Epic President: “The Money’s On Console”

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makingmusic476 said:

Given all this talk of "true" PC games, I'm going to take a second to rant about Borderlands.  The game is a combination FPS and WRPG, and at it's core feels like it was MADE for PC.  Yet they designed it entirely around consoles, and did one of the weakest ports I've ever seen.  Graphically the game looks and runs fine on PC, but the controls are crap.  The mouse sensitivity is just bad, and unlike every other PC game in the history of PC gaming, they don't let you make use of any of the benefits that come with having a mouse.

In a console game, you click a button to enter a menu, click another to back out of a menu, etc., right?   On a PC game you generally just click on the menus you want to access with the mouse, click on what items you want, etc.   In Borderlands, they left the menus as they were on consoles, so you have to hit a keyboard button to access a menu, scroll to the item you want with the arrow keys, press a different button to buy the item, etc.   It's cumbersome, unintuitive, and annoying.

The mouse sensitivity also completely changes when on a menu, making it laggy and sluggish.   At least it's relatively normal while actually playing, but I guess they had to at least do that to keep the game from being totally broken.

Borderlands is one of those games that should theoretically sell better on PC, given it's mix of genres, but they totally borked the PC version.

Not to mention the pretty much complete inability to mod it at all.  That and the lack of variety of enemies pretty much makes it so i won't buy another Gearbox game.  It was fun for a while, but i just expect more from PC.