A week has passed since Valve announced its Steam controller, which resembles a speaker more than a gamepad and has left many skeptical of its quality. Technology has changed over the years, and the merging of touch and button controls makes a lot of sense today.
Blindfolding myself and clicking a Steam page at random would serve me better recommendations than Steam’s algorithm
Hmm, not sure I agree with that. The recommendations I get are usually pretty good, but then again I have pretty large library of games on Steam and hundreds of them in my wish list, along with lots of curators I follow for it to build recommendations off of. On occasion it will throw me a random FIFA game or something I've never bought or shown interest in, but mostly its decent IMO.
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Players can pay to edit their character, resurrect the dead and other actions.
Yet Helldivers 2 gets a pass? Y’know a GotY contender by the name of RE4 had them and so does Devil May Cry V. The funny thing is I enjoyed both of those games thoroughly without having to buy a single microtransaction.
What I do consider a valid complaint is not being able to start a new game or being able to edit your character. That’s kind of a seriously baffling decision, but then I think how I played Dragon’s Dogma 1 and I never edited my character and I just did a 100% playthrough on a single file and didn’t start a NG since. So, I don’t think these are really going to impact me, but I can see how it will others.
I was going to pay full price to support this game because I've been waiting for it for forever but I think I'll wait until I get it for free from Epic or a Humblebundle monthly.
I am not defending Capcom, as I am not a fan of MTX in single player games. I do however belive they were open to reviewers about having MTX in their game. The reviewers just decided to leave that part out. Which is very disingenuous. There are some companies that get away with these things. Image if this was done by EA, Ubisoft, or even Activision? I am positive those defending Capcom, would have had their pitchforks ready if the companies listed above did this
Skeptics should just try the controller first and see if it's good for them or not.
i'll be willing to give it a go no doubt but i'm already biased towards the current crop of controllers and it'll take something special for me to embrace this as the norm... then again weirder things have happened
After reading up on the controller, I'm sold. If analog sticks were still better than these pads with more advanced feedback, I'm sure Valve would have stuck with analog sticks.
These pads could be something we see on the PlayStation 5 and Xbox...Two.
I don't think people know what sceptics are. Until you've used the controller, you'd be stupid not to be sceptical.
Im intreiged to give it a try, I've never had a gaming pc and have always played on consoles. So in a sense Im the type of person the Steam box is aimed at.
In genral the dual analog control method has been the main way I play games for that long now its hard to imagine a game controller without them (excluding Wii obviously.)
Who knows maybe this type of pad will take off and in 10 years dual analog will seem archaic in comparison... either way with next gen offerings from Sony and MS right around the corner and Steambox in the works its an exiting time to be a gamer.