Press tries Steam controller, have mixed feelings towards it

[A Black Falcon]

http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2014/01/st...rst-sight/

http://www.vg247.com/2014/01/07/first-im...ontroller/

Yeah, that doesn't exactly make me want to run out and buy one of these things, that's for sure. I can understand what Valve is trying to do, and trying to outdo the dual-analog controller for FPSes is a great idea because dual analog sticks are a bad way to play shooters, but for anything else... no. Anything that needs buttons on the right side, or a d-pad on the left, is COMPLETELY hopeless with that thing, and that pad as an analog stick looks awful too. Mouse... maybe. Analog stick? No thanks!

Basically the problem is that no one controller can do everything. As a replacement for twinstick shooter controls this may or may not work, that depends on how tolerable those pads are as stick replacements; I have strong doubts as I'm sure I've said before, since in the past stuff like the TurboTouch controllers didn't work well at all, but we'll see. The first opinions on the articles above reinforce the idea that losing that tactile feedback a stick gives you really is a problem, though, and I expected that; I don't like that Valve controller design overall because of that. But on the other hand, there's simply GOT to be a way to get people off of dual-analog-sticks-for-shooters that doesn't involve a mouse and keyboard...