2nd September 2010, 11:54 PM
Eh I disagree there. I found the Dreamcast d-pad way too "wobbly" and hard to really know where I was pointing. The center part just stuck up too much. Didn't like it, not one bit. The Playstation d-pads on the other hand were always perfectly responsive to me. Are they as good as a solid Nintendo d-pad? Nope, but they're certainly better than a lot of alternatives, at least to me. The Gamecube d-pad was... too small and in a bad position. It's exactly the same as the one on the GBA (first model) near as I can tell, and there it was just fine, but on the Gamecube controller, it was more awkward. Aside from those issues though, it's still responsive and easy to tell where you're pressing. There's certainly worse, and personally I put the Dreamcast d-pad lower on the list. I just never liked that one. I will say with a little work it could have been as good as the N64 d-pad. However, that just opens up another disagreement, where I think the Gamecube analog stick is one of the very best there is, and the N64 as one of the worst.
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