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 Swing and a miss. June 5, 2008
J. Vorndran
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
I play a ton of different games, but mostly Team Fortress2 and Warcraft. I've been looking for some sort of an extra gamepad or keyboard to improve my gaming experience over my craptastic Dell keyboard and 5 button mouse, but this isn't it.
I've never used a N52 or any other gamepad, but I could tell 5 min out of the box that this wasn't going to cut it, for anyone, so it really makes me wonder what they were thinking. The main advantage of a gamepad is it gives your left thumb something to do other than hit the spacebar, which mine does a lot. Placing all your movement on your thumb is a great idea, and it's the main reason I bought it. The rest of the pad is completely irrelevant, just the thumb's area is really important, and the N52te fails horribly.
First and formost, the Dpad. it comes with a removable joystick button, which is almost as big as the dpad underneath it. it's also made of hard plastic so your thumb has nothing to grip. In trying to use the joystick, I usually was pressing the edges, which is a lot of unnecessary thumb movement, which slows you down considerably. Easy fix, either rubberize the button or make it half it's size, it'd be perfect. But when it comes to moving the dpad, I wanna meet the gorrila that ok'd that one. It's stiff as a rock, and completely unresponsive to any level of finesse short of Hercules.
And I'm simply disgusted the other two thumb buttons. the alt button above the dpad is very mushy and lacks a clicky response, you don't know if you're hitting it or not, and that's very bad. The 15 button below your thumb is too far toward your palm and needs to be hit dead center to register, requiring complete repositioning of your hand to use it.
Now, I could go on about how the upper key's faces are too close together, causing fingers to get "lost," a scroll wheel with 1/4" of play, or really overly bright backlighting, but I think you get the point. The software was OK and the rest of it I really didn't mind, but when the thumb area, the only advantage a gampad has fails so completely, kinda makes you wonder.
Don't buy it, whatever you're using now is probably better.
 Recommended for Hardcore PC Gamers - Excellent Build, Great Tactile Surface June 5, 2008
C. Smith
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I just bought the n52te yesterday after so many people loving it, and I overnighted it with amazon prime (god I love that service)... I have the thing sitting in front of me and I'm already loving it without even playing with it yet. Very ergonomic.. and will go nicely with my Razer Lycosa keyboard. I almost think they designed the n52te and the Lycosa as sister products... because they are very similarly made in their design and aesthetic. Overall, great so far, and my only complaint is that the spacebar feels less bouncy then I would like.
i do not see the reason for all the grief August 8, 2008
Gargalesis (TEXAS)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Let's get the "con" out of the way. Belkin installed a star going nova to light up the keybank indicator. Like Fry's Chevy Nova, it lights up the sky. Still shines through two layers of electrical tape!
I set my WoW key bindings to the default settings on the speed pad. Played around in a green area. Got the feel for the pad, tweaked key bindings and then moved on to a yellow area. Killed mobs with ease, didn't have to focus so much on moving the mouse over the right spell or worry about cursor moving off my spam button. So I moved onto an orange area, no problem. This n52te is Awesome. My game did improve in a few hours. I don't get why all the fan boys of the n52 are hating so much, QQ.
Yes, a bit pricey but, W gave me $600 to blow.
 Great Product support needs work August 14, 2008
Uncle B
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This gamepad is awsome. Fully customizable for any game. Saves a lot of missed keystrokes. The support site is kinda behind. From what I understand the non te version of this thing is very well liked by gamers and had great support and website, though I've never checked it out. Well most of the posts on the te forums were complaints about lack of improvment from the original. I guess they never tried taking the original to a different computer. The te can be used on any computer no software required, granted you have saved your profiles to the keypads onboard memory. I love this feature, and no the original has no onboard memory. Please view the sites for both Belkin n52 and Belkin n52te to decide wich is right for you.
pretty good August 16, 2008
Hao Yan (El Segundo, CA USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Purchased this to play WoW on my laptop, mostly because laptop gets discomfortingly hot during gaming. It does everything I hoped for with a few caveats, which I am well aware of thanks to other user reviews here (a bit big and nonadjustable, crazy bright LED, no easy way to set up multiple key combo short of creating macros).
One time I forgot to bring it with me and had to go back to the default keyboard mapping. Tried to play some PVP and it was nearly impossible, which made me really appreciate how much it has improved my gaming.
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