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4940606 No.4940606 [Reply] [Original]

Are there any games that used the middle configuration?

>> No.4940612 [DELETED] 

Most FPSs, Sin and Punishment, Bangai-O

>> No.4940614

Such a dumb fucking design.

>> No.4940623
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>> No.4940629 [DELETED] 

>>4940614
It's literally a standard pad with 6 face buttons and an added analog stick in the middle.
It's actually quite avant garde but only a handful of developers made creative stuff with it, most just copied Nintendo and the right-position.

>> No.4940703

Quake 2
GoldenEye
Perfect Dark

>> No.4940906

>>4940614
This

>> No.4940908

>>4940623
based Tony

>> No.4940931
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>>4940623
This image inspired the Wii Remote. it's the reason why Nintendo ordered that hit on Gandolfini.

>> No.4940949

>>4940931
Wii was the most popular console among actual boomers. My dad got one and he never plays video games.

>> No.4940968

>>4940606

The superior way to play Quake 64 with a stock controller is using the middle config as a pseudo dual-stick setup.

Secretly, the best way to play is with the gamecube adapter, which gives you actual twin sticks.

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4941198

what?

>> No.4941206

>>4940949
So he is just a collector?

>> No.4941208

>>4941206
He played Wii, mostly just the two Wii Sports. He was a league bowler and very good at it. Got Mario Kart for me.

>> No.4941235

I think most FPS on the system had an option to use it, but most people never realized you could.

>> No.4941294

>>4940606
Turok

>> No.4942313

>>4940606
Did anyone else just always play everything using the right configuration?

>> No.4942332

>>4940606
Sin & Punishment, and the Ekans Hoop Hurl minigame from Pokemon Stadium

>> No.4942797

>>4940931
ayy, what hit, whatcha talking about, ain't no mafia round 'ere.

>> No.4943626

>>4940614
It's a great design if different developers use different configurations for games that take advantage of it.

Nobody did that, not even Nintendo. Like OP said, there's nothing that uses the middle even though there probably should be.

>> No.4943640

>>4940614
>>4940906
Thirded

>>4943626
That middle diagram is the only justification for not putting the dpad and stick beside each other, and it's totally pointless... even today, you'd be hard-pressed to think of more than a few games that use a left dpad and right stick.

>> No.4943662

>>4940614
>majority of audience are kids
>make a giant fucking controller none of them can hold properly

>> No.4943674

>>4943640
It's fairly pointless because the C buttons can double as a makeshift D-pad anyway, so most games that used a control stick and a D-pad just went wit the left configuration since it gives the player access to two more buttons. FPS games and shit generally need both a "change weapons" button AND a general action button, and you can't have that with the middle configuration.

>> No.4943679

>>4943662

I was 7 when we got an N64 and I never had a problem with holding the controller.

>> No.4944012

>>4943640
>That middle diagram is the only justification for not putting the dpad and stick beside each other
Wrong. If the d-pad and stick are next to each other then only one of them can be placed in an optimal position in relation to the handle. Having a separate handle for each solves this problem.

>> No.4944050

>>4940606
already mentioned but I want to clarify that sin and punishment was designed to be used with that configuration on purpose