jamesworkshop said:
Landslide said:
I just beat the game on the 360. I can't really see how the addition of PhysX would compensate for whatever cumbersome PC control scheme they'd have to shoehorn the console version into.
What a wired Xbox 360 controller
I agree - I played through The Last Remnant using a wired Xbox 360 controller and it worked beautifully, which you'd expect since it was also an enhanced port of a 360 game. I far prefer the gamepad compatibility for these kind of games over some shoddy mouse/keyboard implementation - it's more about the control scheme the game was originally designed for than the platform itself.
Doug said:
Yeah, this to be fair; this is at the root of the reason why PhysX's is rarely used in games, and the cards haven't sold very well.
Now that PhysX is owned by nVidia and built into all their higher-end video cards, this is a pretty good way to promote it. If someone is in the market, the fact that some good games included PhysX enhancements that I could only see with an nVidia card might convince them to choose nVidia over an equivalent ATI card.
Of course, since it's nVidia-exclusive, it can only ever be 'extra pretty' and not anything significant to gameplay. It would be better if the two of them could agree on a single standard, then we all win. Looking at the comparison video, I would
much rather have the option for the extra pretty than not be able to see it, given a choice.
A dedicated physics card was a pretty stupid idea though, though not quite as stupid as the KillerNIC.
