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[–] Fambida 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
I have a wireless 360 controller, a Buffalo wired USB SNES pad, and a Steam controller. The SNES pad reigns supreme for SNES games, obviously, and I use it for retropie on my emulator setup. If it had an extra pair of shoulder buttons for games that need them (I'm thinking 20XX here) it'd be my favourite of the bunch.
The 360 controller is compatible with basically everything, and is perfectly acceptable as long as you don't need a good DPAD. The 360 DPAD is pure shit, and the rotatable so-called upgrade that transforms it between dpad and circle pad is STILL pure shit. The main problem is it's way too easy to roll a sideways press into a diagonal by accident. Depending on the game it can be fucking infuriating. Other than that though, it's just fine.
The Steam controller is weird. but with practice I could get used to it, depending on the game. I dislike the ABXY button placement on the steam controller a lot, and the left touchpad is not adequate to replace a good DPAD. The right touchpad doesn't work very well as an alternate ABXY either for that matter. If they made some sort of removable button overlays for the trackpads, it could be an exceptionally versatile controller, but as it is, it can do almost anything, but it doesn't do much very well. The mouse emulation is pretty solid though, so for shit like couch web browsing and strategy games it's pretty adequate. It's reasonably solid for terraria in my experience too, but that has 360 controller support as well. Kind of like the 360 controller, whether or not the Steam controller is good is pretty game specific.
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[–] Fambida ago
I've not tried a PS4 controller before, but folks I know that have often seem to have driver and compatibility issues. They're mostly gaming on windows though, so I don't know anything about the userspace driver spectralforces linked. For 360 controllers there's also a userspace driver called xboxdrv which is a good alternate for when a game doesn't like the standard kernel driver.
For PS3/4 controllers and windows, there's a windows driver called DS3tool which is what most folks tend to recommend, BUT IT HAS A MASSIVE PROBLEM. It phones the fuck home and can run arbitrary code on your machine. There is an open source non-shady as fuck alternative called BetterDS3 which can be found here http://betterds3.ciebiera.net/