Have you played RE4 at all? When the camera is over the shoulder, your enemy is a large target directly in front of you and there's very little movement possible this, takes away all the advantages of a mouse. It's pretty much the same reason why cover systems in Gears of War and R6 Vegas were frowned upon by PC gamers because it renders all benefits of a mouse useless (quick turns, the ability to quickly aim from one corner of the screen to the opposite side in milliseconds) so there goes your improper mouse implementation argument out of the window.

smerlus

i don't know about re4, but the keyboard & mouse controls of both war and vegas work better. so there goes your war and vegas argument.

It's not that the controls don't work it's that the controls were created to offer no benefit for a mouse and keyboard seeing as these games were developed with the consoles in mind.

smerlus

even if they were developed with consoles in mind, it doesn't mean a good port with well translated keyboard & mouse controls won't be superior to the gamepad controls.

Add the fact that Dead Space is also about cutting body parts off of creatures not just simply shooting them, you also lose the argument when you say accuracy is needed. I can just as easily draw a line through an object with an analogue stick as I can with a mouse.

smerlus

it also has guns. just because one part of the game is equal in terms of control doesn't make it so overall.

So what's left is WASD movement against analog sticks and analog sticks are more precise.

so with aiming, accuracy on mouse and gamepad just the same and movement better on gamepad... how is the keyboard and mouse superior again?

smerlus

faster and more precise aim.

I think the only way it is worse is that analog controls on a gamepad for walking/running is better than WASD and a toggle button.

the over the should camera + limited view and movement make the mouse and analog stick for aiming just about the same.

If the TC was talking about far Cry 2 I'd agree with your first post. And yes you can use a gamepad for the Pc version but that should have been your first post instead of mentioning a control scheme that offers no advantages in this situation yet still calling it superior.

smerlus

it is superior. you can aim wherever you want faster than you would be able to with a gamepad if the mouse-look is properly implemented. how does that not make it superior? if the tc were talking about re4 and its mouse-look mod or if you didn't suggest that keyboard & mouse control is crappy in these types of games (based on your experience with one game that didn't even have mouse-look to begin with) or if you were even saying that the crappier gamepad control makes the game more tense and the horror element more concrete or if you were saying that this particular game has crappy keyboard & mouse support (because the devs didn't do it properly), i'd agree with you. but this is dead space and it comes with keyboard & mouse control (and thus far, there's no indication that the keyboard & mouse control is poorly done) and you were saying that re4's keyboard & mouse control sucked and thus this game's keyboard & mouse control will suck as well. any control scheme in which you can both aim faster AND more accurately is superior to one in which you can't.

world of goo is a puzzle game in which your objective is to move goo balls from one spot to another. this game is very, very unique. there are different types of goo balls, each having different properties and abilities, and the game throws out so many varying scenarios and challenges that the game feels innovative and fresh throughout. it's a really, really interesting game, and i'm sure most people will enjoy playing it. it's only $20, and it's totally worth every cent.

check out this youtube review of the game: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OerU4e64auk

thought so ty ;p

with another GB of RAM I should be able to play mass effect.

gormo4

well, it looks like the minimum requirement for mass effect is 1gb ram, so you'll definitely need more ram just to run the game. not sure if that will be enough for you though. :?

Minimum System Requirements for Mass Effect on the PC

Operating System:
Windows XP or Vista

Processor:
2.4+GHZ Intel or 2.0+GHZ AMD

Memory:
1 Gigabyte Ram (XP)
2 Gigabyte Ram (Vista)

Video Card:
NVIDIA GeForce 6 series(6800GT or better)
ATI 1300XT or better (X1550, X1600 Pro and HD2400 are below minimum system requirements)

Hard Drive Space:
12 Gigabytes

Sound Card:
DirectX 9.0c compatible sound card and drivers

U reccomend I get another Gig of RAM then? O.o

It's impossible to upgrade my CPUspeed and proccesor right?

gormo4

it looks like you have a laptop? you can add ram, but you can't upgrade your cpu.