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QOTW: What peripheral let you down the most?

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Words: Tyler Wilde, GamesRadar US

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dameyn - 3 months 8 hours ago

once i bought donkey bongos seeing adverts and gameplay and being only like 10 at the time i thought theyd be fun but after i played them for 2 minutes i felt like stabbing those drums with a knife for taking 2 minutes of my life away

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MrJamTistaMarmalade - 3 months 8 hours ago

The Wii Fit. I didn't really want it, but my family bought it me because I'm overweight. I came around to the idea of exercising whilst gaming I have visions of becoming a healthy muscle bound mad man. Turns out I was too overweight to even use the board.

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wrapdump - 3 months 8 hours ago

It would have to be the PS3 controller, and to a lesser extent the PS2 controller, and to an even lesser extent the PS1 controller. Oh wait who am I kidding? THEY'RE ALL THE SAME RUBBISH CONTROLLER! The PS3 iteration is just the most disgusting because they STILL havn't changed it after 15 YEARS. The shape is terrible, the sticks are rubbish, and the triggers are useless

I would have loved to see the reaction at Sony when people told them the boomerang controller blew, "Oh CHRIST! What have we got left?! Bollocks to it, get a ps1 controller, they'll never know!

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2muchGuitarHero - 3 months 7 hours ago

the wii remote, my wii came on the first day it was released, I played wii sports for about half an hour, acciendently dropped the wiimote on the (extra padded) carpet, and it wouldn't work again. So I was stuck with an unplayable nintendo wii for 2 weeks >:( (now I haven't even played it for a year and a half)

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GamerTagsSuck - 3 months 4 hours ago

Would you believe the power glove? That thing was hard to get too.

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oryandymackie - 3 months 4 hours ago

The Resident Evil chainsaw periph.
Although it's a good looking piece of Japanese plastic and actually, it does work as well as a PS2 controller, after using it non-stop it becomes so heavy that my laughably soft spine bent into an interesting shape. I use it as punishment if I fail a mission repeatedly, or when my temperamental DualShock PS2 controller's R2 (or, now L2) jams.

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oryandymackie - 3 months 4 hours ago

And also the EyeToy. While not stupid enough to buy it (this was at an age when I was still running into walls), I played it and watched in wonder as my visual representative, of his own accord, began to complete all missions, alone, with no AI help. Twas a miracle.

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slambert215 - 3 months 3 hours ago

The DK Bongos were just stupid.

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CARLINNIT - 3 months 1 hour ago

The red drum on Guitar Hero world tour. And also several madcatz/3rd party controllers. (even though I always gave that one to a friend, because they're always dodgy)

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Supermanoh - 3 months 1 hour ago

... every instrument in a rythm game. I never personally buy them, but my friends continue to shell out $60 dollars for a game and more every time a new instrument comes out. On the old guitars, with an accelerometer for star power, they broke after completing the game. The drums make more noise that the TV at full volume and you can hear them through your headset. Speaking of which, why buy a microphone when you have a HEADSET?! Guitar Hero/Rock Band are the bane of my existance.

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Trcissist - 3 months 10 minutes ago

Im gonna have to say the computer mouse, that thing is a joke. Who even uses them any more?

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adolf625 - 2 months 29 days ago

Everything that has told me I am either fat or have the physical fitness of a 70 year old, so basically anything that has come out on the wii. Like Seth Rogen said in funny people, it is the ultimate betrayal when videogames call us fat, especially when they are what made us this way.

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Pocotron - 2 months 29 days ago

The Internet

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Samuel71 - 2 months 29 days ago

Drool? Over a peripheral?

What do you think I am, a casual gamer?

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foxhound - 2 months 29 days ago

wii mote yes nintendo i would like 1:1 movement sensing thanks, oh wait it just senses being moved vaugely in a direction. oh cool its gonnna get 1:1 sensitivty for another 50 euro thanks nintendo

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Csheroe - 2 months 29 days ago

Balance Board. I didn't fucking use that thing! It told me I was fat and that was the end. Damn Nintendo to hell.

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ilike2pwn - 2 months 29 days ago

lol the wu-tang gang controller, so corny and clunky. The Game Boy Printer never worked.

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secretsearcher - 2 months 29 days ago

I don't even know what they are called, but my parents got me these special Wii Sprots peripherals for Christmas. They didn't even do anything, you just put the wii mote in them so it looked like a tennis raquet, golf club, etc. Stupidest idea ever. I haven't even opened the package yet, because it was so pointless. And besides, nobody cares that much about Wii Sports. Wii Sports is just what you pull out at the party when there's nothing left to do but eat chips and play spin the bottle, and you are stuck next to the fugly kid.

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secretsearcher - 2 months 29 days ago

And also, those lightsaber peripherals for Star Wars Unleashed. I thought it would be cool to play using the lightsaber, and that my character would copy my moves exactly and totally own all comers. But the reality of the thing is that all those lightsaber attachments did was make it harder to use the controls, and make my wrist hurt like a b**** for a while afterwards. The force is not with those worthless sabers.

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