Hm. I've never had my thumbs touch. And I hold it at about 45 degrees. Maybe I have tiny hands?

I thought it was Fallout 4 for a minute there...anybody else get their hopes up?

Then there's no point in a console, is there? Besides, PS3s aren't really expensive anymore. Although I really wish I had a decent PC, it had a driver fail on TF2 for crying out loud. There's advantages to each platform.

Not racing sims! Arcade racers. For a hardcore sim it's very silly. I play burnout games, haha. It's just, pressure sensitive and not clicking triggers CAN come in handy.

Some of us spend cash on a PC...

The thumb sticks don't change speed, just direction and camera. You hold R2 to speed up, L2 you hold to brake. Well, in Criterion games. More pressure goes faster, brakes harder, etc. hold it at a certain pressure for same speed. This is automatic transmission, by the way.

They control brakes and accel

Do you hold your thumbs at an angle, or straight on?

I'm not sure about the 360's, but the bottom triggers are reeeaallyy pressure sensitive, and you have a ton of control over speed. Drifting always feels easy. It just feels satisfying to operate on a racer.

Seeing that picture made me frown inside

Did we ever need a reason? :D

And scalpel!

That's twitch shooter controls. Clicking R3 for melee has a hard sustainability, it's bad for repeated attacks. A click of the stick is good for reflex but bad for deliberate controls (which is why I mapped crouch to L3 in CS:GO)

Buy a ps3.

If your thumbs touch you are holding it improperly

You are very biased. Why?

The triggers are for racing on Ps3, which used to be more popular.

I've heard good things about this game. Should I take the plunge? Seen some people playing it on PSN, but I'm blind on the details

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A square melee has been fairly normal in many action games. Otherwise, you'd map punch to R1 and that makes absolutely zero sense