@SilviaFox@sleeping.town There used to be so many people going "AHH THE SNES CONTROLLER WAS THE BST HNNGGG SO MUCH BETTER THAN XBOX 360 OR PS4 CONTROLLER THOSE ARE SHIT TIER CONTROLLERS" and like
how are these people so wrong about such a simple thing.
@SilviaFox@sleeping.town like not even subjectively; completely objectively factually wrong. the SNES controller was OK at best. it was bloody uncomfortable over any period longer than a few hours. Megadrive pad wasn't much better either, especially the dinky little six button ones. "Ergonomic" my fluffy arse end.
@theoutrider @SilviaFox@sleeping.town realtalk I quite liked the Wii controllers. They were... surprisingly comfy? a bit weird and the trailing wire was kinda annoying at times but pretty good, mostly responsive (the Wii+ addon fixed a l ot of issues but did make it a bit heavier and also having to purchase an addon per controller? Jeez, Ninty >:\ ) , pretty intuitive...
I'm willing to bet the Switch joycons feel even better, though I worry they're very small.
@Nine @SilviaFox they are a bit, yeah, but I can manage okay
also, later Wii remotes had the motion+ integrated into the main body with barely any added weight, and third-party ones with it popped up near immediately after the motion+ was introduced
@theoutrider @SilviaFox@sleeping.town ahhh, that's cool at least! But yeah it did suck for early adopters. the GC backwards compat was nice tho. Honestly Ninty are always a bit of a mixed bag for me.
Like, they have these cool systems, but there's always... something kinda wrong with them, somehow. And it's one of those not immediately obvious things like some kind of Monkey's Paw thing.
@Nine @SilviaFox the 360 controller was a little big and the dpad is dogshit, but otherwise it's a fine pad
Dualshock and its successors are pretty excellent, as is the Gamecube pad, though ever since the Wii I've grown extremely fond of having two separate bits (Wiimote+nunchuck or split joycons) so I can just flop my hands wherever