@NekuSakuraba: Same problem as with the MS Sidewinder and the Logitech G-Series. If I look them up on amazon, there are as many 5 star ratings as there are 1 star ratings, mostly people complaining about the quality of the workmanship. To me buying any of those keyboards seems like gambling.
@JoeyRavn: I've got the Belkin n52te and I never really managed to use it. I really try to force me to like it, but I go back to my normal keyboard really fast. As for your normal Logitech Wave: do you mind telling me how long you've been using it and whether you think it would be good for long-term use?
@pepsimaxofborg: Really interesting keyboard. Do you mind telling me how long you've been using it and whether you think it would be good for long-term use?
Currently I am using a simple black wired keyboard from Microsoft. I've been using it for 2 years and it still works fine.
Regardless of that I am looking for a new keyboard. The one feature I've been missing throughout the years is backlit keys. Since I play games a lot, I browsed through some mid-budget gaming keyboards, but both Microsoft Sidewinder and Logitech G-Series got a decent amount of praising user reviews but also a massive amount of 1-star ratings on my local amazon. I don't know if those companies are having a little promotion war going on, but I'd rather have some user reviews which are genuine.
Long story short: Can you recommend me a good gaming keyboard with backlit keys within a budget of $80 ? If possible one which can be used for some years...
Buying one of those for my PC was one of the best purchases ever.
I agree. I've been refusing to buy a gamepad for ages, but since most modern PC games are primarily developed for a console, you need to have one if you want to enjoy a game like it is meant to be played.
It took me 8 hours on normal difficulty with every sidequest. Throughout the whole game I died once (Dying all the time and being stuck may explain the much longer playtimes mentioned in this thread). Maybe you need one hour more if you actually listen to the dialogue instead of flying over it and then skipping it. Maybe you need 2 hours more if you are not Anjali who owns everyone and everything in her path with a simple two-spell combo. Maybe you need 3 hours more if you are borderline retarded and can't solve the simple sidequests which are always near the actual main story objectives, like someone said before.
However, the game can be finished that fast because it has an excellent WoW-Addon-like quest helper. You press UP on your controller and breadcrumbs lead the way. So basically all you do is walking up to the guys with the exclamation mark and then pressing UP until the quest is finished. This way the game will be done in 8 hours.
DS III is by no means horrible. It is entertaining while it lasts and its combat feels dynamic and rewarding, but people who keep yelling that this game will take significantly longer than 8 hours for a first (and probably only) playthrough are either unable to cope with the difficulty (lol?) or simply misleading interested buyers of the game.
So I played DS III on PC with keyboard and mouse and it was horrible. From click-intensive unintuitive movement to the inability to target and dumb key-mapping in general - this game is a total mess. Impossible to have fun if you feel like doing what you want to do is a bigger challenge than the actual combat. 0 / 5 stars for controls that are so beyond bad, that you can't even imagine it if you don't experience them yourself.
Today I got an Xbox 360 controller for my PC... and guess what? This game is entertaining. I would say 3 / 5 stars, similar to Torchlight in quality and replayability.
Long story short: if you plan to play DS III only do so if you own a gamepad. This game is not great, but neither is it horrible if you own the right accessories.
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