Negative 1,
What you described is simply "Lazy" individuals. They didnt want to roll the ball faster, because that would be "Work".
And... considering that the last +15 yrs of the majority of popular games have been made to be BABY-LEVEL EASY...
most people are not used to even being Challenged. Its the Snowflake Generation, these days, as a Result.
You are Partially correct.. that a person whom is extremely skilled, dedicated, and motivated... can and will attain
success in a game, even with poor / broken controls. Just like some famous guitarists, learned to play a busted
up guitar, that was missing a string, and was not able to be fully tuned properly.
That said... the MAJORITY of people, are not Eddie Van Halen... not matter how much efforts we put into what we love.
There was a dude that was flown over NYC "ONCE" and he was able to draw the entire city, with accuracy, on a giant
mural. He had mental issues, and wasnt social. But he had a level of skill and ability, that others will never be able to
duplicate... even with 1000 yrs of efforts.
I met a dude that was similar, in my martial arts days. His name was Jeff. He had learned about 7 different martial
arts systems, and was 100% Flawless, in the LIVE Sparring execution, all of them. He could go from JKD, to
Shaolin Longfist, then to a Chi-Na grapple... one to the other, effortlessly, and made all of it work perfectly, as was
designed.
He was also a Sick breakdancer, was crazy good at the Bongos, and he was a masterclass level Airbrush artists,
able to paint pictures with photorealism. He could have easily have been one of the top level Hollywood
Prop makers... had he not been super Religious.
He said that he former teacher called him, the KungFu Sponge... because he would would learn and replicate things
so quickly.
One day I had bought a Chinese Manuscript on one of the Kung Fu styles, just for the novelty of it. It was written in
only Chinese... but had a lot of hand drawn pictures, with little arrows to show the movement directions. Even as
good as an artists as I was... I could not really make out everything they were trying to depict...
Well, I brought the book to show Jeff. He flipped through the pages, and started to replicate the instructions. In
about 8 min or less.. he had fully learned this new form, and he performed it, as if he had been practicing for
a decade. It was Insane.
Trying to spar with him, was brutal and futile. In a 45 min session.. I probably managed to Graze him twice. Both
times... he made me pay Dearly for it, with heavy counterstrikes, that blasted me through the air, crashing to the
mat. He knew virtually everything I did, and a LOT more. But even if he hadnt... his execution was flawless.. where
mine was still progressing towards masterclass levels.
The one thing Jeff wasnt so good with, was trying to teach. I tried to get him to teach more some things... and when
I would do something incorrect.. he would say so, but he could not explain what was wrong, or why. He just
knew that the result wasnt right. So in this case, he seemed to be a fantastic replicator... but... he seemed to lack
a certain level of conscious depth of understanding / awareness. It seems people like him, almost always
operate on a mostly subconscious level.
Anyways... It seems like you are similar to Jeff. Able to pick up something fairly quickly, and attain an excellent
result, within a fairly short amount of time.
That said... If I gave you a real Leafswitch, and challenged you today... with a game of Haleys Comet... I can assure
you that your scores with the Leaf, and with a standard Microswitch, would be Vastly different.
Haleys Commit is one of the rare games that gives you a lot of powerups, based on your continued high fire rate.
In the fist 2min, you could miss about 70% of the potential powerups, if you are not firing fast enough. The game
will reward you greatly for your fire-rate and skills... and will punish you, for your lackings.
The problem with Micros, is the level of the switches spring tension resistance, to activate it. Its not bad for the
occasional fire. But to try to maintain a constant stream of fire at high rate? Its way too fatiguing. Your fingers
and hand will be so cramped and tired, that you will want to give up.
Where as a leaf switch, is just two thin metal pieces.. that you can literally vibrate between being open and closed,
with virtually no pressure or effort, at all. You could continually "Feather" the button for an hour, at MAX speed,
without getting any fatigue.
Even the modern low-pressure micros, and modern leaf buttons, cant compare to the original leafswitch... because
they both "Bottom Out". When you bottom out, you are suffering resistance and get impact fatigue. Where as
an original leafswitch.. you find the activation spot.. and lightly bounce / vibrate the thing... without ever bottoming
out the button. Like lightly bouncing on a very flexible diving board, squeaky loose floorboard, or light spring pressure
trampoline.
There are also other controllers, that will also give you far more advantages in performance potentials.
Just like anything.. sure... you can still manage to get decent with poor equipment. But with the best
equipment... you can do so much better... with far less effort and fatigue.