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What are YOUR favorite controllers?
Blumpkin:
I'll be a little blasphemous and say that I've always hated the Gamecube controller. I remember buying a GC just for MGS Twin Snakes, and the frustration of trying to learn that controller with such a complicated layout.
Then there is the hard plastic analog sticks, which always hurt my thumbs. And the dumb idea to only have one side of the controller with two shoulder buttons.
Yep, I hate the Gamecube controller.
the7k:
Sega Saturn (Japanese/2nd Gen controller)
Sega Saturn 3D Controller (Basically the Dreamcast controller except with none of the horrible problems that it had)
Qanba Q4 (Stock parts feel pretty good for stock and it's easily to swap parts out.)
Mad Catz WWE Brawl Pads (Even though they break easy with as much as I used them, they're the only pads worth their price these days. Still pretty crap compared to pads from back then.)
Logitech Precision (Best PC game pad I've ever used. Bought a couple of these for $5 brand new way back when, and glad I did because they've gone up a lot since then.)
sheep2001:
What we really need is SatoshiMatrix to give some opinions. He's used pretty much every controller out there! Lol
Ozzy_98:
Arcade controls using an optical or magnetic stick, and HAPP buttons.
I have bigger hands than most here (Ok fine, bigger everything ;) ) so I like bigger controllers. Loved and liked but my current fave is the F710
Of actual console ones, I liked the nes advantage and avenue-6 pad, since it had 6 buttons on the front, good for fighters. PSX dual shock line is always a fave, they inspired most of the ones I like.
Thom Grayson:
Favorite console controllers, hm... top 3, in no particular order -
Xbox 360 - combines things I like about several other controllers, and I'm sort of biased towards it because out of all the first party controllers I've ever owned, the Xbox 360 controllers have by far and away held up the best. So much so that I'm still using the controller that came with the system when I got it in 2010, and it's probably my most-played system. Sticks are starting to lose tension, but still totally usable.
PS4 - I like the lightbar, I like the clickpad. It's like Sony fixed all the things wrong with the previous DualShocks. I think the DS4 fits in the hand best of any controller I've used, though I wouldn't mind if it were a tad heavier.
SNES - Comfortably simple, and the fact that it laid the groundwork for pretty much every system to follow certainly doesn't hurt it.
And my top 3 least favorite, also in no particular order -
Colecovision (and other attached controllers) - built-in controllers are a terrible idea. Giving them cheap buttons, short cords, and a weird tilting proto-joystick on top of the controller doesn't make it better.
Gamecube - Don't get me wrong, I like the controller itself just fine, I like the offset face buttons and squishy shoulder buttons. But out of all the first party controllers I have ever had, I've had the most problems with the Gamecube's. Whether it's the second click in the shoulder buttons wearing out, or the rumble somehow getting messed up and making loud squeaking noises every time it vibrates, I went through several controllers in a year. That just should not happen with first party products. Maybe I was just unlucky.
Kinect for Xbox One - Incredibly unreliable, both for motion and voice recognition. I'd wave, and it would grab onto the person sitting next to me on the couch. I'd say Xbox, it would ignore me. I'd give it a command, and it would do something else. Etc, etc. And I specified Xbox One because the first Kinect actually worked pretty well for me overall. I have no idea why, but version 2 has given me issues literally every single time I've used one or been around and seen people using them.