Gaming and Consoles Forum - RE: PS3 controllers... SplitFish & FragNstein...... [MAD] - Page 2

She'll kill ya's...

Ste
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We will pay the price but we will not count the cost..

I've never played FPS on the PC so it always seems to me that it would be really awkward with mouse keyboard etc.

It's obviously not, as I know it's the main option for most people, but just didn't think it would make "that" much of a difference to be spending extra £70 on.

I kind of want one now, just because everyone else has them though

www.last.fm/user/1mills

but just didn't think it would make "that" much of a difference

i promise you, it does, especialy if your as bad as i am with a standard console controller.

to be spending extra £70 on

two sides to this, firstly, if you love your FPS games, & have quite a few titles, then it's seriously worth considering, for instance, if you have 10 FPS games that you play regularly, then the controller @ 1.5x the cost of a new game (at retail) suddenly looks like a worthwhile investment, But, on the second point, if your perfectly happy with the dualshock, & especialy if you never played FPS on a pc, then it might not be worth the outlay in case you cant "get along" with the different controll type.

from my perspective, the spltfish is the best thing i've ever bought for a console as it lets me enjoy the games i like on a console, so no more having to check my pc spec to see if it can run XX game etc,

on a side note, beware if your looking for Splitfish/FragNstein reviews esp on youtube, as splitfish are sniping at the FragNstein & the 1st review that comes up for the FragNstein has been made by a guy that works & product tests the Splitfish stuff, so none of the comments can be trusted, if you wanna see "better" more balanced reviews, look on Amazon usa, as these have at least been left by people who have actually bought them..

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Wow I need something like that as rubbish with controller!
how the **** do you figure that out? how many trophies have you won? you must be
doing something right

Ste

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two sides to this, firstly, if you love your FPS games, & have quite a few titles, then it's seriously worth considering, for instance, if you have 10 FPS games that you play regularly, then the controller @ 1.5x the cost of a new game (at retail) suddenly looks like a worthwhile investment, But, on the second point, if your perfectly happy with the dualshock, & especialy if you never played FPS on a pc, then it might not be worth the outlay in case you cant "get along" with the different controll type.

I think that's definitely the side I fall into, quite happy with it on controller as never played the games on PC.

The only FPS I play is MW2. Can't remember the last one I played and stuck with outside MW2, probably XIII on the old Xbox and before that Goldeneye

www.last.fm/user/1mills

i've had my fragnstein turn up today... the 1st one i ordered, i didn't realise that it had to come
from hong kong. so found a uk supplier who has shipped to me within 2 days (yeah, impatient
i know!).

will try and give it a blast tonight.

when the other turns up, i might offer it on here first before sticking it back on ebay.

Ste

Ste - you talking about that "gadgets" seller?
I'm a bit annoyed about that as well. Listing as a UK seller (with pick-up option) - but then saying it's shipping from HK! So approx 9 days turnaround (if you're lucky).

yeah Miles... that's the one. should've read the small print but was too excited

anyways, the other one has turned up and have just uprgaded the firmware from default (1.1)
upto 2.1. i'm gonna see if her indoors will give me 20 minutes to see if it's any good.

first impressions are that is seems quite well built... all of the documentation (website is better
though) is written in pretty good english so at least you don't feel like you're ****ing in the wind
when you have to upgrade the fw!!

Ste

I'm blaming you for not reading the small print then!
Should have looked before I leapt, instead of assuming you'd read the full details!

So....have you managed to try it out? If so, how was it?
I'd imagine it'll take a bit of getting used to at first.