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Article #694666Re: Steam Controller and Steam Link
From: Werner Punz
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2015 20:27
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2015 20:27
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Am 10.11.15 um 19:08 schrieb Andrew Plotkin: >> Text input. Now here is where I really have a problem. While highly >> praised I personally feel it is cluncky, fortunately you dont need that >> functionality often, unless you play "Her Story", like I did. Text input >> always was a pain on controllers and still is, period. > > Naturally I am a fan of text games (and Her Story is great) but > they're not what I'm getting this box to play. I think. If I'm wrong, > I'll haul out a bluetooth keyboard, no sweat. > Yes if you play interactive fiction, or any textbased game there is, then a keyboard is a must. The text input with the controller is really painful, feels like Brothers a Tale of Two Sons for text input. Point and click adventures are playable, but still not as well playable as with a mouse, but they are not painful to play, it feels somewhere between a real mouse and playing such a game on a notebook trackpad, but more on the mouse side. The best comparison is probably to play such a game with a thumb trackball, if you are on trackball mode (which I prefer). The good thing is, you can map pretty much every keyboard shortcut there is to the controller (if the game has some)
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