Steam - Controller Enabled Games

[Davidh373]

So I used to be a big Xboxer back when I was a complete fool and payed out the nose for multiplayer. I still love the Xbox 360 controller and I play ALL of my games with it. I don't mean to offend anyone or start a flame war. I know that a lot of people think gamepads are inferior to Keyboard and Mouse and use them with great skill as well, but they don't seem to give me a problem as I am normally top of the charts in most of the lobbies I'm in. In the last two days I've purchased Batman: AA and Metro 2033. Both games are EXCELLENT and both are controller enabled plug n' play style (while working pristinely), which I love. The thing is I was worried because neither are labeled as such. I normally use an application called XPadder when a game doesn't have controller support built in, but it doesn't always work the best because of either slowness or fastness of the sensitivity.

As for the games on steam that are labeled "Controller Enabled", some of them suck. I bought Battlefront II durring a steam sale and it only works if you program every function individually for every single method of travel (walking, hero, land vehicle, flying vehicle, turret) which took about 30 min. only to find out the analog sticks were really f'ed up.

So why do you think steam labels some games that barely have controller functionality "controller enabled" while leaving the best games with the best controller functionality out of the mix?

 

[xCxStylex]

So why do you think steam labels some games that barely have controller functionality "controller enabled" while leaving the best games with the best controller functionality out of the mix?

Because steam doesn't want to make money and profit by selling good games that have well implemented xbox controls like batman AA.

But they want to sell shitty games like Star Wars Battlefront 2 to make money and profit.

And I think steam sucks. And I think steam is great I love steam i dont buy non steam games cuz im lazy and like to have all my steam games in one place in the steam cloud which is so convenient when i want to download games on a new computer or laptop steam is so cool.

 

[Davidh373]

Agreed, I only buy non-steam games when they aren't available on steam. I also don't think Battlefront II is shitty (it's ok), but it's controller compatibility is a joke...

 

[nitromullet]

Steam probably just posts whatever the developer/publisher states. If they say it's controller enabled, so does Steam. So, the level of priority the dev puts into making the controller work is probably the level of controller compatibility you get.

Battlefront II is also a much older game than Metro 2033 and Batman:AA so that might play into a little bit. I can't even imagine playing Batman without a controller. It's clearly a console port (a good one) and designed to be played with a controller.

 

[Specop 007]

I think people too often mentally equate Steam the distributor with Steam the developer. Most games Steam is nothing more than a distributor for. If the developers say "Hey its controller compatible" Steam advertises that.

 

[Davidh373]

I realize Steam is a distributor (not the developer [that's Valve]), but then why wouldn't the devs (putting some work into controller compatibility) say it isn't. I would think steam would give them some checkboxes or something to fill in in the paperwork or something. It's just strange.