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Message: [QUOTE="Egg (McMuffin) Man, post: 64171, member: 212119"] The Dreamcast controller is great and it was designed very well. I never heard any complaints about it (besides the cord coming out from the bottom) until these last few years, and I think those complaints are probably coming from younger gamers as they all seem to be complaints about it lacking a second stick. But games didn't use a second stick for camera controls in 1998. In fact, the first game to use a second stick for camera controls (Alien Resurrection) released only 2 months before Sega announced that the Dreamcast was over, and that game received a lot of criticism at the time for the controls being "unintuitive". Twin-stick controls were standardized by Halo: Combat Evolved and that game didn't release until after the Dreamcast had already been discontinued. Lack of a second stick was never a problem for the Dreamcast, just as it wasn't for the Saturn or the Gamecube. As for the cable coming out from the bottom, this is actually a clever design. Sega envisioned that you would hold the controller upright while playing in order to look at the screen on the VMU (some games displayed additional information on the VMU screen during gameplay, some just displayed an animation like Sonic Adventure does), and if the cord came from the top of the controller than there was a risk that the controller would wear out faster due to the cord getting damaged. Having the cord come out from the bottom was an easy way to solve that problem. There are are possible solutions but they would have made manufacturing more expensive. And the hall effect stick was very forward-thinking. My only real complaint is that the grips on the stick are plastic and not rubber but that's not a big deal. Another notable complaint I've heard is that the controller had less buttons than the Saturn, but I think Sega was trying to follow the controller layout standard set by other companies. The Dreamcast controller is largely just an upgrade of the Saturn's 3D controller (which I love). [/QUOTE]

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