Acid Burn
International Coach
- Joined
- Jun 21, 2012
- Location
- Pietermaritzburg ,South Africa
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- South Africa
- Online Cricket Games Owned
- Don Bradman Cricket 14 - PS3
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I should remember that one !
I should remember that one !
I agree with this, using the face buttons for premeditated shots would be a great option and could bring more variety into the batting system, although I would say that the sweep/reverse sweep are not always premeditated so I'd keep the unorthodox shot button on RB and have the advance shot LB as the new leave button.Plenty of games use multiple drastically different control systems, and this one would hardly be drastically different.
I thing I do think is important is opening up other options.
By mapping the face buttons as the "premeditated" shot types (again, like sticky keys, you press them during the ball and they stay on unless pressed again) you not only open up the option for more types, but a way of adding in the other modifiers to go with them. For example:
A: Unorthodox Shots
B: Advance down the pitch
X: T20 slogs
Y: Switch hit shots
With the addition of modifier options, for example press A then use the triggers, you could have slog sweeps and such. Those kind of options are very much future version kind of things though.
Mapping the current ones to the facebuttons though have the advantage of opening up those shoulder buttons. I would like to have the LB as a leave button, as it would be so much more nature to use. Having the other for the emergency block would also be nice, but again, that's more of a future version suggestion.
Who knows though, I kind of just want more options.
I agree with this, using the face buttons for premeditated shots would be a great option and could bring more variety into the batting system, although I would say that the sweep/reverse sweep are not always premeditated so I'd keep the unorthodox shot button on RB and have the advance shot LB as the new leave button.
Currently while batting, all the face buttons really do is the 'taunts' before the delivery.
Yeah you're right, unorthodox is LB.
Hopefully the batting system gets beefed up with stuff like this in future iterations - as a base to work from the current control system is great, much better than anything in other cricket games.
I hope that any future iterations of DBC stay true to the things that this one does well - no pitch marker, no fielding radar etc. and continue to make the game more realistic/immersive rather than appealing to the masses with simple pick-up-and-play slogfest gameplay, although money talks I suppose.
Yeah, VP4 is pretty much perfect with regards to the balancing with the tactical/technical prowess really coming to the fore with very few exploits. The only things I don't like are jump shots (too easy) and the really slow long pots in snooker (on a real snooker table these would roll off and you would miss).To a large extent it's about whether the system offers a chance of real mastery, or whether you can only really make big scores by working out all the odd kinks and avoiding a lot of shots, or dialling the difficulty down so you're rarely out.
VP4 is a great example of a system that gives you the potential for genuine mastery, because the basis on which you succeed or fail is completely comprehensible and perfectly balanced, and perfectly under your control.
Whether DBC can offer real depth like that I'm just not sure. I've had as many hours from the game as I can reasonably expect for ?30 and I'm happy enough with that to buy another iteration regardless, but I'll play a game like VP4 that has a genuinely responsive and diverse technical challenge for literally years without getting bored.
And I'm not actually that good at pool/snooker. My highest VP4 snooker break is about 70 and I rarely get more than 40. I can run the table at 9 ball but I lose plenty of games. But the challenge of mastery is compelling, so the fact that I lose a lot of games and fail to make the breaks I'd ideally like to doesn't put me off. I'm still coming back to it to try and better my skills and beat my best score, because I know I succeed or fail entirely on merit and not due to the foibles of the control system.