Are the controlls for the chocobo races weird or is it just me?

[Drentrione]

I'm trying to get the achievements for both races and sometimes pressing up on my keypad sends me running to the right, and sometimes pressing left nudges the bird to the left and others it sends me running way off ot the left.

Is this normal and I just need to keep trying or is something screwed up?

[Drentrione]

Seriously, I would have had the acievement half an hour ago if the bird could walk in a straight line

[Yargo]

You don't need to press up, the chocobo runs automatically. If want your bird to walk in a straight line, all you have to do is keep your fingers off the keypad and don't press any direction.

[Codester]

Liberally your only controls are left or right.....

[Drentrione]

I have figured out the problem.
Seems that there is an invisible boundary for the race and whenever I reach it the bird turns hard to stay in bounds (and directly into an attacking bird)

[WNxManiacMan]

Originally posted by Yargo:

You don't need to press up

Originally posted by Codester:

controls are left or right

You are both correct regarding the chocobo race in Calm Lands, but the controls are different at Requiem Temple.

[Valcrist]

Did you not play FFX in PS2? CHocobo Race is suppose to be hard because it is where you will get Tidus' Sigil. And since you are training a wild chocobo, it will just go wherever the heck he wants to. You just have to press left or right. :)

[Miro Laaksonen]

The whole purpose is that sometimes the ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ chocobo doesn't do what you want and goes where it wants, so technically it's not bad controls but incredibly frustrating design. If it would actually go straight just the way you want it would be incredibly easy

[Drentrione]

Originally posted by jayrdalida111:

Did you not play FFX in PS2? CHocobo Race is suppose to be hard because it is where you will get Tidus' Sigil. And since you are training a wild chocobo, it will just go wherever the heck he wants to. You just have to press left or right. :)

Well, no, I had not played the original on PS2, which was why I was asking.

I have played plenty of PC ports in the past where a single file had corrupted or a driver was misbehaving just slightly so that a small portion of the game did not behave as it should. I was mostly wondering if the problem was something specific to my system, or if this was simply the way it was.

The problem I had with the temple race was due to the way the controls do not match the camera as smoothly as I had expected. There appear to be set points where the camera and the controls snap to resync, and I eventually finished the race by memorizing these points and learning where I needed to just adapt.

The problem I had with the Calm Lands race appears to have been an invisible boarder on the edge of the track, and the chocobo would turn towards the center of the track whenever I crossed them. Had this border been clearly marked, as it was in the earlier training areas, I would have been less frustrated.

I eventually succeeded in earning the sigil by memorizing the arbitrary boundary lines.