Topic: Unpopular Gaming Opinions

@LuckyLand offset sticks hurt my hands after prolonged play, it's they way i have to hold controllers you see, i have bad wrists and the way the PS controller is set out is a lot more comfortable for me to use

@FullbringIchigo @RogerRoger I agree, I had a DS when they were popular but in retrospect, wish I had gotten a PSP. The PS Vita is probably my favourite handheld of all time and I've always got at least one game on the go for it.

@FullbringIchigo
Honestly - if Sony had had the foresight to open up (and suitably licence) the Vita to be plugged in to a display, as we all know it can - it could've set the world alight. PSTV was a shameful afterthought and ruined by handheld/home licensing restrictions.

I think with the success of the Switch - there is clearly the demand for a portable machine that will play at home. Look at the Neo Geo X even!

@RogerRoger i wouldn't use it but then again it wouldn't work with me as it required both of your eyes seeing each image and being blind in one eye i couldn't do that

@FullbringIchigo How do you cope with that if you don't mind me asking?

I have moderate Keratoconus that I manage with contact lenses. I'm down a lens as have some inflammation - which renders anything more than a few inches away from my right eye basically illegible. I tried playing a couple of titles but found that I just couldn't follow what I was doing.

@KALofKRYPTON you get used to it, i have had this for years now

@RogerRoger I like the 3DS and picked up a cheap second hand OG 3DS to play some of the games, but after playing for a little bit, I wasn't feeling it and ended up upgrading/downgrading to a new 2DS XL which suited me better. I know some love it but for me, I found the 3d hard to deal with for long periods of time.

Sonic Generations for 3DS/2DS is crap. I have Sonic Generations on PC (and I really like it) and on New 3DS and the 3DS version just sucks. There is an improved version of Sonic 1 on 3DS (for example you can use the spin dash move) I higly recommend to buy that game instead.

@RogerRoger Sonic 1 for the 3DS is great in every possible way, it is just the best version possible of that game, but made even better! It's not like the GBA version

Splinter Cell is massively overrated

Spider-Man 2 The Movie The game wasn't actually a good game, all it had was decent web swinging physics

@Kidfried yeah they are rather small, OK when they are in the control dock though

I've never had an issue with the joycons, personally. And I have large-ish hands.

I personally prefer them outside of the grip, though. Not having my hands locked in place when I'm playing on the dock is great.

@Kidfried The D-buttons work surprisingly well for most games. They're actually superior when it comes to Puyo Puyo Tetris. Although nothing will ever replace a D-Pad for me. My preference would have been to have a D-Pad on the L-Joycon, but 2D games are perfectly playable with the D-buttons.

In terms of layout, I find using the D-Pad on the Xbox 360/Xbox One controllers and Nintendo Switch Pro Controller to be uncomfortable.

Your thumbs reach L and R... in what position?

The joycons nestle down in my hands and are delightfully comfortable. Sans shoulder straps, of course. The shoulder straps make them too wide

@Kidfried They're probably my favorite controller(s) ever. Extremely comfortable and flexible and long-lived. And the HD rumble is kind of neat with certain games.

I'm not a fan of Xbox-style controllers at all, which is why I'm not interested in the Switch Pro.

DS4... the general layout is comfortable, and it has a great D-Pad and triggers, but the battery life is horrible, as are the options/share buttons and that useless touchpad.

Unpopular Opinions:

• SMT IV: Apocalypse is one of the best games Atlus has ever released.
• Radiant Historia, on the other hand, is one of my all-time least favorite Atlus games.
• West of Loathing looks horrible, and no amount of "clever writing" could possibly justify that game's presentation
• I don't remember if I said this before, but Xenoblade Chronicles on the Wii and New 3DS is my least favorite Xeno- game.
• Metal Gear Solid 2 > Metal Gear Solid 3
• I prefer waggle controls in DKC: Tropical Freeze to more traditional controls.

@Kidfried Eh, the battery life is pretty important, and it's a huge strike against the controller in my opinion. But. overall, it's a pretty great controller. Factor in gyro controls when used with Steam games and it becomes probably the best general-use controller I've found.

In terms of comfort, I'd say:
1) Freeform joycons
2) Gamecube controller
3) NES "dogbone" controller (shaped like the SNES controller, but without the weirdly positioned shoulder buttons)
4) Wii remote + Nunchuk (my feelings on this have improved A LOT over the years, to be honest)
5) Dualshock 4

@Kidfried did you ever get to try the Atari Jaguar controller? Now that is THE worst.

Other awful controllers;

Megadrive 3 button pad
(The 6 button with amazing d-pad was way better)
Xbox Juke
(Hugggge pad with none working d-pad and 2 face buttons out of reach)

@themcnoisy worse controller i ever used was the Atari 5200 controller

best was the GameCube Wavebird

@FullbringIchigo @themcnoisy

Being completely objective, I'd have to say that the Master System Joystick is one of the absolute worst I've ever used.

When I was a kid a mate had a Batman joystick. It looked amazing, but it was really, really uncomfortable!