The buttons and triggers are just as responsive as the original. The back of the Rock Candy controller is the same smooth plastic that makes up the front so the back feels different to the original's textured back. It's slightly more comfortable to hold in the hand since the weight and bulk of the battery pack and transmitter has been eliminated due to the USB interface. This is, by far, the BEST 3rd party controller I've ever used when compared to the original controller. Games played were Titanfall, GTA V, Ikaruga, Hawken, Vindictus, Metal Gear Rising, Skullgirls, and Embodiment of Scarlet Devil. This is based on a week's use on the 360 and PC. *Insert winning at Craps analogy here(never played it before).* It looked good enough, it was the right size, it uses USB, and it was relatively cheap so I decided to roll the dice. Mad Catz has been hit or miss with me, modded controllers were too pricey, and the FPS-oriented controllers all had those PlayStation style 4 button d-pads that I hate. I tried to find official wired controllers but, once again, just found knock-offs and the only physical store near where I live that sold them were charging around $50 for them. Eventually, I decided to just look for a wired controller instead. I'd often look for one of those 360 USB dongles but they were almost all cheap knock-offs that buyers would say were messing up a lot or dead on arrival.
I am doing a lot more PC gaming now thanks to a beefy XFX AMD Radeon HD 7850 I got last summer and finally finishing my backlog of 360 games. The one problem I have is it doesn't have any way to connect to my PC.
That one had the better d-pad but the ABXY buttons were all silver and many games use color coding ties to those buttons. My controller of choice is the Modern Warfare 3 Xbox 360 controller because of it's better shaped transforming d-pad paired with the regularly colored ABXY buttons as opposed to the Silver controller. While the actual shape of the d-pad leaves something to be desired, it is still solid at 2D gameplay and and excellent at 3d gaming. In my opinion, the Xbox 360 controller is easily one of the top 5 best video game controllers ever created. A near-perfect controller for the PC and Xbox 360