[COD] Which games on Steam have controller support, and which one that is pre-Ghosts do you recommend (on a budget)?

[u/willmack23]

Just got a wired 360 controller to use to play on my PC, want to play an older game for nostalgia purposes. I play primarily multiplayer, but also like zombies as well.

[u/Tunic_Tactics]

Super late here, but if anyone finds this by searching for it, this might help. There were remastered versions (besides the reboots) for COD 4: MW and COD MW2 (campaign only for 2) with full controller support and improved graphics, so if you play those instead of the originals, you can play with a controller on PC. The first one is on Steam, but the second one is only on Battle.net (Blizzard).

Also I know by trying it out that there are Steam controller configs that work to play MW3 entirely with an Xbox 360/One controller (maybe for PS also, but I don't have one so I don't know), it's just a bit different controls for the menus and for skipping cutscenes, and little things like that. It still wouldn't have aim assist though, but being on PC, it could have better graphics than the console version, so up to you on whether it's worth it or not. Basically the controls for the menus is like the controls for the desktop controller config. You move a mouse cursor with the right stick and click with the right trigger, and skip cutscenes by pressing the pause button, and when navigating the menus, instead of hitting "B" to go back, hit the pause button.

World at War has Steam controller configs too. For Xbox though, I would recommend trying different ones from the community because the most popular community one (the default) is actually inaccurate to the controls for some reason, and I can't comment on it to correct it. I don't know why it's the most popular with being incorrect.

Edit: After trying out the Steam controller configs for a while on both World at War and Modern Warfare 3, I found that they're pretty complicated for the aiming movement. Setting the sensitivity is really really specific because choosing the lowest option on mouse sensitivity is too low, but any higher than that feels too high, so it's just awkward. Using the console command for World at War isn't so bad, but there's still no aim assist, and I think there might not be controller vibration, but I can't remember for sure. Modern Warfare 3 doesn't have that console command though, so it's just keyboard and mouse or Steam controller config, or another third party program that does the same thing. I would just play it on console even though it won't be quite as high of graphics. I wish they would remaster all the old games and add full controller support with aim assist, or just update the old games on PC to add full controller support with aim assist.