What are you playing?

[Lilly]

And now my interest has already switched over to the Marathon trilogy. 4th gen platformers are so short that I flip-flop between favorites real fast. xD Would be playing Pokemon Black again, but meh, I don't feel like beating the Elite Four, even if I am that freaking close to getting Reshiram.

I never said the D-Pad was bad for racing. Look over my post again: I said it's difficult to powerslide with the D-Pad. Well, not actually "difficult", but I mean the CPU doesn't have to awkwardly wiggle its thumb left and right as quickly as possible so that it both gets a boost and doesn't skew off track.
That's all, really. Personally I prefer playing racing games (and most other games, too) with a D-Pad than with an analogue stick.

Oh, I apologize for misreading. :# It is a little awkward to power slide because of that sometimes, I will admit. (And when I get rusty, I miss every other boost opportunity for the first two laps before getting my groove back. xD)

Same here with the control preferences. It's funny that I prefer having absolute control in 3D platformers with an analog stick, but on racing or fighting games, I won't have it any other way than precisely tapping that d-pad like a madman. =P