Do You Have Any Unpopular Gaming Opinions?

[strangenova]

I've always though of it as part of the immersion, kind of like those AR games. It's augmenting my input method for added detail in the game

[BogusMeatFactory]

I've never enjoyed rumble. I've disabled it in my gaming since the days of PS1.* I just find it distracting and immersion breaking.




*With the exception of MGS using rumble to simulate Psycho Mantis telekinetically sliding the controller. That was really creative.

It depends on the game for sure. I am happy with hd rumble on switch and hope people will use it, cause it really is something crazy! Although I will not keep my hopes up.

[Segata]

what is wrong with the triggers? shit is the intellivision controller, not a serviceable controller like the ps3.

You slightly bump them and they register it too easily. Gets really annoying in some games and esp annoying watching movies on Bluray. DS4 they curve outward and more resistance.

[Jmustang1968]

I prefer the PS4 controller to the PS3 for sure. I love the controller is bigger and has the longer and more comfortable handles. The DS3 makes me hold it in a claw.

Saying MS shouldn't make consoles is crazy. One could use your logic and say Sega shouldn't have made consoles.

[Segata]

SEGA innovated about as much as Nintendo in the 90s in different areas. Financially no they should not have done consoles but DC did set standards that 360 just improved on.

[Exhuminator]

I am happy with hd rumble on switch and hope people will use it

Although I have played a Switch, I did not experience the "HD rumble" effect. So I'm neutral on that one. I don't even know what it is, or how rumble can be "HD".

[BogusMeatFactory]

I am happy with hd rumble on switch and hope people will use it

Although I have played a Switch, I did not experience the "HD rumble" effect. So I'm neutral on that one. I don't even know what it is, or how rumble can be "HD".

So HD rumble can simulate the feeling of liquids in a container as well as small object in a box. Ball Count on 1 2 switch simulates 1-9 balls ins container and you have to roll the controller around to feel ir. It is just rumble, but you feel those balls sliding and moving within the controller even though there isn't anything there.

They also have a hot potato style mini game that has you shaking champagne and passing to others and the person who gets it when it pops loses. You feel the sloshing and the carbonation. It is so weird, but it really feels like it. Gimmick, sure, but one I welcome.

[Jmustang1968]

SEGA innovated about as much as Nintendo in the 90s in different areas. Financially no they should not have done consoles but DC did set standards that 360 just improved on.

Besides online play, what?

This is also coming from someone who loved and grew up with a Genesis.

[BogusMeatFactory]

SEGA innovated about as much as Nintendo in the 90s in different areas. Financially no they should not have done consoles but DC did set standards that 360 just improved on.

Besides online play, what?

This is also coming from someone who loved and grew up with a Genesis.

It put SIX buttons on the front!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1!1!1!1!1!1!1!1!1!1!1!2!1!1!1!1!1!1!1!

[Segata]

SEGA innovated about as much as Nintendo in the 90s in different areas. Financially no they should not have done consoles but DC did set standards that 360 just improved on.

Besides online play, what?

This is also coming from someone who loved and grew up with a Genesis.

With arcade hardware and having great Arcade ports at home. Model 1,2,3 was basically the UE engine of it's day for arcades. Dreamcast is the first console with a Arcade port better in every way than Arcades. Will give credit to MS on this one but with DC using Direct X 6.1 and WinCE PC ports were pretty easy to port over. We didn't get used to that til 7th gen. You can play Soul Calibur with motion controls. While Turboexpress played TG 16 games. SEGA Nomad is essentially the Switch of it's day. A console that is also portable with 2 player. Something Sony took after with PSP and Vita with PS3 and PS4. Dreamcast did what people credited Gamecube and Game Boy Advance with. DC did it with Neo Geo Pocket. The first to put a screen in the controller. Something Nintendo tried with Wii U just Wii U came 13 years later and much more advanced. Sony copied the idea with PocketStation. Sony even celebrated it with it's own app on Vita in japan.
SEGA Activator came out YEARS before Kinect or Eyetoy and speaking of. DreamEye. The first home console camera. It had email. Phone calls. Chat. It even had a video service that in some ways was the precursor to YouTube. The Eyetoy also doubled as a digital camera. SEGA had a MP3 player in development for it and even showed it off but the DC demise killed it. These abilities and able to connect to devices is what Xbox 360 was talking about before launch and hyping that it could connect with digital cameras and MP3 players plus the Xbox Live Camera. Original Xbox nearly had VMUs but dropped the idea when no one looked down at it. When MS was developing the Xbox they used Dreamcast in focus groups. The controllers were modeled after DC controllers complete with the analog triggers which Saturn gave us and the colored buttons. (I know Super Famicom had them) . Xbox was the second console to use direct X. Dreamcast had a large focus of PC ports and PC friendly and it was. Xbox also modeled it self like that. MS in many ways modeled the Xbox after the DC but better. Now this is more of a fanboy thing but I remember the SEGA fans treating Xbox and 360 as the continuation of DC..36 ESP.
Like even down to Halo nearly being a DC game. Phantasy Star Online is the first console MMO and now we have tons of them on consoles..including Phantasy Star Online 2. Shenmue helped develop the tools to develop modern games we now take for granted. I know DC is not the first console with DLC(even N64 had it) but when it acted like the DLC we know today for games like Skies of Arcadia (we recently got more DLC) Floigan Bros was developed to be episodic with DLC and we just got more of it last year. Something modern games do all the time. There is a lot more.