Controler or keyboard/Mouse or somehow both?

Hi,
I'm an old console gamer who has been won over to PC gaming. I'm loving the precision of aiming with a mouse but just can not master movement with a keyboard the way i could with a controller, particularly under heavy fire or attack from zombie hoard ..lol.
Is there a solution to this? and don'y say practice. Is there a gaming keyboard with a little one finger stick in place of the 'W' etc? and it there isn't then there should be ...lol

use an xbox controller for pc

works great especially for driving games

driving with the keyboard sucks

there actually seem to be some keyboards with little joysticks or trackballs that act as a mouse

such as

http://www.digitalpromo.co.uk/ione [...] -4909.html

http://www.argos.co.uk/static/Prod [...] 013831|catffice%2C+pcs+and+phones+%2F+pc+and+laptop+accessories+%2F+computer+keyboards+and+graphics+tablets+%2F

http://www.fentek-ind.com/trackball-keyboard.htm

whether they can do what you want i dont know

Logitech G13 is a better keypad than the Nostromo. Would recommend it instead.

Nah not left handed ...maybe if i was i could perfect the whole running sideways and backwards and strafing around that i so suck at with a keyboard...lol

your after what im after a left handed stick. trackballs just replace mice they wont configure to the keyboard commands and even when reconfigured end up clashing with the mouse. you could try a basic stick with something like xpadder. it does work but because my stick is for a righty its a little uncomfortable...

personally ive been looking at modding my 360 pad to use as a lefty thumb stick.. much like the wii remote but more ergo... ie a pistol grip with a thumb stick, grip trigger for run and 2 buttons under the the stick for say crouch toggle and jump... i would buy it if sum1 made it but they dont.
something like this...

purely for the left hand replacing the wasd with the stick...

I'm interested why do you find that you're better with a stick rather than the keyboard for movement in fps game?

Is it the analog component of the stick that you're relying on? Or is it something else?

To my knowledge there isn't a stick around that would replace the left side of the keyboard, because to face the truth, when you go that route you're not only replacing the WASD, you're also looking to replace - space, ctrl, shift, tab, 1-5, Q,E,R,F,G,Z,X,C,V and in some games even F1-4, ~, Alt.
Simply put, there's just not a stick out there that would match a keyboard in the number of keys to functionality ratio.

hmm, I see an awful lot of people mentioning track balls. But unless I'm missing something, afaik and from my personal experience with trackballs, they are not good for replacing a joystick or WASD. Reason being that trackball is by design a mouse replacement, and being that, when you don't move your mouse there's no signal from it. While say a joystick or WASD, if you hit A key and keep holding it the signal for moving left stays there. Same with joystick, you tilt it left, it will keep it there as long as you don't return to neutral position. A track ball doesn't have such a concept as neutral position, in which case I don't know how it would replace WASD or joystick.

I have this for my PS3:


I'd like to have an analog thumb stick on PC as well, but with a mouse. The Logitech G13 is the closest to what I want, but the thumb thing is just a D Pad instead of a stick. I don't think a nunchuck like the Splitfish Frag (the aforementioned PS3 controller) works that well on PC because you are button limited.