until I started playing inFamous 2.

inFamous developer: Alright, lets make the left trigger the button for aiming and the right trigger for shooting the bolts. What's that? It doesn't have triggers? Well then, we'll just move them up to the L1 and R1 buttons. What's that? It makes it harder to move, aim and shoot at the same time? Eh fuck 'em, they're already getting an awesome storyline, great voice acting and fantastic parkour abilities. What's that? You think that will piss people off? Well we'll just make the melee more effective and we'll call it even.

Yeah, I hate it too.
It blows my mind that it took them 2 re-designs of the original Dual Shock controller design simply to come up with a controller that is worse than the original.

Sony hardware engineers must be paid based off of how bad of a job they do.

Ive played so much xbox that i cant bend my left thumb nearly as low i can my right thumb

so playing ps3 hurts my hands now...

yeah designs made in the late 90's often find themselves outdated in the year 2012

xbox players, try this.

pretend youre holding a ps3 controller. try bending your left thumb to where it would have to be to play with on a ps3. it legitimately hurts my hand.

its almost as if they never intended you to use that joystick

I found the inFAMOUS controls fine. The L2 and R2 buttons suck, so I like the L1 and R1 aiming and shooting on the PS3.