My Gaming Thoughts Right Now:This is a post with some random bullet points where I speak my mind on stuff I've been thinking about, might be relevant to now, might be some random thoughts I've had about stuff, read on to find out!!!- With just a flip of the triggers! This thought is an odd thought that I usually have at random points in my life, and really it's only a problem if you were like me and grew up with PlayStation and not really X box. And of course Nintendo is always just being Nintendo! What I'm hinting at is the random switch up from using the top bumpers on the PlayStation DualShocks for stuff like aiming and shooting. Then with the introduction of the PS 4 everything like that is now done with the bottom triggers. If you were part of any other gaming group this was never an issue. And it might not be an issue at first glance but when you actually get into it, this can be a real issue, one of the first things that comes to mind for me is the literal remapping of a basic layout. Something like the Batman Arkham games have actions tethered to them that can literally make or break an encounter. As one bumper does the batarang and the other puts you into Detective Mode. One you want to use in a stealth section, and one you really don't if you don't want to get caught! Really they did this in Origins which was a PS 3 game, but i still had some issues when going to Arkham Knight, but there they kinda just changed up all the controls as well! Even on just a basic shooter you are now switching the fire button and grenade button which is a huge problem when you just want to lob a tater but end up shooting a pea instead in the heat of the moment! Or how about how most racing games use those buttons as gas, brake, emergency brake, stuff like that and now your just changing that all up! What if in real life the gas switched to the break one morning when you go to leave for work, what then! A random one is that in the old Dead Space game L2 was used to run, but in the remake. playing the games on newer consoles its now L1. Doesn't seem like much but it just felt more right making that big ol' thing something as important as running away, now it's a tiny little rectangle above a hulk of a button! The one nice thing about the switch up is the fact that now everything feels like pulling a trigger. Really that was a cool feature I was always jealous of when it came to the Xbox360, the triggers were literal triggers! It might not have been cool to have to remember such a random switch up between consoles but it made them just a bit different from each other. Oh also the triggers and bumpers on the PS4 just sucked in my opinion, why do such a switch up for some crappy buttons, in my opinion of course!
- Remember Duke controllers? Pepperidge Farms remembers! That's the best I could think of for a title for this one, I swear it will make sense by the end of this! Remember when you could drop your controller off your bed and you was more scared of the loud sound it made instead of the possibility of it being broke? Or maybe more scared that the console is going to fall with it, depending on if its corded or not! Don't get me started on controller cords, that's for another time! But if it does have a cord that just means you have a weird version of a ball and chain to wack someone with and then go play Smash Bros. I remember back in my day, i had a gamecube controller that i dropped so much i called it a Xbox controller as it had a big X on the bottom of it from dropping it so much. But i never had any kinds of problems with it ever. While years later my PS 3 controller just literally stopped working one day. And the next one i literally took apart to fix, but some how made my left trigger (hey look a call back!) suuuuuuuper sensitive to where just looking at it makes it work! I also used to have a N64 with a oooooold controller and minus a crack in one of the million handles, it worked just fine. My used PS2 had like 6 controllers when i bought it and all worked, even the offbrand one that had like 6 extra turbo buttons on it! And honestly my Wii remote worked just fine as well. But it felt like from the sixth generation onwards, the controllers took a huge nose dive. The Dualshock 3 was cool and all that but like i said i ran through some of those. The 360 controller would just fall apart if dropped, either literally or just the back holding the batteries. And the less i say about the PS4 and Wii U controllers the better. I can't say the prices of old controllers back then, but from the PS3 onward then ranged from like 45-ish to 60-ish, now it's like a whole paycheck just to even buy a photo of a PS5 or whatever it was. But it definitely seems like the prices went up and the controller quality went down. Gotta get that on brand controller cuz if not you'll at the very least not have some of the cool features in the real ones. Or have some weird hieroglyphs on the face buttons! I also don't know how we have gotten so far in the controller landscape but the average controller still runs you dry in the form of either batteries or a nice one time payment for some rechargeable batteries that are worth their price. I mean PlayStation has it figured out but Microsoft doesn't, and if the dementia isn't kicking in then SOMETIMES Nintendo gets the memo. Then you got the new problem of them being their own glowing objects that suck up battery life like they are some kind of flashlight or something so then you gotta waste more batteries cuz your X box logo has to glow brighter then your childhood wonder in its prime! Really that was just a bonus tangent but for real i used to be blown away by how stuff like the Wavebird just needed batteries, but still we are still kinda stuck in that phase if you think about it. But you just think about all that stuff the next time you ready up your rifle in a game, or accidentally press the wrong bumper the next time you play on your PS3 and just think about the oddity of the bumper/trigger dilemma I made up!
So comment below what your opinion was on whatever I was going about basically PlayStation shoulder buttons! Or my thoughts of how crappy controllers are of late. I'd love to hear whatever you'd have to say! My Gaming Thoughts Right Now:
This is a post with some random bullet points where I speak my mind on stuff I've been thinking about, might be relevant to now, might be some random thoughts I've had about stuff, read on to find out!!!
- With just a flip of the triggers! This thought is an odd thought that I usually have at random points in my life, and really it's only a problem if you were like me and grew up with PlayStation and not really X box. And of course Nintendo is always just being Nintendo! What I'm hinting at is the random switch up from using the top bumpers on the PlayStation DualShocks for stuff like aiming and shooting. Then with the introduction of the PS 4 everything like that is now done with the bottom triggers. If you were part of any other gaming group this was never an issue. And it might not be an issue at first glance but when you actually get into it, this can be a real issue, one of the first things that comes to mind for me is the literal remapping of a basic layout. Something like the Batman Arkham games have actions tethered to them that can literally make or break an encounter. As one bumper does the batarang and the other puts you into Detective Mode. One you want to use in a stealth section, and one you really don't if you don't want to get caught! Really they did this in Origins which was a PS 3 game, but i still had some issues when going to Arkham Knight, but there they kinda just changed up all the controls as well! Even on just a basic shooter you are now switching the fire button and grenade button which is a huge problem when you just want to lob a tater but end up shooting a pea instead in the heat of the moment! Or how about how most racing games use those buttons as gas, brake, emergency brake, stuff like that and now your just changing that all up! What if in real life the gas switched to the break one morning when you go to leave for work, what then! A random one is that in the old Dead Space game L2 was used to run, but in the remake. playing the games on newer consoles its now L1. Doesn't seem like much but it just felt more right making that big ol' thing something as important as running away, now it's a tiny little rectangle above a hulk of a button! The one nice thing about the switch up is the fact that now everything feels like pulling a trigger. Really that was a cool feature I was always jealous of when it came to the Xbox360, the triggers were literal triggers! It might not have been cool to have to remember such a random switch up between consoles but it made them just a bit different from each other. Oh also the triggers and bumpers on the PS4 just sucked in my opinion, why do such a switch up for some crappy buttons, in my opinion of course!
- Remember Duke controllers? Pepperidge Farms remembers! That's the best I could think of for a title for this one, I swear it will make sense by the end of this! Remember when you could drop your controller off your bed and you was more scared of the loud sound it made instead of the possibility of it being broke? Or maybe more scared that the console is going to fall with it, depending on if its corded or not! Don't get me started on controller cords, that's for another time! But if it does have a cord that just means you have a weird version of a ball and chain to wack someone with and then go play Smash Bros. I remember back in my day, i had a gamecube controller that i dropped so much i called it a Xbox controller as it had a big X on the bottom of it from dropping it so much. But i never had any kinds of problems with it ever. While years later my PS 3 controller just literally stopped working one day. And the next one i literally took apart to fix, but some how made my left trigger (hey look a call back!) suuuuuuuper sensitive to where just looking at it makes it work! I also used to have a N64 with a oooooold controller and minus a crack in one of the million handles, it worked just fine. My used PS2 had like 6 controllers when i bought it and all worked, even the offbrand one that had like 6 extra turbo buttons on it! And honestly my Wii remote worked just fine as well. But it felt like from the sixth generation onwards, the controllers took a huge nose dive. The Dualshock 3 was cool and all that but like i said i ran through some of those. The 360 controller would just fall apart if dropped, either literally or just the back holding the batteries. And the less i say about the PS4 and Wii U controllers the better. I can't say the prices of old controllers back then, but from the PS3 onward then ranged from like 45-ish to 60-ish, now it's like a whole paycheck just to even buy a photo of a PS5 or whatever it was. But it definitely seems like the prices went up and the controller quality went down. Gotta get that on brand controller cuz if not you'll at the very least not have some of the cool features in the real ones. Or have some weird hieroglyphs on the face buttons! I also don't know how we have gotten so far in the controller landscape but the average controller still runs you dry in the form of either batteries or a nice one time payment for some rechargeable batteries that are worth their price. I mean PlayStation has it figured out but Microsoft doesn't, and if the dementia isn't kicking in then SOMETIMES Nintendo gets the memo. Then you got the new problem of them being their own glowing objects that suck up battery life like they are some kind of flashlight or something so then you gotta waste more batteries cuz your X box logo has to glow brighter then your childhood wonder in its prime! Really that was just a bonus tangent but for real i used to be blown away by how stuff like the Wavebird just needed batteries, but still we are still kinda stuck in that phase if you think about it. But you just think about all that stuff the next time you ready up your rifle in a game, or accidentally press the wrong bumper the next time you play on your PS3 and just think about the oddity of the bumper/trigger dilemma I made up!
So comment below what your opinion was on whatever I was going about basically PlayStation shoulder buttons! Or my thoughts of how crappy controllers are of late. I'd love to hear whatever you'd have to say!
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