? It’s not a very illuminating sentence, but it’s doesn’t seem confusing or stupid or anything. What’s your issue with it? I guess I’m just not seeing the problem.
The review in general seemed really thin and unhelpful, but not really bad.
Scott Jones fucking sucks, that’s what.
JM1
1603
Awww yeah 10mb of animated gifs on a rubbish host! It’s like being back in 1998.
Okay, sure (I never read any of his reviews), I just didn’t see it here. Phoned in, but not outright terrible or worthy of ridicule.
Well, his main complaint is that the games controls are outdated, which is odd. Well, that and that you know less than before starting.
Yeah, the outdated controls thing was outright dumb. But that sentence just says to me that there’s some big revelation about Drake’s character that means he’s not the person you thought you knew. Something like that.
I suppose I have him on a short leash ever since he dropped this Borderlands review.
kerzain
1608
I wasn’t really invested in all the Scott Jones hate, but I like Borderlands, and that fucker needs to pay. If there is a God in this universe, it would be nice if he would make another bet with Satan and let Satan fuck up Scott Jones’ entire life, as he did with Job.
That Borderlands review is awful. Why did I keep reading that?
That… may be one of the worst reviews I’ve ever read in my entire life. Of anything. I actually feel embarrassed to be a writer, having read that, as though our common vocation somehow tars me with molecules of his shame.
kerzain
1611
“Borderlands feels like a virtual-reality simulator.”
Editer
1613
Well, it uses a PS3 controller, right? <rimshot>
- Preceding comment is made as purely from the viewpoint of a PS3 owner who despises the fact that PS3 developers use the bumpers when they should be using the damned triggers
No, fuck those triggers. You design a button whose entire purpose seems to be to make my finger slide off of the fucking thing, you better not be surprised when nobody wants to use it for anything.
Which is why you have these.
Of course, they shouldn’t be necessary, but they make the PS3 controller so much more usable, they’re basically a mandatory purchase for any PS3, and well worth the price.
Oh, I have a set of those, believe you me, but that doesn’t stop the Dual Shock from being a shit controller. It’s the main reason I will only play PS3 exclusives on the PS3. A store in LA got Arkham City in early, but only the PS3 version. I passed on it and waited, solely because I didn’t want to play using the damn Dual Shock.
I’d wish for a total redesign for the PS4, but since Sony seems to consider the Dual Shock itself something of a symbol for the PlayStation brand, somehow I doubt it’s in the cards. At the very least maybe they could get rid of the domed sticks.
Editer
1617
I really wish Microsoft would do a Bluetooth version of the Xbox 360 controller ostensibly for use on the PC, but quietly make it PS3 compatible. :) Sure, it would be making the competing console better, but hey, if it lets you sell $120 worth of hardware to PS3 owners… :) Maybe I should try one of those converter dealies…
Sorry for the tangent. But one of the reasons I didn’t finish Uncharted 1 was the dang DualShock is so annoying to use.
They’re halfway there. The headset that’s releasing “some time in November” is Bluetooth compatible, so you can use it with your PS3.
The limited edition MW3 version of that headset is already out. http://www.amazon.com/Call-Duty-Warfare-Wireless-Xbox-360/dp/B005OSFUL2/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1320179631&sr=8-1
Pretty slick. I may pick up the regular one when it comes out.
JoshV
1620
I used a converter for the gamecube, it made playing games on it bearable. Nintendo has had a run of shitty controllers for the past couple of years, all the way back to the N64. Though I suppose if you think about it, the original NES controller was pretty craptastic too. The SNES controller was pretty good though, even if we did end up with many a broken controller.
