There were some cheap ass weird ones in North America too. I remember for Christmas we’d ask for a Joycon or something like that, and we’d get “the Joycron,” which looked nothing like a controller, had a weird shape, felt like shit and was cheap as hell. The old man would be like, arrrr we saw it at the BiWay and it was 99 cents, why do you need the one thats $60? Then he would play it, and sure enough, by February you had the real one.
I agree. That thing was HUGE. I have tiny hands too, and always struggled with it.
I also didn’t really like the N64 controller, it was kind of a weird size too, and it just had a weird layout.
The enshitification of video gaming continues. It’s all about the stock market and investors now, not quality or experiences. It’s also why there hasn’t been an actually original video game since god knows when, it’s only about remakes and reproductions.
Silca makes a pretty good degreaser that’s one step and is pretty effective. It won’t work as good if the chain is caked with crap and well used, but it’s quite robust and will certainly do a good job with a newer chain. Anything more is overkill. It takes like 15 minutes too, start to finish, and if you do a good enough job you will only need to wash with hot water in the future.
More like 1988, not 98. It might be when the version you are playing came out, but Populous was from the late 80s.
I’m running out of excitement for this game. I wish game developers would quit blowing their loads in debuting games far too early and then over promising on delivery.
As others have said, it really depends on the game. But I would say >90% of my PC gaming is done with a controller. I’ve just become so adapted to them, that the keyboard and mouse just feels foreign now. Even with FPS, most of the time I use a controller. I’m aware of the advantages of using a mouse obviously, but again I’m just conditioned to it now.