I really like the concave analog sticks on that controller. The convex DualShock ones get slippery as hell once the controller is a few years old.

The analog face buttons of the DualShock 2 are cool in concept but always made me press too hard out of fear of not getting up to full speed or whatever in games that used face buttons for acceleration (mostly Burnout 3 and Revenge for me) https://emulation.gametechwiki.com/index.php/List_of_console...

> analog face buttons of the DualShock 2 are cool in concept but always made me press too hard

The amount of hand pain this one feature all those years ago has caused.

To this day I find my self having to loosen my grip and press the face buttons lighter because it makes no difference now.

(Though PS5 has added a whole new level of hand ache with adaptive trigger resistance).

I love the adaptive triggers. I have all the consoles and a gaming PC and will buy games on PS5 because of them. I think it adds an interesting tactile element that also improves playability.

I love them as a feature, I think they're really cool, but I find some games like Horizon (with the Bow)... I'm failing to think of others at the moment as I haven't played in a while... cause ache after a relatively short gaming session.

Maybe I just need to look into reducing the "resistance" of them in the settings.

Same with the original Sixaxis PS3 controller without rumble! I liked that lightweight controller a lot!

It was also short lived and replaced with the PS3’s version with rumble included – they were saying it’s because of a patent dispute.