Just wanna say that I’m loving the steam deck so far overall, but wow I just started playing rogue legacy and I realized the dpad is basically unusable for me.

I personally love modern and retro platformers and not having a decent d-pad is very disappointing. For now I’m just using an xbox controller instead, but I would love to see this improved with the next iteration of the deck.

Just wanted to get peoples thoughts on this topic!

  • kadu@lemmy.world
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    2 years ago

    It’s not ideal for 2D games, it’s better suited as an item wheel or navigating menus. It is however a thousand times better than the dpad found on pretty much all models of Xbox controllers, from the 360 to Series.

    In a portable device, nothing beats the Vita dpad as far as I’m concerned, insanely good. The GBA SP one is also good, if size-adjusted.