Getting PTSD from remembering my play-through of Kid Icarus Uprsing :shudders:
God that was painful.
Even as a kid I knew this controller was hot garbage.
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Worst Controller Thread. Not to be negative but, the controller is bad!
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Getting PTSD from remembering my play-through of Kid Icarus Uprsing :shudders:
God that was painful.
Even as a kid I knew this controller was hot garbage.
Same. Really enjoyed the Duke. DS4 is too small and gives my hands awful cramps.
My vote for worst controller has to be the Nintendo SuperScope.
I loved light gun games, but this really wasn't the evolution that we needed. Fun for a day, and thats it.
So much this. Fun fact, after that day I returned mine as a kid. Even then I knew it was terrible
I have definitely played with worse, but...
Admit it, the lack of ergonomics on it does not live well to these days now.
Admit it, the lack of ergonomics on it does not live well to these days now.
The Jaguar controller really isn't that bad. I owned a Jaguar back when it first came out and still have it. The numerical pad was neat because some games came with insert cards that showed what the button you pressing did. Check it out on youtube sometime. The pad below is way worse than the Jaguar controller.
If I'm not mistaken, this came packaged with Mortal Kombat 2 for PC. It's probably the worst controller I ever used. If not, definitely top 3.Getting PTSD from remembering my play-through of Kid Icarus Uprsing :shudders:
God that was painful.
Even as a kid I knew this controller was hot garbage.
Recently, I have not been a fan of the Switch Pro controller, that D-Pad on it is awful and makes playing something like Puyo-Puyo/Tetris with the d-pad impossible since you get a phantom Up-Press every once in awhile that completely messes up your tetris grid.
It was also pretty bad with what little I've played of Ultra Street Fighter as well. For £60, I expected better.
It was also pretty bad with what little I've played of Ultra Street Fighter as well. For £60, I expected better.
Yeah...I'm a huge Nintendo fan, but could not buy the WiiU because I couldn't get over how big and chunky that tablet controller was.
Me trying out the WiiU at Gamestop multiple times:
"Oh man what a great game let me try it out...WHAT IS THIS BRICK OH IT'S THE CONTROLLER...Really?"
I can make a pretty solid guess that it's not on par with the DS4.
It looks like it weighs 10 pounds.
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I had this Thrustmaster pad that I played a majority of my emulated games on back then and the D-pad was complete ass.
One of my points above was The N64 pad already had a second directional input by default - the c-buttons were even named as so, to be seen as a 'camera dpad'.
Goldeneye's dual analogue option was really just a straight analogue extension of 1.2 Solitaire control method, which was the Turok control default too. Typically it meant the 'sticks' (stick+dpad in this case) were reversed with the left one being the look, since as WASD has shown us analogue control is more necessary for look than movement.
But these things were IMO still on the fringes at the time Sega designed the DC pad. It was still an omission, as a separate camera control for 3D platformers had clearly been demonstrated to be valuable by Nintendo (and as mentioned soon shamelessly cribbed by everyone else). But their market research probably showed it was still misunderstood by the general audience, and they needed something more easily comprehended.
The Wii Remote. It was revolutionary at the time, but it actively made lots of games, even SNES ones, simply unplayable. Playing Smash Bros with it is torture. Glad the Switch Joycon is actually decent for playing a wider range of games.
There are two types of Era posters: those who believe that the N64 controller is the ultimate catastrophe of ergonomic design, and liars.
You heathens need to experience gyro-driving in DiRT Rally, pronto!
For real, though: the Steampad may be naff in a few aspects, but the gyroscope completely saves it. I recall winning a CSGO game (at around MG2-level) with my Steampad after I set the gyroscope up to work in tandem with the right-hand trackpad while aiming.
My mate got the Gamecube chainsaw controller with Resi4 back in the day. I found it truly awful, but he persevered and somehow grew to enjoy using it.
I'm not contending the c-buttons being designated camera controls, but the point is they were just that, buttons. When looking to emulate their functionality, others just mapped them to to the typical B,C,Y & Z placements because along with the N64's A & B buttons being located where you'd usually find A and X, that was how they were arranged, and so didn't require a significant overhaul to controller design. If they N64 had a c-stick in the first place, then Sega probably would have considered it more important to include, but GoldenEye by and large didn't sell the concept of a dual-analog configuration, and it wasn't even employed at all in Nintendo's next big first person offering for that purpose. The c-buttons had primarily been demonstrated to pan or toggle positions for an external camera, which typically didn't require the precision of an analog stick (L and R buttons having served a similar purpose).
I'm saddened by the number of people listing the Steam Controller here.
It may not be perfect, but it's a huge leap forward for controller design compared to dual-analog control.
Part of the problem seems to be that there's a learning curve for using it, and people expect to pick it up and be good with a new input method immediately - ignoring that they've potentially had 20 years of adapting to dual-analog controllers.
It may not be perfect, but it's a huge leap forward for controller design compared to dual-analog control.
Part of the problem seems to be that there's a learning curve for using it, and people expect to pick it up and be good with a new input method immediately - ignoring that they've potentially had 20 years of adapting to dual-analog controllers.
The PS3 'boomerang' may have been comfortable, but the majority of gamers are very resistant to change when it comes to input devices - even if it's for the better.Although I've never touched it, but the PS3 boomerang looked to me like it could've been comfortable too.
I'll never quite understand the hatred the Jaguar controller gets. It's not the best controller in the world but it fits in my hands nicely and doesn't ever get uncomfortable. My main issue with it is that ABC order is reversed from a Sega Genesis so it can cause some confusion with screen prompts.
My least favorite controller is probably the Saturn 3D Pad.
It's too big and the analog stick just never felt right to me. The buttons don't feel good either.
My least favorite controller is probably the Saturn 3D Pad.
It's too big and the analog stick just never felt right to me. The buttons don't feel good either.
Even as a kid I knew this controller was hot garbage.
I have so many memories of playing Neo*Geo games with this thing, holy shit. I should hunt one down on eBay and see if it holds a candle to my Saturn pad.
Also, anything with Retrolink on it is guaranteed to be shit.
That's exactly the problem with the Steam Controller: You have to fuck with it for a while before you get comfortable with the thing, on a platform that already has the best controls for ever game. That is, unless you have a PC in the living room, and either can't play certain genres or hate playing certain genres with a more traditional controller.
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Pretty weird debate. Most DC FPS had kb+m controls, they couldn't be improved to this day.
The thing making that controller horrible is the shoulder buttons. They have such a discrete click sound do them, and barely ANY travel, that I many times have to look for a screen response to be able to tell if I'm even pressing them. What were they thinking?The Saturn offered some bad and the very best.
Not the worst but bad and bulky, I hated the first western incarnation of the Saturn controller.
A terrible wrong idea while the Japan already had the perfection of controller design in their hands. Fortunately it was addressed eventually and the Japanese design adopted worldwide.
Agree. We had the genesis one (color yellow) and it just plain sucked
This is the worst controller I ever used. It was like the harbinger of mobile ports and using a virtual dpad. It was way too sensitive and inaccurate.
This. As much as I loved them, could never play over an hour without awful hand cramps
The shoulder buttons were definitely the worst thing about that controller... but it's not like even if they were fixed it'd be decent. That d-pad was frankly stupid as well.
I'm not fond of the d-pad either, no, but I have to say I've grown to accept it. I've been playing a lot of shoot 'em up with that d-pad without any difficulties at all. I obviously prefer the japanese version with a great d-pad but so does everyone else around here so we have to take turns playing with the "crappy" one when playing multi. :)
I still can't believe this thing made it through design and testing phases without anyone at Nintendo realizing that it's complete garbage.Never forget
Yup. The Steam controller is great if you take your time to get used to it.
I've got my computer hooked it to my TV and it's the only thing I use to play PC games.