Do You Have Any Unpopular Gaming Opinions?

[ElkinFencer10]

I LOVE the Dreamcast's controller. I agree that it should have had more buttons and that it needed a second control stick, but it's a SUPER comfortable controller and works really well for everything other than FPS games.

[Jmustang1968]

I am in the camp of not really caring much for the DC. I dislike the controller, and besides a select few games, I am not a big fan of the library. It is similar to the N64 to me. Not saying the system is bad or anythinh, as many love it, it just doesn't align itself well for my tastes.

[Reprise]

As far as FPS games go, I must say that the scheme used in things like the unreleased Half-Life work really really well if you get used to them. You use the four face buttons to move forward, back or sideways. You use the analog stick to aim. You use the shoulders to fire and the dpad for switching weapons, etc. It's actually really comfortable once you "get it."

Yeah, I actually defended FPS games for years on the Dreamcast. I loved Quake III, Unreal Tournament, Soldier of Fortune, Outtrigger etc. (and the Half Life leak) and played all of those games for years with just the controller, until I eventually bought a keyboard and mouse.

The only game it was more fiddly for, was Unreal Tournament, which had two firing modes. If I remember correctly, you had to have the secondary fire mapped to 'up' on the D-pad and jump mapped to the left trigger or vice versa, neither of which were too comfortable, although the game was still playable.

Still, a second analogue stick could have been useful for more than just FPS games.

But like I said, I also really like the Dreamcast controller and have no quarrels with its size, shape or feel. I just feel, again in hindsight, it could have done with a second analogue stick and a couple of extra buttons, whether they were shoulder or face buttons.

[TSTR]

DC controller sucks
come at me bros

[isiolia]

I constantly imagine an alternate reality where Sega put a DVD drive in there instead of using GDROM, and it makes me wonder how the console wars would have gone then.

I doubt there would have been much difference. Hardware wasn't really the issue. Sega had burned publishers too much by that point, while Sony had pulled them in and secured most of the top IPs for their platform. Working in Software Etc at the time, the DC plain did not have the games people were buying a PS2 for.

Generally speaking, the X-Box picked up where the DC left off. I could maybe see a world where MS partnered with Sega rather than do their own thing...but that would probably have taken Sega making different moves post-Genesis, not just with the DC.

[Gunstar Green]

DC controller sucks
come at me bros

It really does. The buttons feel really cheap, the texturing on the stick is painful and the D-pad might as well be made out of knives. The wire coming out of the bottom is stupid and the choice to have a single analog stick was short sighted. I don't hate it as much as I hate the Nintendo 64 controller but it's up there.

At least the official arcade stick is pretty sweet.

[noiseredux]

my understanding is that the PS2 being a DVD player was a really big selling point in Japan. And this is only anecdotal, but it's why I myself chose a PS2 over a DC at the time.

But as I've mentioned previously, if you read stuff like Service Games you really see that there was no one factor that killed the Dreamcast. Sadly it was death by a thousand tiny cuts.

[noiseredux]

DC controller sucks

[Jmustang1968]

I felt burnt by Sega over the treatment of the Saturn. I also was loving the PS1, so that and the dvd player had my anticipation for the PS2 very high at the time of release.

[TSTR]

DC controller sucks
come at me bros

It really does. The buttons feel really cheap, the texturing on the stick is painful and the D-pad might as well be made out of knives. The wire coming out of the bottom is stupid and the choice to have a single analog stick was short sighted. I don't hate it as much as I hate the Nintendo 64 controller but it's up there.

At least the official arcade stick is pretty sweet.

i did like that Agetec for the while i had it