Favorite LOOKING controller?

[Sackboy]

I may be the only one that despises anything that Sony have made after DualShock 3. I don't want to open "options" nor "share" anything, I want Select and Start back. Is that a thing so difficult for Sony?

they're more ergonomic. share button is literally just a screenshot button. the touchpad has good uses, its actually 4 seperate buttons, so you get more easily accessible utility buttons. the dualshock is my favorite controller, but start and select dont feel very good to press, and thats fine in most older games where you're not pressing them all too often (thats why older rpgs had triangle as the status menu), but in games now it's just not very practical.

 

[Emerald Flowsion]

 

[popckorn]

Wu Tang Controller is FIRE
TOP KEK

 

[TsookBoyAdvance]

Transparent controllers are my kryptonite.

 

[χKai]

 

[Lancelotk]

For me, it's the Mega Drive 6-button controller.

 

[Daughter of Janus]

When it comes to pure looks, my favorite controller is Dreamcast’s pad.
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It’s so colorful, even in a basic formation, with these beautiful curves, lines, and all that. It’s like the controller variant of the iMac’s from the time. It’s unique and beautiful to look at. I may not love playing on it because of how it cramps my hands with the back, but WOW is it pretty to look at.

Absolutely, I will agree the Dreamcast controller is my favorite looking controller. Although, I have to say, it felt like holding onto a slippery overripe banana.

 

[TamagotchiTamaHero24's icon TamagotchiTamaHero24 TamagotchiTamaHero24]

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If you know… you know.

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NEC PC Engine (1987)
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It’s easy to say, but it needs to be said: this is the perfection of the direction Nintendo wanted to go in aesthetically. This is about as 80’s techno-future as you can get without it going overboard. It’s clean, effortless, and brilliant.

 

[Daughter of Janus]

If you know… you know.

 

[TamagotchiTamaHero24's icon TamagotchiTamaHero24 TamagotchiTamaHero24]

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At least it matched the system’s color…

 

[Daughter of Janus]

At least it matched the system’s color…

Well, could have been worse, I suppose. Could have been a slime girl.
Imagine the mess you'd be cleaning up then.

 

[Sackboy]

Transparent controllers are my kryptonite.
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if i go crazy then will you still call me superman

 

[GuiPeli]

Sega Saturn controller. It's the most beautiful and also the most confortable to play.

 

[WesternYokai]

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This may be the prettiest controller I ever owned. This image doesn't do it justice, if you see it IRL you'll notice that it has a transparent surface and the orange part on the inside is somewhat reflective.

Are you brazilian right?

I have a uncle that worked (no jokez here) as TI on Fiocruz and they had a partnership with Clone back in the early 2000s. They received boxes of accessories and I don't why but these controllers were bundled together, for a scientific institution for research lol

But this was a nightmare to hook up on PC at the time. They were already using Windows XP at the time and the drivers were just for 98/Millennium/2000.

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Transparent controllers are my kryptonite.
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Yeah, I'm less a form factory guy and more a translucent color one.

I wish Sony and 8bitdo does more of this.

 

[Cawl canallia]

It's so bad that people prefer to emulate it with an Xbox controller

 

[Ikagura Ikagura]

It's so bad that people prefer to emulate it with an Xbox controller
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I mean it's hard to get a proper 64 pad on PC.

 

[ciro64]

Transparent controllers are my kryptonite.
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Literally me.

I have that blue Playstation one, except it's an unofficial one.

Are you brazilian right?

I have a uncle that worked (no jokez here) as TI on Fiocruz and they had a partnership with Clone back in the early 2000s. They received boxes of accessories and I don't why but these controllers were bundled together, for a scientific institution for research lol

But this was a nightmare to hook up on PC at the time. They were already using Windows XP at the time and the drivers were just for 98/Millennium/2000.

Yes, I am brazilian.

That's to cool!

At the time I was using them, XP drivers were already supported. I don't remember the exact timeframe but I'm gonna guess 2006 or 2007.

Didn't took me long for me to discover Xpadder afterwards. I used this controller image as a background for the program, nostalgic memories are kicking in. I played N Game with it.

 

[Graves Ruinwalker]

I like the duke very much.

Otherwise the smaller version is awesome too .

 

[MajesticSiN]

 

[popckorn]

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ABSOLUTELY BLOODY GORGEOUS

 

[Ikagura Ikagura]

I like the duke very much.
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Otherwise the smaller version is awesome too . View attachment 69145

You can see the draft of the 360 controller in the second.

Shame they haven't kept the Black and White buttons there.

 

[FrootyLoopsSamurai]

Apparently original duke controllers are quite brittle nowadays. Seems like they'll fade out of existence sooner than other controllers since afaik there's no replacement shells.

 

[Ikagura Ikagura]

I'm still confused by that d-pad:

 

[Graves Ruinwalker]

You can see the draft of the 360 controller in the second.

Shame they haven't kept the Black and White buttons there.

True . The two extra buttons on the controller could have more use or can be mapped for button-combos .

MS missed an opportunity that could revolutionize controls once more .

 

[kingofdragons]

Literally me.

We are legion. I too miss transparent plastic styles