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Well by my avatar you can see i don't / can't use default and while circle / square are backwards in the photoshop image you can see how i play. I'm not pro sony as i have my 360 pads re-wired flipping both the d-pad with the face buttons + the l / r analog sticks. In halo,gears,killzone and call of duty the swap the analog sticks but forget that the action buttons and d-pad are still in default mode,i didn't and proceeded to have this glaring oversight fixed myself! I'm currently in school getting a game art and animation degree but what i really want to do is fix all the control schemes that are poorly set up if you use legacy or southpaw. My initial F.P.S contacts were Goldeneye,Perfect Dark and Turok where the c group of buttons were movement and the analog stick was freelook. Going foward we then went backward as all modern dual analog games reversed what came before. Not only was i trained that way but i'm a dominant lefty who is unable to use default and what you've provided as southpaw or legacy i call broken...so i'm out to fix it myself. I already have ,for me,personally but not for those like me who just paid for an unplayable AAA effort that we really wish were playable. alt-controls.com is an example of how frustrated fellow gamers are. When i pay my hard earned money for games i expect to be able to do what so few games manage to do-play how i want to. Resistance 1 /2,the conduit and timesplitters 2-a ps2 launch game no less are the exceptions rather than the rule. People wonder why wii did so well truthfully game pads have been in the same sad rut since the original dualshock was developed-at least wii is ambidextrous out of the box. First party pads should learn from thrustmaster as they have a customizable controller. http://www.amazon.com/Dual-Trigger-Rumble-Force-Game-console/dp/B000WR81G6/ref=sr_1_11?ie=UTF8&s=electronics&qid=1243028238&sr=8-11 It works on ps2,ps3 and pc but sadly nothing for 360. They even have a wii pad but unfortunately it forgets what you set up whereas the playstation pad doesn't. It even allows 1 set-up per system and after you're done when you turn whichever system on just hit preset and default turns into whatever you want. Really too bad all first party pads don't do this though if there were a custom slot in both my xbl and psn profile that overrides the in game scheme this wouldn't even be necessary..so sad too bad i have to do everything myself,having my 360 pads re-wired,finding workable playstation pads all the while the Guinness making my AAA and original games add the same old scheme we've had since ps one days with almost -0% variance. I'm a hardcore gamer who knos what games are even worth looking at,love games and want to work in games but something i'm also painfully aware of like sound controls get no love perhaps even less than sound and that's saying something.

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Comment In: What Nintendo's 2011 sales mean for Wii U, third parties [News - 02/09/2012 - 04:35]

Launching with a tabletpad nintendo ...

Launching with a tabletpad nintendo could launch Wii U with the biggest launch lineup EVER if both ds and 3ds games could be played ala built in super gameboy /gameboy player using the HDTV or top screen and the touchscreen as the bottom touchscreen. Wii U should allow SD cards ...

Comment In: Nintendo boss details digital strategy, weaning off Miyamoto's supervision [News - 01/30/2012 - 04:49]

When last i checked 3ds ...

When last i checked 3ds ambassador games were tied to whatever system you downloaded them to you could transfer them to a different 3ds but if you were at death mountain in classic zelda have fun starting without the wood sword , now with nintendo network and linking games to ...

Comment In: Sony's Hirai: We could be in 'serious trouble' [News - 02/03/2012 - 10:38]

From my point of view ...

From my point of view playstation is a great well known brand which makes many inovative and hardcore games whereas nintendo has mostly series dating back to the nes/snes era and if the wii u doesn't allow 4 tabletpads and can barely support 2 i see problems for nintendo. As ...

Comment In: Oklahoma bill proposes extra tax on violent games [News - 02/02/2012 - 07:25]

Well the handful of R ...

Well the handful of R rated moves get no flack and it seems the game industry is still the whipping boy it was even after we won protection under free speech...now it's back to those evil,contemtable m rated games. The local news is worse than any game so on what ...

Comment In: Looking toward Vita's future by examining PSP's past [News - 01/30/2012 - 02:39]

There's no report about customizattion ...

There's no report about customizattion and while i'd love to have vita if I CAN'T PLAY IT WHAT'S THE POINT Hopefully there will be a slot for vita games on ps4 or @ least a psn portal to access Digitally bought content including vita but if i were to buy ...

Comment In: Wii U controller's latest secret revealed [News - 01/27/2012 - 09:54]

Here's a killer app that ...

Here's a killer app that only Wii U could do play ds/3ds games on a combo HDTV /tabletpad which means you could buy a ds / 3ds game and play it without the ds/3ds which would open up an even bigger launch lineup of games. Another problem,for myself and anyone ...

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