The Great Joystick Debate

[TamagotchiTamaHero24's icon TamagotchiTamaHero24 TamagotchiTamaHero24]

I’m aware there’s already a thread called this, but that’s about ball vs bat sticks. That’s a big debate in itself, but the debate I want here is about how we prefer our sticks to FEEL. There’s no right answer, so stay a while and have fun!

 

[SoThankful]

The N64/GameCube sticks are legendary. I would like to try the Neo Geo Pocket sometime.

 

[RETRO-VETRO RETRO-VETRO]

NOTCHED STICK!

 

[TruxtonTatsujin TruxtonTatsujin]

Clicky sticks are all digital, but I'll still take a good arcade style stick over any analog ones. Playing games on an arcade stick just feels best.

 

[SliperyHippo]

While I don't think the pad sticks are "the best feeling - most accurate" sticks, I think they're a really cool way to reduce the footprint of older portable devices that I think we've lost in the age of the steam deck and ROG Ally and I wouldn't mind if a new portable came out that retained this older design.

 

[bjork]

You haven't truly played video games until you've experience the condom-free Atari skeleton

 

[Dyne]

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You haven't truly played video games until you've experience the condom-free Atari skeleton

How lewd!

 

[Poppet]

There is something very satisfying to the notched controller, I think is the tiny clack-clack-clack noise it makes when you move it around.

Arcade sticks also feel stupidly amazing, I like the force it needs lol

 

[PhrawzT]

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You haven't truly played video games until you've experience the condom-free Atari skeleton

That's all I had growing up as my dog chewed my original Atari controllers.

 

[Ikagura Ikagura]

I'm weird but I prefer concave sticks (the padded ones) then followed by notched simply because of the thumb's adherence whereas smooth sticks are feeling like they'd accidentally make my fingers slip.

Clicky arcade sticks should be considered as a separate category simply because they're analog and better suited for arcade games like shmups and fighting games.

 

[PurpleShoes]

I have a NGPC and it's legendary. The stick on it actually feels a lot tighter than the Neo Geo CD Pad or Kidneybean stick. I only have like three games for the Pocket Color, most of the time it just gets used as a fidget toy haha. I want microswitches in everything, including D-pads.