Any PS3 players on here: EagleEye feedback

[Bikerdude]

Afternoon

 

Just borrowed my makes PS3 to play "The Last of Us" and even after a few hours of play time I find the dual shock controller utterly abhorent means of control for a 1/3rd person shooter/sneaker. So I have purchased n EagleEye Keyboard/.mouse convertor for the PS3 and from all the reviews with the latest firmware (3.0) its supposed to be very close to a PC in terms of control and experience.

 

I am aware there will be some setup required to get the best our of it, but considering how much I hate the hand controller I dont mind at all.

 

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[Lux]

I really wish they'd port that game to PC. Otherwise I'll never play it.

[rich_is_bored]

My experience with those converters has been disappointing. The absolute position of a joystick is interpreted as an acceleration value that's capped by the physical bounds of the well it resides. Trying to map a mouse to those inputs is like putting training wheels on. You want to whip around quickly and the game won't let you.

 

You come to realize it's not a hardware problem so much as a software problem. They've got USB ports. They just don't use them. I can only think of three games that had native k&m support and they were all ports that originated on PC; Quake 3, Unreal Tournament, and Half-Life 2.

[Bikerdude]

Well I have 7 days to give it a fair shake, if I can't play this one game then that will nail shut any idea's I had about getting a console for the front room (unless I find one dirt cheap)

[Lux]

When I was living in Florida, one of my roomates had an Xbox and coming from PC I absolutely despised controllers and hated using it however I did eventually out of boredom start playing Call of Duty on it and after 4 or 5 levels of frustration I was finally feeling pretty at home on the controller though it does away with much of the immersion you get from using a mouse because of the rotating motion being bound to controller stick acceleration (left to right motion).

 

It took a while but it finally was rewarding to play and use a controller and that's all we had at the time, but if I had both PC/console in the same location, I'd probably just avoid touching the console altogether. Its a whole relearn on your gaming movement skills.

[Bikerdude]

Well the EEC turned up today and it works, but the mouse I have is so old the DPI is limiting the control i have. So I have ordered a cheap kb & mouse (logitech K120 and M100) that are known to work with the EEC and see how I go.

 

But atm its 40/60 as to wheither I will keep the EEC