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masschamber on 04 January 2011
disolitude said:
masschamber said:
disolitude said:
Cobretti2 said:

so esentially they made it like a nintendo d-pad



Actually they implemented a Sega genesis/Saturn dpad. Up/down/left/right raised in a circle. Nintendo Dpad is just up/down/left right.

I picked this up and love it. Its the second best dpad I've used for Street Fighter, after saturn pad ofcourse...


I find this almost unbelievable given console manufacturer's track record with dpads for the past decade, but your word... gives a chance, I'd love to be able to pop rising storm's like on the saturn's dpad and play my game room games without the need to switch over to my arcade stick

Yeah, I neatly opened my controller box since I was pretty sure ill return it and take this back to best buy... but its a keeper.

Even with the Dpad not twisted its much more responsive than the old dpad, but with it twisted down its quite excellent...It almost feels like microsoft spent days doing half circle like movements in all directions as it feels very sensitive and worked in for you out of the box lol

Incredible, then I'm there



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ArnoldRimmer on 04 January 2011

I don't like it, and looking at the poll of the YouTube-video most people seem to think the same way.

The D-pad definitely looks like an improvement, but the original D-pad is so bad that it would be impossible to make it even worse.

What I really don't like is the buttons being gray. I really liked the colored buttons, that was pretty much the only thing I prefered about the 360 gamepad in comparison to the PS3 pad.



Barozi on 04 January 2011

I know it's not here yet, but I wouldn't get one. I already have too many 360 controllers.



d21lewis on 04 January 2011

With my older 360 controller being good enough for most games and my Fight Pad being used for fighting games, I don't really need this one yet.  Tempting, though.



disolitude on 04 January 2011
ArnoldRimmer said:

I don't like it, and looking at the poll of the YouTube-video most people seem to think the same way.

The D-pad definitely looks like an improvement, but the original D-pad is so bad that it would be impossible to make it even worse.

What I really don't like is the buttons being gray. I really liked the colored buttons, that was pretty much the only thing I prefered about the 360 gamepad in comparison to the PS3 pad.


I'd never pick aesthetics over improved functionality when something like button colors are in question...but to each his own I guess.



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oldschoolfool on 04 January 2011

Why is this in the off-topic forum. lol



bannedagain on 04 January 2011
ArnoldRimmer said:

I don't like it, and looking at the poll of the YouTube-video most people seem to think the same way.

The D-pad definitely looks like an improvement, but the original D-pad is so bad that it would be impossible to make it even worse.

What I really don't like is the buttons being gray. I really liked the colored buttons, that was pretty much the only thing I prefered about the 360 gamepad in comparison to the PS3 pad.


I bet you never even tried it. Seems you only come on and bash M$ products all the time. So I will take this as one of the 200 or so posts that you have only really done that.



bannedagain on 04 January 2011
oldschoolfool said:

Why is this in the off-topic forum. lol



I failed. I realised that I had put it there after I posted it.



rocketpig on 05 January 2011
disolitude said:
ArnoldRimmer said:

I don't like it, and looking at the poll of the YouTube-video most people seem to think the same way.

The D-pad definitely looks like an improvement, but the original D-pad is so bad that it would be impossible to make it even worse.

What I really don't like is the buttons being gray. I really liked the colored buttons, that was pretty much the only thing I prefered about the 360 gamepad in comparison to the PS3 pad.


I'd never pick aesthetics over improved functionality when something like button colors are in question...but to each his own I guess.

Personally, I don't spend much time looking at my controller while I'm playing... like ever, actually.




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