Hope you weren't looking forward to Assassins Creed 3 on pc -

�We�re definitely supporting PC, we love PC, but I think it�ll be PC with a controller."

http://www.dsogaming.com/news/ubisoft-recommends-a-gamepad-for-ac3-pc-gamers-request-proper-keyboard-and-mouse-control-scheme/

Ahahahahahahahahaha, etc. 

^^ was me 

@Daz, quiet a lot of games play better with controllers plugged into a PC, they were designed and tested that way. 

If devs loved PC, they would develop PC games, not port console games. 

You mean the same way devs hate unpaid overtime, so don't do it? 

I have Asscreed on the PC, and it TOTALLY needs a controller. It's the only game which I have which NEEDS one. The controls are silly. Spacebar makes you run forwards (WTF?!).

Like Crackdown. Ever play that? Almost impossible without a controller I'm sure.

I have a mate who plays Skyrim on his PC with a controller (XBox360), and he loves it. 

I'll get a wired 360 controller and play Assassins Creed 1. 

I played a large chunk of AssCreed 2 on a PS3. It has some of the worse controls I've ever used.
I was quite shocked after the amount of hype that went on and on about it's cool movement system and stuff. I didn't realise it would involve holding three buttons at once and giving up camera control. Yeah, don't let me control the camera right when I need to see where the hell I'm going.

And I so wanted to get into it because the actual atmosphere of wandering around a town is really cool :( 

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I prefer controllers for everything, including FPS's (and I know saying that will make a lot of you back slowly away from me, feeling the walls for an exit whilst making sure not to break eye contact). It's a comfort thing for me.

If FitzQuake had support for the 360 controller, I would be on that shizzle. 

You're not alone. I love controllers for almost any games on my PC. When games don't support my 360 controller, I sigh in disappointment. 

I wanted my controller to work when I got Super Meat Boy. That's about it. I don't see how people can play on controllers when a good mouse/keyboard setup is available (especially when it comes to shooter), but then I've been largely a PC gamer since I was 4-5 years old so that may have something to do with it. 

Decades of mouse and keyboard use have ruined my shoulder/wrist so the less I need to use that combo, the better. 

with my Rat 7. 

Mouse and keyboard are good for FPS with guns, but for anything else it really depends. For most games playing with a controller is nice, for strategy games and such I like playing with my Wacom tablet when that's supported, much easier on the wrist and more natural. 

Same here Willem, I have to take a good weeks break in between playing games so my mouse wrist can recover again. Keyboard one is fine, it's just the damn mouse that fucks it up.

Do controllers not effect RSI as badly as the mouse? 

They don't for me. Using a mouse is definitely my trigger action. I can use a controller or an art tablet all day, no worries. 

Maybe try one of those mousepads that have buldge on one side where you put your wrist on? 

Thanks. Yeah, I've purchased several hundred dollars worth of devices, pads and gadgets over the years. I also get a deep tissue massage once a month. It's a lifetime commitment of maintenance at this point...

It's the kind of thing you can't tell other people to prevent it because they won't listen. The whole, "Sit up straights, arms at 90 degrees, shoulders relaxed, etc" advice sounds horrible but it really would help.

But nobody wants to hear that ... until their wrist/shoulder starts hurting, and then it's too late. 

That kind of stuff is horrible, I stopped using a mouse for work a few years back and it's done so much good to my hands, so now I try to be careful with the rest, but it's not easy.

Out of curiosity, are you in your 30s or 40s Willem? 

Just turned 42 last week. I've had these issues for several years though... 

Wow, I thought I was the only old timer around these parts, turned 43 at the beginning of this year. :) 

A few of us in the 40s 

wtf I swear I was 16 just last week and now I'm 27!! I too am old as fuck. :( 

You're 27? Oh, that explains why you still love mouse and keyboard so much. >:)