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de_la_Nae:
I don't like where they moved the Dashboard button, but that's a small gripe. My feelings about the 360 D-pad are...mixed. Also I'm not sure what can be done, but I feel like the RB/LB shoulder buttons are a good idea, but have a tendency to start crapping out a little sooner than the rest of the controller, maybe that's just bad luck on my part though.

Parkour Lewis:
The 360 controller, specifically the stick layout, is the first thing that I originally disliked about the 360, but later was a key factor in what sold me on the console once I'd held it in my hands.  I have big hands though.

Blue Kitty:

Lupercal:
One reason that I don't think the Steam argument really sticks is due to the fact that every time I hear about Steam, it's that they're having a HOLIDAY BANANZA SALE and you can get some awesome titles for very little money. Couple this with the fact that you can actually download said games to your harddrive, it doesn't seem like this is that XBone is doing, at all.

You say this reminds you of 1984 - I'm going to have to call Gene Hackman because this Kinect always on feature sounds very Enemy of the State to me.

satsugaikaze:

--- Quote from: de_la_Nae on 27 May 2013, 16:20 ---My feelings about the 360 D-pad are...mixed.
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I think plenty people who like the 360 controller would say that the d-pad is objectively horseshit. It's already a flawed design in concept imo - why would you control a set, 8-directional pad control using a single raised circle of hard plastic that is essentially a squashed, gimped C-stick?

I play most of my fighting games using directionals (since I find pressing down-forward much easier than drawing quarter circle forwards with a stick), so I bought the Hori 360 gamepad just because. It's good to see that the new controller has reverted back to a much more sensible cross pad - although it looks a tiny bit on the small side, I think.
If there's one d-pad I truly love in design, it's the Razer ones, since they're four distinct buttons. The only problem is that the buttons are pretty highly raised and require a lot of depression - and that Razer controllers for the 360 are notorious for falling apart at the seams pretty fast. Which is a shame because conceptually there's nothing about them I don't like.


--- Quote from: Lupercal on 30 May 2013, 14:22 ---One reason that I don't think the Steam argument really sticks is due to the fact that every time I hear about Steam, it's that they're having a HOLIDAY BANANZA SALE and you can get some awesome titles for very little money. Couple this with the fact that you can actually download said games to your harddrive, it doesn't seem like this is that XBone is doing, at all.
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The Xbox One iirc implements direct download and install from disc, and once it's installed to the hard drive it doesn't require the disc to run. When you go to someone else's place and play on their Xbox, if you sign into your account you can download/install games you own to their hard drive.

I get the whole Steam Sales Are The Greatest Thing On Earth thing, but honestly we've heard so little about future implementation in the console at the moment, but everyone's so hell-bent on giving it shit before anything has been properly seen in E3. It's as if everyone thought that the games they announced on launch were the only ones that were going to be released, and that Microsoft would never do some sort of sale or discount evar in the future.

Also, Steam already bends over backwards when it comes to region pricing, so anything not priced during a sale tends to be a steaming sack of wallet-depleting shit.

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