maybe I am just paranoid about keeping the control sticks in good order, for it is so hard to find n64 controllers these days that dont have the stick too lose and flopping around and impossible to play with
but it seems that after i got nfl blitz my control pad is less firm
and often while i play this game, i notice that i move the stick a lot and usually have it pointed full down or up or one way for long periods
also it took me months of playing this to realize that you can also use the d-pad to control
yeah that might be helpful if i had 3 hands (has anyone made this joke yet?)
overall: n64 is a great system but i fear that in the future i will not be able to play it for the control pad stick will not work
why has controllers gotten worse over the year
when I was a kid i got mad and slammed my NES and genesis controllers on the ground all the time; they still work
i cant even think about slamming my 360 controllers for they would break and i would have to pay $60 for a new one (why is it so expensive too)
You must have been gentler than you thought with those NES controllers. My spastastic cousin would thoroughly abuse all his controllers, even to the point that when we swapped systems for two weeks, ours came back with the cord sheath separated from the controller, with only the actual wires still attached (his came to us like that already). I heard he went through one or two each year.
Newer controllers have more stuff crammed into them. NES controllers had eight digital buttons; a 360 controller has at least 15 buttons, some of them pressure sensitive, plus two analog sticks, a wireless transmitter and batteries to power it all.
As for NFL Blitz and the N64, IMHO, you can leave off the last four words of your thread title and I’d be on board. The N64 wasn’t a great system. I liked it, but overall it was lacking. What type of controllers do you have? The Nintendo- built ones had plastic analog sticks; you can find aftermarket ones with metal sticks that are more durable.
You can buy replacement thumbsticks. Just open up the controller, pop out the old one and insert the new.
Old NES controllers were hard to break because there wasn’t much there to break. New controllers have analog sticks, battery packs, wireless transmitters, multiple I/O slots, motors, they’re way more complex than they used to be. That makes them both more expensive and less likely to survive abuse.
With that said, somebody fast balled my Wii remote into a door frame so hard that it bounced off and flew 10 feet in one direction while the batteries and battery cover flew off in another. It’s still as good as new.
maybe when I ws 5 i wasn’t strong enough to break NES controllers. I’ll try slamming some now and experiment
also the Wii controller works because nintendo builds stuff to last. I am complaining about everyone else for I have already had to send in my ps2 and xbox 360 to get repaired
i am complaining about them but ignoring the fact that i had to get a new 72 pin connector in the NES so i dont have to blow the games 5 minutes to make them work
Everything you ever say or write is “graded” in some way by whoever reads/hears it. The fact is that proper punctuation and capitalisation takes seconds to add and makes things much easier to read.
Anyway, I have no experience of NFL Blitz, but it you really want to fuck your N64 controllers (so to speak), Mario Party is surely the way to go. Great game, but wears out fingertips almost as quickly as it breaks controllers.
I have an N64 controller that has a lot of “play” in the stick, but it still seems to work fine - in fact, I sometimes prefer it to a normal “stiff” stick. But then I was never a gamer with a very accurate style - I still haven’t really got the hang of analogue steering on racing games more than 15 (20?) years after it first became available.