So I just finished playing the Dark Void demo on my PC. Game plays fine, seemed overall like a decent enough port, playing smoothly maxed out (as it should be, it's not exactly the prettiest game I've seen)
Problems only began when I came across this:
OH right. My yellow Y button. Well, I'm using a keyboard and my Y key is black and fairly boring looking. So what is this mystical yellow Y button you speak of??
A quick glance in the controls section told me that the yellow Y button is actually my keyboard's Q key. Fair enough.
Problems however, didn't stop there. Once I was in the air I was treated to this:
Well this was easy, I quickly realized the left stick it was asking me to move was my mouse. But THEN a minute later I'm asked:
Press my right stick? I don't HAVE a right stick. I certainly don't have a SECOND MOUSE if that's what you're trying to tell me??
Another glance in the options showed me my right stick was apparently my Left Alt Key. O..kay?
Then it asked me to combine pressing the right stick with pressing the left stick, and as neither my left or right mouse buttons seemed to act correctly as the pressing of a 'left stick', and neither did slamming my mouse with my hand or throwing it against the wall; I decided I wasn't going to give the game the satisfaction of making me check the options again, and as moving around in the air with my mouse was a bit iffy, I decided to plug in my gamepad and try and use that instead. Oh. It doesn't recognize my gamepad. What a surprise. I promptly uninstalled this POS which was stinking up my hard-drive.
Now I'm wondering what the hell this is all about. Can someone please explain to me why the developer went through the effort of porting an entire game from a console to a PC, all that coding, all that work, and somehow can't be arsed to replace the little static pictures of gamepad buttons with little static pictures of the keys I'm meant to press instead? This phenomenon is sadly something I've seen before, many times in a bunch of games from a number of different developers.
I understand some developers don't put a lot of work in their PC ports. But surely replacing static pictures with other static pictures at certain points in the game isn't a difficult task? A couple of hours work at the most, compared to the months upon months it probably took them to port the thing. SO to sum this whole thread up in one small, bitesized phrase: What the fuck?
Problems only began when I came across this:
OH right. My yellow Y button. Well, I'm using a keyboard and my Y key is black and fairly boring looking. So what is this mystical yellow Y button you speak of??
A quick glance in the controls section told me that the yellow Y button is actually my keyboard's Q key. Fair enough.
Problems however, didn't stop there. Once I was in the air I was treated to this:
Well this was easy, I quickly realized the left stick it was asking me to move was my mouse. But THEN a minute later I'm asked:
Press my right stick? I don't HAVE a right stick. I certainly don't have a SECOND MOUSE if that's what you're trying to tell me??
Another glance in the options showed me my right stick was apparently my Left Alt Key. O..kay?
Then it asked me to combine pressing the right stick with pressing the left stick, and as neither my left or right mouse buttons seemed to act correctly as the pressing of a 'left stick', and neither did slamming my mouse with my hand or throwing it against the wall; I decided I wasn't going to give the game the satisfaction of making me check the options again, and as moving around in the air with my mouse was a bit iffy, I decided to plug in my gamepad and try and use that instead. Oh. It doesn't recognize my gamepad. What a surprise. I promptly uninstalled this POS which was stinking up my hard-drive.
Now I'm wondering what the hell this is all about. Can someone please explain to me why the developer went through the effort of porting an entire game from a console to a PC, all that coding, all that work, and somehow can't be arsed to replace the little static pictures of gamepad buttons with little static pictures of the keys I'm meant to press instead? This phenomenon is sadly something I've seen before, many times in a bunch of games from a number of different developers.
I understand some developers don't put a lot of work in their PC ports. But surely replacing static pictures with other static pictures at certain points in the game isn't a difficult task? A couple of hours work at the most, compared to the months upon months it probably took them to port the thing. SO to sum this whole thread up in one small, bitesized phrase: What the fuck?
From my own experience and many other PC gamers.
