Path: chuka.playstation.co.uk!debri From: debri@dds.nl (DEnnis Brinkhuis) Newsgroups: scee.yaroze.freetalk.english Subject: Re: how do you do, PS2? Date: Wed, 15 Sep 1999 00:41:26 +0200 Organization: DEbri Lines: 46 Message-ID: <1dy5b6z.1i9xhce1wg2qc1N@[194.151.88.142]> References: <7rilo6$g0d7@chuka.playstation.co.uk> <7rjlhh$g0d16@chuka.playstation.co.uk> <7rk19h$g0d18@chuka.playstation.co.uk> <867lluja67.fsf@foo.mel.cybec.com.au> NNTP-Posting-Host: a1-88-106.a1.nl X-Newsreader: MacSOUP 2.3 Toby Hutton wrote: > "Scott Ward" writes: > > I agree with Nigel, I would have liked them to come up with some new > > analogue pads. I've never really felt comfortable with Sony's analogue > > system. Even though I don't rate the N64 much I have to admit that the N64 > > pads are much better than the Sony ones when it comes to analogue. It's a > > I totally disagree with you (and Nigel :) here. The PSX analogue > controller feels more balanced and robust, and has two sticks which is > great for GT - analogue acceleration/breake, and for MDK - turn with > one, strafe with the other. > > Are there *any* games out there which use the d-pad on the N64? That > left prong is useless. The middle prong on the N64 means your left > hand is slightly closer to you than your right and I find I naturally > tend to hold the controller at an angle, pointed slightly to the right. > Consequently when pushing the analogue stick up, it's actually a > little to the left of up. Same here... At this point I completly agree! > I don't have a rumble pack for my N64 (but a friend does), and without > it the N64 controller feels like a toy. That ugly little analogue > stick doesn't help. With the added weight from the rumble pack it > feels a little better, though the dual shock rumbles better. More to agree with... > The nice rubber tops of the fatter Sony analogue sticks feel nicer > under your thumbs too. And look a lot stronger.... even more to agree.. > Wow, until I'd written this I didn't realise just how much I prefer > the Sony pads. I'm glad they're sticking with them, I reckon they're > pretty tops. I could have said this... But admit that the analog pad (wich is slightly fatter then the dual shock) is even better of shape (not the tops of the analog sticks) DEnnis..