gigantibyte Posted December 31, 2011 Posted December 31, 2011 How do you use a controller to enter console commands or name newly enchanted items? When riding a horse, can you continue to go forward but move the camera to a side view? (I liked to do this while running in 3rd person in Fallout 3, and I think it's possible to enable this feature in Skyrim too.) How easy is gameplay using a controller in 3rd person? There's also no problem using a k&m while playing video games relaxing on the couch - it's how I always play. I do have a logitech controller that looks like the one for the playstation and can emulate an xbox controller, but I use it mainly for racing and platform games. To each their own, but to me without mouse-look, Skyrim would have less of an immersion quality. Unless the idea is that we're playing the part of a robot with stiff movements.
ginnyfizz Posted December 31, 2011 Posted December 31, 2011 I agree, I need that mouse look personally! And that's a good point, idk how you would go about entering console commands with a controller. You certainly need those with Skyrim and all the glitched quests.
phaota Posted December 31, 2011 Author Posted December 31, 2011 Yeah, totally understand your view on not liking the controller if you have arthritis. It definitely would not be comfortable with that condition. As for the lag situation concerning the acceleration from zero to full with the right stick, I don't have that problem. Might be your computer's process and how it is working with the controller.
Shantih Posted December 31, 2011 Posted December 31, 2011 You can use the keyboard to open the console or name a character or an item while playing with a controller... The controller doesn't turn your computer into an Xbox 360. :)
phaota Posted December 31, 2011 Author Posted December 31, 2011 Other than using the keyboard for accessing the console and snapping photos, I mainly use the controller. Like Shantih remarked, it doesn't turn your computer into a console gaming system, it's just a handy peripheral.
gorey666 Posted December 31, 2011 Posted December 31, 2011 I used to have these arguments with my Console friend for many years. It's no contest when it comes to FPS games, mouse keyboard wins everytime. I utterly destroyed him in multiplayer. The day you can play as fluidly as this with a controller..http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bfDPyut-fI ... is the day i give up my mouse/keyboard with all the aiming precision and vast number of hotkeys it affords. I dont ever foresee that happening. Yes that's MY youtube channel.
Ferretmyster Posted December 31, 2011 Posted December 31, 2011 LOL. Controller is better than keyboard and mouse? Now I've heard everything. I can always tell if a game video is made with the console version because of the stiff linear movements. Without mouse-look I would go crazy playing like that. That is one thing I have noticed in skyrim, is how stiff and clumsy it feels when your in combat or if your turning the camera, especially when running. Oblivion and Morrowind are so much easie to control with a mouse and keyboard because they were not console ports. I know because I had Morrowind and oblivion on console before I got them on PC.
gorey666 Posted December 31, 2011 Posted December 31, 2011 For the record, i DO have an xbox controller for my PC. I use it for certain games. Like sports games, or for driving in GTA IV.
Shantih Posted December 31, 2011 Posted December 31, 2011 It's no contest when it comes to FPS games, mouse keyboard wins everytime. Nobody here is claiming that controllers are more accurate. That being said Skyrim is not an FPS. I've said it above but IMO the greatest asset of the controller is the possibility to relax and play without being stuck to the keyboard. I have a normal mouse and I find it very difficult to use it if I don't have a table, a tray or some sort of plane surface to put it on -which unfortunately means that I can't really use it when I'm sitting on my couch. I never had that sort of problem with a controller.
gigantibyte Posted December 31, 2011 Posted December 31, 2011 (edited) The point I was trying to make is that you can't give up the keyboard entirely, whereas the k&m player never have to switch devices - not that it turns your pc into a 360. Playing with the controller might be more palatable if they had included a 'lock on target' feature, with buttons for next or previous target. The menus may have been tailored for controllers, but combat certainly wasn't. I have a normal mouse and I find it very difficult to use it if I don't have a table, a tray or some sort of plane surface to put it on -which unfortunately means that I can't really use it when I'm sitting on my couch. I never had that sort of problem with a controller. I use a mousepad on a flat book. Edited December 31, 2011 by gigantibyte
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