The most useless button in a game.

[Segadroid]

Seriously, press the flashlight button to blink(Alone in the Dark)?

 

[StarStruckStrumpets]

The Select Button on PS2.

It was rare that any game ever gave it a purpose.

 

[Sassafrass]

The Back button on Xbox 360. Never pressed it once.

EDIT: Just to let people know, I have never played Bioshock, Mass Effect or TF2.

 

[xavierxenon]

The "Exit Game" button in World of Warcraft. Seriously, what kind of WoW player stops? =P

 

[T5seconds]

The Select Button on PS2.

It was rare that any game ever gave it a purpose.

Yea I have to agree select can just be replaced with start or x

 

[Proteus214]

On the Sega Genesis/Megadrive 6 button controller, the Mode button. You're supposed to hold it to make it so that the console will register it as a 3 button controller on start up. Why would I want to use it as a 3 button controller? I paid good money for the extra buttons!

 

[WrongSprite]

The sixaxis thing in Ninja Gaiden Sigma 2.

Jiggle jiggle.

 

[AmrasCalmacil]

The "Exit Game" button in World of Warcraft. Seriously, what kind of WoW player stops? =P

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Uhm, most useless button, eh?
Other than blinking in Alone in the Dark, I'd say the back button on the 360 controller, no idea what that does.

 

[Redemption003]

Most DS games that whack in a stupid touch screen minigame just to use the touch screen. And the whole "blow into the mic to do whatever" thing.

The poffin mingame in Pokemon D/P/Pl, just why exactly?

 

[Monshroud]

The Back button on Xbox 360. Never pressed it once.

Uhm, most useless button, eh?
Other than blinking in Alone in the Dark, I'd say the back button on the 360 controller, no idea what that does.

You guys never played Bioshock eh? The back button is used to open the map screen.

And in Soul Calibur 4 you press it to play as Chuck Norris!

 

[73loup]

On the Sega Genesis/Megadrive 6 button controller, the Mode button. You're supposed to hold it to make it so that the console will register it as a 3 button controller on start up. Why would I want to use it as a 3 button controller? I paid good money for the extra buttons!

Actually there were a few games, Golden Axe comes to mind, that didn't recognize the 6 button controller correctly and rendered the game unplayable unless you actually used the mode button.

However, those were far and few between and were generally the very, very early games for the console. At least they were smart enough to put that button there as opposed to needing it and not having it.

 

[Sassafrass]

The Back button on Xbox 360. Never pressed it once.

Uhm, most useless button, eh?
Other than blinking in Alone in the Dark, I'd say the back button on the 360 controller, no idea what that does.

You guys never played Bioshock eh? The back button is used to open the map screen.

And in Soul Calibur 4 you press it to play as Chuck Norris!

MAPS??? Who uses maps? Real men get stuck into exploring and never use a map, even when they get stuck and hopelessly lost.

 

[DAMG]

The "X" button in Halo 3 for equipment. It's probably an opinion thing, but I think equipment is stupid or, at least, poorly handled.

 

[Deathsong17]

Seriously, press the flashlight button to blink(Alone in the Dark)?

Do you need to keep pressing that all through the game?

 

[Smitty of the Tolchocks]

I had a 6 button pad for the sega.I noticed that no game I ever played needed the mode button to be used,as the system could tell it was a 6 button on it's own.Mig-29 Fulcrum even showed a transparent controller on the screen that would show the 3 or 6 depending on which pad I was using.My pad was made by Sega so maybe it was more compatible than madcatz or some of the others.
---I did notice that some of those "turbo" controllers had to have the Mode button held in order change the "rate of fire/fast forward" effect.Although on some games it just made the game pause and unpause repeatedly.

 

[userwhoquitthesite]

I cant remember what game, but there was a game i played where you had to control a cow. there was a moo button. If you pressed it you stopped walking.

 

[DigitalSushi]

The sixaxis thing in Ninja Gaiden Sigma 2.

Jiggle jiggle.

I wouldn't call that useless, when is Sigma out in the UK? any idea's, I'VE GOT A FUCKING DUALSHOCK AND I'M NOT AFRAID TO USE IT!

Edit; in Earthworm Jim the manuel* stated that one of the buttons would turn the porch light on to mister Fieches house in Germany and that it really annoyed him so you should not press it at all.

That was fucking brilliant use of the manual telling you that a button wasn't used in game.

* I meant the manual as in the instruction booklet, not the Manuel as in the Spanish waiter that came with the game.

 

[Fraught]

Most DS games that whack in a stupid touch screen minigame just to use the touch screen. And the whole "blow into the mic to do whatever" thing.

The poffin mingame in Pokemon D/P/Pl, just why exactly?

You do understand what "useless" means, right? Please tell me you do (though apparently not).

If it is required to complete a game (the blowing into the mic) then it's not useless.

Now the Select button on Playstations and Back button on Xbox 360's controller. Now that's a useless button.

 

[Ren3004]

Turning the headlights on and off in GTA4. Waste of a perfectly good button.

 

[esperandote]

GTA2 there's one button to burp and fart.