assuming a game is equally easy to play with either, would you rather use:

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@Felthry depends heavily on genre imo

even ignoring difficulty, different genres feel better with different control schemes

@monorail i guess some genres just can't be equally easy with either, too, really

dwarf fortress with a controller just plain doesn't make sense
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@Felthry @monorail depends on the controller, sth like the Steam Controller that just straight up comes with trackball emulation would probably work

@noiob @monorail dwarf fortress uses keyboard shortcuts very heavily though; even an emulated keyboard would be hard
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@Felthry @monorail you can map a staggering amount of keypresses, macros, whatever to the Steam Controller with key combos and the like, you can even map touch-based menus that'll pop up a visual indicator when used

@noiob @Felthry hm that visual indicator might actually make it work a lot better than i was imagining, you could basically design an emulated controller ui if i'm understanding you correctly

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@monorail @Felthry yeah, basically. Valve's CS:GO config maps stuff like votes, opening the buy menu… to a grid on the left touchpad. They also support custom icons. It'd be a bunch of work to set up though

here's an example for the radial variant partner.steamgames.com/doc/fea

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