To be clear: any porter is on the top of my most favourite list. Icculus has done so many good ports before it was even a thing. So anyone doing ports, thanks!
Furthermore: I mostly disagree with the lists, but heh, I should have taken the time to help compile the list.
Any game that takes more than 100h of my time is a good game I guess. Rocket League was "bundled" with my controller, and I think I looked at it for 10 minutes. As such I am surprised that no-one had mentioned Saints-Row... Which was definetly the surprise of the year 2016 for me. Alien Isolation, tomb raider, mad max, they were all surprising, but still, the biggest surprise was Saints-Row (early 2016), all others were big and happy surprises, but SR just showed me something has really changed. Deus Ex just was the final confirmation.
There were so many top titles in 2016, I cannot play all of them. Each game needs at least 100h from me to enjoy.
FCE for instance is at 1250 hours, Ark probably more than 100, each of the SR series probably all over 100h.
Man, this has to stop, I also need to work!

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Quoting: Perkeleen_Vittupäähttps://i.wuss.pw/eg.png

Just ridiculous. Gotta watch throgh a proxy then

The question in which country it is visible... obviously not NL.

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The biggest thing that prevents me from buying rust is that I need to have friends to play it. As I am pretty a-social, and I don't want to have others having expectations of me when I am relaxing.
Unless it supports a single player mode it would stay that way :-(.
I am quite happy with my survival in ark. Although I realise it would be so much easier to have others with me (the amounts of deaths I can have in 5 minutes, just to get my resources back near a l1 croco), but I do quite allright currently.

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Man... I feel guilty if I grab it for $0.00, while paying $80 or so for deus ex.
VP did a great job (still not finished though, no community access, and SR2 lacks some of the audio) with the saints row series.

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Actually the reason that I backed torment and bard's tale: linux support on day 1. I would be dissappointed if that wasn't the case, but they do deliver. Still have to play wasteland 2 though :-(. So many games, so little time.

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To be clear: the "rant" is not about the steam controller.
The "rant" is about the input mapping system steam provides, which works for *any* input device.
There are enough drivers for the steam controller, already.
The real problem is this:
Steam has a very elegant and simple input mapping middleware. If you use that, then users cannot every complain anymore about how the controls should be, and no requests anymore about wasd/numeric keypad or joystick.
Everything is being handled for you, including mapping of the inputs.
To be clear: that's a one stop solution for all your input handling in your game.
Currently that solution is tied to steam-client.
So developers can not really use it, because they still need that input outside of steam.
(as far as I understood)

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Indeed, Valve need to either opensource it, or have a steam-integrated and a non-steam version of it. It's more than just the steam controller, it's plain input mapping, als for keyboard/mouse mapping.
As far as I know the topic was on steam-dev with the intention that the steam-input mapping will be usable outside steam, if-i-recall-correctly.
There are some games I play that really need a generic input overhaul, but I can't request using the steam input configurator if that locks them down on steam, while they still need to do the same thing on non-steam.

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Quoting: slaapliedjeI love both of my steam controllers, they seem to be the ones that fit my hands the best, and so are extremely comfortable to me. Though I always wonder why the rumble is still marked as experimental.

I've used controllers before, and due to that I was very hesitant against controllers. I sometimes use my ps2 controller on android though, to play gta.
But the steam controller really is something different. It has both analog movement and mouse precision. As a matter of fact: although I have a roccat kone+ gaming mouse with a 30x30 roccat mouse pad, aiming using gyro on the steam controller is even better.
So yes, every game I use I try to start off using the steam controller.
I have 3 of them :-). Got the third with my steam machine as I needed my pc for something else, or turned off due to energy usage.

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Quoting: slaapliedjeI was trying to figure out what drives CEC information. For example, the PS4 works fine with it, I don't think the Link actually does anything special with it, (though if I have the ps4 on, my receiver will switch to the link when it is powered on.) I should dig into this more, seems it should be a simple software thing.

The SoC in the link has full CEC support. It's up to the OS/application to do something with it. CEC has largely been ignored by the linux community until a few months ago when finally kernel infra support arrived for CEC.

But any generic PC with HDMI interface usually has nothing tied to the CEC line (so support impossible), and some even go so far to tie the CEC line to ground, which is an even bigger no-no. There has been one documented case of a toshiba notebook having a working CEC interface.
There are special cables that have the CEC line cut to connect generic bad PC's to a CEC setup.
CEC is like a bus where every device is electrically connected to the same wire. If one device short-circuits the line, the CEC bus is dead.

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Quoting: ArdjeYay! Just tested it, the 5 Jan release fixed the issue.

Unfortunately switching back to stable and back to beta again, and the bug reappeared :-(.

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