How do you know if a Steam game has controller support before you buy it?

[Esquire!]

So...I have no interest in buying a Steam controller, I like my Xbox 360 controller just fine. But I've noticed that I can use my controller for some games (Fallout 4) but not for others. This is especially frustrating with older games like, say, Jedi Academy, where I have played with a controller previously (and there is a controller option in the main menu) but for some very stupid reason, refuses to work with one via Steam. Shouldn't Steam advertise if there is or is not controller capability? Because I would not pay for a game if I knew previously that I couldn't use a controller for it.

[⚡🍉OverlordTomala🍉⚡]

IT will say on the Steam page that it will either have No Controller Support, Partial Controller Support, or Full Controller Support. That information is located under the general game information, like if it's single player, multiplayer, etc.

Edit: Ignore everything in this post. It is 100% wrong.

[Vepar]

And even if it doesn't have any controller support - that's exactly what Steam controller is for. So you can play games, even if they don't have built in controller option.

I played Path of Exile, Titan Quest, System shock 2, Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodlines and a lot of others that don't have any controller support whatsoever. They all work great with Steam controller. You just have to configure the bindings, or just use the community profiles.

So even if you can't get the "controller part" of the Jedi academy to work, you can just map the keyboard keys to SC and play that way. It'll even work better.

[Esquire!]

Thanks guys, but like I said, I have no interest in buying the Steam controller.

[AndyCalling]

I don't think they offered to sell you one? This forum isn't really much like Ebay.

[sombrez]

Originally posted by Esquire!:

Thanks guys, but like I said, I have no interest in buying the Steam controller.

Next time, post it in one of the steam forums

http://steamcommunity.com/discussions/

[Mumblez]

Generally pretty much all, I've only had a few games which don't work, but those are ones where you have to do file surgery to get running ANYWAY. (VAMPIRE masquerade bloodlines, gzdoom (gzdoom technically runs, but paired with zdl it lags to ♥♥♥♥ with the controller.)) but these are uncommon, and if a steam game runs fine after download without a bunch of ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ around, the sc will work on it.

It actually can bind to any controller / keyboard setup, so, besides the game having trouble with steam itself, as mentioned above, you really can't find a game that can't have everything bound.

Plus, gyro shooting is amazing, playing serious sam with it is a huge treat.

[Esquire!]

No one offered to sell me a Steam controller, but it sounds like some people are trying to sell me on it. If you actually read my initial post, I was specifically asking about the Xbox controller and said from the start that I don't have any interest in buying a Steam controller, yet every response except the first one talks about the Steam controller....so if that's all you got, thanks but no thanks.

[sombrez]

I mean you posted in the Steam Controller forum don't expect people to not talk about it

[Esquire!]

Ah, so I did. Touche.

[AndyCalling]

Yea, it turns out there's not a lot of Steam Controller chatter on the Xbox forums either... I wonder why? There's probably some kind of reason...

[daaw_gees]

Originally posted by BongMong:

Yea, it turns out there's not a lot of Steam Controller chatter on the Xbox forums either... I wonder why? There's probably some kind of reason...

We should go do that!! Talk about the SC on their forums! Invade!

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Originally posted by daaw_gees:

Originally posted by BongMong:

Yea, it turns out there's not a lot of Steam Controller chatter on the Xbox forums either... I wonder why? There's probably some kind of reason...

We should go do that!! Talk about the SC on their forums! Invade!

Reminds me some imageboard DDoS or flood "kids mob". You post the target forum link and so on, lol.

[HandsomeKT]

Thank You, you really helped me with this! I needed to know to see if I should by the controller, and only two games I want require a 50$ controller!

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Originally posted by Where are you?:

Thank You, you really helped me with this! I needed to know to see if I should by the controller, and only two games I want require a 50$ controller!

So, now when you really know, should you or not?

[figmentPez]

Originally posted by ⚡🍉OverlordTomala🍉⚡:

IT will say on the Steam page that it will either have No Controller Support, Partial Controller Support, or Full Controller Support. That information is located under the general game information, like if it's single player, multiplayer, etc.

It's not always accurate, though. For instance, Overlord 2 doesn't list controller support, but it should say partial, because once you get past the boot menus, and are in game, a controller is supported, including showing Xbox style button prompts.