CurseTheseMetalHands

@renegade1973: Do you recall the brand (if it had one)? I haven't had much luck with third party controllers, and I feel like I've tried them all: PowerA, PDP, EasySMX, and a handful of no-name Chinese knockoffs. They all either quickly developed stick drift or didn't have a proper/smooth 360-degree axis (the latter being really common with the Chinese clones). Another gold star for the official 360 controller: after over 5 years of pretty regular use, to the point the rubberized tip was starting to wear down to the stick, mine didn't develop stick drift until it vibrated itself off an end table onto a hardwood floor during a Halo: Reach cutscene. Even then, it was pretty minimal and I was able to use the controller for another three years before it became such an issue I had to retire it. I don't know if that was the norm, but it certainly impressed the hell out of me and I kick myself for not buying half a dozen extras before all the inferior fakes flooded the market.

@kunakai said:

I would give my left testicle for an Xbox 360 controller with an Xbox One D-pad. The 360 controller was so close to perfection...all they had to do was slap a proper D-pad on it once Nintendo's patent on that design expired, but some genius at Microsoft thought it would be a good idea to completely redesign the controller and, in the process, they ruined both the triggers and the bumpers, while also making the wired connection a point of failure.

As it stands, I kinda don't especially love any of the currently on the market controllers. I settle for the Dualshock 4. The D-pad isn't amazing, but it's acceptable. The triggers still aren't on par with the 360 controller, but their vastly better than the Dualshock 3 and still marginally better than the new Xbox controllers, so they're fine. Similarly, the bumpers still aren't perfect - they're a bit squishy for my liking - but they're maybe the best available right now. And, while the sticks still feel inferior to any of the Xbox controllers, both in terms of size and tension, they're good enough, which is perfectly fine considering everything else the controller has going for it over the alternatives.

Sadly, this doesn't sound like my cup of tea. But I'm thrilled for Jeff, though, that he's maybe finally able to realize his vision for the site and able to expand it in ways that are interesting and exciting to him. Nothing but love and I wish all of GB - crew and community - only the very best.

Easily less than 5%, because I typically wait at least a year before buying most games.

I wish he'd use the soundboard more...judiciously. He seems to just spam it, creating a cacophony of nonsense noises, rather than using it to punctuate moments. Though, I suspect that's not why he bought the thing. So, hey, if it makes him happy, I'm not about to piss on his bonfire.

At this point, aside from revisiting classic content, Jeff's solo stuff is the only GB content I consistently watch anyway, so I'm completely fine with this. If I had one complaint, though, it's that we aren't getting a new Jeff 'n' Vinny Endurance Run. Sure, it'd be better if they were sitting on a couch together, but that was never going to be an option anyway, so if they have to do it online...I can't think of a better time for them to do a coast-to-coast ER. I'd even sign up for a month of Premium for that shit.

I think I stopped midway through Year 3. I had planned on stopping after I got all the achievements, because I wanted any excuse to keep playing, but some of those achievements are just awful and focusing on them sucked all the joy out of playing. I keep thinking about popping back in and poking at it some more, but...I don't think I really want to start a new farm (at least, not right now, when I have so many other games to play and I know a new game/farm would just draw me back in in a way I'm not ready for) and I don't think there's really enough to keep my playing my old game other than chasing those achievements that just aren't any damn fun.

Loved my time with the game, but there just wasn't enough there to keep me playing after a certain point.

Cyberpunk 2077 and Ghost of Tsushima are certainly up there, if for no other reason than they aren't sequels and don't feel like more of the same. Yeah, I'll almost certainly play The Last of Us 2, Doom 2, Dying Light 2, Horizon Zero Dawn 2, Spider-man 2, Ori 2, Nioh 2, Watch Dogs 3, and Halo 6, but none of them are games I feel like I need to play at launch. They all fall into that "wait until it's on sale for $20 or less" category.

If there's one sequel I'd be tempted to buy at release, it would be - and I can't believe I'm saying this - Deadly Premonition 2. Because if there's one sequel where I have to know what the hell it is, it's a Deadly Premonition sequel. Unfortunately, if it's exclusive to the Switch, it'd require me to buy a Switch, and if I didn't buy one for Breath of the Wild, I'm sure as hell not buying one for Deadly Premonition 2.

And just the other day I was wondering if the whole battle royale trend had finally started to wane...

They made a desktop PC and gave it a horrible fucking name. Great job.