Grab any broken controllers and start playing any game. What broken controller and game will give you the greatest challenges?

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A Reddit user, dave_the_stu , posted his sadness by explaining his situation: Got a Xbox One controller with a missing L button, caused by his pet pulling the button apart from the controller and stowed it away somewhere.

Loverboy21 suggested to dave_the_stu to start playing Dark Souls 3 No-Blocking Challenge run.

This thread is inspired by the broken controller and the comment itself.

Post whatever broken controller you know of, like a missing button, a Joycon controller with R-stick drifting randomly, or a Sega Genesis with X, Y and Z buttons mushy. Then using that broken controller, try to play a game you know of that will make the original game MUCH MORE challenging than it is.

Game Difficulty can be challengingly easy, or maddening difficult.

Got any suggestions?

 

[Lant_War]

Mario but there's a 10% chance any button press won't work.

 

[Deadpool_X]

Tetris on NES with broken d-pad

 

[RoboitoAM]

Hey, this was my and my RB broken off in Dark Souls 3 until I fixed the button

 

[Rocketjay]

Competitive Smash Melee with a broken analog stick is completely impossible.

 

[Starlatine]

Fallout 3/NV/4 without the button used for opening the pipboy

good luck!
(and yes i know there are challenge runs for this, watched some even)

 

[DrFunk]

Doom, but the WASD keys are unresponsive or broken

 

[Sheng Long]

Played SF2 on Snes once with a dpad that wouldn't hit diagonal lowers so, you couldn't crouch block . It was maddening. But it was sort of like the arcades with broken sticks lol

 

[trugs26]

Mario with no Sprint button. It'd be so boring that it's a challenge to play.

 

[Ghost Slayer]

Tales of Vesperia with Joy con drift. Imagine trying to do combo and guard cancel with that :(

 

[TMC]

Skate with a drifting right analog stick.

 

[sinny]

call of duty advance warfare with a keyboard without an F key.

 

[Keyouta]

A regular Nintendo Switch Pro controller and a Tetris game.

 

[Deleted member 4532]

Pokémon is kinda hard to play with the joy-con drift. Select a move and in the split-second you press a, the controller drifts to another.

 

[Mass Effect]

Tales of Vesperia with Joy con drift. Imagine trying to do combo and guard cancel with that :(

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SHINING DRAGON SWARM
SHINING DRAGON SWARM
SHINING DRAGON SWARM

please make it stop :(

 

[xXJonoXx]

Any modern GTA game without X or A on consoles.

 

[TigerBrownie]

I tried replaying KH2 on my PS2 with a controller that had broken L1/L2 and R1/R2 buttons. I got to the Tron light cycle minigame and got stuck because I couldn't change direction.

 

[banter]

I played most of destiny 2 with a randomly drifting right stick. It was really f'n annoying but i got through it 😂🤣.

 

[DFG]

Sekiro (PS4) with a broken L1. Hmm good luck lol

 

[Lumination]

Most VN without the A button.

 

[Ramathevoice]

Tried playing Hollow Knight with a controller where pressing "down" on the d-pad would work about 50% of the time. Wasn't pleasant.

 

[TheBiInBilingual]

Tried playing Hollow Knight with a controller where pressing "down" on the d-pad would work about 50% of the time. Wasn't pleasant.

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I want to suggest Hollow Knight without the Square (PlayStation) X (Xbox) or Y (Switch) button not working. Literally impossible.

 

[fanboi]

Dark Souls where the B button don't work.

 

[Mantrox]

Play Call of Duty but you can't fire a shot.

 

[Chainsawkitten]

Mario 64 no A button. It might be possible in a parallel universe.

 

[Deleted member 10726]

Mario 64 no A button. It might be possible in a parallel universe.

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Pannen actually has a video about the remaining A presses, since even PU movement still has limitations and thus can't solve everything.

 

[Vex]

I have a first generation PS4 controller that has the dreaded R2 glitch. So needless to say I lost a lot of online races (gtav online racing, the crew races, etc etc) because you literally can't tell until it is too late. You just think you're driving bad and everyone else just keeps passing you.

It wasn't until I checked the trigger test in ds4windows on PC where I noticed I wasnt getting a full trigger press. Went out and immediately bought a newer controller (2nd gen) and started destroying people.

It was like I released a limiter and emerged from the hyperbolic time chamber.

 

[Booya_base]

We've actually been doing this - my Saturn 6 player adapter is on the blink so during games of death tank, very occasionally it'll switch u who is controllling each tank! Super fun but you can't rely on winning by doing well :)

 

[ramenline]

Tales of Vesperia with Joy con drift. Imagine trying to do combo and guard cancel with that :(

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omg the drift is exactly why I stopped playing. i got a new pair since then, but haven't gone back.

 

[Bobbetybob]

Play Call of Duty but you can't fire a shot.

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Pretty doable until you get an on rails turret section to be fair, on easier difficulties it's easy to knife everything and grenades/equipment help too. All the early COD games had respawning enemies anyway so you were just pushing up to a trigger point that would let the mission move on, you could probably run past a surprising amount of enemies to get through most levels

 

[Piccoro]

Tetris on NES with broken d-pad

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Or just play Tetris 99 on the Switch with the Pro controller. Same effect

 

[T Rex]

Death Stranding with a Dualshock 4 whose shoulder triggers register a right analog stick movement when they are held. The camera spins in a circle around Norman Reedus whenever L2 & R2 are held to balance (which is often). This was my experience for the 10 hours I played this week :(

 

[BigHatPaul]

Mega Man X. I'd be thrilled to count the deaths on Chill Penguin.

 

[FormatCompatible]

Nintendo 64 controller (specifically the analog stick) and most 3d games. From experience there was a time mine was basically broken and I did not have the money to fix it, felt like torture trying to play anything.

 

[zma1013]

God of War 3 but the circle button is stuck repeating inputs.

 

[inspectah]

A regular Nintendo Switch Pro controller and a Tetris game.

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[Musubi]

A regular Nintendo Switch Pro controller and a Tetris game.

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For real. I have no idea how people are so good at Tetris 99. I feel so handicapped by the controls on the switch.

 

[Ravelle]

A broken analogue stick and the UFC games, say good bye to grapples and escapes.

 

[Transistor]

A regular Nintendo Switch Pro controller and a Tetris game.

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Savage, but true.

 

[ShapeGSX]

Skyward Sword with a Wii controller.

That's it. Doesn't need to be broken. Just try and finish it.

 

[AmirMoosavi]

I busted R triggers on my two Dreamcast controllers trying to do Crazy Dashes and Limit Cuts in Crazy Taxi. One got super loose while the other wouldn't depress fully.

I didn't get another controller until trying to beat the motorcycle part in Shenmue and failing repeatedly because I couldn't go full speed as I was using the controller where the trigger didn't depress fully.

The controllers were Japanese models which I hear were flimsier, and I never personally had this issue with Euro controllers.

 

[Unicorn]

Competitive Smash Melee with a broken analog stick is completely impossible.

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How about no jump button. You have to use stick jump only.

 

[SpoonyBob]

Steel Batallion and that huge honkin' mech controller?

 

[Coinspinner]

No broken controllers, but my DS-Lite has broken shoulder buttons and parts of the touch screen don't work. I tried playing an Ace Attorney game on it and literally could not make progress.

 

[pochi]

Can't even start a game with a broken O button lmao.

 

[Rotobit]

Super Monkey Ball with any sort of analog drift sounds like a nightmare

 

[delete12345]

Wow, that's crazy how much we truly rely on single button actions in regular gameplay.

 

[GlitchyDegree]

I've been using a PS3 controller with busted analog sticks for a few years now. For most games including shooters I was able to adapt. But trying to play Skate with screwed up sticks was literally impossible. I managed to do a few of the early goals but after beating the almost impossible to fail ones I couldn't get much further.

 

[NeoGold123]

The yoga mission on GTAV with a DS4 with stick issues. I had to buy a new controller just to get past it.

 

[MasterOfPuppets]

Zelda II and Power Glove.