am I the only one who thinks “screaming” or “playing tunes” aren’t features that should belong to a fucking controller?
Not only will the new Steam Controller scream at you but it can play tunes as well
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acido@feddit.it 4 weeks ago
Datz@szmer.info 4 weeks ago
They’re done with haptics, apparently. Do you think haptics don’t belong to a controller? It costs you nothing for these to be in the controller and you’ll personally also never actually see them.
acido@feddit.it 4 weeks ago
all my controllers have had haptics, yet none of them ever played tunes because… how can I say? they were controllers.
rockSlayer@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 weeks ago
I bet you hate floppotron too
acido@feddit.it 4 weeks ago
for people like me who have never heard of it:
The Floppotron is a musical instrument created by Polish engineer Paweł Zadrożniak.[1]
It is made of a synchronized array of partially obsolete computer hardware programmed to play tunes. The current Floppotron 3.0 build sports 512 floppy drives, 16 hard drives, and 4 flatbed scanners. The net effect is of a robot orchestra.[2]
no, I definitely do not hate such a cool thing.
FreeBooteR69@lemmy.ca 4 weeks ago
Don’t agree, takes away nothing to keep it.
acido@feddit.it 4 weeks ago
takes time to make it though and they are even advertising it, as if we are so dumb that we should care about this more than the proper controller features.
Carrot@lemmy.today 4 weeks ago
The Wilhelm scream playing on the Steam Big Picture mode home screen a small percentage of the times you drop the controller seems like a harmless feature, especially since it didn’t take adding any parts that weren’t already being used for things players actually want
acido@feddit.it 4 weeks ago
do players also want their controller to “play tunes”, because I haven’t seen the DualSense users giving a fuck about such a thing.
binary45@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 weeks ago
For context, the screaming part is an Easter egg that plays a Wilhelm Scream if you drop the controller.
acido@feddit.it 4 weeks ago
yeah, I am aware of that, but it doesn’t change my opinion.
it makes it worse maybe.
Cethin@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Sound is just vibrations. If your vibration controls are good enough, they can reproduce sounds too. Sure, they “wasted” time writing software to do it, but it’s insignificant. The hardware is there anyway. They might as well include it as a feature.
acido@feddit.it 3 weeks ago
I mean, they could also make a detachable fallic extension so you can also stimulate yourself. after all the vibrations are there so they might as well include this other feature.
I’d even argue it would be more useful than what they did, but that’s a matter of personal tastes.
Zahille7@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
I don’t know why everyone is getting so weirdly defensive about this and downvoting you for stating your opinion.
I agree. It’s like the PlayStation controllers that play little sounds from their shitty little speaker that sounds like it was ripped from a cheap children’s toy. It doesn’t add immersion, it adds annoying. I’d hate to be hearing little dings and noises from my controller while I’m playing a game. That’s why I have speakers.
3rdXthecharm@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
After reading through a lot of the comments:
Because he’s coming off oh so very condescending and espousing the SAME ‘level’ of opinion as everyone else but getting combative/rude sith his responses being called out for having the same objective merit.
You can have an opinion. BUT:
“Why don’t you like this?” “Because it’s a controller, duh” “But things can have extra little things in them” “It’s useless, it’s a controller. Lame of you to like it”
People here in Lemmy often seem to have this problem where they communicate EXACTLY over text how they might in real life, but not realize that 0% of their non-verbals are coming through and so if they don’t change the writing style it just comes off prick-ish and argumentative
Cethin@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
If it were used to play game sounds, yeah, that’s stupid. It’s just the vibration motors with software controls that can replay the same vibrations of a sound file. They are not high enough quality to be used for game audio. They are good enough to play a wakeup/shutdown sound (optional), or other things that just add bonuses to the controller. It’s free, assuming your haptics were good enough.
acido@feddit.it 4 weeks ago
fandoms are weird.
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
Probably why they weren’t advertised by Valve, and are more just easter eggs
acido@feddit.it 3 weeks ago
because you are sure people found them out by themselves?
I wouldn’t be surprised they did not.
aeronmelon@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
dyingturret.wav
rockSlayer@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 weeks ago
I hope the first song that gets replicated is the turret opera from portal 2
Datz@szmer.info 4 weeks ago
Is this close enough?
m.youtube.com/watch?v=8gbosBxqiYY