I use the controller on my PC for thins like side scrollers. Rogue Legacy is one I've been playing a lot lately for example. And having a d-pad that occasionally decides you pressed a direction you didn't intend because it's a useless piece of trout is extremely frustrating. Anyone using this controller to play things like FPS on an actual 360 are doing it wrong to begin with.Originally Posted by NorthernChaosGod
The 360 controller is the best console controller ever. Complaints about the D-pad can go to hell where they belong because you use the D-pad for stupid things like switching grenades or something; fighters are played on fight sticks.
And in the absence of spending $70+ for an arcade stick, people should have a good d-pad to use for fighting games since analogue sticks don't cut it. And if you think a d-pad can't do the job just fine then I can't take your opinion on the matter seriously since things like the Sega Saturn d-pad and the d-pads on Mad Catz Street Fighter game pads set the bloody standard for d-pads so good they're almost on par with a good arcade stick. And for half the price.
I have many problems with the Gamecube controller. It was comfortable to hold, the triggers were nice, and the big main button wasn't a terrible idea, and that's about all of the good I can say about it.
The analog stick was all right, but the C-stick was an abomination. The face buttons were too hard and uncomfortable, every button that wasn't the A button were oddly shaped and positioned, the Z button was such a stupid vestige of the N64 controller that if they weren't going to change the ergonomics to make it useful then it shouldn't have been there at all, and the D-pad was too small and in the worst position I could imagine for it that isn't the other side of the controller. It was barely useable, and to this day I still don't get why companies think a d-pad in that position is a good thing. They might as well remove it for how uncomfortable it is.
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