I am dissapointed in the GC\'s controller

I cannot personally understand how some people say that the GC controller is better than the PS2\'s...yes, the anologue sticks on the PS2 are SLIGHTLY too low, and it IS unoriginal, but it is perfect apart from that. However, the Z-Button on the GC is ridiculous, the D-Pad is utterly useless, and the C-joystick is much too small for my liking and slips out of grip very easily. I agree it does fit into the hand nicely, but the D-Pad, C-joystick, and the Z-button are badly placed.....so third party games would suffer,imo. It works a treat on games specially made for GC (which are normally great anyway) but games like Timesplitters2, which would have to use the Z-Button AND the twin joysticks, would really suffer...I couldn\'t imagine aiming with that C analogue stick.

After firing up my new GC last night, I got pretty comfortable with the controller and had little problems with Resident Evil.

Still ridiculously designed.

Whats with the different sized buttons arranged in some silly pattern?

Best controller is still Japanese Saturn.

the controller gets a 3.5 out of 5 imo

expecially the shoulder buttons - - way to spongy and the d pad hasnt improved much over the 8 bit nintendo controller

i dont i think i remember this correctly but only 1 R1 button?

yeah and all the buttons are put in some mess order with different sizes

simply put the Play station two controller is the best controller ever imo that is why it stayed the same for the new system why fix it if it isnt broke?

as for play station three i hope they keep the same controller

[Living-In-Clip]

Originally posted by Clowd
the controller gets a 3.5 out of 5 imo

expecially the shoulder buttons - - way to spongy and the d pad hasnt improved much over the 8 bit nintendo controller

i dont i think i remember this correctly but only 1 R1 button?

yeah and all the buttons are put in some mess order with different sizes

simply put the Play station two controller is the best controller ever imo that is why it stayed the same for the new system why fix it if it isnt broke?

as for play station three i hope they keep the same controller

Spongy?

D-pad hasn\'t improved over the 8bit Nintendo? Nor has any other D-pad. Things like that just don\'t improve. Though it is abit too small.

And it isn\'t an "R1" button. It is the Z button. Agree\'d it is placed in an odd position though.

How can you control Resident Evil, out of interest? Because, I couldn\'t ever imagine using that oddly placed D-pad (my hands are very big) or the analogue stick (because, I think, the controls of RE are more suiter to a D-pad since you rotate around with left and right, if you get what I mean....)

Originally posted by Living-In-Clip


Spongy?

D-pad hasn\'t improved over the 8bit Nintendo? Nor has any other D-pad. Things like that just don\'t improve. Though it is abit too small.

what i mean by spongy is that the button can be pressed down like an inch too much if you ask me

how can you improve the d pad?  make the direction pointers seperate and make them pressure sensitive

I still like that controller the most.  Much better than the PS2 controller IMO.

that is why i use one of these, and my GC controller is somewhere in a box dying a horrible dusty death



dualshock > GC controller

you can find that and more at
http://www.levelsix.com

(and no, I don\'t work there... but I did order and had no problems)

mm = so f*ckin cool.

MM > ALL

The PS2 controller is essentially a perfected SNES controller.. thus it\'s better for some genres.

However, some games (like Pikmin) show the uses of the GCN pad. Playing Pikmin with th\' PS2 adapter.. bleh.

I\'m probably wrong, but I think Miyamoto and company designed the controller after that game.

muh dual shock works so well to drown them damn pikmin

and the RE control?  pffffffffft!  just like it should be

Originally posted by jm
mm = so f*ckin cool.

MM > ALL

mm is the only reason why I come to these boards.

Originally posted by Clowd


mm is the only reason why I come to these boards.

Actually, he\'s part of the reason I decided to come here in the first place.

good lord guys

dont give me so many compliments all at once, my head will swell

all in all, the GC controller is a hell of a lot more comfortable than the N64 controller