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Control in games is everything. If you aren't at one with your controller, you've no chance of getting the high score that you may crave.
Of course you can still have fun, but when you reach the hardcore stage, skill is everything.
So I've got a mate who just cannot get to grips with analogue controls. (By which I mean the joystick thingys on your controller.) He prefers to use buttons. So when we're racing on Gran Turismo, I always beat him because he just hasn't got the same level of control as I have. Where he can only jog the brakes and has only a few degrees of steering, I can apply smooth braking and acceleration and inch perfect steering with the left and right analogue controls of a PSX joypad.
Sony have brought more degrees of control by introducing analogue buttons on its PS2 joypad, allowing you to apply pressure on the buttons equivalent to how much you want the object you are controlling to respond. But analogue sticks still seem to rule the day.
Flight sims, shooters, driving games, fighting games; all these genres can benefit from analogue control, and I think this is the way controllers will go, not necessarily with joysticks, but buttons allowing you more and more accuracy as they become more fine tuned, with more range than ever before.
The future looks bright; The future is analogue.
Of course you can still have fun, but when you reach the hardcore stage, skill is everything.
So I've got a mate who just cannot get to grips with analogue controls. (By which I mean the joystick thingys on your controller.) He prefers to use buttons. So when we're racing on Gran Turismo, I always beat him because he just hasn't got the same level of control as I have. Where he can only jog the brakes and has only a few degrees of steering, I can apply smooth braking and acceleration and inch perfect steering with the left and right analogue controls of a PSX joypad.
Sony have brought more degrees of control by introducing analogue buttons on its PS2 joypad, allowing you to apply pressure on the buttons equivalent to how much you want the object you are controlling to respond. But analogue sticks still seem to rule the day.
Flight sims, shooters, driving games, fighting games; all these genres can benefit from analogue control, and I think this is the way controllers will go, not necessarily with joysticks, but buttons allowing you more and more accuracy as they become more fine tuned, with more range than ever before.
The future looks bright; The future is analogue.
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Control in games is everything. If you aren't at one with your controller, you've no chance of getting the high score that you may crave.
Of course you can still have fun, but when you reach the hardcore stage, skill is everything.
So I've got a mate who just cannot get to grips with analogue controls. (By which I mean the joystick thingys on your controller.) He prefers to use buttons. So when we're racing on Gran Turismo, I always beat him because he just hasn't got the same level of control as I have. Where he can only jog the brakes and has only a few degrees of steering, I can apply smooth braking and acceleration and inch perfect steering with the left and right analogue controls of a PSX joypad.
Sony have brought more degrees of control by introducing analogue buttons on its PS2 joypad, allowing you to apply pressure on the buttons equivalent to how much you want the object you are controlling to respond. But analogue sticks still seem to rule the day.
Flight sims, shooters, driving games, fighting games; all these genres can benefit from analogue control, and I think this is the way controllers will go, not necessarily with joysticks, but buttons allowing you more and more accuracy as they become more fine tuned, with more range than ever before.
The future looks bright; The future is analogue.
Of course you can still have fun, but when you reach the hardcore stage, skill is everything.
So I've got a mate who just cannot get to grips with analogue controls. (By which I mean the joystick thingys on your controller.) He prefers to use buttons. So when we're racing on Gran Turismo, I always beat him because he just hasn't got the same level of control as I have. Where he can only jog the brakes and has only a few degrees of steering, I can apply smooth braking and acceleration and inch perfect steering with the left and right analogue controls of a PSX joypad.
Sony have brought more degrees of control by introducing analogue buttons on its PS2 joypad, allowing you to apply pressure on the buttons equivalent to how much you want the object you are controlling to respond. But analogue sticks still seem to rule the day.
Flight sims, shooters, driving games, fighting games; all these genres can benefit from analogue control, and I think this is the way controllers will go, not necessarily with joysticks, but buttons allowing you more and more accuracy as they become more fine tuned, with more range than ever before.
The future looks bright; The future is analogue.
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