• Prove_your_argument@piefed.socialEnglish
    5 months

    The transition period from the 90s to mid 2000s for control schemes was so fragmented. I remember a dozen games with wildly different control schemes. Wasn’t until the late 2000s when things started getting more standardized to what we know today.

    • WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5 months

      Imagine if people kept having to port their games to Dreamcast with its single-stick controllers. We dodged a bullet when that console failed.

  • ManicMambo@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4 months

    The reviewer was right, you know. Playing an FPS with a controller is the most horrifying thing in gaming history. (Except if it has gyro).

  • SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.orgEnglish
    5 months

    Over time I completely lost the ability to play a shooter with the controller. I just can’t hit anything after close to a decade of playing with just mouse and keyboard. 15 years ago it was the other way round for me.

    • dbtng@eviltoast.orgEnglish
      5 months

      Ya. The controller people on their little boxes do not understand.
      Like, I could plug a controller into my PC … but WHY?

      • Obinice@lemmy.worldEnglish
        5 months

        One day when you’re an adult, you’ll look back at the childish patronising insults you threw at millions of women, men and children, none of whom you know or have any right to judge, in order to feel a sense of smug superiority for a few moments on the Internet.

        • dbtng@eviltoast.orgEnglish
          5 months

          If adulthood hasn’t happened yet, it’s not likely. I broke enough Atari controllers to have paid my dues. Fixed em with superglue and tape. But, you know. I was twelve. Then I got older and purchased big boy toys.

          You ought to consider shorter sentences. And drop some of the formalisms. That works better for today’s audiences.

            • dbtng@eviltoast.orgEnglish
              4 months

              One would hope. Unfortunately, its not true.
              But don’t get involved in two old people bitching at each other. No profit there, friend.

  • tehn00bi@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4 months

    A few years back I was at a bar and they had golden eye on an N 64. Man the controls were hot garbage.

    • Buddahriffic@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4 months

      But because there wasn’t anything better to compare it to, it didn’t feel that bad.

      Metroid Prime transcended its crappy controls. Like one of the worst control schemes but still one of my all time favorites.

        • Buddahriffic@lemmy.worldEnglish
          4 months

          No, I haven’t tried that. How is it? As awkward as those controls were, they also feel like a core part of the game, so I’m feeling oddly both attracted and repulsed by the idea. But I’ll look into it, thanks for making me aware if it!