
the community has already come up with bindings for a bunch of stuff, too, meaning it's FINALLY possible for me to play Sid Meier's Pirates on the goddamn couch again. gonna talk mostly about the latter: it has a downright vertical learning curve since using touchpads is completely counterintuitive to thumbs trained over decades to expect analog sticks or buttons, but the more comfortable I get with it, the more I like it - ESPECIALLY the fact that it lets you rebind any input to whatever makes most sense to you. So I've been spending the weekend (a) blowing my usual ridiculous wad o' cash on way too much stuff and (b) trying to get comfortable with the Steam Controller.


right now it's only available for jailbroken devices (and GeForce cards of 650+, which I have) and I haven't jailbroken a device since iOS, like, 5 (although this is kind of a blessing in disguise since I only have to JB iOS 8.1 or something), but if I can break my iPad and get this set up, I can basically play my entire Steam library using a combo of my iPad mini plus my Gamevice, which is unquestionably the single greatest present you can buy yourself if you have a mini and an interest in playing games with actual buttons and a terminal case of more money than sense.

Has anyone done Steam and/or NVIDIA Game Streaming? I'm specifically interested in field reports of using Moonlight, which purportedly lets you stream your entire controller-supported library over your local network to an iOS device in Big Picture Mode and automatically using any connected MFi controllers as input devices to control everything.

Shadows of Mordor is fucking amazing, especially at that price - it's my personal favorite expression of what "next-gen" means to date (MGSV be damned)
