My avoidance of controllers on PC stems back to not wanting to play an FPS with a controller, back in the day that was mostly what I was playing and I did so exclusively (until recently) with a mouse and keyboard on PC.Ī couple thousand hours of controller use on PC and various consoles over the last several years has seen me re-evaluate my stance on that, after bitter disappointment with the Wii and Valve’s Steam Controller, both now gathering dust. Why not accept that and be comfortable instead? Git gud? Get lost. My aim is still dreadful, even after twenty something years, with a mouse and keyboard. Yes, it is definitely more accurate, movement and 180 degree turns are often more fluid and rapid. Yes, you can aim, without help, with a mouse. Why would you use a controller when you have the “superior” option of keyboard and mouse available? Simple, because it isn’t always superior. I assumed most PC players still felt that way. Like many PC players, I used to think of controllers as a console only affair. Something surprising was mentioned the number of PC players plugging in a controller of some kind.
Back in September, Valve revealed the results of one of their regular hardware surveys.
