controller for steam games

[DarkZeipu]

Hey fellow gamers. I have a question. I'm getting into playing games again on steam and want to know what's a good controller to use to play them.

Is there on that's like universal that'll work on all or what? Please help. All the times before I just used the keyboard and want to try a controller. Please and thank you for those of you that take the time to answer. :)

[Silicon Vampire]

no learning curve if you have used one before...

See, I didn't have to unlearn anything when I started using the Steam controller... which I can imagine is easier than being acclimated to another controller first.

[Aliquis Freedom & Ethnopluralism]

引用自 DarkZeipu：

Yeah I do and can try out those ones as well, but I keep seeing everybody mention the Steam controller. I didn't know they had one...till I found out that Steam made their own console a little while back. Shows you just how much I pay attention lol. But then again, it has been a loooong while since I've been on here.

SteamBox isn't really a Steam console made by Steam. The idea was that companies would make PCs which run SteamOS which is Ubuntu based and run Steam from the beginning and used their big screen mode and would use their controller which would also support some games designed for keyboard and mouse usage.

The idea was likely both to try to get away from Windows since Microsoft may want to sell the games themselves making Steam irrelevant there and to help console gamers who want a controller and who want to play on the TV and who want simplicity to consider PC gaming.

[The Giving One]

This is a very interesting topic and good thread also. I have never used a controller at all here for my PC games, but after reading the posts here, I am highly considering getting one in the future.

What some said about the Steam controller really makes it shine. Still, what others said about the 360 being tested with games and also games being developed with it in mind make good points as well.

How to decide indeed, right ?

[ClearSkyGM]

引用自 SHINOGEKAI：

xbox controller is the best

Naaa :D

[DarkZeipu]

引用自 Etnopluralism：

引用自 DarkZeipu：

Yeah I do and can try out those ones as well, but I keep seeing everybody mention the Steam controller. I didn't know they had one...till I found out that Steam made their own console a little while back. Shows you just how much I pay attention lol. But then again, it has been a loooong while since I've been on here.

SteamBox isn't really a Steam console made by Steam. The idea was that companies would make PCs which run SteamOS which is Ubuntu based and run Steam from the beginning and used their big screen mode and would use their controller which would also support some games designed for keyboard and mouse usage.

The idea was likely both to try to get away from Windows since Microsoft may want to sell the games themselves making Steam irrelevant there and to help console gamers who want a controller and who want to play on the TV and who want simplicity to consider PC gaming.

thanks for that. I didn't know that. All I knew was there was a console out. That's all I really knew about it.

[Aliquis Freedom & Ethnopluralism]

引用自 The Giving One：

This is a very interesting topic and good thread also. I have never used a controller at all here for my PC games, but after reading the posts here, I am highly considering getting one in the future.

What some said about the Steam controller really makes it shine. Still, what others said about the 360 being tested with games and also games being developed with it in mind make good points as well.

How to decide indeed, right ?

I think it's ok to have two controllers. For playing with friends of for different purposes / games.

[RPG Gamer Man]

I use a Logitech F310 for steam gaming. It is actually designed to play steam games, and priced fairly low priced compared to xbox360 microsoft pc controllers. It works for almost all games i played. Here, you can look here about it:

http://gaming.logitech.com/en-us/product/f310-gamepad

Note price compared to xbox 360 pc microsoft controller:

https://www.microsoft.com/accessories/en-us/products/gaming/xbox-360-wireless-controller-for-windows/jr9-00011

[Aliquis Freedom & Ethnopluralism]

引用自 DarkZeipu：

thanks for that. I didn't know that. All I knew was there was a console out. That's all I really knew about it.

There's multiple "SteamBox"es, or well, multiple was announced.
The thing is that it took time for SteamOS to reach 1.0 and took time for the controller to be ready. Alienware sold their little machine with Windows (I think) and the 360 controller, that works at-least as good I'd say but it wasn't really the SteamOS machine with the Steam controller which may have been what people expected with the announcement. And when it all was ready the hype most likely have settled down.

I've got the impression that even the soon to be released Bristol Ridge APUs will be more powerful than the previous Kaveri/Godaveri based ones, so maybe real soon now one could build such a machine which can outperform/equal the Playstation 4?

I assume Steam may use the SteamVR brand and maybe someone will do Steam equiped machines with good enough hardware and the HTC Vive headset and sell those as a bundle or something.

They will use the same AM4 socket as the future Zen/Summit Ridge processors.

It's hard to beat the Playstation 4 for VR as is though. You can get the console for $350 and VR headset, headphones, camera and move controllers are bundled for $500 so that's a total of $850 for a complete experience there.
The Oculus Rift cost $600 and doesn't include controllers let alone the $800+ PC.
The HTC Vive at $800 include their stations and controllers but the PC experience cost twice as much as the Sony Playstation one.

The displays have almost the same resolution as far as I can tell. I earlier read a claim which stated otherwise but for all I can see it's 1920x1080 split into two on the Playstation 4 at up to 120 Hz vs 2160x1200 with Rift and Vive at up to 90 Hz.

[DarkZeipu]

引用自 RPG Gamer Man：

I use a Logitech F310 for steam gaming. It is actually designed to play steam games, and priced fairly low priced compared to xbox360 microsoft pc controllers. It works for almost all games i played. Here, you can look here about it:

http://gaming.logitech.com/en-us/product/f310-gamepad

Note price compared to xbox 360 pc microsoft controller:

https://www.microsoft.com/accessories/en-us/products/gaming/xbox-360-wireless-controller-for-windows/jr9-00011

I'll be sure to look at that! Thanks!