Left-handed Gaming or:

[Salsa Party Animal]

Pick up your 360 controller and try it. It's ridiculously uncomfortable and you'd get cramp in your hand and no one would believe that was the reason and your parents would disown you and you'd end up a crack addict. Is that what you want?

I mean for Arcade stick upside down not joypad

[Harlen Quinn]

About 7 to 10% of earth’s population is as well

And we are mostly male.

I checked your stat, wiki backs up the first bit...

Surely left handedness has a far higher occurrence than that.

[christaylor]

I'm a lefty, although I use a mouse with my right hand and play guitar right handed (which to me feels left handed - surely the hand doing the chords/dancing over the frets is doing more intricate work than the one strumming or picking?).

you are me. in fact, I had that conversation in the guitar thread but was shouted down by all the righties claiming it for their own.

Anyway, I always hold the Wiimote in my left hand and nunchuck in my right. I must admit it took a little getting used to at first, but now it feels totally natural. It's certainly not a reason not to get a Wii! I'd say the fact that it gives you complete flexibility to hold the controllers in either hand, and change from game to game or even within the same game as you see fit, makes it the most sinister-friendly console ever. It's only because we've had a lifetime of playing with controllers designed for right-handed players that it even seems like an issue.

you are me again. holding the remote in my right hand for anything feels wrong, unfortunately that leaves me having to control mario with my right thumb, which has taken quite some training!

[Darren]

you are me. in fact, I had that conversation in the guitar thread but was shouted down by all the righties claiming it for their own.

Flipping righties. What do they know, they've never struggled to open a can or cut a piece of paper in their lives!

you are me again. holding the remote in my right hand for anything feels wrong, unfortunately that leaves me having to control mario with my right thumb, which has taken quite some training!

I must admit Galaxy is one of the hardest to get used to as Mario's always been controlled with the D-pad or stick on the left. It didn't take too long to get over the weirdness though. For things like Resi 4 it felt much more natural as holding the nunchuck in the right hand echoes the classic "Turok" style controls - move with the right, look with the left.

You're absolutely right though, because of a lifetime of right handed controllers I can use the nunchuck in either hand. But I can't use the pointer in my right hand at all.

[noizu]

I hated that they made Link a righty for Twilight Princess. Boo!

Always use the Wii Remote with my left hand, which makes for a weird disconnect with Metroid Prime 3... the Grapple Beam shooting out of the opposite hand to the one you're shaking with, and firing from the other side as well.

I do like that the two separate parts of the Wii controller allows for it to be used however you like though, just wish they'd have more options for left-handed feedback to sort out things like the Metroid setup - I know Samus's gun arm has always been on the right but damn it, if they can change Link's traditional handedness...

[blipwoo]

Yay for this thread . I always thought I was a mediocore FPS player and an average guitarist; turns out i'm actually a hyper-reflexed pin point accurate killing machine of death, who can play better than Hendrix in his sleep. It's just this cruel, right-handed world keeping me down.

[Chuck the Plant]

I hated that they made Link a righty for Twilight Princess. Boo!

Always use the Wii Remote with my left hand, which makes for a weird disconnect with Metroid Prime 3... the Grapple Beam shooting out of the opposite hand to the one you're shaking with, and firing from the other side as well.

I do like that the two separate parts of the Wii controller allows for it to be used however you like though, just wish they'd have more options for left-handed feedback to sort out things like the Metroid setup - I know Samus's gun arm has always been on the right but damn it, if they can change Link's traditional handedness...

'sfunny, I haven't felt any disconnection from both TWP and MP3.

And I'm 100% left-handed.

Well, apparently not. Seeing that I can switch the wiimote and the DS stylus (sort of).

Which is strange, in real life I did do everything with my left hand,

but now with PC, DS and Wii.

[DeNeo]

*left-handed wave*

I'm completely left sided - write with my left hand, eat with my knife in my left hand, kick with my left foot - but I've managed to use a mouse for years with my right hand, mainly as it was too much of a faff to keep moving it. Though my right hand does seem to get really cold when I'm at work, compared to my left

When I got the Wii, played Wii Sports with my left, but then got to Zelda and was a bit confuzzled. After years of using an analog stick with my left, using my right didn't work at all. But then using the remote in my right didn't feel quite right either. Think I ended up with nunchuck in my left, as it was the only way I could move properly. And that's how I play Mario, my stronger hand being used for the more important control. God knows what I'll do when I play Metroid though, as I'm guessing it'll be a lot better if I do the shooting with my left.

I've never been good with FPSs though, I can never handle dual-analog set-ups, so have all the movement set to the left stick, with the camera on the right. The Goldeneye way

[Wickedkitten]

Quick question for my fellow left handed compadres. My mate is wanting to play Wow Vanilla when it comes out and has been playing for the past week with a normal mouse and keyboard. However, he wants to get a left handed gaming mouse and there doesn’t seem to be any like the Razer Naga around anymore that have more than two thumb buttons so does anyone have any recommendations for a good alternative?

 

he doesn’t mind if it’s an ergonomic one but the main thing is the number of thumb buttons