Comment on The Steam controller was ahead of its time

AppleTea@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Yeah, the left trackpad sucks. I think they could also fit another joystick if they made the right trackpad a little smaller.

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  • dualpad@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I love the left trackpad. I love it for movement, since I like setting stuff like dash, crouch, slide to it on a click which doesn’t feel good doing the same with a joystick click. And I like setting a sprint activator on the very edge which is easier to avoid not accidentally triggering, because of the trackpad size.

    I’m actually opposite where I wish the left joystick on the Steam Controller was a dpad.

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• Nalivai@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Left trackpad is also a d-pad though

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• Psythik@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I also want six face buttons for fighting games. Somebody, please release a controller like this already. I haven’t seen one since the Sega Saturn.

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  • else@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Modern fighting games aren’t really designed for 6 buttons. I guess if you want to play SF6 with only face buttons that could be neat, but you’d still want to map parry and DI to shoulder buttons. The reality is that developers know that most pad players have 4 face + 4 shoulder buttons and most stick and leverless boxes have 8 buttons.

    That said, 6 face button pads definitely exist. Most of the ones I’ve seen are from Hori, but there are quite a few brands that offer one.

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    • Psythik@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Okay lol maybe I want them for other games too.

      Six face buttons, two joysticks, a D-Pad, a touchpad, four triggers (two being analog with a click at the end of the range), four paddles (like the Steam controller), HD rumble. That’s what I want in a controller. Nothing less. Such a controller does not seem to exist.

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  • phar@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    8bitdo M30. Phenomenal.

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    • Psythik@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Not quite what I’m looking for (but thanks). I should probably mention that I also need dual joysticks, quad triggers, quad paddles, a touchpad, and a D-Pad. Basically everything you can get on both a Steam controller and an XBOX controller, except with two extra face buttons.

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  • tal@lemmy.today ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    There’s a whole class of controllers, often called “fightsticks”, which have a full-size arcade-style joystick and a ton of buttons, to replicate the feel of arcade fighting games.

    www.reddit.com/r/fightsticks/

    !fightsticks@lemmy.world (not very active)

    www.amazon.com/Arcade-Sticks/s?k=Arcade+Sticks

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    • Psythik@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      But I don’t want a fight stick. I want a single controller that can do it all.

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