Favorite Controller

[vede]

What console controller was your favorite? Did you like the simplicity of the Atari X, the complexity of the Playstation X, the stupidity of the N64, or the middle ground of the SNES?

Personally, I like the NES controller. It's simple and easy to learn, but, as I've said before, the amount of button combinations/actions are incredibly high.

You have the A and B buttons, and you can mix the D-pad to create eight other directions, and the Select button could be used like a toggle between control sets, like a "Shift" on a keyboard, except more like Caps-Lock.

There's A and the eight directions (8), B and the eight directions (8+8), A and B and the directions (8+8+8), just A (8+8+8+1), just B (8+8+8+1+1), just A and B (8+8+8+1+1+1), just the eight directions (8+8+8+1+1+1+8), then they're doubled by the Select button ((8+8+8+1+1+1+8)*2=70).

Do you really need more than seventy commands? And none of these are way over-the-top things that require you to press six buttons at a time or anything. At most, it's four, and they're grouped in two pairs of adjacent buttons.

So, what do you like?

EDIT: (Oh, yeah, I'm going for console-only controllers. I favor the keyboard+mouse over all, but console-wise, it is the NES.) Go ahead with any controller you like the most, be it a remote controller for a TV, or your garage door opener.

(I searched, didn't find anything.)

 

[Jumplion]

We've had a billion of these "Which controller do you like the most?" types of threads. I know you used the search function (thank god) but I'm positive we had one a week ago.

...the Playstation controllers.

 

[Downloaded]

The current XBOX 360 controller hands down. PS3 is awkward and the Wii makes me feel like I'm flipping channels. N64 is a close 2nd just because it was great.

 

[boxbrown4]

If not for a shitty d-pad, the 360 controller would be perfect

 

[Eiseman]

The Dualshock2. Fits my hands just perfectly. Or maybe it's that my hands have adapted from using the thing so much. Anyway, it's the symmetry I appreciate the most. Why the PS3 would fuck with such a great design is beyond me.

 

[vede]

We've had a billion of these "Which controller do you like the most?" types of threads. I know you used the search function (thank god) but I'm positive we had one a week ago.

...the Playstation controllers.

Bah, the only keyword I used that matches that is "controller." I never thought of the phrase "like the most."

My searching skills are fail.

 

[fluffylandmine]

technically this is a wider thread because it is refering to controlers I.E. a remote controller and such, sure it wasn't in mind but in the context of the words it does make sense.

I would say either a computer joystick or the 360 controller, that and to prove my point a universal remote

Edit: I just saw what was in the post script and mods please lock this

 

[BardSeed]

The 360 controller. The original Xbox was too big; in the last gen the PS2 won easily but they haven't changed it this time around.

 

[vede]

technically this is a wider thread because it is refering to controlers I.E. a remote controller and such, sure it wasn't in mind but in the context of the words it does make sense.

I would say either a computer joystick or the 360 controller, that and to prove my point a universal remote

Edit: I just saw what was in the post script and mods please lock this

Actually, stuff about television remote controllers and such might be interesting...

 

[Cantthinkofaname9022]

I liked the Gamecube controller. It fits in your hands perfectly.

 

[Tom5672]

I liked the original mammoth xbox controller. Maybe its just just beacause it was more or less my first console. Or maybe its because its massiveness made me feel manly and my balls feel big.

 

[Janus Vesta]

Wasn't there a thread like this three or four days ago?

Oh well, Xbox 360 controller.