[Giant Bomb] Lovitz or Leave It

el_vicio

SteevL wrote: »

Watching Vinny react as enemies and weapons got crazier in Bloodstained was top tier content for me today.

After episode one, I removed Bloodstained from my wishlist. It seemed sluggish. After episode two and seeing not only the silly stuff, but also that there are weapons with a decent recovery (namely the...special weapon he acquired), I added it right back.

Houk the Namebringer

TubularLuggage wrote: »

Houk the Namebringer wrote: »

Every button on the GC controller just felt bad to push. The triggers were way too loose and clicky, the c-stick was blegh, the A button always felt wobbly, I just really didn't like having to use it.

I mean, the triggers were loose and clicky because they were two buttons in one (four buttons in two?). An analog with some range, and a digital click.
To be fair, I can see why some people wouldn't like them. But they did exactly what they were supposed to do.

Yeah I know why they were that way, but it felt really bad, and at least in my memory for the games I played added very little to gameplay that couldn't have been done in other ways. "It lets you perform the function the designers wanted" doesn't trump "it feels bad to use".

(Of course, lots of people didn't/don't mind the feel at all so obviously if you're in that group then my complaint is a non-issue. I just haaaated the feel, especially compared to Dualshock.)

cooljammer00

I like how input lag is a toggle.

I needed anime to post.

I don't particularly care for the gamecube controller, but also, it's the best controller Nintendo has ever made.

Kelor

I will fight to bloody, ragged death over Hybrid Heaven.

Still my favourite local multiplayer console of all time. Many, many high school afternoons were spent rotating people in and out of games.

Hardtarget

I needed a gnome to post. wrote: »

I don't particularly care for the gamecube controller, but also, it's the best controller Nintendo has ever made.

Snes.....

lionheart_m

I feel like I'm a madman but whenever Jeff and Brad say the Xbox One has a decent dpad I go nuh uh! That thing was a nightmare for SFV and MKX when I used it. Also I haaated how those bumpers felt.

BahamutZERO

do you think if nintendo tried to make an SNES controller but with analog sticks below the d-pad and face buttons and an extra pair of shoulder buttons, that sony would sue them for stealing the dualshock design?

lionheart_m

man the PS Dpad feels like it's something my thumb adapted to. Nowadays I think it's fine.

edit: going back to older Dualshocks I go how the fuck I played games on this thing. Those Thumbsticks are too damn high!

BahamutZERO

like the rent!

webguy20

BahamutZERO wrote: »

do you think if nintendo tried to make an SNES controller but with analog sticks below the d-pad and face buttons and an extra pair of shoulder buttons, that sony would sue them for stealing the dualshock design?

Considering 8bitdo is making these by the boat load I doubt it.

Beef Avenger

D pads are overrated

ronzo

BahamutZERO wrote: »

do you think if nintendo tried to make an SNES controller but with analog sticks below the d-pad and face buttons and an extra pair of shoulder buttons, that sony would sue them for stealing the dualshock design?

They already made the Wii Classic and Classic Pro controllers that are pretty much exactly that, so no.

cooljammer00

The Switch "dpad" is both bad and too low.

SteevL

Look what Alex went and caused:

https://twitter.com/alex_navarro/status/1155148978712920064

Glal

Beef Avenger wrote: »

D pads are overrated

Choice is underrated.

Stabbity Style

The Gamecube controller has a terrible, terrible d-pad. I hate it.

MichaelLC

The only good console controller was the NES Advantage.
The best PC controller was the Gravis PC Game Pad which used the game port.

GONG-00

I played Wolfenstein 3D and OG Doom with the Gravis.

Shadowfire

MichaelLC wrote: »

The only good console controller was the NES Advantage.
The best PC controller was the Gravis PC Game Pad which used the game port.

Those sure are opinions.

Shadowfire

Also the best racing controller is the NegCon. Fite me.

Knight_

I’m pretty surprised there has been no three houses content so far, and it literally wasn’t even mentioned on either podcast.

Genji-Gloves

This was pretty good in fairness.

ronzo

Knight_ wrote: »

I’m pretty surprised there has been no three houses content so far, and it literally wasn’t even mentioned on either podcast.

Dan mentioned it during the most recent VinnyVania. Just a passing comment that he hadn't beaten bloodstained yet, and he just got fire emblem which was going to be competing for time

PMAvers

I'm pretty sure I have a USB version of that Gravis game pad sitting around here somewhere. It *was* pretty good (for it's time, at least, all the alternatives were kinda crap), and I think it still works?

Kelor

Bianca is my spirit animal.

GoodKingJayIII

Their excitement / astonishment at the pirate hat and lightsaber combo was delightful.

MichaelLC

PMAvers wrote: »

I'm pretty sure I have a USB version of that Gravis game pad sitting around here somewhere. It *was* pretty good (for it's time, at least, all the alternatives were kinda crap), and I think it still works?

That was one tough SOB. Yeah it was a solid controller for its time compared to what else was available. If course since that's what *I* used, it was the best,

SteevL

MichaelLC wrote: »

The only good console controller was the NES Advantage.
The best PC controller was the Gravis PC Game Pad which used the game port.

I remember buying two of these from Babbages not long after we got our first proper PC and I had downloaded various demos of games off local BBSes.

I absolutely hated this controller and I can't remember why. I think I finally sold them on ebay about 2 years ago.

Shadowfire

At that time, PC game pads were kind of a shitshow. You needed a soundcard with a game port or you had to get one of those ISA cards. Then you had to make sure things loaded correctly, buttons worked right, oh look it's seeing it as the wrong controller. And god help you if you were trying to use two of them!

For all its problems, USB is a godsend.

RandomHajile

The D-Pad was a bit wonky, but I really liked the Microsoft Sidewinder pad.

KetBra

MichaelLC wrote: »

The only good console controller was the NES Advantage.
The best PC controller was the Gravis PC Game Pad which used the game port.

My hands hurt looking at that thing

Monwyn

Shadowfire wrote: »

At that time, PC game pads were kind of a shitshow. You needed a soundcard with a game port or you had to get one of those ISA cards. Then you had to make sure things loaded correctly, buttons worked right, oh look it's seeing it as the wrong controller. And god help you if you were trying to use two of them!

For all its problems, USB is a godsend.

Also, and this cannot be forgotten, it was an extra device driver that ate another 5k of your precious, precious conventional memory and (I think?) another IRQ you had to configure and hope didn't get upset with you and cause the machine to hang for no good goddamn reason.

agoaj

KetBra wrote: »

MichaelLC wrote: »

The only good console controller was the NES Advantage.
The best PC controller was the Gravis PC Game Pad which used the game port.

My hands hurt looking at that thing

Don't forget to screw in the joystick

Glal

I mean, if we're genuinely talking best D-pad (arguably stretching the definition of D-pad, but you know, the change is what makes it so good).

Genji-Gloves

cooljammer00

Alex's accidental sojourn into being a part of "Weird Twitter" has always been very confusing to me.

BRIAN BLESSED

Alex is a perpetual shitposter like many others, he just gets overshadowed by many more outward shitposters

SteevL

He seems just as confused and befuddled by it whenever a tweet of his gets blown up.

Genji-Gloves

https://twitter.com/drewscanlon/status/1156254216123559937?s=20