What was the worst controller? - Toss up between the Steam controller and N64 IMO

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Best controller idea with worst execution/support (so it ends up being even worse because it really did try) was probably this.
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I wanted to love it because I loved Descent.
 
Justanotherguy dijo:
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This fucker's right touch pad was useless and killed any FPS experience.
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The right touchpad was fantastic and I played a whole lot of Payday 2 with one. The only problems I had with the Steam Controller were the total lack of a proper D-pad, and how one of mine just kinda stopped recognizing its USB dongle and straight up would not connect to either one I have. And there's just no fix, apparently, but it still works wired, so go figure.

The left touchpad looks like a D-pad, but it isn't. It's another touchpad with indents. No amount of haptic trickery makes it work like one. You are better off playing games that really need a D-pad with the stick than the left touchpad.

The Steam controller would have been my favorite controller of all time if it just had a proper D-pad.

Smaug's Smokey Hole dijo:
oh yes, please thumb my crotch
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The Microsoft Sidewinder was the reason I was skeptical of MSs chances of making a console that was playable. The d-pad probably looks familiar.
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See how the D-pad on that is rotated slightly to the right? So are the buttons on the inside. It's an awful design and whomever came up with that was fucking retarded.

It was disgustingly expensive when it was new, too. Something like around $100, at a time when console controllers were all like $30.

McMitch4kf dijo:
The shape of the N64 controller exists solely because Nintendo never commits to anything until it prints money. You can see this with them sun setting the gameboy line and later ds line, you can see this with trying to make the NES seem like a toy by including ROB. They wanted an out in case analog sticks never caught on.

Worst official controller is the Sega Jaguar controller. Worst controller for video games was the Mad Catz GameCube controller that was like 75% the size of a normal one.
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I only ever noticed that a few years ago when I opened one up, how the control stick looks like a total afterthought and the board looks like it was designed as sort of a clone of the Sega Genesis 6-button controller.

The D-pad on the N64 controller was fantastic, too, but hardly anything used it. Hell, maybe I should get a USB adapter and use it as a controller for my emulation machine.

MrTroll dijo:
The Gamecube controller is a giant piece of gay purple shit. The thumbsticks are stiff, the buttons are bizarrely placed, and the Z button is difficult and uncomfortable to press. I think it's actually worse than the N64 controller.
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The one serious complaint I have about the Gamecube controller is that the D-pad is teeny tiny. It really, really sucks to use.
 
I vote for the 'phone controller' systems - the Intellivision, Colecovision, and Atari 5200. Big, dumb mostly useless phone numpads on them that mostly were used just for selecting difficulty. The Intellivisions are hard corded to the system (except for the Intellivision II, which has its own drawbacks). The Colecovision has a low flat ring top to it's joystick that makes it uncomfortable to use. And the vertical shape of all three of those is just not comfortable.

Of those, Atari 5200 wins. The joystick doesn't self-center, making playing some games an absolute nightmare. They didn't even bother releasing the Asteroids prototype because of it.
 
Smaug's Smokey Hole dijo:
Ascii was a weird company. Hey, let's make the MSX then weird controllers and publish magazines then, uh, RPG maker!

The truly worst controllers are the old keyboards from different home computers. Ten times as painful because people had to program the games using that keyboard. @UselessRubberKeyboard
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Now they stick to publishing books in Japan.
 
NES controller is the most uncomfortable controller I have personally ever held. The fact that you had to beat most games in a single sitting while holding that thing the whole time... Let me just say I am very happy that emulating is a thing now.
 
MoffAlbert dijo:
NES controller is the most uncomfortable controller I have personally ever held. The fact that you had to beat most games in a single sitting while holding that thing the whole time... Let me just say I am very happy that emulating is a thing now.
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The original NES controller gave me some serious blisters. The dogbone for the toploader NES was actually pretty good though.
 
I've always had a deep-rooted loathing for trackballs of all kinds, as well as "touchscreen D-pads" found on many mobile ports of retro games/ mobile builds of emulators. But so far as a specific controller is concerned, the worst I've ever used is probably the Jaguar controller, mentioned on page 1.

Just looking at a photo of the Jaguar controller on its own doesn't really do it justice; here's a picture of somebody actually holding one (or trying to hold one?) in their hand:

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Madcatz had some hilariously shit controllers for other systems (they made an N64 controller that managed to be worse in every way than the original).

Though I'm remembering something else and remembering how little I liked it when I tried it.
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NIGGA DAS A CIRCLE.
 
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