The Video Game Critic

Posted: **January 10th, 2007, 6:29 pm**

I have never had a problem controlling any game with my PS2 pad. It comes through in all of my favorite genres and I found it to be better than the orginal xbox controllers (both of them).

I would commend Microsoft for creating a nice controller with the 360 if it weren't just a combination of a Dreamcast controller and a Dual Shock.

Controllers are different for everybody because everyone has different size hands. Some people love the dual shock, others hate it. Fact of the matter is that not enough people disliked the dualshock for Sony to do anything about it...hence we are seeing it for the third time in as many consoles.

Posted: **January 10th, 2007, 6:32 pm**

[QUOTE=JustLikeHeaven]Controllers are different for everybody because everyone has different size hands. Some people love the dual shock, others hate it. Fact of the matter is that not enough people disliked the dualshock for Sony to do anything about it...hence we are seeing it for the third time in as many consoles.[/QUOTE]

I think many of us are just relieved that they didn't throw that boomerang controller at us instead. I'd take the traditional Sony model anyday over that "improvement".

Posted: **January 10th, 2007, 6:59 pm**

[QUOTE=sega saturn x]

Nintendo did NOT create the joystick, they were about ten years too late on that one. However they did make the D pad popular. And either way 360 controller>everything else made in the last ten years.

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Amen brother! the 360 controller is my favorite overall controller of all time but I think the Sega Saturn small controller is still the best for fighting games with it's awsome d-pad and all 6 buttons layed out in 2 rows.

Posted: **January 10th, 2007, 7:08 pm**

all sony had to do was switch the dpad with the left analog stick, and it would be light years better.

Posted: **January 10th, 2007, 7:47 pm**

I hated the snes controller and the dualshock is a mutated snes controller. So I was never crazy about it, saturn and 360 are the best, cubes comfy too great for platformers. Useless for FPS though, even worse than the ps2.

Posted: **January 10th, 2007, 7:56 pm**

[QUOTE=Superjay][QUOTE=sega saturn x]

Nintendo did NOT create the joystick, they were about ten years too late on that one. However they did make the D pad popular. And either way 360 controller>everything else made in the last ten years.

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Amen brother! the 360 controller is my favorite overall controller of all time but I think the Sega Saturn small controller is still the best for fighting games with it's awsome d-pad and all 6 buttons layed out in 2 rows.
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I'll third the 360 vote, and second the Saturn one (as it's as about as good as my wireless Genesis controller). It's almost a three way tie for me.
The Genesis six button pad (revised into the Saturn one), the 360 controller, and, because I'm a "simple control" and platformer junkie the GameCube controller (which is, admitedly, limited outside those types of games).
Really though, I still don't get why Sony uses the dual shock. Look at the Saturn 3D pad, the N64 controller, the Xbox controller, the 360 controller, the Dreamcast controller, and the GameCube controller. There's a reason so many people went to lenghts to make the analog stick a more natural postion (even the N64, the first of the 3D analog controllers, when held in the centre focuses on it). Sony is still using a design made originally for 2D games on the SNES.

Posted: **January 10th, 2007, 8:09 pm**

[QUOTE=sega saturn x]

Nintendo did NOT create the joystick, they were about ten years too late on that one. However they did make the D pad popular. And either way 360 controller>everything else made in the last ten years.

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They were the ones that made it popular in that generation anyway. All I'm saying is that the dual-shock doesn't do anything original, and it isn't even that good a controller anyway.

Posted: **January 10th, 2007, 8:46 pm**

Best Controller?

The 360's...I love it.

Second place goes to the PS2 in my opinion.

LAST PLACE?

Gamecube...it just felt like cheap Mattel toy. Plus the goofy colors ruined it for me right from the start.

I will say the Wii controller is pretty slick. I wish it was a little bigger though.

Posted: **January 10th, 2007, 11:56 pm**

Goofy colors? You didn't have to buy the purple colored system, you know. The GameCube looks perfectly normal with the jet black version. And the colors of the buttons, besides the barely noticeable Z button, were the same as the Nintendo 64. Red and green work out better I think than the odd designations Sony uses that I've yet to learn.

Posted: **January 11th, 2007, 3:09 am**

Yeah, I've used them all plenty, and I still do best with the Gamecube controller. Having the buttons shaped and arranged the way they do makes it alot easier to play without EVER looking down. Personally, going between the Xbox and DualShock makes me forget which button is which alot of the time, especially with the total random nature of the Dual Shock's shape buttons.

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