Forgive me, Codex, for I have sinned. After being taunted so many times by Super Meat Boy that it was better to play it with a pad than the keyboard — despite doing pretty good with the keyboard so far — I decided to buy one — a pad, that is, because I already got a keyboard. Without any special preference, I decided to go for the Xbox 360 pad, mainly because I heard most recent games were designed around it and it played rather nice with Windows. Also it should be somewhat easy to find one in the mainstream consoletard stores.
Of course it didn't go that easily. I got two consoletard stores relatively close to each other 100m away from the den of villainy I call home, but one was closed and the other one only carried wireless controllers — did I mention I loathe wireless? I had to drive to the next town and try another store. There I saw that not only did they carry the regular wired Xbox 360 controller but there was a 20% off promo on it. I saw this as a sign, though a sign of what exactly I didn't know.
And again forgive me Codex but I like the damn thing. It worked right after being plugged in and Super Meat Boy indeed plays better with it. my various emulators gladly accepted it — and damn if it feels nice to play Super Mario World with a pad — and recent games like Batman: Arkham Asylum and Darksiders just feel nice with it.
That said I tried L4D2 with it just to check how a FPS with Xbox 360 pad support plays and it was abominable. Some things just aren't made to be. Gears of War felt better though, but then again it uses popamole mechanics that have you often staring at in one direction and rarely move, unlike L4D2 where dangers comes from everywhere at random.
So I like that shit. I didn't I would but I do. It's also fun to be able to sit back a bit and relax, and my ferret tries to eat it when it rumbles. The other night I had a nightmare that I bought an Xbox 360 and an angry mob came after me with torches. Please help me!
Of course it didn't go that easily. I got two consoletard stores relatively close to each other 100m away from the den of villainy I call home, but one was closed and the other one only carried wireless controllers — did I mention I loathe wireless? I had to drive to the next town and try another store. There I saw that not only did they carry the regular wired Xbox 360 controller but there was a 20% off promo on it. I saw this as a sign, though a sign of what exactly I didn't know.
And again forgive me Codex but I like the damn thing. It worked right after being plugged in and Super Meat Boy indeed plays better with it. my various emulators gladly accepted it — and damn if it feels nice to play Super Mario World with a pad — and recent games like Batman: Arkham Asylum and Darksiders just feel nice with it.
That said I tried L4D2 with it just to check how a FPS with Xbox 360 pad support plays and it was abominable. Some things just aren't made to be. Gears of War felt better though, but then again it uses popamole mechanics that have you often staring at in one direction and rarely move, unlike L4D2 where dangers comes from everywhere at random.
So I like that shit. I didn't I would but I do. It's also fun to be able to sit back a bit and relax, and my ferret tries to eat it when it rumbles. The other night I had a nightmare that I bought an Xbox 360 and an angry mob came after me with torches. Please help me!
I actually got a Playstation pad -- it's basically the same button-wise but I find it to be less ergonomically retarded than the XBox controller. Also most of the newer ones come with pre-programmed software that is compatible with Windows.
conversion was well-done, like B:AA.
I got it mostly because I decided to replay the PC version of Metal Gear Solid and while the pad is recognised, it forces me to use a stick instead of the D-pad, because the D-pad in that game won't do diagonals for some reason. And since the stick doesn't do analog movements, it's a pain to use, so I used Xpadder to bind the D-pad to the keyboard arrows and it works like a charm.
