Best Controller?

[GBA]

The GCN controller does it for me :)

[JustUsOwls]

As much as I love the GCN controller, the Xbox S-Type one just feels great ESPECIALLY for Halo.

[NickTheGamer]

The PS2 controller for me... Fighters and sports games are to important.

[Wh|tE gUy]

GCN, doesnt hurt my hands after extensive use

[MoN]

GameCube because with the Xbox controllers I do not like the button placements.

[Serj]

If you took away that damn Z button, the GCN controller would be perfect

[Shoxx]

Xbox Controller S. Best controller ever.

[Jaga]

well, a Z left and a Z right would make the GCN button a little better, but, or else its perfect... its directly proportioal to fit my hands perfectly... this was the only controller after the first time i played it i didn't have a sore thumb or pinky...

[Matt]

GCN is the best. The PS2 and Xbox-S are tied for 2nd best, and the original big Xbox controller sucks -- in fact, it was so bad that is why we got the Xbox-S.

[GBA]

I think the PS2 controller is better than all the Microsoft controllers.

[prime_timer]

I dig the GCN controller, but i like both the Xbox controllers.... even the big one. I hate, repeat hate the PS2 controller. it feels all small, and the stick placement feels weird. And thats how it is.... aaaccording to me aaaw :(

[Triumph]

Xbox s Type has the best of all worlds, is great for any ported games off of any system, not to small, not to big, quality crafted.

The PS2 controller feels funny, small in my hands. THe GC controller feels to cheap and awkward for A LOT of genres.

[Lovebird]

i like the xbox s controller, but it's not their standard controller, so i don't think it counts, had they released only the s from the start, it might have gotten my vote, but no dice....but i'd still pick gcn anyways

[Linque]

I, too, would have gone with the GCN. But that Z-trigger is just a pain to use. The XBox controller is good for HALO, but not much else, IMO.

Edit: One thing I must say about the XBox S. The curved in analog sticks are the best. Even with sweaty hands after intense gaming, my thunbs never slip off....unlike the C-stick.

[Monkeylord]

GCN Controller rules for me - Button and stick placement is spot on (although the DPad is a bit too dinky and low)... XBox is second - I hate those buttons... they're too slick, round and close together (even on the old brick style version). PS2 is close 3rd to the XBox.

Wonder if they'll ever make left-handed versions? I'm a righty, but I should imagine there's be a market for them.

The XBox-S Controller was brought out for the Japanese market. If you thought the original was big, imagine what the Japanese thought! The complaints poured in from the rest of the world, and so M$ released it outside of Japan too.

[Linque]

LEFT-HANDERS UNITE! Can we start a petition or something? I would LOVE a left-handed controller. But how would it work? I'm so used to controllers as they are now.

[Nintendo Survivor]

The PS2 controller is my favorite. It works with just about any game, unlike the Gamecube controller which can really stink at times, like having to use the tiny d-pad to move characters around in Deadly Alliance.

[Jaga]

I don't think controllers matter in a case of left handedness or right handedness... in an arcade some joysticks are sided to the left of buttons and others to the right, it all seems pretty comfertable, so in video game controllers i believe their is something called unihanded (like unisex is stuff thats both for men and women)

[The Laminator]

Keyboard and mouse gets my vote

[Rensa]

The buttons on the face of bother XBox controllers actually hurt for me to push down - actually, it's really only the original; the S Type is merely uncomfortable.

The PS2's handle/stick placement combined with a lack of guides (like the octagonal ones on the GCN controller) mean that I can never make my characters walk forward.

So, GCN for me. :D

[McBizzel]

I agree with Resna. Heres the rundown:
1.) Cube
2.) S-type
3.) PS/PS2
4.) XBox

I put the PS/PS2 so low because of what Rensa said about the guides as well as it has should buttons instead of triggers, I just love the triggers on the Cube and XBox, really cool for shooting games. The original XBox controller feels good in your hands, but it's layout is pretty crappy, having the black and white buttons above the abxy buttons is just crappy and they're out of the way, otherwise it might have done higher than the PS/PS2, but it's so big and ugly.

[Lovebird]

i couldn't agree more mcbizzel, that's exactly how i feel...

[Kaizoku_Kouji]

Official nintendo GCN controllers are the best. Just today I butchered my hand on a 3rd party one (the Naki Spider-Man design one!) while playing DBZ Budokai.
Then I'd say that the PS/PS2 is second, with both Xbox ones in, oh, say, seven-billionth place! I was playing Halo with that horrid S type controller and my hands went numb. Horrid shape and horrid button placement.

[Jaga]

people in my english class were talkin about how Gamecube had the best controller, then PS2, and Xbox's was the worst. I'm hitting the center of the xbox controller thinking the start button is their and a few seconds later i look down and find that its not, and its at the left. I was like what the heck is this, who puts their start button at the left, its so hard to reach it.

[King_O.F]

The Snes controller.

*looks around

uh... I mean, xbox s- controller

[Van_Fanel]

actually the Hori Digital SNES Controller is the best !!! :D :D :D

so DAMN COMFORTABLE !!! feels right in my hand for many countless hours playing my Gamecube !!! feels just like the original SNES controller too !!!

http://home.comcast.net/~polwarth1/hori-digital-controller-black.jpg

[prime_timer]

hehe that thing looks great! The S-type is definently weird in the fact that the start and back buttons are above the d-pad instead of the middle

[Fierce Deity]

Though i haven't played PS2, The X-Box just feels like a 5 Lb weight whereas GCN fits perfectly in my hands, is light weight, small and all the buttons are in perfect reach.

[Lovebird]

yepyep, perfect size, perfect weight, perfect button layout, and i can't stand the xbox controllers with the start on the side and not in the middle...

[Van_Fanel]

actually the Wavebird is much better than the regular Gamecube controller to me !!! Just like the Controller S is much better than the regular Xbox controller ;)

when i mean better, its all up to how it feels in your hands and and its button's layout !!!

[HylianKen]

Since before gamecube was released, when I only saw the first images released of the controller I thought it was great, the GCN controller(especially the wavebird) are the best...I don't really like or dislike PS2's controller but I hate X-box's controller, even though their s-type was a huge improvement...

[prime_timer]

Xbox controllers do have the start button in the middle. The S-type doesnt, but the original does. Anyways, the Wavebird is way better than the cord controller. It feels way more solid. And as for complaining about the weight of the xbox controller, nothing wrong with its weight if your strong enough to hold it up :p just kidding. but the original was quite heavy.

[Jaga]

GameCube leads all! Xbox has zilch votes!

[Adolf Disney]

Originally posted by Van_Fanel
actually the Hori Digital SNES Controller is the best !!! :D :D :D

so DAMN COMFORTABLE !!! feels right in my hand for many countless hours playing my Gamecube !!! feels just like the original SNES controller too !!!

http://home.comcast.net/~polwarth1/hori-digital-controller-black.jpg

So true, I play all my fighters with this, as well as my GBA/GB games!

The SNES controller rules all, I mean you all know where Sony got there idea for there controller right? :D

Xbox? ppphhhh..h The S-type is cool. though.

[BigBroMario]

GCN blows them all away, but if it were any controller ever made, Super NES would win. :D

[Van_Fanel]

a keyboard and an optical mouse can be view as very good controllers also !!! :D :D :D :D :D

[GBA]

Keyboard could get a bit confusing if you're playing hard core games.

[Xtreme CHRI$$]

GCN definately. I don't like the PS2s joysticks. It's not cuz of the lack of guides its just they don't feel like a joystick should. As for Xbox, button placement is the problem (and those silver and gold colored buttons that don't have names. I mean what the hell were they thinking? If they make a controller name the damn buttons for petesake). And I think the N64 cntroller is the best controller of all time, you know what that gave me a idea. *makes new thread*

[prime_timer]

I love the Gamecube one. its going to be hard to improve on the GC controller next generation... unless they do like and just keep the same crap. i think they need to get the two extra buttons (R2, R1, L2, L1, Black, White), and make it feel comftorable. the damn z button feels just odd right there. if they make two solid shoulder buttons, and two triggers on their next controller..... YAY!

[DarkKenshinX]

Undeniably the Gamecube controller. It's not too small nor is it too big. Just the right size for a game controller. That Hori Digital SNES controller for GC looks pretty good, but the problem is, is that it doesn't have any of the analog sticks. The PS2's and the XBOX's S-type controllers aren't bad, they're good too.