Your favourite joypad?

Pawnless Endgame · 19 Feb 2014 at 00:25

I just thought I'd drop a discussion on readers' favourite console joypads. I'm mainly a PC gamer, but I was brought up on the Megadrive. I liked the 6 buttons ABC and XYZ + D pad, but I was never keen on the joystick-style C sticks that were deployed after the 16-bit era.

Nowadays, if I game on the PC, I use a modified Sega Megadrive joypad. It's the same, except that it connect by USB and you can play Final Fantasy 7/8 with it. D pad, 6 buttons and 2 shoulder buttons.

Discuss :-)

Calm · 19 Feb 2014 at 00:38

360, followed by the wavebird, which i thought was awesome at the time.

K1LLSW1TCH · 19 Feb 2014 at 00:51

It's hard for me to pick an overall favourite, the original Playstation controller, the Dual Shock 2, the Dreamcast controller and the Master System control pad are ones I spent countless hours using though.

ak22 · 19 Feb 2014 at 01:25

Gamecube controller most comfortable joypad I have used, Dualshock 2 gets a close second place.

jimferno · 19 Feb 2014 at 01:38

Its a toss up between 360 controller & DS4 for me.

Bennie-Mac · 19 Feb 2014 at 02:47

DS4 craps on everything else that came before it for me. Its like it was made for my hands. Game Cube a distant second, comfort wise it was great but the horrible buttons let it down.

Transfunctioner · 19 Feb 2014 at 03:50

360 joypad first, but the original Sega Saturn joypad runs it close

ricky1981 · 19 Feb 2014 at 04:26

360 > PS4 > Dreamcast > XB1 > Wavebird/Gamecube > PS3/2/1 > Mega Drive > SNES

I hated the sticks on the PS3/2/1, the PS4 is a huge improvement but still not quite as good as the 360 controller. I can't gel with the XB1 controller due to the bumper buttons and it just feels a bit cramped (still a good controller, just not as good as the 360).

almoststew1990 · 19 Feb 2014 at 06:40

For me it is the 360 controller or DS2. The 360 controller has a great shape and triggers but on the DS2 every button is analog which was also great...

Haggisman · 19 Feb 2014 at 08:34

I'm so disappointed no one has yet mentioned the best controller ever created?!

The first one with analog controls I believe?

Mobius 1 · 19 Feb 2014 at 08:44

the nintendo 64 controller was one of the most awkward controllers ive had the displeasure of using. :eek:

for me its PS4 > Gamecube > 360

ricky1981 · 19 Feb 2014 at 09:04

Tauren said:
the nintendo 64 controller was one of the most awkward controllers ive had the displeasure of using.

Agreed, I loved the analog aspect but it was not a comfortable controller at all.

antijoke · 19 Feb 2014 at 09:14

Not just in Titanfall guise, just the Xbox One controller, I used my 360 pad the other day to download the free GWG, and it felt horrible.

Nismo · 19 Feb 2014 at 09:14

360
DS4
Original PS pad (non-analogue)

Shamikebab · 19 Feb 2014 at 09:36

Xbox One tbh, just pips the 360 pad for me.

Plainsong · 19 Feb 2014 at 09:43

For me a decent pad is one that you kind of forget you're holding. I get that from the 360 pad but I've not really had any time with the two new pads.

anticonscience said:
Not just in Titanfall guise, just the Xbox One controller, I used my 360 pad the other day to download the free GWG, and it felt horrible.

I had a go on Forza 5 in Game a while back. The XB1 controller felt a lot lighter and somehow looser than the 360 pad. But I played for literally 5 minutes only. You're saying you prefer it over the 360 one and that's really good to know. How is the pad with FPS games like BF4 and TF which I know you've played a lot of? Movement and aiming intuitive?

antijoke · 19 Feb 2014 at 10:00

Plainsong said:
I had a go on Forza 5 in Game a while back. The XB1 controller felt a lot lighter and somehow looser than the 360 pad. But I played for literally 5 minutes only. You're saying you prefer it over the 360 one and that's really good to know. How is the pad with FPS games like BF4 and TF which I know you've played a lot of? Movement and aiming intuitive?

The thumbsticks just seem so natural now after using them for so long that going back to the 360 pad those thumbsticks just seem like lumps of plastic.

The XB1 pad feels so good for FPS games, they do seem a lot tighter for aiming and movement and small precise nudges on the sticks to aim are just that.

It feels very good when paired up with a fast paced game like Titanfall with all the wall running and jumping.

Sutters · 19 Feb 2014 at 10:33

xb1 pad by far, then the 360. I pretty much despise all other pads.

Robert1986 · 19 Feb 2014 at 10:46

Feels great on the thumbs.

Plainsong · 19 Feb 2014 at 11:23

anticonscience said:
The thumbsticks just seem so natural now after using them for so long that going back to the 360 pad those thumbsticks just seem like lumps of plastic.

The XB1 pad feels so good for FPS games, they do seem a lot tighter for aiming and movement and small precise nudges on the sticks to aim are just that.

It feels very good when paired up with a fast paced game like Titanfall with all the wall running and jumping.

Good to know, thanks. I need to give it more thought on which console I get first. Titanfall may just be the tipping point.

Keep going round in circles!