It felt a bit small to me personally, but overall I thought it was a very good controller, but some 3rd party studios didn't know how to use it properly.
Yeah, I thought It was a great controller in design, way better than the N64s. The button placement was perfect, everything was very close to your fingers, but were sized and shaped in such a way that it was very easy to know you weren't pressing the wrong buttin.
Also I think teh 2 analog sticks were placed far better on the GC controller than the ps2 controlle. It just felt a lot more natural to me.
I liked both of them,it also depende on what type of game you were playing as well.I know one thing both the ps2 and the gamecube controller were better than those Airflow controllers.
At first when I played it over at my cousin's house, it felt a little weird at first, but then when I bought one of my favorite games of all time, namely Sonic Adventure 2: Battle, it took me a few hours to get used to it.
I owned a PS2 a couple of years before that, and got used to that controller.
I currently own Gamecube, Wii, Xbox360. Thinking about a PS3, though.
Yeah I liked it, it didn't take long to get used to and like a lot of people have said felt natural, I like the placement of the sticks on it and the Xboxs, I don't care for the PS2s placement o 'em
My only complaint with it was that the C-Stick was a little small, and yellow. I know the colour is a cosmetic thing and doesn't apply practically, but I still feel it made it seem like a more kiddy controller, which just didn't help the appearence of the Cube at all.
I love how it fits perfectly in my hands. I love the placement of the buttons and analog sticks, and I love how the R and L buttons had grooves in them so your fingers fit nicely in them as well. My only complaint is the D-Pad. WAYYYY too small and it was horrible to use when playing Mortal Kombat Deadly Alliance.
MY friend has 8GC controllers. Only 3 of them are good. His Wave bird, normal orange Nintendo controller, and a non Nintendo controller. The rest is 2 Nintendo controllers and none Nintendo. If you ask me the controllers fail very often or work randomly. Sometimes we would be playing MEL and one controller would work right the other not. We even had trouble with the wave bird sometimes. It's also not very responsive. O ya but when we play MEL the bad controllers for some reason always get stuck pointing upwards on the analog stick.
MY friend has 8GC controllers. Only 3 of them are good. His Wave bird, normal orange Nintendo controller, and a non Nintendo controller. The rest is 2 Nintendo controllers and none Nintendo. If you ask me the controllers fail very often or work randomly. Sometimes we would be playing MEL and one controller would work right the other not. We even had trouble with the wave bird sometimes. It's also not very responsive. O ya but when we play MEL the bad controllers for some reason always get stuck pointing upwards on the analog stick.
zaku101
AGREED. The GC controllers suck. The design is good,but the actual hardware was so unpredictable and failed so often that it just wasn't worth it. I stopped playing my GC for about a year after my 5th controller failed. I recently got a 6th, and after about 3 weeks it has started to fail every so often, too. Luckily I still have the warranty on that one, so I can get it replaced when I get home from school this semester. The failures were most commonly analog related; I think the sticks were just too sensitive or something; the calibration would get thrown off so easily. I had a couple button failures on one of mine as well, but it was a cheap non-Nintendo controller, so I wasn't expecting that much in terms of performance. Anyway, yeah--they suck.
MY friend has 8GC controllers. Only 3 of them are good. His Wave bird, normal orange Nintendo controller, and a non Nintendo controller. The rest is 2 Nintendo controllers and none Nintendo. If you ask me the controllers fail very often or work randomly. Sometimes we would be playing MEL and one controller would work right the other not. We even had trouble with the wave bird sometimes. It's also not very responsive. O ya but when we play MEL the bad controllers for some reason always get stuck pointing upwards on the analog stick.
lambonius
AGREED. The GC controllers suck. The design is good,but the actual hardware was so unpredictable and failed so often that it just wasn't worth it. I stopped playing my GC for about a year after my 5th controller failed. I recently got a 6th, and after about 3 weeks it has started to fail every so often, too. Luckily I still have the warranty on that one, so I can get it replaced when I get home from school this semester. The failures were most commonly analog related; I think the sticks were just too sensitive or something; the calibration would get thrown off so easily. I had a couple button failures on one of mine as well, but it was a cheap non-Nintendo controller, so I wasn't expecting that much in terms of performance. Anyway, yeah--they suck.
Well I had only one gamecube controller for like the four years that I was using it and it never broke,the only gc controller that I had that sucked I think it was a pelican controller it broke in a heartbeat.
MY friend has 8GC controllers. Only 3 of them are good. His Wave bird, normal orange Nintendo controller, and a non Nintendo controller. The rest is 2 Nintendo controllers and none Nintendo. If you ask me the controllers fail very often or work randomly. Sometimes we would be playing MEL and one controller would work right the other not. We even had trouble with the wave bird sometimes. It's also not very responsive. O ya but when we play MEL the bad controllers for some reason always get stuck pointing upwards on the analog stick.
K1LLR3175
AGREED. The GC controllers suck. The design is good,but the actual hardware was so unpredictable and failed so often that it just wasn't worth it. I stopped playing my GC for about a year after my 5th controller failed. I recently got a 6th, and after about 3 weeks it has started to fail every so often, too. Luckily I still have the warranty on that one, so I can get it replaced when I get home from school this semester. The failures were most commonly analog related; I think the sticks were just too sensitive or something; the calibration would get thrown off so easily. I had a couple button failures on one of mine as well, but it was a cheap non-Nintendo controller, so I wasn't expecting that much in terms of performance. Anyway, yeah--they suck.
Well I had only one gamecube controller for like the four years that I was using it and it never broke,the only gc controller that I had that sucked I think it was a pelican controller it broke in a heartbeat.
ive had my gc controller sence 2002 or 2003 and never had any problems with it
It was alright. It really was not made for sports, racing or FPS games, even fighting games it was somewhat weak for, but it did excel in advernture games.
I can play it so well. If I play fighting game (Capcom vs SNK 2 EO), then I use Hori SNES Pad, and Hori Arcade Stick. I am really happy with Gamecube controller.
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