The most useless button in a game.

[G-X]

The Back button on Xbox 360. Never pressed it once.

Uhm, most useless button, eh?
Other than blinking in Alone in the Dark, I'd say the back button on the 360 controller, no idea what that does.

You guys never played Bioshock eh? The back button is used to open the map screen.

Really? Shit. Jesus motherfucking Christ. Maybe if the game had fucking TOLD me that, I wouldn't have gotten stuck within the first twelve minutes, mentally filed the game under "don't even bother," and returned it to GameStop the next year for five dollars.

Thanks a lot, whoever developed BioShock.

 

[SimuLord]

The select button on the PS2 DualShock controller served very little useful purpose, and how many games made after about 2003 let you use the "analog" button to turn off the analog controls?

 

[Kwaren]

The Select Button on PS2.

It was rare that any game ever gave it a purpose.

Inventory in Silent Hill

Your reminded me! L3 and R3 on ps2... yeah they exist.

In gta 3 R3 was used to honk the horn. There was one mission you had to use it. It took me forever to figure out where it was when the game told me to press it.

 

[C0RV4L0U5]

Probably any button in a fighting game that taunts, I'll taunt the guy once I've killed him.

the only usefull time was in war of the monsters you go into super saian or what ever where your hands glow orange and silver and you are invincible.

Dude that was a great game but so freaking hard untill you knew what you were doing.
anyway on subject i have to go for the insert key

 

[rastlin1985]

F1-F12? maybes i just have stubby hands... can't think of a game where i've used them, just too far away... though im sure there's several where they're default bound to something or other

 

[General Ken8]

The Back button on Xbox 360. Never pressed it once.

Have you ever played TF2?
You should try it, it uses the back button

But for me the analog button on the PS2 controller
never quite knew what it did

 

[twcblaze]

any button in infamous that wasn't the rockets, sniping, the insane lightning storm move, or the sissy basic lightning bolt... or maybe I just over-used the sissy lightning bolt... nothing quite beats being an electric mini-gun

 

[xXGeckoXx]

The Back button on Xbox 360. Never pressed it once.

Fallout 3 used it for the wait feature. Play fallout 3 great game.

 

[Sassafrass]

The Back button on Xbox 360. Never pressed it once.

Fallout 3 used it for the wait feature. Play fallout 3 great game.

Oh yeah. Forgot about the wait feature in Fallout 3. But I don't really use it often anyway.

 

[Pegghead]

I had a third party xbox controller back in the day, it had a turbo button. Not once did I ever use that, or need to use it.

 

[HellsingerAngel]

Taunt Button: BlazBlue combos for Taokaka. I really wish I was kidding, but some of her best juggles include her shadowboxxing taunt.

D-Pad N64: Aside from lefty modes where the c-buttons and d-pad exchange use? Mischief Makers allowed movement only through the d-pad. The entire game didn't use the control stick.

Select: Usually used for your map. Mass Effect uses it for Grenades. Fallout 3 for time skip. MUA2 uses it to level up while everyone else fights stuff. Pretty useful little button.

Break Key: Use it to pause! Durr!

Most Useless Button Ever?: C Button for The Genesis. Anything it could do, other buttons did better.

 

[Jark212]

"Press X to save her"
No...

 

[L3m0n_L1m3]

Seriously, press the flashlight button to blink(Alone in the Dark)?

Do you need to keep pressing that all through the game?

YES. Every 2 or 3 seconds, basically. It was awful.

 

[pelopelopelo]

I always liked the ability to turn on the headlights/switch from dipped to full beam on GTA4.

It's not like it was the button's only function either: you press quickly to change weapon while driving, you hold it to adjust the lights...

 

[Segadroid]

GTA2 there's one button to burp and fart.

I have that game, it was the button with the ~ on it. Tapping it rapidly makes it a hilarious optional button. Still, it's useless.

 

[Hamster at Dawn]

The Back button on Xbox 360. Never pressed it once.

EDIT: Just to let people know, I have never played Bioshock, Mass Effect or TF2.

The back button is used in loads of games to bring up the map or the stats in a multiplayer game. I can see that you could easily live without it but I find it very handy and use it all the time.

 

[Segadroid]

The Select Button on PS2.

It was rare that any game ever gave it a purpose.

Inventory in Silent Hill

Your reminded me! L3 and R3 on ps2... yeah they exist.

Ratchet and Clank 3's multiplayer used R3 or SELECT to open up the map of a level.
...
Wtf, I just realised I found the game that uses 2 useless buttons!

 

[Keepitclean]

iron sights in perfect dark zero

 

[Blanks]

The dodge button in any game i've played, real men don't dodge

 

[FallenJellyDoughnut]

The Back button on Xbox 360. Never pressed it once.

Uhm, most useless button, eh?
Other than blinking in Alone in the Dark, I'd say the back button on the 360 controller, no idea what that does.

You guys never played Bioshock eh? The back button is used to open the map screen.

And in Soul Calibur 4 you press it to play as Chuck Norris!

GOD DAMNIT PEOPLE FOR THE LAST TIME YOU CANNOT RE-CREATE CHUCK NORRIS!
*clears throat* sorry, anyway I'm gonna go with the blink button in Alone in the Dark