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Mass Effect 3 PC will NOT have gamepad support
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Deleted member 17706
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That's the theme of Bioware for every game after Dragon Age: Origins. It seems to be getting worse with each title, though.
Let's see what PC games support the 360 pad:
Dear Esther
Dustforce
Trine 2
Trine 1
Serious Sam 3
Saints Row the Third
Super Meat Boy
Jurassic Park
Skyrim
Sonic Generations
Dungeon defenders
Dead Rising 2
Orcs Must Die
NBA 2k12
Rage
Nuclear Dawn
Bunch of Heroes
Rochard
Renegade Ops
Hard Reset
Space Marine
Dead Island
Rock of Ages
Wasteland Angel
Serious Sam: Double D
Tropico 4
Deus Ex: Human Revolution
E.Y.E.
EDGE
Chantelise
Bastion
Call of Juarez 2
Fear 3
Duke Nukem Forever
Red Faction Armageddon
Jamestown
Hamilton's Great Adventure
Hunted: The Demon's Forge
Witcher 2
Naval Warfare
Blocks that Matter
Shatter
Call of Juarez Bound in Blood
Virtua Tennis 4
Hydrophobia Prophecy
Sequence (and guess how many people developed that one!)
IL-2 Sturmovik
Portal 2
Sanctum
Dino D-Day
Crysis 2
Spiral Knights
Homefront
Magicka
Atom Zombie Smasher
Chtulu Saves the World
Back to the Future
NFS: Hot Pursuit
Call of Duty: Black Ops
Hoard
The Ball
Fable 3
Force Unleashed 2
Nimbus
Fallout: New Vegas
Costume Quest
Recettear: An Item Shop's Tale
Overlord 2
ArmA 2
F1 2010
Worms Reloaded
Shank 2
Shank 1
Lara Croft and The Guardian of Light
Limbo
Deathspank
Sniper: Ghost Warrior
Prince of Persia 08
Bit.trip RUNNER
Lead & Gold
Arkham City
Arkham Asylum
Mirror's Edge
Just Cause 2
Flotilla
Metro 2033
AvP
Dark Void
Dark Void Zero
Darksiders
Zombie Driver
Saboteur
Wings of Prey
Assassin's Creed games
L4D2
etc.
Too tired to go on. Feel free to go on here
Apparently the GUI team of ME3 were more strained than the "team" of Jamestown, Sequence or Bit.trip.RUNNER.
Dear Esther
Dustforce
Trine 2
Trine 1
Serious Sam 3
Saints Row the Third
Super Meat Boy
Jurassic Park
Skyrim
Sonic Generations
Dungeon defenders
Dead Rising 2
Orcs Must Die
NBA 2k12
Rage
Nuclear Dawn
Bunch of Heroes
Rochard
Renegade Ops
Hard Reset
Space Marine
Dead Island
Rock of Ages
Wasteland Angel
Serious Sam: Double D
Tropico 4
Deus Ex: Human Revolution
E.Y.E.
EDGE
Chantelise
Bastion
Call of Juarez 2
Fear 3
Duke Nukem Forever
Red Faction Armageddon
Jamestown
Hamilton's Great Adventure
Hunted: The Demon's Forge
Witcher 2
Naval Warfare
Blocks that Matter
Shatter
Call of Juarez Bound in Blood
Virtua Tennis 4
Hydrophobia Prophecy
Sequence (and guess how many people developed that one!)
IL-2 Sturmovik
Portal 2
Sanctum
Dino D-Day
Crysis 2
Spiral Knights
Homefront
Magicka
Atom Zombie Smasher
Chtulu Saves the World
Back to the Future
NFS: Hot Pursuit
Call of Duty: Black Ops
Hoard
The Ball
Fable 3
Force Unleashed 2
Nimbus
Fallout: New Vegas
Costume Quest
Recettear: An Item Shop's Tale
Overlord 2
ArmA 2
F1 2010
Worms Reloaded
Shank 2
Shank 1
Lara Croft and The Guardian of Light
Limbo
Deathspank
Sniper: Ghost Warrior
Prince of Persia 08
Bit.trip RUNNER
Lead & Gold
Arkham City
Arkham Asylum
Mirror's Edge
Just Cause 2
Flotilla
Metro 2033
AvP
Dark Void
Dark Void Zero
Darksiders
Zombie Driver
Saboteur
Wings of Prey
Assassin's Creed games
L4D2
etc.
Too tired to go on. Feel free to go on here
Apparently the GUI team of ME3 were more strained than the "team" of Jamestown, Sequence or Bit.trip.RUNNER.
darkpaladinmfc
Member
Funny thing is the PC controls aren't even good. You have to cycle through weapons one at a time like in ME2, in ME1 you could bind each of your 4 weapons to a key (F keys by default). Also there are no menu shortcuts like ME1 (to go to Journal you have to press escape then click the Journal panel, rather than press J like in ME1).
I don't care about pad support. To me a Dev never has to take on a secondary control scheme if they don't want to so long as they properly support the platforms main method.
Sadly this isn't the case, or at least no default. I will need to check and see if remapping fixes my issues like it did for some people.
Sadly this isn't the case, or at least no default. I will need to check and see if remapping fixes my issues like it did for some people.
faceless007
Member
I played both those with kb/m and loved it.
I'll never get used to dual-analog because moving the camera around is just too slow and imprecise.
CharmingCharlie
Member
^ pretty much sums up how I feel about the whole issue. Too many times I have played games with joypad support that do not take advantage of the mouse and keyboard. Many games with joypad support on the PC are inherently too easy with the mouse and keyboard. In my view a game balanced PROPERLY for the mouse and keyboard will be next too unplayable with a joypad.
Now ordinarily I would be going "yeah Bioware you go girl, support the PC's native control scheme". However the fact that mouse and keyboard control in ME 3 is so atrocious, limited and restricted by the consoles use of joypads I can't stand on Bioware's side with this one. They made zero effort to balance this game and take advantage of the PC's unique control scheme, they might as well have chucked joypad control in there anyway.
The simple reason why there is no joypad support is because Bioware couldn't be arsed to do it. It is pretty obvious that they just didn't care about the PC version and have shoved a crappy lazy port out the door.
Batman plays very well with m&kb...in fact, I prefer it to the 360 controller. One of the few action games that does m&kb right.
Nabs
Member
Bingo.
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Deleted member 17706
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The only good thing to have come from the Games for Windows initiative.
Hawk269
Member
For a game like this and the fact that I have my rig attached to a big screen TV, I prefer a controller than KB/Mouse. So many other PC games have 2 UI's one for KB/M, one for Controller. Once the controller is detected, everything switches, hell some games allow both at the same time.
It is just being lazy and not giving a crap. I posted this in teh impression demo thread, but not getting the game as well because of this. I played 1 an 2 on the 360, loved them, but trying the demo out on 360 & PC, the 360 version looks like shit compared to the PC version, but without controller support, not going to buy. Maybe when it is $10.00 on a steam sale I might, but no way am I getting this for $60 without gamepad support.
Yeah almost every GFW multiplat supports gamepad, basically, along with a host of others. It's also nothing terribly new. Such seamless support with UI changes basically is, but PC games have supported additional input options for ages. You could play Quake 1 with a joystick if you wanted to.
Princess Carl
Member
Sounds like a company who doesn't care about they do and the quality of their work anymore.
A real developer wouldn't listen to the brass even if they told him/her to keep controller support out. Must be a lot outside hands messing with MassEffect
A real developer wouldn't listen to the brass even if they told him/her to keep controller support out. Must be a lot outside hands messing with MassEffect
Steam sales bro.
Hawk269
Member
To add to this....
38 Studios and Big Huge Games with their first game "Kingdoms of Amular: Reckoning" managed to support both KB/M and 360 Controller support and it was their first game, which happens to be published by EA as well. If they could fucking do it, why cant BioWare do it?
Princess Carl
Member
Lesbian computers and aliens fanfic come to life isn't going to write itself.
Robot Pants
Member
1 step forward (toggle helmets in conversations), 2 steps back (no gamepad support).
Sequence, a game developed by 2 people, allows 360 controller support.
Jamestown, a game developed by 3 people, allows 360 controller support.
Mass Effect 3, a game developed by hundreds of people in the course of 2 years, does not allow 360 controller support. Despite fans clamoring for the feature for the 2 previous games.
Apparently Bioware has no idea they are making games supposed to be played by players. I don't know who they are making games for - it's certainly not their "customers".
Hawk269
Member
What???
Haunted
Member
DEV REALITIES
You guys should be happy that they're even bring it to PC in the first place. What a bunch of entitled elitist whiners.
Vane_MagicCity
Banned
They aren't bringing it to PC to be nice, they are doing it to make money and they will. Also they are doing it to push more people towards Origin.
Woo-Fu
Banned
I should be happy Electronic Arts likes to make money?
Haunted
Member
If ME1 and 2 are any indication, Xpadder (or another key mapper) is going to be your best bet.
These new juniors deliver, EviLore. This is the best batch in years
Snuggler's just joking.
Xpadder will help you, but don't expect the modding community to be up and running soon, seeing how coalesced is no longer an ini file and is encrypted.
Hawk269
Member
Really man...really?
For a game like this it is a given to support gamepads. ME1 and ME2 I can almost understand, but more and more people are playing on big screen TV's...so outside of MMO's and few RTS's I can see why no gamepad support..but for this game coming out in 2012, it should be a given.
Really dont understand how you would call anyone entitled elitist for wanting support for a gamepad in a action type game coming out in 2012.
Alan Wake is coming out tomorrow, and guess what both KB and Gamepad support!
jim-jam bongs
Member
Really now, lads
I am rich, bro.
Foliorum Viridum
Banned
It's getting that way. I consider it the standard for PC now.
jim-jam bongs
Member
There are even some PC gaming zealots among them, check this gold out: http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=35163635&postcount=8
Ploid 3.0
Member
Alan Wake dev?
Nooooooo
I love it when they burn bright and fast, but he wasn't even at 30 posts yet! Who knows what he was gonna say next?
Why even register just to commit account suicide like that
Barack Lesnar
Banned
That's one thing we definitely agree on. The best PC gaming-related 40 bucks I've ever spent was on this 360 wireless controller. I seriously could not game without it anymore, unless it's an rts or moba. If a game doesn't support it or xpadder I just won't buy it, period. It's that important to me.
Macmanus
Member
The original post was commenting on all Bioware games, not just ME, what does it matter who ported it?
And yeah. It's lazy as fuck of Bioware to not include controller support on a major studio release that the console was the lead platform for development.
jim-jam bongs
Member
Maybe he knows that all the mods are PC gamers and thought it would help him to make friends? Who can tell what darkness lies within the hearts of juniors.
So the current excuse is that it takes 'too much time'?
Well I have the perfect solution! How about y'all go head on and decrypt those input files so's we can fix what y'all can't. See, so little work and the perfect solution for everybody; I'm sure they'll see reason and do thihahahahahaaha....
Anyhoo, when does this hit $30 again? Because that seems to be how much they're making it worth for some reason.
Well I have the perfect solution! How about y'all go head on and decrypt those input files so's we can fix what y'all can't. See, so little work and the perfect solution for everybody; I'm sure they'll see reason and do thihahahahahaaha....
Anyhoo, when does this hit $30 again? Because that seems to be how much they're making it worth for some reason.
Foliorum Viridum
Banned
He sacrificed himself for the cause. He will be rewarded in Heaven.
jim-jam bongs
Member
No that's suicide bombers, they get 99 PC gamers when they get there.
OH SNAP
Worth it to see those xbawks kiddies get told.
What is Neogaf's heaven? /v/?
Foliorum Viridum
Banned
It's not NeoGAF heaven, it's PC heaven.
I hear that if you're loyal to the cause like him, you might, MIGHT, get to play a game on Dennis' PC....
Reddit. We pray for gifs and stories and they pass down their divine gifts to us.
My goodness, no wonder he posted such things
jim-jam bongs
Member
There are actually several levels of purgatory for banned members of GAF which I won't link to here. Suffice to say they're full of racism, homophobia and console-wars, all the fun stuff which isn't allowed here by these fascistas.
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