Nintendo Switch

Gyro controls are great. They're great in Splatoon, they're great in BotW, and though I haven't played Wolfenstein yet, I bet they're pretty great there as well. Right stick for large movement and gyro for fine adjustments is the best combo.

Again, I fail to see the need for "fine adjustments" with gyro controls when sticks to the job for me just fine.

Hey, it's fine if you're good with traditional twin-stick controls. There are people who are better at using a typewriter than a modern keyboard. Nothing wrong with that.

Sticks have always been good for over and under compensating my aim in games. Never got a handle on them even while binge playing the original Uncharted trilogy and its MP mode.

Gyro controls always felt like there was a brick wall obstructing my visual movement, always centering back whenever I attempted to turn. Felt like I was crawling in molasses or pulling weights with my neck. I'll never understand how people adapted to this control scheme, let alone perfected it.

If gyro controls become mandatory and replace twin sticks for good, I'll lose faith in the genre's fanbase.

Edited by RainingMetal on Jul 12th 2018 at 1:14:44 PM

I'm gonna need evidence of that. Coz a QWERTY keyboard and a QWERTY typewriter have the same layout. Unless you're using a typewriter that's like... centuries old.

Gonna need evidence that this happens at all (and it's beyond the usual funk anyone gets when changing keyboard). :-P

Got a switch a few weeks on a go. Liking it so far. Hating Breath of the Wild though. It's just so much busywork. And some of the worst UI. Like, if I want to cook the same recipe 40 times. Why can't I just tell the game to do that, and instead have to navigate menus to select ingredients, put them in the fucking fire, wait, rince, repeat, 40 fucking times.

The shooting got better when I turned Gyro controls off. That was awful.

Edited by Ghilz on Jul 12th 2018 at 2:24:40 PM

I guess a more accurate comparison would be QWERTY vs Dvorak keyboards. QWERTY is outdated and inefficient, but it's the one that everyone's used to, so they prefer it over Dvorak, though Dvorak is proven to be the better option.

Hallelujah. Thank god I'm not the only one allergic to gyro controls.

People are allowed to like Gyro controls. :/

Edited by strawberryflavored on Jul 12th 2018 at 2:42:29 PM

Sure, but that doesn't give them the right to put down those who don't. Everyone always sounds like a Smug Snake whenever they wax lyrical about it.

As someone who hated playing FPS or TPS games on console because twin-stick grated on me immensely, playing Splatoon on the Wii U and having gyro controls just click was amazing. So forgive me if I tend to sing the praises of a system that made any sort of shooting on consoles viable for me.

I suppose I'm the opposite then. I adapted relatively quickly to using twin sticks on console shooters and never looked back, so when gyro controls were forced upon me in Splatoon's tutorials, I immediately turned them off when I could, and I don't ever plan on using them. Gyro controls for me are the tool of the devil.

i assumed the "" I used would be enough to let out I was just messing about.

I'm not going to shot you down over a freaking control scheme of all things, even though I don't really understand your reasoning for not liking it.

"Tool of devil"? Talk about dramatic!

Edited by Elbruno on Jul 12th 2018 at 2:49:35 PM

Mario Kart 8 Deluxe will receive more updates in the future.

Well, as the Angry Video Game Nerd so well put it, the most important aspect of a game is being able to play it. I have absolutely no problem aiming with sticks and it baffles me that people do. It doesn't help that Star Fox Zero was such a disaster due to said gyro control favoritism. At least Splatoon allowed you to play with that shit dialed off.

SF Zero wasn't shit because of gyros, but because of throwing the freaking second screen into the mix as well.

I mean, I dislike the gyro control, but I can just turn them off. I don't mind them being there. If you like them or they help you, that's fine. Accessibility for the win.

I do take offence at the game NOT TELLING ME they are there until an arbitrary loading screen 10 hours in making me wonder why I couldn't aim for shit and if Link has Parkinson's or cerebral palsy.

Edited by Ghilz on Jul 12th 2018 at 3:20:22 PM

Not noticing gyro controls are on for 10 hours?

I'll be blunt, if you didn't notice it for that long it's entirely on you.

Edited by Elbruno on Jul 12th 2018 at 3:22:43 PM

Also, could we please not resort to ableist insults?

I'm in the habit of going to the options menu every time I start up a game. Usually to turn on subtitles, or check out the game's assigned controls. I can't say for Breath of the Wild as I'm no Zelda fan, but I can imagine the inconvenience of not knowing something until it's too late. I assumed Link aimed like someone was pushing his face when he was aiming from your point of view.

I didn't know it was even a possibility. I just got the console and it's not like the thing has a manual.

[citation needed]

I also like gyro aiming. So much easier to make fine adjustments than twin-stick, though I will acknowledge the Wii probably did it better.

I noticed gyro aiming the first time I used a bow. The game introduces motion controls in one of the first four shrines, so when I was shooting, I noticed that the cursor was following my hands.

I've used gyro aiming a few times. I can see the appeal since it feels real smooth, but I don't really want to have to move my console/controller around like that constantly. I'm just fine with the twin sticks. Either way it's good to have the option to use either.

I'm real twitchy so I can't play with gyro, which makes Splatoon 2 really hard for me.

This was already posted in the Smash Bros. thread, but a 4chan leak for a July 22nd Nintendo Direct has popped up. According to the leak, there will be Switch ports of the following games...

• Super Mario Maker
• Mortal Kombat X
• Kingdom Hearts III
• Fallout 76
• Final Fantasy VII Remake
• Cup Head