Wow never really noticed how much the 360's d-pad sucks until now!

yeh it sucks

try playing mortal kombat. uuuhhg.

I'm sure the PS3 version will be much more forgiving due to it having a decent D-pad.

I started off by using the LS and I think that works just fine.

Imo this game works great with LS. I never use 360's d-pad in anything (unless you must use it like in CoD4 :X).

360's D-pad is worse than the D-pad on my 15-year old SNES controller, which is practically yellow.

We should beat the D-pad up.

I don't get why that D-pad is still on the 360 controller. It should have died on the regular Xbox controller.
They don't mind ripping off the miis or the eye toy, so why the hell do they still use that thing ?

The game plays just fine with the stick, but it's hardly the best way to do it.

I don't understand how the d-pad is an issue, you never have to push diagonally up as that is the default firing position and the 360 d-pad has no problems differentiating between up, down, left, right.

Every direction on the 360 D-pad is sloppy, and it's easy to accidentally do a diagonal when you don't want to.  I found that the stick was quite a bit easier to play with than the D-pad, which is probably ok for this game.  That would never fly with a game like Street Fighter.

"I don't understand how the d-pad is an issue, you never have to push diagonally up as that is the default firing position and the 360 d-pad has no problems differentiating between up, down, left, right."

I didn't even know you could use the D-pad. You crazy fools.

It's a shame but the 360 D-pad seems to be good for little more than inventory cycling and barking canned commands to AI team-mates.

There was a simple mod I remember seeing that you could make to the dpad to make it far less shitty. I'm gonna look that up now

"There was a simple mod I remember seeing that you could make to the dpad to make it far less shitty. I'm gonna look that up now"

Yeah it could get messy if you've never used sandpaper before. I'm gonna give it a shot, I've got a spare controller.

"BionicIguana said:

"I don't understand how the d-pad is an issue, you never have to push diagonally up as that is the default firing position and the 360 d-pad has no problems differentiating between up, down, left, right."

Well if you're running and press B, your arm will go straight forward. If you don't want to use the diagonal then you have to stop moving before pressing B right ? That's sounds annoying to me. Maybe I don't quite get the gameplay yet."

Dude I didn't know you could use the D-pad before this as the tutorials showed the analog stick being used so I used that.

Yeah, use the analog stick. The game's got analog movement in it and was pretty clearly designed to be played that way.

uhh... what's wrong with the thumbstick for 2d games?  I understand 2d fighters (not so much 3d unless you have to do a down, up, etc. combo) but a sidescroller actually plays better with a joystick overall

I actually do prefer the stick now. I played it for about an hour late last night with the dpad only, but the stick is just fine. Nothing like the challenge rooms to make you feel really shitty at a game.

Just tried the PS3 demo from the Japanese PSN, and there the d-pad is not a problem for me at least. What bothers be a bit though especially on the time based challenges is how you tell your arm to let go or hold on to surfaces, in case you need to change direction mid swing for example.

I have yet to encounter a single game in which the 360's Dpad worked better than the left stick.  It's pretty much just an additional 4 item selector on the controller.

I just use the left stick, the 360's D-Pad is dead to me.

in this day and age basically all the games were designed for the analog stick. The D-pad has definetely been taking a back seat

The analog stick feels fine. Just use that.

"in this day and age basically all the games were designed for the analog stick. The D-pad has definetely been taking a back seat"

yea but most 2d side scrollers can work good on the analog sticks. Sonic 2 works good on the 360

I'm so used to holding the controller that way that I prefer using the left stick in all games.  I even use it when playing emulators on the computer.

If I absolutely need digital movement I just use the arcade stick.

"yea but most 2d side scrollers can work good on the analog sticks. Sonic 2 works good on the 360"

I find the d-pad is fine, but i do play with the Analog stick and haven't had any problems with it

Use the analog sticks. It works just perfect whit those. I beat the game and  40+ of the challenges on a average 4star rating. It's all about precision, timing, focus, patience and all other imaginable virtues, like all other games and every action you take in life!

btw. 41+ challenges suck, because moving platforms suck sooo hard. The only element I truely dislike about Bionic Commando : Rearmed.

The D-pad is the only bad part of the 360 controller, IMO.  Just use the analog stick as plenty of others have said.

The 360 might as well have a third analog over that D-pad. Surprised a new updated controller isn't out actually.

I hope for kind of double nun-chuck controller for the next generation of xbox and playstation. Like casual games and J-RPGs and the like only use one, others use two. That be freaking awesome!

This is the reason why I bought the PS3 version.