The journal quickly becomes impossible to parse, and directions from NPCs can be vague, but it’s another otherwise welcome feature that really complicates things: the connected nature of the world. They’re great, fat with unexpected turns and rewarding character moments, but keeping track of them is hard work. Larian loves its headscratchers, populating Rivellon with riddles, moral conundrums and ancient mysteries. These neat tricks don’t mean the quests are simple. using a mouse is a godsend.Īnd yeah XCOM isn't a good comparison, that was made from the ground up to be used with a 360 and PS3 controller and also has a much different style than Divinity and much less abilities and whatnot.As she gushed about her son, it dawned on me, I knew this guy. Precsion may not be important for combat also but in terms of an RPG with a ton of little items, stats, numbers, abilities etc. Janky how? In what way? I've never heard of that complaint and there's no reason to think that they would be janky. The console UI is like triple the size of the PC one which is super distracting and I literally don't understand how you can say precision isn't a big deal and then say the mouse and keyboard controls are janky.

Even though I prefer gamepads for like 95% of my games I bought it on PC over PS4 solely because of the PC controls and UI. If there's a game that screams to use a kb/m and to have a PC UI it was Divinity: Original Sin. Without getting in to post history/system warz fuckery, it's an isometric turn based CRPG that also released first on PC. This is another game where the Steam Controller works well, bridging that gamepad to M&K gap a bit. Me, personally, the extra time needed per turn didn't bother me enough to not be ok playing it with a gamepad form time to time, but I cna see it it being a dela breaker for some. But the comfy couch gamepad experience is still great in that game - with the caveat that mouse and keybaord is more efficient, and for some people, especially those who played the game with a mouse and keyboard that might be just too much of a hassle.

And STILL mouse and keybaord controls are way faster and easier to deal with. Thankfully the sequel fleshed out gameplay mechanics a lot more, and they managed to do it with a streamlined, gamepad friendly UI, mostly because combat was still composed of a few simple things to do. While on a gamepad, I had to add the time it took to drag the damn movement cursor around, which was finicky, so I had a 50/50 chance of ending my turn in the open instead of cover if I wasn't VERY careful. I could hit a key, clikc on the map, hit a key, click ont he map, etc, and have my guys where hey need to be in 3 seconds flat. Even so, moving your guys with a mouse and keybaord was ten times faster. I agree that it played great with a gamepad! But there was no real inventory management, and combat acitons were incredibly simplistic. And it shows, as it was dumbed down for gamepads (and sadly, a more casual consle audience). Form the start it was going to be a console + PC game. If it's important to you to play games like this on a couch, well Pc is where these games thrive, and the Steam Controller is your best bet. OP, might I recommend the Steam Controller? It's probably the best compromise you can make in terms of controls for a game like this + comfy couch gaming. Next thing you'll tell us is that Cities skylines is better with a gamepad too. It's not a bad gamepad port by any means, but the game is way better with mouse and keyboard.

The gamepad is there to facilitate couch gaming, that's about it, it's not some magical input device, and that right analog stick sucks for camera control or any sort of precision control.Ĭhaobreaker is such an example.

Hell most still think gamepads are superior to mouse and keybaord for FPS games! So of course coming from a mouse and keyboard UI, DESIGNED with mouse and keyboard in mind as was Divinity, and for a cRPG, even one that is turn based, is going to have you frustrated with the gamepad UI. Many only ever play games with a gamepad, and so they think the utter inefficiencies and compromises and menus, and sub menus, and sub-sub menus are a NORMAL way to interact with games. Take what some console gamers say about good, efficient UI's, especially when you're talking about a game like this, wiht a giant grain of salt.

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