PC Gaming With a Controller

This thread has really surprised me. It was only a few years if you even mentioned you played with a controller you would be shunned haha!

Unless as people have said you are playing competitive FPS then controller all the way! Most games are designed for controller first anyway plus I play on the sofa with TV anyway!
 
GTA
Tomb Raider style games
Resident Evil (and similar games)
Racing games
Fighting games

All work best relaxing on the sofa with a controller (have both PS4 and Xbox One X controllers)

I use KB & Mouse for most games, especially FPS games, World of Tanks and any other game I'd rather play in ultra-wide instead of on the sofa in front of the TV
 
I still use an ancient Xbox 360 controller with the MS USB wireless adapter. I've got a steam controller - but found it a bit meh.

Don't use the controller for first person shooters - but it's fine for racing games, space games ect where a kb/mouse don't add anything
 
Keyboard & mouse for everything except Elite: Dangerous and driving games. That said, even using an XBox controller for Elite: Dangerous I still use both the keyboard and mouse in that game too.
 
I used a controller for driving in GTA.
And Fall Guys


The first game to fully use it is Jedi Fallen Order - but I still feel a bit clunky as I have not used a controller full time since the Playstation One!

With Jedi Fallen Order I feel maybe do I need a better controller? For feeling more in control?
The elite X box thing is what 120 150 bucks!!! really!!?!
 
seanyc5 said:
This thread has really surprised me. It was only a few years if you even mentioned you played with a controller you would be shunned haha!

Unless as people have said you are playing competitive FPS then controller all the way! Most games are designed for controller first anyway plus I play on the sofa with TV anyway!
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Even then look at Ayden on warzone or nicewigg on apex. Utterly insane and I think wigg is rank 9-10 pred on apex with a controller on pc. Now I guess you could call them outliers but theres quite a few similar playing at 100k tournaments for both games with pad now and the complaining very much comes from the mouse and keyboard players at that level which is a turn for the books. It's gonna be game specific - they need a level of auto aim and I presume both those games have a small amount of rotational snap on ads as well as slow down down. But five years ago there's no way I'd have thought people would be playing at the very top using controller Vs mouse.

Any way I've been crap with a controller for years so km for me for everything!
 
I've never owned a console so in general I find them very difficult, however I do play stardew valley with my daughter and we play on the sofa with controllers using steam link. I played a bit of subnautica using the controller and it was fine other than I found it difficult catching fish. Another game I'm thinking of trying is valheim (if they support controllers)
 
FPS with controller... urgh. no. Even some third person games that require a lot of aiming are a poor experience with a controller.

The inability to modulate your speed using a keyboard is a problem for sure, but that's game design. It only normally presents itself as a problem with a console port to PC, where walking is required in some circumstances.

'Casual' Driving games, platform games etc... sure, controller all the way.
 
Well that’s a bit crap. A 2015 game like Battlefield Hardline supports an Xbox controller but displays keyboard controls instead so you have to guess which button does what. I’m really surprised by that one with it not being that old.
 
There are so many games. With Microsoft pushing there own controllers it's actually made it a really good option. I'd say pretty much anything other than FPS.

Games like Batman Series, Skyrim, Rocket League, No Mans Sky, GTA V, Observer, etc. are all really good via gamepad.


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The funny thing is many early personal computers were often synonymous with controllers/joysticks, they'd often come as part of a package deal with the computer, as a young kid I played many games on Spectrum and C64 using joysticks. This is a time when you wouldn't get a mouse as standard and mouse use was far less common than controller use for home entertainment users.

It was only the IBM PC compatibles mostly intended for business and similar that didn't really much focus on controllers, I think that's where a lot of PC controller reticence stems from.

There were also no really good controller standards on PC except Sidewinder that wasn't great until the Xbox 360 came out and gave PC gaming a great and more importantly standardised controller format.

Now the home of the greatest and most varied controller games library is on PC once again, with 3 console generations worth of games that can be played with controller on Steam, plus many earlier types of games with it as standard as well, there's more controller based game currently playable on PC than any console has ever had.
 
Started playing AC Valhalla this week and thought I would try and start the game with controller but I just couldn't get the feel for it. Since when where the main strike buttons assigned to the right shoulder and right trigger buttons!? Urgh! Had to switch back to m & kb. Much more comfortable to to use the left mouse button for main strike and shift + left mouse button for heavy strike.
 
Q, A, O, P and Space for me...

Unless I'm playing a modern AAA game that's not an FPS, then it's got to be a controller, surely?!

We have to remember that most of the games are optimised for console play these days and with that, the controller as the input device.
 
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