Topic: The Chit Chat Thread

We don't control the ads. I've been seeing The Crew 2 since E3.

Whatever allows us to keep the lights on is good with me.

@get2sammyb We've been seeing the Crew 2 since a few E3's ago

But yeah, whatever works. Sometimes the ads bork and display in incorrect frames which has an error message instead which is also quite a chuckle inducer.

Though my personal favourites are the absolutely random ones that have no business like @Octane and his tentacle meat ad. Or this Sky Vegas one on my screen right now. XD

@Knuckles-Fajita Some of the Google Ads are determined by your browsing habits.

@get2sammyb Ive never even been near gambling XD

@Knuckles-Fajita not too long ago there was a notification about cookies and whatnot and if you chose not to allow the site to use cookies to tailor the adverts then they will just put up any random advert

My PS3 controllers have never had any issue. I’ve replaced a few DS4s because the triggers really lost their spring. My current ones have a little of that, but not enough for it to be an issue. I think it was from murdering them with the smoke powers in inFamous: Second Son.

I'm on my 5th DS4, all my old controllers just hardly held any charge and I have 3 that I rotate between. They all have silicone skins and thumb grips on em but I've been doing that since the 360 days. Can't say the DS4s are less sturdy than previous controllers as they all had something that would go wrong with em. They certainly don't break as often as ye old joysticks back in the day, went through loads of those.

Mine's still doing fine! I've never had a controller break on me before!

I've crushed a controller in my hands before, but that was my own stupid fault.

Other than that, one of my SatinSilver DualShock2s broke on me once, but that was only because I ignorantly wrapped it up in its own cable when I wasn't using it. Never, ever wrap things in their own cables!

@RogerRoger You crushed a controller in your hands?! Did you turn green at the same time?

Mustn't have been an Xbox Duke controller, telling you that much XD

My controller still hasn't arrived. Hopefully it lands by the time I need to stream Sly Cooper. I announced that and even got to the stream and...lol controller be deader than last week's cat.

£23.50 it's costing me in all.

Speak of the devil. So the DS4 that my son uses decides it's not going to work anymore. I don't know what's wrong with it exactly but sometimes buttons will work and sometimes they won't it's almost like it's lagging. It doesn't matter where he sits what game he played or even what part in the game buttons will just stop working and the controller disconnects at random times.

If I knew that the PS4 controllers we're going to be this bad I would have gone with an Xbox One in the beginning of this gen. The amount of money I have spent on PS4 controllers this gen I could afford another PS4 and Xbox One. I honestly don't know how Sony can get away with this.

@JohnnyShoulder Don't make me mildly inconvenienced by my inability to perform well at a recreational activity. You won't like me when I'm mildly inconvenienced by my inability to perform well at a recreational activity.

@RogerRoger i still can't get used to that new avatar you know

@Tasuki Same reason they get away with a lot of things as it happens...

The DS4 really should have been revised and I dont mean adding a second damn light bar.

Xbox and Nintendo manage to make meaningful alterations to controllers overtime, just look at the Pro Controller for instance, but Sony's all "More features no one uses!"

How many DS4s is that now?

I'm convinced a lot of people see their controllers as multi-functional tools and use them as hammers. The idea of a controller breaking down, let alone three or four times during a console's lifespan, is absolutely foreign to me

@FullbringIchigo Can't decide if it'll be temporary or not. I just got a Black Series Jango Fett for my birthday and realised how much I adore the character, so seeing him dance every day makes me smile.

I see you went back to your classic avatar!

@Octane Oh, I'm with you. I take the utmost care of my controllers, specifically because gaming can get quite tense and so they're inadvertantly gonna get gripped a little too hard and / or sweated all over. Aside from the aforementioned DualShock2 cable-wrapping incident (which happened after YEARS of daily use), I've never had a technical fault with a controller. I'm quite surprised so many do.

Then again, I've had three faulty consoles from Sony, so maybe that's where my luck runs dry.

@RogerRoger yeah i missed it

@RogerRoger The only console that ever broke down on me is my GBA, and even then I'm not convinced it's actually broken. I think it has something to do with the third party battery pack. But my DS can play GBA games too, and I haven't touched my DS in years either, so I'm not in a hurry to fix it.