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No analog. :angry:

Srsly, I've never had a controller that was easier to use than the DualShock. Granted, I've never owned an XBox, so people may argue that's controller is better.

PS2, or SNES if you don't like analog.

I work best with a mouse and keyboard.

Gusto said:

PS2, or SNES if you don't like analog.

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It's like a dual-shock, but I like the analogs better.

SNES is the base version to the PS2 being best. I see no reason for Sony to ever change the control design. I've owned more Nintendo consoles and their controllers work well, but the PS2 has the best and most functional design.

Penny Arcade agrees:

Amorous Eyes said:

I remember when you could just grab a controller and play without having to read a manual first.

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You have to read the manual?

I never read the manual anymore.

I look for a computer game, but for one with a controller, there's only so many buttons. I mess a bit, die a couple times maybe. Eventually I get it. Most new games nowadays tell you the buttons anyway.

Hylian;388471][QUOTE=Amorous Eyes said:

I remember when you could just grab a controller and play without having to read a manual first.

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You have to read the manual?[/QUOTE]
Playing through an in-game tutorial is the same thing.

Yeah, sure it is.

I'll just leave this here.

Does that have a tutorial?

Krisken said:

Does that have a tutorial?

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I think you just plug it in and play.

I must be the only person on earth who liked the original American X-Box controllers. My brother and I got one for Christmas so many years back, and it had one giant controller and one Controller-S (now the standard) Since he was younger and had smaller hands, I took the huge one, and got quite used to it. I used it right up until the 360 released and I had to use the new controller.

Sometimes I still long for a controller with that girth, but I've gotten used to the 360 controller now, so it's all good.

Amorous Eyes;388484][QUOTE=escushion said:

I look for a computer game, but for one with a controller, there's only so many buttons. I mess a bit, die a couple times maybe. Eventually I get it. Most new games nowadays tell you the buttons anyway.

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I guess that's akin to guys never wanting to read maps because they magically have Google maps built into their brain?
"I mess a bit, take a few turns a couple times maybe. Eventually I know where to go. Most new cars nowadays come with a GPS anyway."[/QUOTE]

...Well, I have found that getting lost is the best way for me to get to know a new area I live in .

Rob King said:

I must be the only person on earth who liked the original American X-Box controllers. My brother and I got one for Christmas so many years back, and it had one giant controller and one Controller-S (now the standard) Since he was younger and had smaller hands, I took the huge one, and got quite used to it. I used it right up until the 360 released and I had to use the new controller.

Sometimes I still long for a controller with that girth, but I've gotten used to the 360 controller now, so it's all good.

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I friend of mine from high school couldn't stand the Controller-S.

That friend of mine had horrible taste in everything.

I liked the original XBox controller when playing fighting games because it just felt better, I didn't have to worry about hitting other buttons (which I tended to do on the S for some reason).

I always liked the SNES and Playstation controllers the most, though. Gamecube as a third. They just felt right.

dr_awkward said:

I work best with a mouse and keyboard.

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Mais, dat.

Perfection

,,,,,

actually wanted to add this one. It may be better:

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I like the ps2 controller pretty well, though the pressure sensitive bullshit they pulled in MGS3? FUCK THAT.

It's so bad.

from Wired

Necronic said:

Perfection

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If it has a SNES dpad and 6 face buttons, it really really would be the greatest controller ever envisioned. As it stands, I still like it the best.

I think the GC controller is better than the Dual Shock 2.

tegid said:

I think the GC controller is better than the Dual Shock 2.

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I do like the big green button design.

More controllers need a big green button. That way we don't have Japanese games that require us to press circle to make a menu selection.

Crazy Japanese.

Soliloquy;389364][QUOTE=tegid said:

I think the GC controller is better than the Dual Shock 2.

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I do like the big green button design.

More controllers need a big green button. That way we don't have Japanese games that require us to press circle to make a menu selection.

Crazy Japanese.[/QUOTE]

I'll agree to that on many games, but I still think the over shape of the GC controller is clunkier than the dualshock.

Not to mention the C-stick size issues, or the clumsy placement of the Z button--which really is a button, rather than a pressure-based trigger like on the N64 or like the other shoulder buttons.

Other than that, the PS2 one is the best design.

Sega had the d-pad design right from the start, with the full circle pad. Made fighting games and the later top-down/isometric games so much easier.

The SNES pad was good, but this was better:

I loved my AsciiPad.

I also have one of these, because I thought I'd like the d-pad better, but I didn't

Amorous Eyes said:

Wait. Am I mistaken or did Nintendo not patent their + cross DPAD design yet I see it on this 3rd party controller?

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I'm not sure of that myself. The asciiPad is 90% the same as the SNES pad. The d-pad, the A, B, X, Y, select and start buttons are all almost identical to the Super Famicom controller (the SNES pad had different colored face buttons, and some had concave surfaces instead of convex). The only real difference was a slightly thicker top, and more of an angle to the shoulder buttons because of all the space needed for the tubo switches, which I think improved things. Other than that, the d-pad and buttons really feel like a Nintendo controller.

I'm in the Dual Shock crowd for current-ish gen controllers, though I appreciate the 360 controller and GC controllers a lot, and admire the potential for different control types with the Wii.

In the 16-bit and older era, nothing beats the original SNES controller.

Amorous Eyes said:

I remember when you could just grab a controller and play without having to read a manual first.

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noob.