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Nah, N64 and Gamecube were pretty standard. Buttons and joysticks.
by coldpie 10y ago
Nah, N64 and Gamecube were pretty standard. Buttons and joysticks.
- k__ 10y agoYes, for todays standards. N64 was a weird trident with a thumb-stick, PSX added these sticks later with the DualShock controller. GC had this freaky button-layout.
- ashark 10y agoGC was the first with analog-plus-click triggers too, I think.
- Nadya 10y agoThe GC controller is the best gaming controller, IMHO. Followed by the SNES controller. My hands have never cramped playing my Gamecube or SNES. They cramp constantly trying to play FF15 on my PS4 and playing Xbox isn't much better.
- coldpie 10y agoThe 360 controller gets my vote, but the Gamecube comes in at a close second :)
- __david__ 10y agoI love the PS4 controller. I would get hand fatigue with the PS1/2/3 controller but the PS4 is just the right shape for my hands and I never notice anything even after extended play times. I like it a lot.
- everling 10y agoThe Gamecube, yes. But the N64 analogue stick was the first of its kind, no?
- coldpie 10y agoEh, not really. Analog sliders were common, including Pong. The joystick itself is a clear extension of the Atari 2600 joystick. It's a small tweak to existing control methods, not a whole new paradigm like motion controls.
- __david__ 10y agoAnd don't forget the rumble pack on the N64. It cracks me up that Sony still calls their controller the "DualShock", since that was a direct "2 is better than 1!" response to the N64 rumble pack. On the other hand, Sony's one-upmanship also added the 2nd analog joystick to controllers and that turned out to be incredibly important.
- k__ 10y agoWell, when they added it, it was rather useless. I think I only played one game on the PSX that really used 2 sticks and that was Ape Escape. Only when FPS became a thing on consoles, the second stick was finally used in more than a few games. And when did this become the case? With the XBox?
- __david__ 10y agoThere were FPSes on PS1 and PS2 but they were not good and didn't use modern control schemes (though maybe Red Faction used it?). I would credit Halo more than XBox for inventing/popularizing the good controller scheme for FPS games.