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This fucker's right touch pad was useless and killed any FPS experience.
The right touchpad was fantastic and I played a whole lot of Payday 2 with one. The only problems I had with the Steam Controller were the total lack of a proper D-pad, and how one of mine just kinda stopped recognizing its USB dongle and straight up would not connect to either one I have. And there's just no fix, apparently, but it still works wired, so go figure.
The left touchpad looks like a D-pad, but it isn't. It's another touchpad with indents. No amount of haptic trickery makes it work like one. You are better off playing games that really need a D-pad with the stick than the left touchpad.
The Steam controller would have been my favorite controller of all time if it just had a proper D-pad.
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The Microsoft Sidewinder was the reason I was skeptical of MSs chances of making a console that was playable. The d-pad probably looks familiar.
See how the D-pad on that is rotated slightly to the right? So are the buttons on the inside. It's an awful design and whomever came up with that was fucking retarded.
It was disgustingly expensive when it was new, too. Something like around $100, at a time when console controllers were all like $30.
The shape of the N64 controller exists solely because Nintendo never commits to anything until it prints money. You can see this with them sun setting the gameboy line and later ds line, you can see this with trying to make the NES seem like a toy by including ROB. They wanted an out in case analog sticks never caught on.
Worst official controller is the Sega Jaguar controller. Worst controller for video games was the Mad Catz GameCube controller that was like 75% the size of a normal one.
I only ever noticed that a few years ago when I opened one up, how the control stick looks like a total afterthought and the board looks like it was designed as sort of a clone of the Sega Genesis 6-button controller.
The D-pad on the N64 controller was fantastic, too, but hardly anything used it. Hell, maybe I should get a USB adapter and use it as a controller for my emulation machine.
The Gamecube controller is a giant piece of gay purple shit. The thumbsticks are stiff, the buttons are bizarrely placed, and the Z button is difficult and uncomfortable to press. I think it's actually worse than the N64 controller.
The one serious complaint I have about the Gamecube controller is that the D-pad is teeny tiny. It really, really sucks to use.
