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The best (and worst) video game controller [The Resties]

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The Besties

Leisure, Video Games

4.95.1K Ratings

🗓️ 5 April 2022

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Is the Gamecube controller brilliant or busted? The Resties rank the past 35 years of video game controllers in this fever dream of an episode. Then, the duo talks about NORCO, a new point-and-click adventure game set in a distant future Louisiana. Also, Speed Racer!

Transcript

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0:00.0

My name is Christopher Thomas Blant.

0:10.9

My name is Ross Frustick.

0:12.2

And welcome to the resties where the rest of the best discuss the best of the rest.

0:18.3

I flipped it this time.

0:19.9

Yeah, someone suggested that on Twitter.

0:22.4

Someone just said, accurate.

0:24.4

Yeah, I, it would imply that I've thought about it more than a half a second.

0:29.5

To say what, which one is more accurate.

0:31.8

So I will take Twitter's word for it because I'm sure they've thought about it longer

0:35.5

than I have.

0:36.5

There has been a great deal of feedback.

0:38.8

Here I actually have a thing that I want to get into today because we're going to talk

0:41.7

about two things today.

0:43.2

So the listener knows right off the top.

0:45.2

We're going to talk about a new game called Norco, which we'll talk about in the back

0:50.8

half of the show.

0:52.3

And it has like kind of Kentucky root zero vibes, but I think of a very different game.

0:57.1

I think it's going to be very popular.

0:59.9

But in the first half, we're going to talk about the perfect, the perfect, the definitive

1:05.6

video game controller tier list.

1:08.4

We're going to rank them S through ABC and D. We're going to tell you the best controller.

1:15.1

Can you think of the best controller?

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