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6 Xbox One Controller Designs To Troll Your Friends With
This year during E3, Microsoft launched a new website that allows players to design their own Xbox One controllers, complete with unique color schemes and custom laser engraving. While countless gamers are undoubtedly using the app to create some awesome-looking controllers, I figured I'd take a different approach. Here are six awful Xbox One controller designs that you can use to troll your friends.
Note: The Xbox Design Lab does not save custom laser engravings to controller templates, so you will have to manually add them yourself if you decide to purchase one of these designs. But really, don't purchase them.
Design #1: The Plain
Jane
The Plain Jane is the clear choice for the professional
troll – after all, what better way to negate the thoughtful gift of designing
and giving your friend a customized controller than making it look like an
exact copy of the normal Xbox One controller? Your best bud will be thrilled to
know you shelled out nearly twice the price of a normal controller to tell them
how boring they are – a message driven home by the "YOU ARE BORING" laser
engraving. Stylish!
Design #2: The Casper
Another pseudo-protest design, the Casper forgoes the design
lab's 8 million potential color combinations for no color whatsoever. Wringing
every drop of personality from the controller makes it the perfect gift for the
charisma-deprived and humorless friend – we're guessing the understated "boo"
won't get a laugh. From them, anyway.
Design #3: Baby Blue
Take your competitive pal down a notch or two with the Awww-inducing Baby Blue, a bright bundle
of joy delivered to your friend's doorstop courtesy of the neighborhood stork.
Even if they can get over the sickeningly sweet color scheme, the proud "Mommy's
Big Boy!" branding will ensure this gift stays in the closet during multiplayer
get-togethers.
Design #4: The Cube
If you've got a friend who still refuses to admit how
god-awful the GameCube controller was, The Cube is sure to jog their memory. If
you're thinking this one actually looks pretty cool, you're not wrong – but that's
where the "G.C. Boy 4 Life!" engraving comes in. Even the biggest GameCube apologist will have a tough time explaining that one.
Design #5: The Marge
Full disclosure: This design was a total accident – I was
just trying to make the ugliest design I possibly could, and somehow it ended
up looking like a Picasso portrait of Marge Simpson. The pink analogue sticks
ensure that whatever feelings your friend harbors for the Simpson's grumbling
mother figure, their gaming sessions with The Marge are going to be uncomfortable . Oh, Homie,
indeed.
Design #6: The Clown
Car
My second attempt at creating the ugliest color scheme
possible ended up being my last – nothing is going to top this puke-rainbow of
discordant colors. If you really want to troll your friend, forgo the "HOT
GARBAGE" engraving and give them the Clown Car in earnest. Chances are they'll feel
so sorry for your lack of taste that they'll start letting you win.
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