The Joys of Button Mashing - rdelizo35's Blog

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The Joys of Button Mashing

Posted on May 1, 2011 at 04:45 PM.

Call me old-fashioned but I miss the days when video games required gamers to use buttons and controllers. There was just something visceral about the whole experience. Sure, your fingers hurt like hell and your thumbs were sore, but there was a sense of accomplishment and satisfaction.

Granted, I have a vested interest in controller-based gaming because of my limited dexterity, but the movement away from button controlled gaming concerns me just because not every gamer likes analog stick based gaming and we should be given a choice by developers of what kind of control scheme we would want to use, whether it is analog stick based or a more traditional button-controlled setup.