Arcade and Retro General Chat in Karkariko Village Tavern: Live Ocarina Music

the groutch

o1s1n wrote: »

I love the Saturn D pad but hate that the pad itself is so small! Could have done with a bit more padding.

feels very light and flimsy when comparing to a 360 controller, but they take a fair bit of abuse, as I can testify to from many hours of button bashing on Athlete Kings (aka Decathlete).

johnny_ultimate

Andrew76 wrote: »

Just watched that too. Could be more Fast n Furious over the top guff. I take it you've seen the 6th film? Man alive that was some seriously over the top flying through the air sh1te and that's coming from someone who thought the 5th one wasn't too bad - tolerable at least. :pac:

I've only ever seen the 4th film for some reason, and it was rubbish :pac: I've heard the 5th and 6th films are at least self-aware of their ridiculousness and good fun, but really there's so many films to watch in this world I can't see many circumstances when I decide to actually watch one of them! Or a Need for Speed one for that manner.

CiDeRmAn

I had my Need for Speed film already, in the cut scenes in the 3DO original!

I can't imagine this movie is going to be anything other than a lousy framing device to see cgi enhanced super cars p1ssing around sunny California, or a selection of different American backdrops.

If I want to see a good car movie I'll watch Vanishing Point, Ronin or even The Blues Brothers. Heck, for pretty cars and the usual Cage madness there's always Gone in 60 Seconds.

Mr.Saturn

Sera wrote: »

yeah? what's it look like?

Kinda like this, though it was better-built, and shaped a little different, I recall. It was the best non-stick option for fighters and whatnot. Wasn't wireless either, of course:



Gave mine away when my PS2 went bye-bye, and have since been using dualshock 3 for my PS2 games on my PS3; ain't really cutting it. The lag-time on converters are notorious as well.

DinoRex

Jack burton

DinoRex wrote: »

Got a few hours play time this morning before work of Dark Souls myself...all I can say is, ****ing skeletons!

DinoRex

Nothing is worse than these guys:

o1s1n

aRGH!! I'd completely forgotten about the horror of those guys. Rolling around like arseholes!

Myrddin

Pfft Skeletons. There's nothing more annoying than those ****ing mushrooms in Earthbound. I thought my Snes pad was broke the first time I played it :mad::o

DinoRex

Dark Souls has it's Mushroom Dads, no matter what level you're at you get a punch by one of them you're going to have a bad time.

o1s1n

If I remember correctly, I think I turned my control pad upside down whenever that happened and it worked fine

Myrddin

o1s1n wrote: »

If I remember correctly, I think I turned my control pad upside down whenever that happened and it worked fine

This time I'm playing on the Wii U pad...not as easily done

deathrider

o1s1n wrote: »

NES? SNES? Megadrive? (the later life pads, not the early muck), Dreamcast? Saturn? All absolutely fantastic

Nintendo and Sega own all the best D pad patents, other ones tend to be muck.

Actually also have to include the Neo Geo pocket, one of the best ever made.

NES and SNES are grand, but I never thought they were amazing. They never have me any problems, but neither did the Playstation. They were all just grand. The Dreamcast (could be Saturn, I always mix those up) was a nightmare d-pad. It was raised up far too high.

o1s1n

EnterNow wrote: »

This time I'm playing on the Wii U pad...not as easily done

Hahaha! Foiled by technology, I love it

There has to be some way of beating this with the help of mirrors....

deathrider wrote: »

NES and SNES are grand, but I never thought they were amazing. They never have me any problems, but neither did the Playstation. They were all just grand. The Dreamcast (could be Saturn, I always mix those up) was a nightmare d-pad. It was raised up far too high.

The input response time and general feel of movement with the NES and Snes D pad are leagues ahead of the PS1 D pad. It would be generally held opinion, not just my own personal opinion

Saturn pad is widely believed to be the greatest D pad ever made. I personally really love the DC pad but it does get some flak as it's quite high. Again though, the input response feels really nice. If I can use it to play shmups it must be decent enough

richymcdermott

I never knew the differences between the megadrive d pads to the playstation , just became second nature to me.

Playstation controller in general is perhaps the best controller as its universal successful in all genres of games.

Myrddin

richymcdermott wrote: »

Playstation controller in general is perhaps the best controller as its universal successful in all genres of games.

..... :eek:

deathrider

o1s1n wrote: »

Hahaha! Foiled by technology, I love it

There has to be some way of beating this with the help of mirrors....



The input response time and general feel of movement with the NES and Snes D pad are leagues ahead of the PS1 D pad. It would be generally held opinion, not just my own personal opinion

Saturn pad is widely believed to be the greatest D pad ever made. I personally really love the DC pad but it does get some flak as it's quite high. Again though, the input response feels really nice. If I can use it to play shmups it must be decent enough

It may be lagless. I can't say for sure, as I only played it for an hour or two, but the d-pad's height really made it feel awkward to me. I was playing Marvel Vs Capcom 2 on it, and it really felt like I was fighting against the pad itself. Again, that would saw your thumb off.

o1s1n

Ah I see, so we're coming at it from two different standpoints. I don't play fighting games at all, so cannot really comment on D pad performance from that perspective.

richymcdermott

EnterNow wrote: »

..... :eek:

Its true though

its perfect for platformers ,fighters (minus the fightning stick), 3rd person shooters, racers , fps , stealth genre , rpgs


It takes the best aspects of the snes controller and further improves it to be the best controller out of the 3.

deathrider

o1s1n wrote: »

Ah I see, so we're coming at it from two different standpoints. I don't play fighting games at all, so cannot really comment on D pad performance from that perspective.

We'll agree to disagree so

Retr0gamer

richymcdermott wrote: »

Its true though

its perfect for platformers ,fighters (minus the fightning stick), 3rd person shooters, racers , fps , stealth genre , rpgs


It takes the best aspects of the snes controller and further improves it to be the best controller out of the 3.

It took the SNES controller and slapped on a terrible d-pad that can go to hell. The analog stick placement is really slapped together, not surprising since it was a slapped together response to the N64. It's a nasty thing that we got used to because of controller stockholm syndrome.

Myrddin

richymcdermott wrote: »

Its true though

its perfect for platformers ,fighters (minus the fightning stick), 3rd person shooters, racers , fps , stealth genre , rpgs

richymcdermott

EnterNow wrote: »

of course it just an opinion :pac:

o1s1n

richymcdermott wrote: »

Its true though

its perfect for platformers ,fighters (minus the fightning stick), 3rd person shooters, racers , fps , stealth genre , rpgs


It takes the best aspects of the snes controller and further improves it to be the best controller out of the 3.

Wait, what? Are you talking about the Playstation dual shock controller?

Jack of all trades, master of none. The only thing it helped improve was FPS/3rd person movement in console games and that's already been bettered by the 360 pad.

Every other genre you've mentioned has a different and better pad to use for it.

richymcdermott

it is just an opinion

keep in mind from my aspect i only ever held a megadrive, nes, snes , dreamcast playstation and xbox 360 controller

should also be noted that i was solely a ps user up till 2008 till i bought a wii for the family and my sis got a xbox for xmas in 2009

so to me my preference lies with sony controller it was i used to , i dont like the bulky design of the xbox nor its analog placements.

o1s1n

richymcdermott wrote: »

it is just an opinion

...and not all opinions are right

richymcdermott

o1s1n wrote: »

...and not all opinions are right

that is your opinion :pac:

o1s1n

richymcdermott wrote: »

that is your opinion :pac:

You are infuriating

richymcdermott

o1s1n wrote: »

You are infuriating

they dont call me mario 64 is **** for nothing :pac:

johnny_ultimate

The first rule of the Internet is that every single statement should be followed by the letters IMO, otherwise it will invariably be interpreted as a declaration of fact.

IMO.

richymcdermott

johnny_ultimate wrote: »

The first rule of the Internet is that every single statement should be followed by the letters IMO, otherwise it will invariably be interpreted as a declaration of fact.

IMO.

ah come on that's just effort, if the internet worked like that then we would not be having topics like this :pac:

Andrew76

richymcdermott wrote: »

they dont call me mario 64 is **** for nothing :pac:

Funny enough that's what springs to mind when I see your username - "isn't he the chap who thinks Sonic Adventure is better than Mario 64? Keep scrolling...".

richymcdermott

Andrew76 wrote: »

Funny enough that's what springs to mind when I see your username - "isn't he the chap who thinks Sonic Adventure is better than Mario 64? Keep scrolling...".

Good times

i still kinda feel that way till i got burnt by SA and now get bored when on the level with the go karts

CiDeRmAn

So, a mod takes an afternoon off and returns to find that tensions had risen in his absence but that good sense had prevailed and everyone is still getting on....

I feel unneeded

This kind of goodwill would never have happened in the Playstation forum!

o1s1n

johnny_ultimate wrote: »

The first rule of the Internet is that every single statement should be followed by the letters IMO, otherwise it will invariably be interpreted as a declaration of fact.

IMO.

I only speak in facts :pac:

MrVestek

Sonic Adventure IS better than Mario 64.

Aherm...

CiDeRmAn

o1s1n wrote: »

I only speak in facts :pac:

In your opinion you do.
The rest of us will continue to think of you as the prince of lies, but not tell you....
Ever since it turned out there was no pantry, or butler.... not even a monocle to speak of.
Gutted, that's the word

You're lucky you weren't cast out into the Sega forum, or worse still the Playstation one!

o1s1n

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

In your opinion you do.
The rest of us will continue to think of you as the prince of lies, but not tell you....
Ever since it turned out there was no pantry, or butler.... not even a monocle to speak of.
Gutted, that's the word

You're lucky you weren't cast out into the Sega forum, or worse still the Playstation one!

I played all that down so you lay people would feel comfortable when you came around for the evening. Poor Jeeves spent the evening locked up in the pantry.

CiDeRmAn

I wondered what the whimpering was, I figured I was me... after I lost on Powerstone, embarrassed myself on Gigawing, and so on

Myrddin

Thinking of doing the unthinkable...selling off my cabs...

Steve X2

EnterNow wrote: »

Thinking of doing the unthinkable...selling off my cabs...

:eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek:

o1s1n

Say wha???????

I hope I didn't spur that on with my comments about the winter?

If you sell the cabs then your poor shed will be empty!

Steve X2

I could fit a couple in my kitchen.

o1s1n

Gunblade in your kitchen?

Myrddin

o1s1n wrote: »

Say wha???????

I hope I didn't spur that on with my comments about the winter?

If you sell the cabs then your poor shed will be empty!

Ha no, but it did get me thinking about how little I use the damn things I'll have a think over the weekend, but they might appear on a certain marketplace soon enough...

Steve X2

o1s1n wrote: »

Gunblade in your kitchen?

I've a fairly large kitchen and one half of it mostly goes unused so why not
I could fit maybe 5 or 6 cabs in one side but it would look a bit tacky, maybe 1 or 2 would be acceptable. But Gunblade might be pushing what would be acceptable in a kitchen me thinks.

Myrddin

Steve SI wrote: »

But Gunblade might be pushing what would be acceptable in a kitchen me thinks.

Lol, yeah even I'd agree with that. But then again, the price just might make it attractive enough....;) The thing is with Gunblade, it splits in two & the game & guns are housed in the turret section & that can be connected to a projector or normal monitor if needs be. The big 50" screen isn't required.

richymcdermott

massive headache reading through youtube comments on one of ign videos were they gave persona 4 golden best vita game

so many fools saying killzone mercenary is better. i like killzone, one of my dark desires but no way killzone is better than persona 4

Steve X2

EnterNow wrote: »

Lol, yeah even I'd agree with that. But then again, the price just might make it attractive enough....;) The thing is with Gunblade, it splits in two & the game & guns are housed in the turret section & that can be connected to a projector or normal monitor if needs be. The big 50" screen isn't required.

You're a bad man

johnny_ultimate

richymcdermott wrote: »

massive headache reading through youtube comments

That'd be your first problem.

IGN

That'd be your second problem.