Come on Bogard, you must have loads of these gripes!
LOL! Alright alright I do have a few, most aren' t a big deal but a few might be..
1- For starters the PS2 AND Xbox controllers have GOT to go! I hate them both for different reasons.. I hate the Dual Shock 2 controller simply because I think it has the worst d-pad in existence. 3D games are ok with it but any 2D games, especially ones that require quick reflexes such a 2D shooters and fighting games, are made practically unplayable with that thing. That' s also one of the downsides of the PSP' s d-pad, playing Vampire Chronicle with that thing Blows! 3D games are fine with it though. To be fair to the Dual Shock 2, my gripe lies with its 2-pad, the rest of the controller is actually well-done. What I dislike about the Xbox controller is the button placement. It has the worst button placement of the bunch in my opinion, I often times forget about the two buttons way at the bottom right of the controller.
2nd worst d-pad award goes to the 3DO, #1 worst overall controller award could probably go to the Neo-Geo joysticks that came with the console.
2- The Genesis and Neo-Geo are excluded from this next one but I wish headphone jacks came standard in ALL consoles.. You have no idea how much those things kick butt on the Neo-Geo and Genesis consoles. If you wanna quickly record a catchy tune from a game, a headphone jack is ideal!!
3- This next one goes to EVERY console in existense EXCEPT for the Sega Saturn BUT All consoles need to just steal the Saturn' s CD player/media interface AND control pad design. It has the absolute best in both areas.
4- Whoever designed the Dreamcast interface and controller needs to get their arses kicked EVERY DAY, twice on Sundays, for the same amount of time that the console was on the market. I know alot of folks don' t utilize the CD playing capabilities of their consoles but still The Dreamcast had by far the WORST CD Player interface out of all consoles.. How the hell do you leave out a forward search and back search function? That' s one of the most standard and fundamental features in all CD players. That' s like forgetting to include an Eject button on a VCR! So basically with the Dreamcast if you wanted to get to your favorite part of a song you had to listen to the entire thing from beginning up till that point, you couldn' t fast - forward to it..
5- Joe hit the nail on the head with the Master System and the pause button being on the console itself and not on the controller.
6- My main gripe with the DS is basically its existence.. This thing should have been aborted long ago mainly because Nintendo already has the true successor to the Gameboy Advance in the works and supposedly planning to hit the market sometimes in 2006 (if the PSP does well) or early 2007... It just reminds me too much of Sega releasing the 32x even though the Saturn was looming over the immediate horizon.. I don' t know who they think they' re kidding with this whole 3 pillar crap.
7- Atari Lynx: Worst screen resolution evar!!
8- Neo Geo was way too expensive at launch and remained at the $700 price tag for quite a while before finally dropping down to a " I' ll think about it but the answer is still HELL NO" price tag of $650.. What sucked even more is that first generation games like Baseball Stars Professional, Nam-1975, Magician Lord, Top Players Golf and a few others were being sold for $318 EACH! Even a few later released titles sold for that and if you played most of the games in the arcades you' d see that they weren' t even worth plunking down $75 for, much less $318.. Most of the games could be beaten in 15-30 minutes or so..
< Message edited by Terry Bogard -- 31 Mar 05 4:33:18 >