I hate offset sticks. 

I need to have my D-pad above the joysticks, I use the D-pad exclusively when navigating menus and when playing sidescrollers (big retro fan) and having it way down there doesn’t feel good to me. It’s the only reason I don’t like using my Nintendo Switch Pro controller anymore. I bought an 8BitDo SN30 pro+ controller…

Look it’s clearly a personal preference and in some rare cases people have a bad hand or whatever but pretending symmetry hurts one thumb over the other is a silly argument to make. I have no issues using DualShock 4 or the Xbox controller.. I personally prefer symmetrical thumb sticks myself but it is not a big deal.…

I prefer the PS4 style. Xbox controllers just feel janky.

Nope, nuts to that noise.

It’s all preference. “A doctor made it” isn’t a selling point for anything, and controllers are different than a ball.

Ew no.  It was a doctor who originally designed the ps1 and the dual analog design.  If you put your hands out in front of you, your thumbs are horizontal, not staggard.  Hold a ball and see where your thumbs are.  

Super disagree about the touch pad; lots of games made good use out of it. I loved how in Horizon you could set the HUD so that it would only pop up momentarily if you lightly tapped the touch pad, whereas a press would bring up the map. It’s a good feature that still has potential, so I don’t know why they would…

No please no. The symmetrical sticks might be the main reason I chose a PS system to start with. It feels so much more natural 

What I like/love:
*The dpad is identical to previous dualshocks, thank christ.
*The PS logo cutout as a button is brilliant
*Dedicated mute button.
*Textured thumbsticks, fucking finally.

What I don’t immediately like:
*The dual lightbars, which we goddamn well better to be able to fully disable.
*The even larger…

I don’t get why companies upload marketing material like this days/weeks/months before the announcement event is occurring. Why not wait till the day before?

I’m using “queer” as shorthand for Lgbtqia+. I’d tend towards using the acronym myself, but used it here since it’s the word you chose and tends be generally used to classify non-cis non-straight people. Minor interest doesn’t negate asexuality, hell, having sex doesn’t negate asexuality.

Japanese games tend to not have as much diversity due to a reflection of their culture overall, being a rather not- diverse nation

I think you’re confused; Dorian’s quest has nothing to do with his romance. Anyone can do it.

I don’t know, I thought that Gender Studies 101 was kind of what they were going for in the original series, and from the reactions that people had it seems that it involved a lot of topics that they weren’t already familiar with. I don’t just mean the vile misogynist monsters, I mean that a lot of the negative…

I would totally love this. Queer media doesn’t have to be groundbreaking—it just has to *be*.

It’s just so tiring to have so many bad faith arguments when simply discussing things. You can’t even mention “oh I wish there were more queer people” without getting “games AREN’T about SEX” or “MAKE UR OWN OR STFU” or “WhY dO YoU NeED EVERYTHING TO Be GaY?!?!?!?”, and that’s gotta have an impact on the…

Dragon Age ... these all basically make queer characters blank slates for you to determine their preference mainly by deciding what your main character is into.

I find your list of games a little peculiar. I personally wouldn’t place Skyrim anywhere at all in a discussion of sexuality, because it’s literally just a box to check off; put on necklace, get married. There IS no discussion of sexuality involving your protagonist. I can think of a few examples of male NPCs making…

Man, I wish we could talk about things like this without it getting gamers riled up. It’s sad that something as simple as pointing out tropes ends up being controversial because gamers insist it’s not about sexuality/let them have creative freedom/it’s just a video game/whatever. I haven’t watched this video yet, but…