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Cheap/Great PC Controller
Edgar J.
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Since my PS3 got YLOD and now not planning to buy PS4 or XOne, I've been playing some PC games lately, but in the FPS I don't like the feel of Keyboards, I tried to use the PS3 with driver etc is a pain to setup and I'vent been successful, also people told me to buy a Xbox controller but I like more the PS control button setup. I was looking at this controller http://www.amazon.com/dp/B003VAHYQY but I'm open for suggestions.
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I have more or less exactly the same Logitech controller (it's a different model number, but the build & layout are exactly the same).
It's what I would call 'adequate'. The sticks aren't the most responsive things in the world (and are just slightly off-center in their neutral position, but that's probably just my individual pad), the face buttons occasionally stick & the D-pad will sometimes pinch your finger (these are defects with the engineering, not things just isolated to my pad). Shoulder buttons are fine.
It works well for platforming & action RPGs, works well for 3rd person action games and probably works well with FPS (haven't tried it; I'm an FPS KBAM guy).
It is pretty bad for fighting games, or any other game that wants you to hit 2 of the face buttons simultaneously. The inputs aren't synced properly for this, so you have to press the buttons with a really awkward timing for it to behave as though you hit both at once.
My experience has been half-assed enough that I wouldn't recommend the pad, but if you can get it cheap, it's certainly serviceable.
The Dualshock 4 controller has PC support right out of the box (although most games will require you to run a third party program that tricks them into thinking you're using a 360 pad).
This is how set up goes for 95% of PC games:
It's magic and completely worth the extra $10 it will cost you over a generic pad.
The reason I went with logitech over the xbox one is that the logitech one lets you switch between dinput and xinput if you happen to play older games.
I'd have said the same if he hadn't said he wanted something cheap. He's likely to find a much better deal on a 360 controller.
well no problems until my PS3 controller got lost in my move.
But Alas.
This.
Plus as an alternative I really suggest given the keyboard+mouse combo another chance. Once you get the hang of it you'll find that FPS games is really played much better with that combo, so much so that it's a big reason to why there aren't any console+PC titles where one can play cross platform.