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WoodenPints on 05 March 2021
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JEMC said:
WoodenPints said:

Cool, I only game on a controller with my PC plugged into a TV. It's interesting that if you would remove the esports multiplayer titles and PC exclusive genre's like strategy the % of controller gamers shoots up quite high in most single player games.

Controller support is already superb on Steam with 468/676 games in my collection either having full support or partial support which from every game I've played so far that says partial has been full support anyway or with something like a launcher to click play or having to click start on the title screen with a mouse (which I do on a controller anyway). For the remaining games that don't support it there there is usually good user made presets you can enable from Steam big screen mode.

I was actually surprised by some of the numbers as well. For example, I find it hard to understand why some would play an FPS with a controller on PC given how much better the k-board & mouse combo is, but there's an almost 10% of users that prefer to use one. I guess they're like you and play on a TV using the Big Picture mode.

And, on the other side, Third person action games usually play much, much better with a controller, specially if some form of driving is included, so learning that only half the players use one for those games is quite surprising.

I don't play in big picture mode just standard desktop with an Xbox controller as my mouse to navigate. Actually I started moving away from favouring Mouse+keyboard these past 5 years with probably 70-80% of my gaming been done on the controller then last year decided to replace the desk with a TV and now do everything via a Xbox controller.

I just generally find using a controller more fun and relaxing and would be one of those who choose to play a FPS on a controller whilst acknowledging m+k is probably the superior option for most of them not to mention it allows me to game more instead of my wrist and hands telling me to stop after a short period so age is probably a factor as well since I can't smash nerds 24/7 with my hands hovering on wasd like I used to back in 2000 on Quake 3.

Last edited by WoodenPints - on 05 March 2021