Logitech has expressed its desire to have its 'G3' products constitute its 'affordable'—but not necessarily budget—range of PC gaming peripherals. Given the general state of the economy and the fact that the quality-but-affordable market is my usual stomping ground, I was naturally excited to get my hands on this G316 X. Alas, what a disappointment.
My experience here is coloured very much by my experience with this keyboard's white 'tactile' switches, which are the switches in the version I was sent, as apparently this is all that will be available in the UK with a UK layout. The US will be able to get a version with linear switches, which will hopefully be at least somewhat better.
There are some things to like about this keyboard, such as the lighting and the sturdy keycaps, but it's impossible to look past the awful keypress experience, most pertinently for gaming. There's little more important than key feel for a keyboard, and there's little more important than having a good gaming key-feel experience in, well, a gaming keyboard. And this keyboard unfortunately struggles on the first front and completely fails on the latter.
On trying the G316 X, my first surprise was that...
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