Controller Experiences

[Lemonray]

I personally use the batarang controller, and can confirm that it is one of the best controllers out there. It's pretty much a superior, refined 360 controller, one that's even more comfortable to hold, and the D-pad design is great, which was arguably the biggest problem with the standard controller.
And, the fact that it's a batarang makes it even better.

Recently I've also been using this one;

Which is -almost- equal to the batarang. The D-pad is about as good as the standard 360 controller's, which is to say it isn't good at all, but it mostly makes up for this by being generally very comfortable and with the addition of two buttons on the underside which can be mapped to most of the d-pad/face button functions. This critical d-pad design failure has still gotten me killed several times in Dark Souls however, mostly because aside from feeling not so great to the touch it has a habit of registering diagonals when it shouldn't.
One of my favorite features of this one is that the face buttons are flat, which to me feels more comfortable than the rounded buttons found on most controllers. The backlit analog sticks are nice too.