I had the same problem, having never used a console. I've always been using PCs (starting with small 8 bit machines, to a 286, and later to the beasts we currently use (running Linux though). It took me a good while to get used to the Steam deck.

I had no choice because I have no other gaming rig at the moment while my home is being completely rebuilt, so my PC has been turned off for two years now :(.

I've gotten better at it, and I'm getting through Fallout on the deck, but I have to avoid some games. For while some games do indeed work better with a controller, others (FPS) are way better with keyboard and mouse.

So all in all, I'm glad that the Deck has opened new possibilities. But the game controller isn't the ultimate gadget, just another option.

Guys, it really depends on the type of game.

I'm in the same camp, although I wish it wasn't so. I've gotten okayish at Rocket League with mouse and keyboard, but that really is a controller game.

Based.

In all seriousness some games work better on controllers. I’ve found it much easier, and significantly less frustrating, to play souls-likes using a controller. It also would have been next to impossible to play the Ascent (twin stick shooter) without one. I used to get all PCMR about only using keyboard and mouse but nowadays I use the best tool for the job.

He wrote E.T on a spilt keyboard in vim and managed to exit it first time.. True story John Candy told me.

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Controller is more comfortable to me, so unless I'm playing an fps that requires a lot of precision, I play on controller. I already have to sit at a mouse and keyboard for work everyday

I really hate how many people haven't really picked up or understood the profound difference that gyro aiming makes for controller players.

He really is a videogame fan. When he co-created DreamWorks he pushed for a gaming arm of the company. If anyone played Metal of Honor (especially the first one) it's because of him.

Also, ET helped cause the videogame crash in the 80's!

I much prefer controller for anything that's not FPS. Steam Input makes this glorious.

And he’s right too

to each their own.

Funny, the game I most associate with him is BoomBlox on the Wii. It's a really great game, and I guess the wiimote is kind of mouse-like, particularly in that game.

He's been involved in several games though, even had an office at EA for a while. Most famously, of course, is the original Medal of Honor. Arguably the success of MoH as a franchise led directly to Call of Duty and thus to the current state of gaming today.

The only controller I've ever really enjoyed using is the steam controller. Just about everything else felt worse than playing using a mouse and keyboard. To each their own though, if you like controllers then more power to you.