/vr/ - Retro Games

>>10612401

>>9770973
Now play dpad and analog stick mode, which is the best way to play shooters

By whichever of the two prongs the game in question was designed for.
Nintendo just sort of thought the d pad and the stick would be completely mutually exclusive and there would never be any reason one would design a game that required both, so they designed the controller with the idea of that mutual exclusivity in mind.

Coming off of the N64 where they made accessing the D-Pad mutually exclusive from accessing the analog stick, Nintendo still didn't think there would ever be a reason you'd want to use a d-pad at all in a 3D game.
At this point they thought of the d-pad as purely vestigial and analog sticks were the only thing you'd ever need.

>>8454249
It feels very vestigial.
You get the impression that Nintendo still didn't believe that anyone would ever need or want to use both the analog stick and the d pad at the same time, but without making the two as explicitly mutually exclusive as they did on the N64

>>8257892
They didn't really know how people were going to want to interface with analog controls so they assumed that D-Pad based input and Analog Stick based inputs would be completely mutually exclusive, so it's designed to only be held by two of the three prongs with the idea that you just won't have any use for the unused prong.
Of course once people were more used to analog sticks it became apparent that you'd want to be able to easily access both the stick and the d-pad so you can use the d-pad as a secondary set of inputs and click down the stick for yet more input options.

>>7250389
>>7250394
This. It's easy to forget analog input was somewhat new and unproven at the time, and thus Nintendo wasn't entirely sure how people would interface with it.
That's why the stick and the d-pad (and L and Z) are just considered mutually exclusive by design.
Presumably if people just hated analog controls they could just tell people to hold it by the dpad and everyone pretend the analog stick never existed.

>>5853583
>duping the US market who thought they were getting the second coming of the SNES.
Meanwhile, the actual 2nd coming of the SNES ended up being the PlayStation.

>>5666398
>an entire business exists around selling re-designed N64 controllers to retro vidya bandwagoners because they are too stupid to know how to hold them, or too young to remember that the manuals showed you.
Hilarious.
>inb4 "b-but it's uncomfortable!"
I'm 6' 2" and have huge, fatass hamfists, and I've never had an issue holding an N64 controller properly.

Are there any games that used the middle configuration?

>>4779683

>>4331039
When will this retarded meme end? Go back to /v/

>>4228795
>Sticking with carts was a mistake
>No loading times.

Come on, I'm starting to agree with the OP.

Another anon said the "three hands meme"

Don't you know how to hold a N64 controller? Pic related.

>>3884854

Option 3, even if using the analog stick.