When you're driving a car in a video game...

Princess Alice · 2016-01-05 07:47:32

...do you tend to find yourself pushing up on the analog stick in addition to left and right?

I do. I know pushing upwards doesn't actually do anything but somehow it makes the left and right motions feel more natural to me.

Imipolex G · 2016-01-05 08:15:22

I think I often push up accidentally in many kinds of games.

Unintentional up-pushing has gotten raocow killed any number of times, so it's probably not just me

Calica · 2016-01-05 10:02:38

I do, yeah. I mean, you're driving forward!

Odradek · 2016-01-05 14:24:54

Why not have a game where you have to find and drive to the hospital before your wife has her baby. Now THAT would be fun.

Haven · 2016-01-05 14:42:57

I think I used to, but I grew out of it? Which is a weird thing to grow out of.

Imipolex G · 2016-01-05 21:05:35

Baldanders said:
Why not have a game where you have to find and drive to the hospital before your wife has her baby. Now THAT would be fun.

fund it!

Tachyon · 2016-01-06 00:35:12

Calica said:
I do, yeah. I mean, you're driving forward!

Klinotaxis · 2016-01-06 00:36:07

I used to do this in Mario Kart and stuff, based on the same sort of superstitious belief that would have led me to expose Pokémon cartridges to magnets

now that i think about it a GBA cartridge probably wouldn't be affected by magnets

hm

Tachyon · 2016-01-06 00:39:01

i would put my doing it down to that i mainly play action-adventure/platforming games, so pointing the stick in the direction i wanna go is just habitual

it's the racing noob equivalent of when you're a kid, and you're playing with a controller for the first time, and you move the controller/your entire body in the direction your character moves

Salix Babylonika · 2016-01-06 01:03:45

my second younger brother, Matt, who is like really good at video games--beat The Darklurker from DS2 on his second try good--still does that. I've even seen him get up and like do a little dance when things get particularly intense.

Kids

Odradek · 2016-01-06 01:07:50

I have not beaten Darklurker.

Princess Alice · 2016-01-06 01:07:52

I think part of it is that, if I'm pressing upwards on the stick, I just need to rock it a little bit to make it go left or right

Whereas if I'm not pressing up I have to just push left or right and it doesn't feel quite as natural

Toolsie · 2016-01-06 11:11:21

The only driving I do in games in on GTA V, and I drive motorbikes in that game, not cars.

And also I don't push up on the controller, only the accelerate button.

KilgoreTrout · 2016-06-18 03:08:28

Part of the PC Gaming Master Race, so keyboard.

This is sort of related and something I was thinking about after playing through GTA: San Andreas and having various characters giving me crap about bumping into things all the time. It isn't that I'm a bad driver, you NPCs, there are reasons why I crash. Off the top of my head:

-Nobody else on the road ever signals when they're about to change lanes in front of me

-I have no peripheral vision like a person in the real world does

-When I go over a hill, the camera keeps pointing up for a few seconds even after I've started going down, so if somebody's in front of me then I won't be able to see them

Imipolex G · 2016-06-18 03:14:39

those hills in OutRun are always what gets me

Bee · 2016-06-18 03:24:15

See, I'm used to stuff like Diddy Kong Racing where pushing up makes you nosedive.

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