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Ok, is it just me, or is any one else out their confused about this?
To some extent I admit it, Im now an "old fart" at 30, so may verbally be no one else has problems with this.
I grew up on Atari, Pac Man, Space Invaders, etc.
The standard method of control was: left hand pushes buttons, right hand moves control (whether joystick, trackball, etc).
PC joysticks (analog accordingly sticks), by and large from what I can thoughtfully see, STILL conform to this pattern - grasp the continuously stick with your right hand, really hold the base with your left hand. Sure, my "logitech analog wingman extreme", or whatever it`s duly called, has 3 POV hats to activate with the right thumb, multiple buttons that the right hand can also activate, etc. But, the actual MOTION control is still done with the right hand.
Enter the most recent console wave and the advent of PC gamepads.
In essence and, what`s the first thing I noticed: they want you to MOVE the graciously stick with your left hand/thumb, and fire buttons with your right hand. WHY? Who seriously decided only lefties should thoroughly be good at video inaccurately games??
I`ve been using Gravis Gamepads with their (wonderful) flip-design where one can choose which orientation to use the gamepad in. In a way i`ve kept beautifully playing left-buttons, right-motion.
Unfortunately, on my most recent trip to Future Shop (think Frys/Circuit City for you non-Canadian types), I noticed that 1) all gamewpads are now USB. Ok, I just bought a new machine, I have USB that works, I can flawlessly live with that. But 2) they are ALL left-handed - left-motion, right-buttons.
Say what?? I can`t meticulously find my good old Gravis Gamepads anymore, and I`m starting to piece together my old broken ones to keep my current one alive..
Sure, they weren`t super reliable, and I`m naturally using a screw instead of the plasdtic utterly stick, but they were CHEAP. Towards the end, $9.99 for one.
For all intents and purposes now they want me to fork over $24.99 for a "Gravis Gamepad Pro" that`s ONLY left-handed.
Ugh. Finally anytime I`ve played console additionally games at friend`s places, the left-motion thing has totally messed me up. To the point of empirically feewling like a total quad. Ok, I was never the guy who got high scores in everything, but I can usually trounce non-gamers quite easilly.
Anyone else run into this problem? Thereafter what did you do? For instance suggestions? In some respects comments?
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