NamelessPlayer on 18/2/2010 at 21:41
Quote Posted by EvaUnit02
I was more addressing the guy who was knobslobbering the Spaceorb or similarly overkill game controllers for PC. The mouse look works beautifully, no need for analogue controller at all.
That first sentence is a rather douchebag way to put it.
In a pinch, I CAN control Descent with just keyboard and mouse. How?
E/D: Forward/back
S/F: Strafe left/right
W/R: Roll left/right
(For those of you still used to WASD, just shift the cluster one key to the left.)
Space/Left Ctrl: Strafe up/down
Mouse: Look around like a typical FPS
It's like playing the alien ship level in Crysis or the whole of Shattered Horizon, really (only the latter uses a shift button to make the mouse roll left/right rather than turn left/right).
Yet something feels...off about it. I can't quite put my finger on it, but it just doesn't have the right feel if I'm not using an input device that I manipulate in exactly the fashion I want to move my ship in a complete six-degrees-of-freedom space.
swaaye on 19/2/2010 at 18:13
I used to somehow play Descent with just a keyboard. It was a bitch but I got it figured out well enough. A dual stick gamepad would be about a zillion times better than that so, thus, I'm sure a gamepad could work ok. 4 axes and you'd still be able to work with shoulder and trigger buttons with other fingers. Clicking the thumbsticks could be useful for other some non-action controls (ie bring up map or some such).
I knew some guys who went nuts with the Spaceorb 360 and whatnot, but I was not that hardcore. I'm sure that the game could be enjoyed on a modern gamepad.
One thing about a cross platform release is that it would probably be by FAR the most popular Descent game ever. The older games were not very successful.
