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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!

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[–] kadu 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Donny 1 points 1 year ago

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.