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Message: [QUOTE="newageretrohippie, post: 46196, member: 72847"] Yeah its true although i dont think that is inherently bad. in fact, i think its a subgenre which wasnt developed enough. i think the introduction of the dual shock controller made it easier to just give full control of the camera to the player than to work out the logistics of having a computer controlled camera. this is one area where modern AI (in this case, a "convolutional neural network") could create a more robust " 2.5D or "on rails" camera experience. It would be pretty straightforward to program an AI to find anywhere the camera view occludes the on screen action. (this technique is already being used to fine tune the animation of 3D characters) i feel like awkward cameras were a big problem in the early days of "3D platforming", but developers ended up solving it by mostly giving control of the camera completely to the player's right thumb. That's fine, of course, but it kind of killed the "2.5D" genre before it could be fully developed. [automerge]1737408666[/automerge] Yeah, it was kind of the same thing with Castlevania 2... i think that is one reason those games were disliked by many [/QUOTE]

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