to be a far inferior hitting mode. I'd rather keep playing '14 all year. I'd heard absolutely nothing about this in any of the reviews or press and was seriously confused when it wasn't in the options like it has been for the LAST FOUR YEARS. I means, seriously, it's all muscle memory for me at this point. No way am I going to futz around learning some button-masher style of play and it was ridiculously arrogant of SCEA SD to imperiously remove it, then hush complaints with "my house, my rules" --especially when they trade on the fact that they are well-known to have claimed that they would never remove a control mode for precisely all of the reasons I just outlined above. But, no, it just wasn't popular enough to make the cut, so we --the portion of the user base which took the time to master arguably with most difficult and sim-like interface in the game-- get voted off the island. No WAY I'd have bought this game if I'd have known they removed ZPA + stride. I know a lot of other people wouldn't have either.
The removal of stride timing in ZPA and the ridiculous "swing" to the left and right in the new "Zone Analog" hitting mode absolutely murdered the immersion and sense of realism for me. I can't describe how much I loath this year's version. Just can't get used to it, and frankly I don't want to relearn the game using what I consider to be a far inferior hitting mode. I'd rather keep playing '14 all year. I'd heard absolutely nothing about this in any of the reviews or press and was seriously confused when it wasn't in the options like it has been for the LAST FOUR YEARS. I means, seriously, it's all muscle memory for me at this point. No way am I going to futz around learning some button-masher style of play and it was ridiculously arrogant of SCEA SD to imperiously remove it, then hush complaints with "my house, my rules" --especially when they trade on the fact that they are well-known to have claimed that they would never remove a control mode for precisely all of the reasons I just outlined above. But, no, it just wasn't popular enough to make the cut, so we --the portion of the user base which took the time to master arguably with most difficult and sim-like interface in the game-- get voted off the island. No WAY I'd have bought this game if I'd have known they removed ZPA + stride. I know a lot of other people wouldn't have either.
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