Just wanna say that I’m loving the steam deck so far overall, but wow I just started playing rogue legacy and I realized the dpad is basically unusable for me.
I personally love modern and retro platformers and not having a decent d-pad is very disappointing. For now I’m just using an xbox controller instead, but I would love to see this improved with the next iteration of the deck.
Just wanted to get peoples thoughts on this topic!
It's not ideal for 2D games, it's better suited as an item wheel or navigating menus. It is however a thousand times better than the dpad found on pretty much all models of Xbox controllers, from the 360 to Series.
In a portable device, nothing beats the Vita dpad as far as I'm concerned, insanely good. The GBA SP one is also good, if size-adjusted.
Yeah fair enough, I know a lot of folks don’t like Xbox ones but I honestly like the series ones, before that I was Sony all the way. I never had a vita but the original psp had a pretty solid one. I even like the joycons! I guess it’s all preference anyway, but I find the deck takes a bit too much pressure for me to react quickly. I may give it a bit more time.