10 Amazing Games That Had Awful Controls

These excellent games were often a pain to play thanks to their less-than-excellent controls.

Posted By | On 12th, Sep. 2022

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MONSTER HUNTER 4

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Monster Hunter greatly streamlined itself with Monster Hunter World in 2018, and one of the many areas that it applied some much-needed polish to was the controls. Before that explosion in popularity, Monster Hunter games were often tricky to control (at least for those who weren’t particularly familiar with the series)- largely because so many of the series’ instalments launched for handhelds that frankly weren’t suited to games of this kind. Monster Hunter 4, for instance, launched on the 3DS, a system with just one circle pad, with the game itself lacking lock-on. Sure, you could use the touch screen to alleviate some of those issues, but given the 3DS’ small size (especially its base model), you can see how even that could easily lead to carpal tunnel syndrome.

Speaking of carpal tunnel syndrome…


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