Gaming

I feel like I'm being drawn ever closer to giving in and getting a game controller for my PC. Was playing Trials for too long last night trying to do that excavator bucket jump and my hand, that was desperately attempting that rapid weight-shift movement, suddenly started to cramp up in a painful way that seemed to say, "Use a game controller, you idiot."

Of course I'd have to scrounge some coins together from somewhere first and that may take some time, but I have started looking at least. The EasySMX ones seem the most probable at the moment. Does anyone else use a PC controller, and if so, which model?

But will the newer one still have that inadvertant double click/post functionality?

Aargh! Help!

I've done something bad. REAL bad!
I didn't mean it. I swear.
I was rushing between my new friend Alvor the blacksmith in Riverwood and my own little forge down the road after buying lots of supplies including some Moonstone to further my attempts at improving my weapons. Just to speed up the journey I put my foot down on the gas so that my horse was sprinting super fast and unfortunately I had a bit of an accident, the Skyrim equivalent of a car crash, a kind of pedestrian meets vehicle type of thing. The poor victim just stepped out into the road in front of me, I couldn't see it from the saddle, I couldn't respond quick enough and- Well, here it is...



I've killed one of the Riverwood Chickens!
Now for non-players of Skyrim, I obviously feel the need to emphasize that this is famously A Bad Thing causing all manner of angry farmers and guards to pursue you.
And yet... And yet...
There's a guard over there and no-ones attacking me yet.



Did they not see? Have I got away with it?
Quick! Let's get rid of the evidence.



Sorry, dead chicken. Into the river you go so that the current can take you off down the waterfall.
No, officer. No crime here. None at all. Only innocent Dragonborn.

Oh, and apparently I don't have a high enough level in Smithing to improve my magic weapons so poor chicken died for nothing. However I did manage to enchant my bow to add 10 extra points of shock damage.


And in more multiple game playing action, I rolled over a few more Gwent noobs in WItcher 3. One guy tried to intimidate me by playing his 10 card and then passing the round. But I wiped it off the board with a scorch card and then cleaned up the next round with some superior tactics. Ooooh, am I gonna win that 10 card off him?
No.
Instead he gives me another Torrential Rain. ANOTHER!
I still don't have a usable card over 6.

Banj wrote:

I have one of these (bought from here too): www.overclockers.co.uk/speedlink-strike-...or-pc-gc-00c-sl.html

I don't like the xbox lop sided monstrosities and this was one of only a couple of PS style controllers I could find at the time, the other being a Logitech. Had it a few months and so far it seems pretty decent.

Oooh, that's a better price than the one I was looking at.
Personally I don't mind the XBox ones with the asymmetric analogue sticks. In fact I'm more used to them than the other style but the idea of saving a few coins may convert me.

Today I remembered that I still had a few coins left on an old use-it-or-lose-it Amazon gift card so I have indeed used that to order a super cheap Xbox style controller, though it may take a while to be shipped from the other side of the world.
And if it turns out to be useless tat then I haven't really lost anything and shall go back to the original plan and scrounge some real coins for that one Banj linked to.

Those freaky Ice Worms sound scary. Thump them with your thumpers.