How do you hold your controller?

[mrhappyface]

How do you hold your controller while you're gaming? Usually, I'm lying down on the couch and the controller is held upside down with my arms held over my head. I find it easier to play that way for some reason.

 

[The DSM]

Trigger with forefinger, thumb sticks with thumbs other fingers and buttons.

The same way of used almost every other pad.

 

[Cpt_Oblivious]

With my feet.

 

[Lullabye]

Usually with two hands on either side. I find it hard to effectively game when my hands are not close together(except when playing an eroge, where one hand is on the buttons, the other on the joystick......*cough*) So think Wii-mote is an annoyance. Basically I hold it normally. In front, front side up, two hands....except, now that I really think about it, I sometime only have one hand actively holding it. Like during a quick time event, I will have one hand pushing the buttons, the other writing down the developers name on my hit list for putting in a quick time event, or while wondering around a city in GTA, one hand on the analog stick, the other writing a post on the Escapist bit by bit.

 

[TheNamlessGuy]

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[lvl9000_woot]

between my teeth, naked, and in the middle of a volcano.

[small]no wonder why nobody likes gaming with me [/small]

 

[zehydra]

With my feet.

Beat me to it lol.

In Ocarina of Time I made it to the first miniboss of the second level with only my feet. It was hard as hell.

 

[Cpt_Oblivious]

PC:
Oh please

No, but seriously, there isn't many other ways to hold a keyboard then the normal way without it being incredibly uncomfortable.

Ahem, I beg to differ.

 

[TheNamlessGuy]

DELETED

 

[Sassafrass]

With my fingers above RB, LB, LT and RT and thumbs on thumbsticks.

Now for the stupid answer which is with my tongue.

 

[PhunkyPhazon]

I hold all of them exactly as they were meant to be held.

 

[Cpt_Oblivious]

Ahem, I beg to differ.

Yes, but that's only if you're playing Frets On Fire.

I'm holding it like this now. Quite hard to type.

 

[brodie21]

with my hands

 

[Samurai Goomba]

Um, the right way? Although sometimes I use the base of my thumb for the stick so I can do other stuff while I'm turning or whatever in an FPS.

I am MUCH better at FPS titles when I have a controller. Still not good or anything, though.

 

[monkey_man]

I hold all of them exactly as they were meant to be held.

where is that? could you tell me?

anyway,
pc, normal
ps3 with all my fingers in use
ps2 --^
ex-xbox normal

 

[Tiny116]

Forefinger for trigers, thumbs for thumbsticks and all other buttons, unless I'm doing a silly combo/grab mover then i'll use my thumb and my forefinger to press both buttons (I have short fingers so I press all the other buttons if i try it with just my thumb.

 

[Skooterz]

Used to play it with my fingers on RB, LB, RT, and LT, but now I rest my forefingers between those four so I can easily hit any of them. *shrug* Works for me.

 

[PhunkyPhazon]

I hold all of them exactly as they were meant to be held.

where is that? could you tell me?

anyway,
pc, normal
ps3 with all my fingers in use
ps2 --^
ex-xbox normal

Well what do you think I meant by that?

 

[monkey_man]

I hold all of them exactly as they were meant to be held.

where is that? could you tell me?

anyway,
pc, normal
ps3 with all my fingers in use
ps2 --^
ex-xbox normal

Well what do you think I meant by that?

in your pants?

 

[Aesir23]

Hmm, generally hold all of my controllers the same way, my thumbs on the analog sticks and my index fingers on R1 and L1 (Or the right and left bumpers on the 360 controller)

With a pc, which keys my fingers constantly hover over depends on the control scheme.