Mars Matrix Shield

Hewitson · Post by **Hewitson** » Thu Jun 05, 2008 8:15 am

Does anyone else hate the way the shield works in Mars Matrix? By the time I've held the button down long enough for it to activate I'm normally dead. I can't understand why they didnt allocate another button to work as the shield.

lewisit · Post by **lewisit** » Thu Jun 05, 2008 8:46 am

Hewitson wrote:Does anyone else hate the way the shield works in Mars Matrix?

ehm... not at all - actually i love it!

i own the DC-version and when first trying it on the default controller-setting (X for shooting & A for the shield) it was one of the most frustrating shooter-experiences ever for me...

only when i learned that MM was originally supposed to be played with just one-button-for-all and trying this i started to enjoy the game alot! before that i had the same problem as you with always being a splitsecond-too-late...

therefore i cannot understand how you can have this problem the other way around?

moozooh · Post by **moozooh** » Thu Jun 05, 2008 9:20 am

lewisit wrote:therefore i cannot understand how you can have this problem the other way around? :)

Having a separate action on a separate button trades neural resources for potentially better response time. It's a matter of which of them you are short of.

For one, I almost always prefer a separate button, fyi, and MM's controls frustrate me as well. I don't like having to maintain proper tap timing, it's tiresome.

nimitz · Post by **nimitz** » Thu Jun 05, 2008 10:05 am

By the time I've held the button down long enough for it to activate I'm normally dead. I can't understand why they didnt allocate another button to work as the shield.

Then the problem is not the one-button configuration. It's that you have not played the game enough to know the shield timing.

You can't really achieve anything in Mars Matrix without mastering the shield. (score-wise at least)

Zeether · Post by **Zeether** » Thu Jun 05, 2008 11:50 am

He's overuses the shield.

P_HAT · Post by **P_HAT** » Thu Jun 05, 2008 12:24 pm

ZeetherKID77 wrote:He's overuses the shield.

kengou · Post by **kengou** » Thu Jun 05, 2008 3:08 pm

I like the responsiveness of the MM shield better than the one in Giga Wing, even though I like Giga Wing as a game much more. In MM, it seems like holding down the button will bring out the shield almost instantaneously. In GW there's a much larger delay that means I can't do it as a twitch thing. Luckily GW also has a bomb, which MM seems to lack (in the same sense, I know you can hold the button for longer to get a bomb-thing).

Hewitson · Post by **Hewitson** » Thu Jun 05, 2008 4:10 pm

The problem for me is I try to use the shield at the very last second like I would a bomb and I don't allow enough time for the shield to activate.

I can't say I've noticed the MM shield activates faster than the Gigawing, but I'll take your word for it.

subcons · Post by **subcons** » Thu Jun 05, 2008 5:00 pm

I've never liked the single button control scheme of it either. But I never even realized the game was originally designed for such a thing because I played it on Dreamcast for so long before ever playing in in an arcade.

I guess it's all what you're used to. But it really doesn't work with a single button unless you have an arcade stick and you're pressing that butting with your finger as opposed to using your thumb (with a controller).

lgb · Post by **lgb** » Thu Jun 05, 2008 10:43 pm

ZeetherKID77 wrote:He's overuses the shield.

And doesn't plan ahead.

nimitz · Post by **nimitz** » Thu Jun 05, 2008 11:37 pm

Hewitson wrote:The problem for me is I try to use the shield at the very last second like I would a bomb and I don't allow enough time for the shield to activate.

That pretty much proves my point.

This means you need to play the game for "many" more hours to be able to really enjoy it.

Or you could stay away from it because of the ugly pre-rendered graphics, the bad/forgettable music, the boring first level and so on.

Ed Oscuro · Post by **Ed Oscuro** » Fri Jun 06, 2008 12:54 am

nimitz wrote:Or you could stay away from it because of the ugly pre-rendered graphics, the bad/forgettable music, the boring first level and so on.

Truer words have never been spoken.

Twiddle · Post by **Twiddle** » Fri Jun 06, 2008 2:15 am

LGB wrote:
ZeetherKID77 wrote:He's overuses the shield.
And doesn't plan ahead.

dosen't

CMoon · Post by **CMoon** » Fri Jun 06, 2008 10:32 am

When did Rob stop posting on the forum?

Arvandor · Post by **Arvandor** » Fri Jun 06, 2008 11:22 am

You think Mars Matrix has nasty shield activation time? Don't play the Gigawings o_O

PROMETHEUS · Post by **PROMETHEUS** » Fri Jun 06, 2008 11:26 am

CMoon wrote:When did Rob stop posting on the forum?

yeah what happened to rob ?

Lordstar · Post by **Lordstar** » Fri Jun 06, 2008 11:42 am

P_HAT wrote:
ZeetherKID77 wrote:He's overuses the shield.

youtube idiots are fucking helarious. Theres regular internet users, pople who use forums, 4chan, then at the very bottom you have Youtube users with the lowest levels of mental capacity.

320x240 · Post by **320x240** » Fri Jun 06, 2008 12:17 pm

PROMETHEUS wrote:
CMoon wrote:When did Rob stop posting on the forum?
yeah what happened to rob ?

I have been wondering the same. He would be all over this topic.

moozooh · Post by **moozooh** » Fri Jun 06, 2008 12:40 pm

I portray Rob sitting in a comfortable armchair holding a glass of whiskey, smiling and thinking: "I bet they expect me to be all over this topic, ha!"

nimitz · Post by **nimitz** » Fri Jun 06, 2008 1:12 pm

Rob doesn't really post here anymore.

he posts there instead: http://turbogfx.proboards59.com/index.cgi

P_HAT · Post by **P_HAT** » Fri Jun 06, 2008 1:19 pm

Lordstar wrote:
P_HAT wrote:
ZeetherKID77 wrote:He's overuses the shield.

youtube idiots are fucking helarious. Theres regular internet users, pople who use forums, 4chan, then at the very bottom you have Youtube users with the lowest levels of mental capacity.

Calm down man, there is also animefags and Touhoufagas.
They even worse.

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