What are your thumbs made of? I’ve put hundreds of hours on several DS4’s for fighting games and old school side scrollers and they’ve been no worse for wear. The only problem I’ve ever had with the controller itself was a drifting issue with the right stick.
Haven't played it yet, but it's currently on sale for $0.99 on steam. Literally 1 dollar.
I've actually really been enjoying it. Its straight up a game that could exist as a true single player board game and play very well. You just roll dice and use the numbers to resolve challenges. The runs do tend to feel a bit samey though since there is a limited number of different encounters and each character tends to get similar skills aside from their heroic thing and a secondary. The progression is nice but feels the same for all the characters but I am early enough into it that I might just not be seeing things right. Its also kinda hard, haven't beaten the first dungeon yet. I really liked slay the spire and monster train also, I quite like this too, I don't think it will entertain me as long as those, but so far I've easily gotten my dollars worth out of it since its currently on sale for a dollar.
Ok so just loaded it up and trying out the starter dungeon, so far, the combat is more like Tharsis than StS. You roll dice, and then assign those dice based on value to counter hostile actions and obstacles.
It depends on the kinds of inputs the fighting games you play require, as well as the speed with which you gotta do those inputs. Also I'm prolly in the thousands of hours vicinity lol. I play guilty gear, under night in birth, blazblue and more recently granblue versus, outside of granblue all the other ones require a ton of inputs, especially the chars I play (Sin and Answer in Xrd/ Seth in uni/Bang in BB).
Damn. I’ve been playing RDR2 for what feels like a second life in the last year or so and that’s *only* around 450 hours. Kudos to your fighting game dedication (and guitar playing) though!
Some games are designed to be played with an arcade stick and require two buttons to be hit simultaneously for some tasks like grabs or specific mechanics so in that case you would be piano-ing the face buttons anyways, I'm just mimicking that on a pad is all.
It adds up when you go to locals weekly, though sadly covid has put a stop to that. But yeah back before it hit you could at minimum get a good 8 hours on a friday evening (well, from 6-7pm to like 4AM in some cases haha) and then add to that the time you play at home or online and so on. Fighters are a lot easier to get into when you have a community in a relatively close proximity to where you live since then it just kinda takes the place of going out but still kinda feels like going out anyways because you do get dinner and stuff there too. You just don't get drunk is all. On most days anyhow XD.
The only buttons I have trouble hitting together on a controller would be the A and Y button, or the X and B button, and I don't see how playing claw would help with those 2. Hitting the other buttons together with a single thumb press is easy enough.
Xrd had faultless defense which is used a ton for dash break (blocking right as you dash, whereas if you don't FD you have some dash recovery you can be hit out of), blitz shield, rc and burst as well as some char-specific things if you use chars like Answer (like I do) or Zato where you gotta hold one button down as you hit the next one and let it go as the next one makes contact (negative edging) and you have some OSs where you hit two buttons with the grab input such that when you whiff a grab you get a button that's less bad to whiff than the heavy slash button is (it's pretty bad to whiff that for most chars) due to the way the priority system works allowing the weaker button to come out in situations where two buttons are input at the same time. Also when you're trying to tech what you wanna do is hold FD and mash a third button so you won't get hit by air resets. All in all there's a bunch of stuff like that. More char-specific things I'm prolly neglecting to mention too.
HAAHAHHAHAH........NO! Outlaw Star does have self awareness and is more like OG Dante than that wannabe (who's a weird combination of Nero and Dante). If you threw OG Dante in the Outlaw Star universe he would fit in just fine with the setting and characters. To the point that Dante would have so much fun picking at Aisha and her Ctarl-Ctarl pride, that would be laughing non-stop for days. Not to mention Dante would be kicking her ass with little to no trouble.
