[General Discussion] Best gaming controllers?

Today, while playing Marvel vs. Capcom with a few of my students over XBL, we got into a heated argument over console controllers (one of them insisted that the dinner plate-sized original Xbox controller was the best controller ever made; a declaration which made him the target of immediate ridicule). What was your favorite controller that's ever been made for, well... anything, really? PC or console? Doesn't matter. What about a controller you consider be god-awful?

In before everyone claims the original NES controller was the best controller ever.



Jam it back in, in the dark.

Originally Posted by BIGGU REIVU

Call me mad; I liked the SEGA Genesis Controller. Just something about it; it molded to my hands.

I never really adapted too well to the Genesis controller but it wasn't uncomfortable by any stretch of the mind so I don't think anyone would think you "mad" for liking it. Then again, Sega did have a track record of abysmal controller executions that I'm sure sounded great in concept.

Like this, for example...



FUCK YO KINECT, NIGGA!

Originally Posted by Hot Yogurt Enemas

The SNES controller is the greatest controller ever made, sorry.

The actual face of the pad was flawless, yes. The shoulder buttons were another matter entirely. We spent a lot of time playing games like F-Zero and I relied a fuckton on the shoulder buttons, which cramped my index fingers after a couple of hours at the helm.

For the record, I think that the new Xbox controller has the triggers down perfectly, I just hate the D-pad. Anyone who has attempted to play Tetris or Chime with that shit knows exactly what I'm talking about.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Originally Posted by sprouticus

Gentlemen:

THANK YOU. Finally someone else said it. This here was my favorite controller design of all time except that the D-pad was too tiny for adult fingers but none of us ever used the D-pad for anything other than camera angle changes. But the controller itself felt like it was perfectly molded to the very contours of your palm and both analogue sticks were pretty much perfectly placed considering how much you used your right hand. Anyone who's ever played Viewtiful Joe on the Cube and on the PS2 knows that the Cube version is vastly superior simply because the controller buttons just lent themselves that much better to the entire feel of the game and many games share this same experience. I barely got to playing Paper Mario: Thousand Year Door and picking up my controller just to play a simple RPG is still amazing.

The rest of my wired Cube controllers I keep at the school on the off chance that I'll get a group of students in the lounge that wanna throw down in Melee (Yes, I still have that too) and then
IT'S ON, MOTHERFUCKERS!!!


Additional Spam:

Originally Posted by sprouticus

Don't get me wrong, the GC has some of the best games I've ever played in my life (Metroid Prime is a flawless game, Wind Waker is criminally underrated, Smash Bros Melee/Mario Kart/Mario Party 5 gave me years of fun), but... Hmm, the more I think about it, the GC did have more great games than I gave it credit for. Carry on!

Don't forget F-Zero GX, Super Mario Sunshine, Baten Kaitos and DK Jungle Beat (which I still have but no longer have the Bongo Controller it shipped with ). Shit... Even the Metal Gear Solid remake was fucking awesome simply because the controller just FELT more comfortable to move about with.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

Maybe the way YOU had it set. On MY game it was a macro that typed "IDFA", the number "9" and fired the BFG9000.

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?

what is this "doom" you speak of? >__>

I was speaking idiomatically.