Question For Gamers?

[Ride2kmax]

Guys when you play games on your computer do you use a control like the one's on xbox/ps2/3 or just the mouse and keyboard? If you do what kind.

I ask becuase thats the only reason i stayed away from computer games i hate presing the up and down key and letters to move jump and stuff.

Thanks everyone for your input.

 

[Ride2kmax]

I think i ask in the wrong place can someone move this to Pc gaming and Hardware if needed.

 

[Somnambulator]

mouse + kbd. been gaming on PC since 95 and never used a joystick or gaming pad, ever. if i played a ton of sports games i'd buy a gamepad or if i played a lot of racing games i'd buy a pad or racing wheel. RTS, FPS, RPG, MMORPG, and other similar games run the best w/ mouse and board

 

[AndonSage]

Guys when you play games on your computer do you use a control like the one's on xbox/ps2/3 or just the mouse and keyboard? If you do what kind.

I prefer, and use, a mouse and keyboard.

However, you can always get an XBox 360 controller for the PC.

 

[berzerker]

I ask becuase thats the only reason i stayed away from computer games i hate presing the up and down key and letters to move jump and stuff.

That's funny, I stay away from consoles for the opposite reason. Otherwise, I probably would've bought an Xbox 360 by now. I used to have a Gravis Xterminator controller years ago, but I didn't get much use out of it.

There are definitely gamepads and joysticks for PC, I think most games support them, but even if they don't, you can just map the keyboard controls to your gamepad with your own custom config. I think there's a way to use the Xbox 360 controller on PC.

Logitech gamepads:

http://www.logitech.com/index.cfm/gaming/pc_gaming/gamepads/&cl=us,en

Xbox controllers for PC:

http://www.microsoft.com/hardware/gaming/ProductDetails.aspx?pid=091

http://www.microsoft.com/hardware/gaming/ProductDetails.aspx?pid=090

 

[Mithent]

Mouse and keyboard. The different input methods are probably in large part the determinants of the different games that appear on each platform; gamepads are probably better for the action/adventure and sports games which seem to be about 75% of console releases, but precise controls allow the PC to be much better at FPS, RTS and games with complex control systems. That's not to say that you can't get each on the other platform, but gamepads are very poor at accurate pointing, something which puts me off them.