Worst Controllers Ever made (pics encouraged)

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Originally Posted by bahn

I use to smack that max pad on my knee to get it working because the buttons got kinda wonky on me.

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Too many night sessions with Bubble Bath Babes, bahn?

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Originally Posted by Grave

The size and feel of the GC pad are perfect to me, until I have to start pushing buttons. I still hate the X and Y buttons, though I did finally get used to them, and Z is so horribly placed. The triggers are fine, but the d-pad is simply attrocious.

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Yeah, the kidney bean buttons are weird, but I got used to them.

The Z button, however, is a complete atrocity. One of the main reasons I bought the mediocre and overhyped BG&E ( :p ) for the Xbox was that the GC version made you hit Z for the camera. Fuck that, I'll sprain a finger doing that shit.

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Originally Posted by MechDeus

I'm sorry, but if I have to include extra motions in fighting games to make sure the PS2 recognizes a move then it sucks.

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I don't. Maybe it isn't the pad that sucks?

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People who bitch about the PSX dpad are such whimps.

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It's garbage. There's hardly even enough of it there for me to loathe it properly.

Still better than the original XBox d-pad, though. What a male nipple that thing was.

Putting my $.02 into this, I think that a lot of people don't properly understand the difference between something actually being of poor quality, which would classify them as one of the worst controllers ever made, and something that they simply don't like or isn't to their tastes.

A controller that I would list as honestly sucking was the Atari 2600 controller. The stick was way too tight, the button in a bad place, that rubber part ALWAYS came off. Another controller that had suck quality to it was the N64 controller, because the analog stick broke or became loose way, way too easily.

Original Xbox controller and DC pad were bad examples of design. Overly bulky/heavy. With weird/uncomfortable shape and bad button layouts. Thank god that MS released S-pad.

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Originally Posted by shidoshi

Putting my $.02 into this, I think that a lot of people don't properly understand the difference between something actually being of poor quality, which would classify them as one of the worst controllers ever made, and something that they simply don't like or isn't to their tastes.

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Agreed. While the wacky d-pad made me bleed while unlocking all the boxes in SFEX+A (it really didn't), the Dual Shock has a great weight, a great, solid feel, excellent button placement, and the best rumble out of all the controllers ever. When you pick one up, you know the thing ain't cheap.

NOW, as a contrast, people love the Saturn pad. It looks good, and the buttons are all there, but it feels like a cheap, hollow, piece of shit.

I hate the Dreamcast controller, and the big Xbox one. They're both far too large for me hands, and it's incredibly uncomfortable to play for more than half an hour at any game. The entire reason I'm looking to potentially blows a lot of money on a PS2 Rez is because it's literally painful to play on the DC controller.

Too big. Meh.

for all the people saying the jag controler sucked i would like a reason other than the number pad, which isnt a reason. most of the time it only operated menus and shortcuts, not actual control. oh wait.....most of the people bitching about it probably never even used one. my bad.

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Originally Posted by Mzo

NOW, as a contrast, people love the Saturn pad. It looks good, and the buttons are all there, but it feels like a cheap, hollow, piece of shit.

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Actually, call me crazy, but I think different models of the controller have different weights to them. My grey JPN controller feels exactly that way, my white JPN controller feels a bit heavier and of better quality, and while my memory might be bad, my black US controller (not the original crap pad, but the US-released Japanese controller) feels even heavier.

I'll have to check them again sometime to see if I'm insane or not.