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Posted June 15, 2011
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Snickersnack: Beware, the 360 controller's Dpad is garbage. You'll probably want a different controller if this is an issue for you.
Boy you are not lying. I had played VF5 for awhile and thought some odd stuff was just me screwing up every now and then. Then I bought SNK's Mark of the Wolves which I have played in many incarnations and was like, "What the hell?" 2D fighters are unforgiving and I knew something was wrong then, So I looked up what people were saying on the Internet and found out it was well established that it sucks. I was then dismayed to find out the lack of any viable solutions to something that is considered to be such a resounding failure. Adapters are nigh nonexistent and "officially licensed" off brands seem to be required to be crappy wannabes just there to make the official controller look even better. (would be less suspicious if there weren't so many good PC controllers.) Personally I think its a little dickish to deliberately make it so you can't just plug a PC USB controller into a USB slot on the 360 given that it probably took more effort to make it restrictive. But then you couldn't force people to pay major coin on a property controller.

More OT, there are pad games and keyboard and mouse games. I've refused to ever let a controller in between me and a FPS. No analog stick could ever replace the precision of a mouse. Its like making out with your mom. Just because she's a girl doesn't mean its right.
Posted June 15, 2011
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CaptainGyro: if you buy a wireless controller you need an adapter.
Dead Space has horrible lag if you use a keyboard and mouse. I think there's a workaround for that to allieve some of it, but I believe it's still not as good using a controller.

I found Super Meat Boy pretty damn hard using a keyboard
I heard some people say they prefer using a controller over keyboard and mouse for The Witcher 2. I haven't played much of it so far, so I can't say which one is better.


also I agree with hedwards about psychonauts
The Dead Space problem can be completely avoided by turning off V-Sync. The same problem is visible in Dead Space 2, with the same workaround. I find it works better with the mouse than the controller after you kill V-Sync.
Posted June 16, 2011
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GhostQlyph: The Dead Space problem can be completely avoided by turning off V-Sync. The same problem is visible in Dead Space 2, with the same workaround. I find it works better with the mouse than the controller after you kill V-Sync.
yeah I know about turning off v-sync but I've read complaints from a few others saying that it still feels a little off and that they prefer the controller .
Post edited June 16, 2011 by CaptainGyro
Posted June 16, 2011
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Ric1987: I plan to get a controller myself eventually. Flying and racing games aren't comfortable for me with the keyboard.
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Poulscath: For flying and racing games the best is a joystick/flightstick and steering wheel controller respectively.

Unless, of course, your game is like the sloppy console ports that a friend encountered only yesterday (what's with driving games that don't support driving controllers, only keyboard or xbox360 gamepads!?)
No, if it's a console racing game I'll just play it on console. I am looking into getting a joystick.
Posted June 16, 2011
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Poulscath: For flying and racing games the best is a joystick/flightstick and steering wheel controller respectively.

Unless, of course, your game is like the sloppy console ports that a friend encountered only yesterday (what's with driving games that don't support driving controllers, only keyboard or xbox360 gamepads!?)
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Ric1987: No, if it's a console racing game I'll just play it on console. I am looking into getting a joystick.
That's assuming you have the right console. Last one I bought was a Gamecube.

Fortunately, my joystick works perfectly with the Descent sourceport which is what I got it for, and I hear FreeSpace 1+2 work too :)
Posted June 16, 2011
I got an 360 controller a few months ago and there are games that plays better with it like Marvel Ult. All. or racing games like F1 2010. Still there are games like NFS Shift that are still unplayable even when using a controller - I have no idea who coded that abomination of a game but that person should be flogged. Sports games play better with a controller.

Most cross-platform games these days like Ass.Creed, PoP or Alone in the Dark uses the XBox controller colour-scheme so the game will tell you to press the "green" button even if you are using a keyboard and because of this I had a hard time with PoP quicktime events before I got my controller.

I don't like consoles and I'm a strictly PC user so getting a controller does feel like caving in and I DO feel unclean after using it but in these modern times I guess even us old farts need to "get with the program" - just remember to wash your hands afterwards.
Posted June 16, 2011
The Drivers for the 360 Controller on the PC just plain suck.
The Hardware itself is okay.. but very often the analog stick of the controller does not center 100% accurately and steers to one side. The driver itself lacks a deadzone feature which is a problem well known.
Posted June 16, 2011
I use the Crossfire wireless receiver with a pair of Xbox 360 pads myself, but I usually only use them when I'm also using the big TV in the front room, attached via a long HDMI cable.

Control is absolutely flawless with most games. A lot of them will detect when you're using it, for both the game and the menu systems, at which point there's very little between your PC and a real Xbox 360, apart from the superior graphics and loading times you'll enjoy.

As for the games, it varies wildly. Console conversions like Batman: Arkham Asylum, Mirror's Edge, Dead Space, etc. etc. usually work a little better with the pad, but are still fine without.

A tiny minority of games, such as Street Fighter IV, the new Tron movie tie-in, or Star Wars: Force Unleashed play a hell of a lot better with the pad.

When all's said and done, it's nice to have the option, but usually not essential.
Post edited June 16, 2011 by Buckid
Posted June 16, 2011
Get a PS3 Dual Shock 3 and google for motionjoy.
Perfect combo :P
Posted June 16, 2011
I like the 360 controller for 3rd person games (lately assassins creed 2) but mouse and key board for 1st person games. The dungeon siege 3 demo seems broken with a mouse and keyboard, works better with a controller.

[edit : important note brought up earlier - the d-pad on the normal 360 controller does suck. ]
Post edited June 16, 2011 by tacitus59
Posted June 16, 2011
@OP

You would do MUCH better to just buy an adapter that let's you plug in either PS2/PS3 or Xbox 360 controllers rather than buying a $50+ controller just for PC. I found a PS2 adapter for about $15 and, combined with X-Padder, does an amazing job.
Posted June 16, 2011
Never used an Xbox360 controller on my PC, use a PS2->USB converter to use my old PS2's joypads.
But thought I'd chip in with this: There are PLENTY of games for the PC which support "joypads", but as it turns out the joypad needs to be an XBox360 gamepad, or you need to do some pretty nasty hacking to hope getting it working. I never got Prototype for the PC working with my joypad, it wouldn't recognize it. Super Meat boy only support the X360 controller as far as I can tell (and no keyboard remapping, for shame using the biggest and thus hardest laggiest key for twitch precision tapping, the IWTBTG sublevel 3 drove me crazy with the spacebar)
And just started playing Munch's Oddysee...or tried. The game supports gamepads, but it seems again to be Xbox only as my PS2 (which register with windows as a generic dual stick joypad) will register with the game. one button works for accept, and if I push right analog up it'll register as a cancel button press. The rest of the joypad seems to do nothing at all.

So if you plan on playing indie games with it or console ports, go with the X360 controller over other joypads. If it's for a few specific games which have been properly developed for the PC, go with what you like. If it's as a replacement for mouse/keyboard in shooters and such, stay with your mouse+keyboard.
Posted June 16, 2011
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DrakeFox: Never used an Xbox360 controller on my PC, use a PS2->USB converter to use my old PS2's joypads.
But thought I'd chip in with this: There are PLENTY of games for the PC which support "joypads", but as it turns out the joypad needs to be an XBox360 gamepad, or you need to do some pretty nasty hacking to hope getting it working. I never got Prototype for the PC working with my joypad, it wouldn't recognize it. Super Meat boy only support the X360 controller as far as I can tell (and no keyboard remapping, for shame using the biggest and thus hardest laggiest key for twitch precision tapping, the IWTBTG sublevel 3 drove me crazy with the spacebar)
And just started playing Munch's Oddysee...or tried. The game supports gamepads, but it seems again to be Xbox only as my PS2 (which register with windows as a generic dual stick joypad) will register with the game. one button works for accept, and if I push right analog up it'll register as a cancel button press. The rest of the joypad seems to do nothing at all.

So if you plan on playing indie games with it or console ports, go with the X360 controller over other joypads. If it's for a few specific games which have been properly developed for the PC, go with what you like. If it's as a replacement for mouse/keyboard in shooters and such, stay with your mouse+keyboard.
Search up X-Padder and try it out. As far as I'm aware it'll allow you to use any gamepad for any function. You could even use it for Photoshop if you were so inclined.

I mainly use it for playing The Thing on my PC and I love it for that.
Posted June 16, 2011
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DrakeFox: Never used an Xbox360 controller on my PC, use a PS2->USB converter to use my old PS2's joypads.
But thought I'd chip in with this: There are PLENTY of games for the PC which support "joypads", but as it turns out the joypad needs to be an XBox360 gamepad, or you need to do some pretty nasty hacking to hope getting it working. I never got Prototype for the PC working with my joypad, it wouldn't recognize it. Super Meat boy only support the X360 controller as far as I can tell (and no keyboard remapping, for shame using the biggest and thus hardest laggiest key for twitch precision tapping, the IWTBTG sublevel 3 drove me crazy with the spacebar)
And just started playing Munch's Oddysee...or tried. The game supports gamepads, but it seems again to be Xbox only as my PS2 (which register with windows as a generic dual stick joypad) will register with the game. one button works for accept, and if I push right analog up it'll register as a cancel button press. The rest of the joypad seems to do nothing at all.

So if you plan on playing indie games with it or console ports, go with the X360 controller over other joypads. If it's for a few specific games which have been properly developed for the PC, go with what you like. If it's as a replacement for mouse/keyboard in shooters and such, stay with your mouse+keyboard.
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kentomatic: Search up X-Padder and try it out. As far as I'm aware it'll allow you to use any gamepad for any function. You could even use it for Photoshop if you were so inclined.

I mainly use it for playing The Thing on my PC and I love it for that.
For games like Super Meat boy it might work fine, but if I wanted to play an analog gamepad enabled game, it wouldn't. Or rather, it would if I got my gamepad to simulate a mouse and keyboard...which would sort of defeat the purpose of wanting to use the game's joypad feature?
Posted June 16, 2011
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DrakeFox: For games like Super Meat boy it might work fine, but if I wanted to play an analog gamepad enabled game, it wouldn't. Or rather, it would if I got my gamepad to simulate a mouse and keyboard...which would sort of defeat the purpose of wanting to use the game's joypad feature?
You're right that it doesn't do analogue control as well as an official option, but it's a good (and cheap) alternative even for 3D games. I've had my butt kicked at Quake III on PC by players using a PS2 controller with X-Padder.
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