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    25 days ago

    Duke? Is that the Xbox 1 pad? Because I actually loved that. It’s a chunker but was very comfortable for my larger hands. Reminded me a lot about the Dreamcast gamepads.

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      25 days ago

      Yeah, that’s the one. The Original Xbox Duke and the X360 controller are the GOATs imo. The Xbox One controller is also fairly decent but it took a while to get used to it.

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        25 days ago

        The 360 & One pad look nearly the same to me in regards to their form. I have a 360 one still and I hate it because the dpad is the absolute worst garbage. It’s inaccurate as hell and gets tiring real quick. Really struggled with that in CrossCode. I also hate how only the Chinese pads seem to have hall sensors.

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          Fair enough, but the dpad on the 360 one was an improvement compared to the one from the Duke.

          I was mostly ranking them in regards to general ergonomics. The Xbox One controller just feels more “slippery”, the 360 had a better feel to it, probably because the handles were more rounded.

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            25 days ago

            I only used the Duke on the actual Xbox, while I use my current pad on my PC - or at least very rarely. There’s generally more games on the PC where I can make use of the dpad (retro & indie gaming). Never really had to use it on the Xbox back then.