Personal experience: game controllers

You know, you can write blogs in different ways: in the format of reviews, annotations, articles. I think this is quite interesting, however, personal stories leave more impressions. So today, dear readers of Stopgame, I would like to share with you my opinion about certain controllers that I was lucky enough to try. Well, well, as the Great said – let’s go.

PlayStation Controller

Yes, I was still that fan of “spider”, although. What was.

Yes, I was still that fan of “spider”, although. What was.

Many of the modern gamers did not even hear such a phrase – by the way, I, too, because for some reason it seemed to me that all the gamepads with the Sony console were called either Dualog or DualShock, except Sixaxis, however, this is not so.

My acquaintance with this gamepad happened a long time ago, as a child, something like this in the 2006th year, when I played on the first PlayStation. Unfortunately, after so many years, it is problematic to remember everything, but some comments still have.

Despite the fact that the ergonomics of the PS controller does not cause questions – the device sits like a glove – when managing in specific games, they arose. On the one hand, Test Drive, Mortal Kombat, Spider -Man, ECW and Worms are played remarkably, and on the other – Medal of Honor, Resident Evil, 007 and Quake are still the pain, because it aims with “arrows” is a separate type of “art”. By the way, I did not have such judgments in childhood – I just played and enchanted, but now we see if we were baked: and then we are not so, and this is not the case for us.

I met a classic “Orthodox” controller, playing on aunt PC, but with her, Mortal Kombat and some other shooter about the “American landing of the Second World War” (I don’t remember the name of course), but “drank on a brudershaft” already with the advent of the personal (actually parent) computer of the house in the 2007th year. I got used to the new enough, playing Return To Castle Wolfenstein, GTA: San Andreas, Flatout 2 and Fable. One of the most striking memories and impressions from childhood is the New Year, and how we play a very “fresh” Call of Duty: Modern Warfare with a cousin – as it turns out later, one of the main hits of that season.

On Klavomysh, as on the only game controller, I “sat” for quite some time – more than 10 years. During this time he played in a variety of games and a variety of genres, while not feeling special problems, only partly and then occasionally. Well, everyone remembers how often they made just infantry control for the game prefixed from the consoles, sometimes even with the impossibility of changing the layout. How great it is that this is already in the past. Or not yet?)

Now I play Klavomysh very rarely, most often in strategy and other genres, where it is as convenient as possible. So to speak, I use clamp for its intended purpose.

Sixaxis and “Chinese” Dualshock 3

Sixaxis (finally, nozzles on sticks with a cover arrived).

Sixaxis (finally, nozzles on sticks with a cover arrived).

My second meeting with gamepads took place in 2018 with https://nokyccasinos.org.uk/ the purchase of PlayStation 3. Understanding that I am ̶n̶b̶o̶m̶ extremely inexperienced in the use of the gamepad, I decided to start “enhanced training” from the games that are most suitable for this – ̶h̶h̶t̶r̶ ̶. God of War: Ascension, God of War, God of War II and God of War III gradually pumped my Sixaxis control skills, and Black Flag was fixed by my first Assasin’s Creed (unless of course it can be called), passed on the gamepad. I already felt like a pro-heimer, however, Killzone 2 and 3 happened to me.

“Chinese” Dualshock 3

“Chinese” Dualshock 3

Play the shooters on Sixaxis and so was terrible (at first), and worse – only with the help of the “Chinese” DualShock 3. The “Chinese” was a magnificent copy that was not even distinguishable from the original: solid assembly, about the same quality of plastic (compliment or insult decide you), not playing buttons. However, one drop of tar spoiled the whole honey: the sticks that did anything but a smooth turn – it was simply impossible to aim normally, and the tuning of sensitiveness did not solve this issue in any way. For races, slasers, third -person action, this is not so important, but for the shooters – critically. Also, there was no gyroscope in it, but only vibro -motrackers.

Further, more, playing Battlefield 3 (yes, the cartoon is still alive) and other problems – ergonomics. As you know, the game in the multi -user mode differs from the single in that in the first it is advisable to keep your fingers initially on all buttons – for the speed of reaction and movements. So, playing for a long time (hour or more), I ran into discomfort in the hands – no, it was not unbearable pain, but nevertheless – unpleasant. As I understand it, the problem was that the fingers are on sticks at a not very comfortable angle and the joints overstrain as a result. I don’t know, this is a subjective or objective thing, if you have encountered, write in the comments, but it seems to me that if you consider the second one, then the problem lies in the past and designing the PlayStation controller, which was created without taking into account the sticks.

In addition, there is an opinion – sixaxis, like Dualshock 3, is more convenient for people with small hands, but at the same time, I can’t say that I have big hands – medium.

Xbox 360 Controller and Steam Controller

The same gamepad from the Xbox 360 with a design under Modern Warfare, which has been touched my heart

The same gamepad from the Xbox 360 with a design under Modern Warfare, which has been touched my heart

To start, I think, I need to from the phrase “I did not plan to buy this gamepad at all”, and no, the point is not that it is good, bad or something like that. And the fact that it is not necessary to have all the gamepads – they still duplicate each other’s functions, and I connected the same Sixaxis to the PC and emulated the microsoft controller via SCP Server. Yes, maybe it is somehow creamy-is, but there is no special difficulties with this either-it works and good. So, the purchase of the Xbox controller for me was a combination of circumstances.

It was like that. I have long thought about buying a Steam controller, and since it ceased to be produced and officially sold, I was looking for it in the secondary market – OLX. The proposals were, then were not, then an adequate price, then no, but on the New Year I was well so lucky: I found an ad, I bargained, dropping a third of the cost – apparently a person, due to unnecessary, wanted to sell it;We agreed to buy and send, and for the sake of interest I went to see other options and saw the Xbox 360 Controller there. I would miss any other such gamepad past myself, but this one was not simple, but ̶z̶ oh̶l̶t̶y̶y̶y̶y̶ -stylized under my favorite game series – Call of Duty: Modern Warfare. At first I thought it was a “Chinese” building with Ali, but no – an official design.

The gamepad itself was completely whole and not even shabby, only sticks and crosses were a little “shaken”, but due to Ali himself, this is not a problem. The price was also acceptable – at the level of standard white or black options.

Regarding the gamepad itself: it is really a little more convenient than Sixaxis, but due to the dimensions, not asymmetric sticks (as it is customary to think), this is still marketing, at least in my personal experience – this is the case – this. I can’t say anything about the cross – I’m not a big fan of fighting wools, except in the company. However, I cannot say that I received some fundamentally different or better game experience (only aesthetic), which can not be said about the Steam controller.

Indeed, playing with the help of a gamepad from Valve, I literally experienced catharsis from time to time. Firstly, ergonomics – it is just outrageous. I don’t know how, perhaps, this is a dumping body shape, but holding this controller in my hands was, as for me, most conveniently from everything. It is also amazing functionally: the trackpad, at first, seemed strange to me, was especially annoyed by a small vibration that could not be completely turned off – at least I could not, but you get used to it, you understand that I had never been so convenient and I say it, so far, only about MASS Effect 2 – from the 3rd person. Still, a stick and trackpad is heaven and earth. I will not talk about other functionality yet, since the heading is about personal experience, and not copying Wikipedia, and, unfortunately, I have not yet familiarized myself with everything.

In my opinion, all the gamepads, I mean, Dualshock 3, Xbox 360 Controller and Steam Controller Plus Minus are equal in terms of comfort, perhaps only the Valve gamepad, purely for me, is knocked out to the leaders-I still write off my hyper-imprisonlong -awaited purchase. However, it does not matter with what you play: clavomed or gamepad, because all this depends on the habit, and there can be no right-proper opinion here.

It was my personal experience – thank you for your attention! See you in the next blogs.

The best comments

Cool. Especially the gamepad from the Xbox 360 stylish.

And if in the Steam settings put the controller? I helped me with ds 2

Yes, he literally bought me)

I also idolized the controller from x360, even for a wired PC I bought it, but now I got it from the shelf only for the first sales. Dualoshko at number 4 is now for me number 1, but if on a PC, then mostly in slasher, fighting and racing I use it. I now play the shooters on the clamps, although I remember earlier with the X360 I was perverted on a PC)

Oh, thanks for the advice, I’ll try)

I tried everything except Stemovsky. Xbox 360 steers, it is very convenient. Well, the dualushk from 3 sonya is also good. But from 4 I somehow did not come in, like from Xbox One.

At some point, I wanted to buy a steam controller, but he kind of finished support and I changed his mind

Well, in Steam for many games there is a layout, mainly for those who have been released at the “Pike of Bohr”.

I basically play on the gamepad not because I suffer from prejudice as “gamepad better than clavyshmi”, “clavy is better than the gamepad” – no at all, I just have a TV and a banal thing on a computer table and playing such a close range. Now Black Mesa has set up and, suddenly, it does not support the Steam Controller 🙁 although maybe I did not do it. Now you have to configure through the hpadder.

By the way, this is the first time. Almost everything worked without problems. Unless in addition to Firewatch-for which a separate layout, but only Steam version sees it, and then I went through a pirate-the library mainly in the GOG, and I still haven’t bought it yet

I didn’t try from 4-ki and Van-and I probably won’t try … But why, actually. This from time to time is gathering dust – “Chinese dual – 3 generally lies for beauty)