Do you NEED gaming peripherals

[nothotscott]

I'm sure it could help, or have useful macros, but is it just a convenience, or should I go out and spend over $50 on mice and keyboards just to have a good PC gaming experience?

[Verne]

Need? No. Having them does make the experience better, though.

[ShadowCaptain]

I'm sure it could help, or have useful macros, but is it just a convenience, or should I go out and spend over $50 on mice and keyboards just to have a good PC gaming experience?

 

IMO a gaming mouse is more important .. 100% essential? no, but they ARE better for gaming

 

if you type a lot a nice comfy keyboard is essential , as far as features etc, then its down to the user to determine

 

I like having nice peripherals - the main way you interact with your PC is your keyboard and mouse, why have a nice PC and interact with it, with terrible stuff

[CommandMan7]

If you can get them for $50, I'd say it's worth it. I paid over $150 for my mouse and keyboard

[TieBomber232]

I recently bought a new KB & Mouse after contemplating for a long time. I chose Corsair K70 RGB Cherry MX Red & Corsair M65 RGB, and I haven't looked back, stunning build quality on both and they're just amazing to use. I would personally say the experience is much nicer and, they are an awful lot nicer to look at than the cheap shit I used prior

I too paid £150 for my set

[Tim Drake]

I don't need my mechanical keyboard but it makes gaming + typing 5000x more enjoyable and satisfying.

 

I agree with @ShadowCaptain that if you game (especially FPS) the gaming mouse would be more important.

[Maleko]

I have the Logitech G502 mouse and the G15 keyboard. 

 

The Mouse I love, just so much smoother than a normal mouse and love the on the fly DPI change, can adjust it with a button without messing around with the game settings all the time.

Extra buttons are also very useful.

 

The keyboard... I tend to use the macro keys in Photoshop than in anything else.

I did use to use them to record annoying voice commands in L4D to annoy my friends

LCD display is a nice addition which I use mainly to monitor my system usage.

The back light keys are always a winner for me as well.

 

Apart from that, the keyboard is defo more a luxury item.

[LogicalDrm]

Over $/€50 for mouse? No. Mine is at that €50 mark. My previous was €15 more expensive and I miss that mouse. For kb just gaming features aren't enough. I mean you can get TKL mech under $100 and most of them are already with gaming branding. So reasons getting expensive kb are somewhere else than it being gaming branded and having gaming related features.

[Majestic]

Perhipherals are your primary interaction with the PC, so imho they're the most important bits. For me, the perhipherals costed 1.6 times more than my computer itself.

[Ostwind]

I'm sure it could help, or have useful macros, but is it just a convenience, or should I go out and spend over $50 on mice and keyboards just to have a good PC gaming experience?

No, it is absolutely not necessary at all. It is however beneficial to have things like mouse macro buttons or additional macro buttons on a keyboard.

[ShadowCaptain]

Perhipherals are your primary interaction with the PC, so imho they're the most important bits. For me, the perhipherals costed 1.6 times more than my computer itself.

 

Yeah for me Screen, speakers and peripherals are worth investing in, they are the way you interact with your computer, be it typing documents, or playing games, also a nice desk and chair are important too!!

 

Also the peripherals will last longer than the PC too, a nice keyboard, mouse, speakers, headphones and chair should last a couple of computer generations

[woll3]

There is no need to spend over $50 to get something decent, as for the Topic question, that depends on the indivdual, i for example cant play with any kind of office mice because they cant handle low sensitivities, but on the other hand i couldnt care less about the KB i use.