I don't get the hate for the N64 controller

If anything, modern controllers are missing a third handle to place my hand on.

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Still better than this piece of shit

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People that don't understand how to use this controller just 100% outed themselves as zoomers born after 2000

Am I the only one who held it with both hands on the outside? I never held it in the middle. Even with my 7 year old hands it wasn’t a problem.

I thought the middle handle goes in the mouth

Or someone who just didn't have a N64. I was a original Playstation lad, I remember playing Mario 64 at a friend's house and even then I can't actually remember how I used the fucking controller.

I had an n64 as a kid, you don't use the whole controller, or rarely do. It's built to work for multiple play styles, the options are built in all at once.

Most people who actually played the N64 hold it like a traditional controller and just reached for the stick.

People hate everything, so what's the surprise?

You always hold the right handle. If the game uses the analogue stick (which nearly all did) your left hand goes in the middle. If it uses the D-Pad, your left hand holds the left handle. Either way was completely comfortable. Anyone who acts like the N64 controller was bad is a retard, and their criticisms only confirm that they've never actually held one.

>Anyone who acts like the N64 controller was bad is a retard
slow down now, there are legit criticisms of the n64 controller. Let's not pretend they don't exist.

Nobody reply to this bait

People don't complain about the thing because of comfort. They complain about it because having to move your hand makes no fucking sense.

You don't have to move your hand

The only legitimate criticism I can think of is that the sticks went bad easily.
Name one game where you have to move your hand. There are none. Every game had you put your hand in the middle, or on the left handle. I can't think of any that used both. It was either Analogue and Z button, or D-pad and L-button. But hardy ever the latter.

the handle thing was not my problem with this controller, the problem was that brittle little shit of a stick it has, every single controller that I had in my childhood was broken and I was stuck with half of the games that used the analog stick.
in Conker's Bad Fur Day I could not beat that part in the story where you race with the cavemen in the lava
in Super Mario 64, it was almost impossible to do Bowser throws (Bowser in the Sky)
in Ocarina of Time, moving across Hyrule with Epona or worse even, beating Ingo to get Epona was hell.
in GoldenEye, I could not get past the Train level using to aim with the laser watch.
my thumb still hurts to this day, and I could not beat all these games until I bought my own new controller and took care of it, and even now the analog stick is getting loose once again. And no, GameCube-style analog sticks are way too sensitive.

Gotta be honest, it sounds like you just really suck shit at video games.

let me explain, the controllers that I had, I could not move forward with the analog stick

It just sucks ass in every way compared to modern controllers. Don't pretend like you'd grab an N64 controller over a DS4, XboxOne or Xbox360 controller.

I still have my childhood controllers and they are in playable condition. You are just trash at taking care of stuff.

The design is more than 20 years old, stop being contrarian.

People can’t get their head around a controller that was designed for more than one way to hold it.

But surely everybody knows why? Cause Nintendo didn’t know if 3D wouldn’t bomb so needed a backup for the 2D way of things.

I kinda hate people who can't take care of their controllers. How do they do it? Do they leave the controller upside down so it ruins the thumbsticks? Do they throw it around?

I made the only point you really can make.
Anything else is shitposting.

To be fair, if you had Mario Party 1 as a kid then you aren't to blame for the stick getting fucked up. That game fucked up controllers even more than it did people's palms. Those sticks were also just really shitty to begin with in terms of durability.

Fair.

I always dreamt of getting one of those MakoPad controllers as a kid, never could get one.

WWE No Mercy uses both the dpad and analog stick

Depends on the games. People who plays fighting games usually ruins either their sticks or dpad.
I never broke a controller till i picked up blazblue, then i broke two controllers in 3 years.
Easy to fix depending on which part broke, sometimes its just a small rubber inside.

Then you have the idiots who throw them...

Fair enough, but I'm not white trash so I never played wrestling games,

NEVER played it like that. Always hand in the middle. For most games is either or, not both. And still, even if both, just 1 at a time.

The problem with the N64 controller is that the joystick was very weak and got loose quickly.

the thumb has more dexterity than the index finger
that method is only effective if the face buttons are analogue, which they're not

>Name one game where you have to move your hand
Duke Nukem 64 has you press left or right to cycle through weapons, up and down to cycle through items and L to use items. A little clunky but not impossible to work with, especially since you can just reach your thumb while holding the middle handle.