Age of Conan

After thinking about keyboards I'm thinking that AoC would be best played with a gamepad.  Question is does anyone know a good gamepad that would work well with AoC?  I'm kinda wanting one that lets me assign sequences of keys to a button so I can create simple macros.

Anyone have any experience with a good gamepad that you think would work well with AoC and has some basic macro capabilities for maybe 8 buttons or so?

I havent been in AoC yet, but I play games often with my Logitech gamepad, which plays well, it has 10 configurable buttons and so far worked with everything I had.

Best bet is to get a 360 Controller. Make sure its the one labeled for PC.

Not only has it become a standard for "Games for Windows", which Age of Conan is, future development of the console version might leak some intuitiveness over to the PC version's controls as well.

No macros or anything though.

You can use any 360 controller all you have to do is get an update from the microsoft download page for it.  Thats what I did.

I have been using a Nostromo n52 for about a decade and OH MY GODZ how did I ever play a game without it?  I now use the N52TE and it is even nicer. http://catalog.belkin.com/IWCatProductPage.process?Product_Id=390404

I have a Fang-1000 and a Wolfking-something (blue one) that are now both relegated to dust collection systems.  They are just not as comfortable, programable and my hand fits the Nostromo perfectly.  I had evil parents and because of this I was forced to learn classical music and have played piano for about the last 20 years.  Even with great typing skills and strong fingers the other gamepads seem less intuitive and functional.

I am going to purchase the Warrior XXtreme thing to try with Age of Conan... just because it looks really neato. http://www.directron.com/kbwolwxx2788bl.html  I have no idea how it would work but it looks neat and has a large surface area to collect dust later.

I know it sounds crazy, but I have these two long legs that do nothing to aid my gaming skills... and when they are not tucked under my butt they are bored.  Are there any programmable foot pedals?  I think adding some fun shield macros on to them would be neat too.

OK, now for my obligatory rant...

I don't WANT a game that has been dumbed down to be played on a joystick!!!

I want more not less!  I want options and functions and things to do with my fingers and toes!

Listen up you moronic computer designers, Don't you DARE ruin my computer games by turning them in to some Nintendo drivel for the kiddies!  They have their stupid little joystick toys attached to the TV.  Computers are better than those pieces of junk.  Don't you dare write my computer games down to that level of pablum, with their lobotimized drool-proof joysticks!

Take your silly joysticks and go far away from my computer games!  I have a g11 keyboard with 18 programmable hotkeys and all the bells and whistles, g9 mouse that really needs even more buttons to be better! and an N52TE that really rocks... and what am I wanting Morer More More!

By the time you read this I will have ordered a Warrior XXtreme and perhaps some foot-pedals  and what do you idiots in the gaming industry doing?  You are making the games for joysticks!! 

 grrrrrrrr

  hehehe... OK, I am now the proud owner of some programmable foot pedals

Three niffty foot stompers   that I can use to beat the socks off of all of you in AoC

http://www.kinesis-ergo.com/fs-savant-elite.htm

Dat's dem up dere

Foot Pedals For The Win ! 

I am using the 360 controller with

Pinnacle Gamer Profiler

I have used it in WoW, Guild Wars, EQ2, Oblivion and so many others.

I have finite control over what each button does, how it is pressed, etc,

I see AoC as an excellent game for a joystick..and maybe the Nostromo as an addon for keypress actions.

Getting excited

That pinnacle software looks like the perfect ticket.  Do you have any compatability issues with it?  I'm looking at that wireless logitech gamepad www.logitech.com/index.cfm/gaming/pc_gaming/gamepads/devices/264&cl=us,en.  That has 10 extra buttons and I'm thinking I can use the pinnacle software to maybe setup shifted options for macros so I can put my special combo openers on buttons, use the direction pad for attacking, and then have a shift key where it makes the combo openers macros that automatically do the follow up attacks.  This way I have the best of both worlds.  I can manually do the attacks when I'm in a finesse situation and I can play the attacks via a macro when I'm wanting to save my fingers.

Can you do all that with the pinnacle software?  Also one thing I was also thinking was having a button that just kinda endlessly rotated through attacks.  You know, press one button and it does 1 2 3 1 2 3 etc.  Does the pinnacle software allow that kinda function?

I've never used a gamepad before to play a game like this.  For people that have would you setup one joystick for mouselook and the other one for movement?  Seems like movement would be best on the left and mouselook on the right so you could use the 4 buttons above mouselook for combos and the direction pad above the left joystick for the 5 direction attacks?  Up left right and the lower left and right for the other two attacks?

any thoughts about that setup?

Originally posted by WiccanCircle

  hehehe... OK, I am now the proud owner of some programmable foot pedals

Three niffty foot stompers   that I can use to beat the socks off of all of you in AoC

http://www.kinesis-ergo.com/fs-savant-elite.htm

Dat's dem up dere

Foot Pedals For The Win ! 

Oh yeah! 3 pedals for adjusting your shielding :P

Now the only question is can the pinnacle software work with multiple control devices like a gamepad and a set of foot pedals.

Now we need a device that can detect eye movement and eye blinks and we can be set for UBER control!

Originally posted by ethion

That pinnacle software looks like the perfect ticket.  Do you have any compatability issues with it?  I'm looking at that wireless logitech gamepad www.logitech.com/index.cfm/gaming/pc_gaming/gamepads/devices/264&cl=us,en.  That has 10 extra buttons and I'm th