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[TintoConCasera]

Been curious about this for a while. How do you grab that gamepad?

 

[cormack12]

By the pussy

 

[TintoConCasera]

By the pussy

Should I add that to the poll?

 

[Hrk69]

Claw grip

I think I evolved into a claw grip gamer because of the Souls games.

 

[V1LÆM]

I don’t know. What ever feels comfortable. I don’t think about it much.

 

[Parazels]

Probably you need big hands to hold a gamepad like on the bottom picture!

 

[ChazAshley]

 

[Closer]

Bruh. I am the 1 in 10 dentist. The sole weirdo of the bottom image.

 

[Banjo64]

Been curious about this for a while. How do you grab that gamepad?

stop biting your finger nails so much bro x

 

[TintoConCasera]

stop biting your finger nails so much bro x

Those aren't my hands my man, but thanks anyway!

Sorry for the gross picture btw, wasn't able to find a better one.

 

[tusharngf]

By the pussy

 

[diffusionx]

By the pussy

it lets you do it

 

[Soodanim]

I can't get on with 4 shoulder buttons at once, it doesn't feel right. The Steam Controller feels like it wants to be held that way but it's alien to me

 

[JimboJones]

I can't get on with 4 shoulder buttons at once, it doesn't feel right. The Steam Controller feels like it wants to be held that way but it's alien to me

I only ever see it held like that in movies or TV shows when actors pretend they're playing a game.

 

[Synless]

I can’t do both fingers on the top, it never feels comfortable.

 

[Banjo64]

Interestingly there were some video extras in The Two Towers video game on PS2.

From memory Sir Ian McKellin was talking to the camera and playing at the same time. He was holding his controller vertically instead of horizontally but was still somehow managing to play.

Me and my brother found that pretty hilarious.

 

[Heimdall_Xtreme]

It's strange, only thumbs on the joystick, right hand on the buttons, index finger of both hands on the upper buttons...

The other 3 fingers on the back.

If it is a Mecha game, I change it 4 fingers on each top button.

 

[ReBurn]

Depends on what I'm playing. Top image for most games, claw grip for fighters, bottom image for driving games if bumpers are for shifting and triggers are acceleration and brake. But I prefer a controller with back paddles for driving games so I rarely do the bottom image.

 

[R6Rider]

First option unless doing specific actions in games where I will switch to a claw.

 

[Men_in_Boxes]

 

[BennyBlanco]

Souls and Monster Hunter are basically impossible without the claw.

 

[Grildon Tundy]

I feel like they're designed for people to use one finger per shoulder/trigger (bottom image), but that never felt comfortable to me.

 

[Holammer]

Are you even human if you hold it like he does in the bottom image.

 

[Dacvak]

Normally most of the time, but there are moments when I clawgrip, especially in games like Melee.

 

[Miggytronz]

Depends on the game but 99% of the time, the top pic

 

[Codes 208]

1 because I’m not a mutant reptoid

 

[Esca]

I'm switch between the two depending on game, but normally it's the first one.

 

[ZoukGalaxy]

You don't want to know.

 

[Fahdis]

How else?

 

[badblue]

 

[Fahdis]

 

[kevboard]

the normal way...

that second one is for real some shit you only see in movies where someone who never used a controller is mimicking playing a game, probably looking down on the controller every 5 seconds

 

[R6Rider]

the normal way...

that second one is for real some shit you only see in movies where someone who never used a controller is mimicking playing a game, probably looking down on the controller every 5 seconds

Nah for those instances they hold it with all fingers on back and none on the shoulder.

A man holding a game controller. A young man playing video games, | SuperStock

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[kevboard]

Nah for those instances they hold it with all fingers on back and none on the shoulder.

A man holding a game controller. A young man playing video games, | SuperStock

Stock image 5514-29025395: A man holding a game controller. A young man playing video games,

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he clearly has back paddles and bound them all to the R and L buttons/triggers!

absolute pro move!

 

[Shakka43]

More or less like the top image but with a tighter grip.

 

[Shakka43]

Nah for those instances they hold it with all fingers on back and none on the shoulder.

The classic tv show/movie gamer grip.

 

[Kumomeme]

 

[DiscoDave]

Like I grab my junk. With tweezers.

 

[Kenneth Haight]

 

[Rodolink]

fun thing is most gamepads seem to be designed to be held like the bottom image.
i think xbox got it right by making the top shoulder buttons "bump" buttons you just slide your finger to tap them. whereas PlayStation and Nintendo shaped them in a way to be pressed instead.

 

[rodrigolfp]

Excluding the claw on right hand when there are back buttons.

 

[Exentryk]

Image 1 most of the time, but sometimes image 2 if a game demands needing two fingers for shoulder buttons.

 

[Moses85]

Been curious about this for a while. How do you grab that gamepad?

 

[TrebleShot]

First one, I think they are deisgned that way. P.S I also bite my skin around my nails, not the nails themselves but the skin, bad habit trying to stop.

 

[kikonawa]

From the back

 

[DryvBy]

Top for sure. All else is blasphemy.

 

[Sethbacca]

It's strange, only thumbs on the joystick, right hand on the buttons, index finger of both hands on the upper buttons...

The other 3 fingers on the back.

If it is a Mecha game, I change it 4 fingers on each top button.

This right here.

 

[nemiroff]

Uh, I use paddles on Elite V2, so:

thumbs on sticks
index fingers on triggers
middle and ring fingers on paddles
little fingers grabbing the controller for support.

 

[GymWolf]

Excluding the claw on right hand when there are back buttons.

You were great in the third lotr movie

 

[begotten]

I don't even touch the buttons