| Entroper said: I agree about the analog sticks. These games were designed to be played with a mouse and keyboard. I saw a video of TF2 being played on a 360 controller, and it looked, in a word, unplayable. You can't snap around to look for someone behind you, you can't aim quickly (which completely screws up the Sniper and Scout), you can't take out sentry guns nearly as effectively -- the whole game is just broken. I wouldn't think Portal would be as bad. There aren't many situations in Portal that require both fast and precise aiming. Then again, I wasn't really thinking about aiming while thoroughly enjoying the game -- I may be taking the mouse and keyboard for granted. Still, it can't be half as difficult as playing TF2 on a gamepad. |
The controller also makes rocket jumping hard as well with the Soldier. However, like any multiplayer game, it has it's awesome moments regardless. For example, taking out a majority of the enemy team in a sudden death round as a soldier gives quite the feeling, especially when you're the last one left. Honestly, all the games feel broken to me without a keyboard and mouse.
I would say that Portal requires the keyboard and mouse the most because you'll have to make portals, then quickly make other ones in mid-air to keep your momentum going to get to different areas. What makes it worse is that the camera will always try to readjust itself back to normal so trying to do these mid-air portal tricks with an analog stick is VERY difficult.
We take the mouse and keyboard for granted for PC games, trust me.
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If The Orange Box supports keyboard and mouse, I would be VERY happy. Even if it did though, I don't have a PS/2 to USB connector for my keyboard (old school). I've thought about a FragFX controller to get a mouse at least, but I doubt it'd be worth it as long as I have my PC.
To me, it seriously feels like the controls are broken in all the games. I feel very ineffecient with everything and what would take literally a couple of shots wastes all my ammo with misses on the controller.
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Another problem I've realized is that unless there is a quickload button I have no idea about, you can only quicksave. Quicksaving is nice, but to load a game, you have to press start and select load and your game as well, which takes FOREVER. It really messes me up because with PC games (mainly shooters of course) I quicksave ALL the time and then quickload whenever I make a mistake, be it a misjump or thinking I could take out enemies with less ammo and such.
