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Turn your Android device to a controller for PC games

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2014/07/27 23:21:35 (permalink)
http://www.youmobile.org/blogs/entry/Turn-your-Android-device-to-a-controller-for-PC-games
 
Will let you use an Android phone or tablet to play games on your Windows 8 machine.

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    Re: Turn your Android device to a controller for PC games 2014/07/28 05:25:20 (permalink)
    thats kind of cool but I can see it being more annoying then anything

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    Re: Turn your Android device to a controller for PC games 2014/07/28 06:02:07 (permalink)
    I don't see the advantage over my Xbox 360 controller...
     
    Plus, phone not exactly made for that.  My 360 controller takes a pretty good pounding...not sure if my LG G2 is up to that...
     
     

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    Re: Turn your Android device to a controller for PC games 2014/07/28 11:45:30 (permalink)
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    I don't see the advantage over my Xbox 360 controller...
    Therein lies the caveat: Perhaps the market is for someone that doesn't already own a controller of any type, but has both an Android-based phone w/accelerometer and a PC to game on?  In fact that is probably the only market as I'm sure plenty prefer to use keyboard/mouse.  Although, it would be a cheaper way to get people into PC gaming coming from console without having them get used to keyboard/mouse for gaming.  
     
     
    I remember the first time I play a first-person game on PC, I hated it because the neck movements were too fast and I got dizzy; the catch was I was moving the mouse around too much.  Up until then I played RTS and Combat FS on PC, this meant mouse movement wasn't entirely connected to the view unless you scrolled beyond.  I didn't realize how much I normally moved it.  If I had a controller back then for the first-person game (the first Halo), it may have been easier on me.
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    Re: Turn your Android device to a controller for PC games 2014/07/28 12:30:45 (permalink)
    One key benefit from gaming specific controllers is tactile feedback of the controls. You don't get tactile feedback from a touchscreen. It's one thing I hate about touchscreen interfaces.
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