Let's take a moment to remember the time period when everyone had to adjust to using dual-joysticks on controllers.

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• tehn00bi@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  A few years back I was at a bar and they had golden eye on an N 64. Man the controls were hot garbage.

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  • Buddahriffic@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    But because there wasn’t anything better to compare it to, it didn’t feel that bad.

    Metroid Prime transcended its crappy controls. Like one of the worst control schemes but still one of my all time favorites.

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    • smeg@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Have you played it on Primehack? Among other fixes it gives it modern dual-stick controls.

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  • BreadOven@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    You can change it so the joystick aims, and you move with the yellow buttons…I think. Either that or the d-pad.

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    • fishos@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      But even better? You can use TWO N64 controllers at the same time, one in each hand, for dual joystick controls. I didn’t even realize that was an option until I saw it in the Switch Online Emulator

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• ICastFist@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  As someone who didn’t have dualshock controllers back when I had the PS1, FPS games always felt awful. Most of the games had like L2/R2 for aiming up/down and L1/R1 for strafing, pretty sure Quake 2 was like that. I recall Medal of Honor had you hold R2 to fine aim with the d-pad

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  • ivanafterall@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    That first Medal of Honor game felt so epic though. The music, the ambiance. I’m playing the damn History Channel over here!

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• floquant@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I recently started playing Jak II again (emulated), for the nostalgia. It’s pretty much as great as I remember it but the inverted x-axis on the camera is making me go nuts

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  • wavebeam@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Surely you can flip it in the emulator’s settings, right?

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• TabbsTheBat@pawb.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  The right stick can also look up and down? Horrifying!

  (I’m a flickstick player)

  /J

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• ManicMambo@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  The reviewer was right, you know. Playing an FPS with a controller is the most horrible thing in gaming history.

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  • AngryRedHerring@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Stick a trackball in place of the right stick, and we have my dream FPS controller.

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• Blindsite@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Yeah and it’s still inferior to a keyboard and mouse for FPS. Better for RPGs tho.

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• Pipster@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I remember changing between schemes on the N64. Like GoldenEye I would play with the stick with my left thumb for back, forwards and turning and the c buttons with my right thumb for looking up and down and strafing. Yet when playing turok or quake 2 I was perfectly happy with left thumb/stick for looking around and right thumb/c buttons for movement. Then dual sticks arrived and reversed it!

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• Echolynx@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I’ve only just started using a controller (on PC). I’m still confused by the two joysticks half the time.

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• Blackmist@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Ape Escape was peak dual stick gameplay.

  Left stick to move. Right stick for gadgets.

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• woelkchen@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I still haven’t and IMO the original Metroid Prime controls on Game Cube are the best.

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• Buddahriffic@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I wonder if that was actually just an attempt to sell more copies by describing the clearly better control scheme as scary as a challenge to anyone who thought it sounded ok. Like I don’t think it took me long to understand that the Halo control scheme was a game changer compared to the ones that preceded it (other than mouse and keyboard).

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  • AnimalsDream@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Developers themselves were often in the dark as to what the best control schemes were back then. For example, the default controls in Quake games were not originally wasd plus mouse, that innovation actually came from prominent Quake players which eventually became implemented as default in games after.

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    • Duamerthrax@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      People mock the N64 controller, but it was designed to allow developers three different configurations to design their game around and let them decide what was best. It’s really not a bad shape overall.

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  • ryathal@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I absolutely hated my first experience with modern dual stick controls. It felt so wrong compared to GoldenEye.

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  • Regrettable_incident@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I bet you give em rim jobs too, you tail-lifter.

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    • Draconic_NEO@chatgptjailbreak.tech ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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