@kgb0515 said:
I know many of you PC loyalists prefer to play most games with a keyboard and a mouse, but I think I will be building a gaming PC over the next year as I switch over from primarily playing games on consoles. My biggest thing is that I'm simply not coordinated enough to splay my fingers across a keyboard without losing reaction time. The other day, I downloaded the ArmA 2 demo just to see if my laptop could run it, (it can...barely) and I downloaded drivers for my wired 360 controller so I could use it to play. What I ran into was a frustrating command configuration menu that made me not want to play at all. I know the 360 controller may not be ideal for most games since it has limited input, but it's what I'm used to. My question is, are most newer PC games more controller friendly, or can I expect to fiddle with input settings for a while before sitting down to actually play my games?
As others said, most newly released PC games this days ship with controller support, and even those that don't support it directly can often still be played with the right software. But there are still games you'll probably want to use a mouse & keyboard for. As said before, you'll probably find a controller will be something of a handicap in most competitive multiplayer games (FPS and RTS games spring to mind in particular) but it's perfectly workable in most any other context. Indeed, I bought mine specifically to play all of the platformers I recently rediscovered in my Steam library.
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