Funny you should mention this as I just happen to be a 37 year-old southpaw, so this is another thing I am constantly fighting with. My wife purchased my 360 for me at Christmas in 2007 along with COD4. I just couldn't get used to it so I began hunting for controller alternatives. I happened to stumble on the XIM1 and promptly built one for myself. The 30+ms lag was annoying so I ended up buying the XIM360/XIM2 as soon as that was available. I have also modified a couple controllers to have swapped sticks because there are games that I want to be able to use a controller with but they don't have any native southpaw configurations. One of the really cool things about the XIM is the ability to control a console with just about anything you can imagine.
IMO it's just stupid for these options to not be included. Everyone is going to prefer a different style of playing. It's as simple as that. It's incredibly frustrating to hear people blow it off and say just get used to it...My brain doesn't work that way and I just can't, plain and simple. What I really want is for developers to understand is that offering options for key/stick/whatever mapping, and graphics preferences does nothing but help them sell games.
Locking a games FOV to cater to a specific style of play is just silly. I don't play sitting 2+ meters from my monitor and I don't plan to.
Not at all. I played UT for years with it around 110-120. That seems to be the sweet spot for me.
Don't get me started on the motion blur and camera bobbing...lol...I hate this trendy shakey cam thing...Adding motion blur to a game to save frames might be necessary on consoles but my pc can handle it just fine without.
Yes, I am apparently in the minority. It's kind of funny how I haven't had problems though up until the past few years when all the games have been consolized...I can still play all the games that have adjustable FOV all day long without any issues. What I also find interesting is how I don't get motion sickness in any other situation except these low FOV games. I don't get carsick, seasick, airsick, or even sick from drinking to the point of getting the 'spins'. In fact I can deal with most of these situations better than the average person.
I would love to see graphics options available for consoles. E.g. if I want to up my FOV I might just need to lower something else. It's a trade off I would happily deal with. It's just not there with most of these new games and that is my point. A simple matter of offering options for controls and graphics. As a student studying programming and electronics I feel that it would be easy enough to implement a set of standards that would satisfy all gamers and not just the average Joe.
BTW: Sorry if my posts get out of control, I do appreciate that we can have a civil conversation regarding this.