Obsidian plans Dungeon Siege 3 update with better PC controls

@onlyk

The combat plays well so long as you have a console controller to hook up to your computer. I used a Wireless Xbox 360 controller since I have one of those dongles you can hook into your computer to make it work with it and the combat and controlling the character was great. The camera was a bit annoying, but the only part that really got to me was that it didn't really have anything from Dungeon Siege 2 in it at all. It was like the developers read a synopsis of Dungeon Siege 1 and then based this game's story off of that, except 150 years later. There weren't any Druids, Mordin, or awesome gnarled beasts. 90% of the population in the game was human, which kinda killed it for me as part of the fun of the previous Dungeon Siege games was seeing the interesting things you had to fight. But if you'd never played any of the previous Dungeon Siege games, you would probably enjoy it. It's a pretty good story, if a bit bland and the end really starts to diverge from western RPG to Japanese RPG with the content. I'd give it a 7 out of 10 for sure. I'd recommend you wait till it's a bit cheaper honestly.

The one good thing that I was happy to see is that there was absolutely no bugs to be found, except the one where Steam Achievements don't work for anyone, but that's minor.

@sine909 In a reasonable world, DLC can also free updates / patches. Unfortunately Obsidian has been showing us for a couple years that we don't live in a world where games work properly. Nevermind actually being reasonable.

@Crayola Q Pants ESQ

and good controls for that matter. I suppose it's nice that they're actually going to work on it instead of not giving a damn. I still can't decide what's worse: they shipped the gaming knowing it had poor controls, or they believed there wasn't any problems to begin with

@Crayola Q Pants ESQ It's one thing to release a game in unfinished state due to bugs, at least then you can blame bad QA, but the guy basically said he knew the game wasn't finished but they still released it. WTF o_O

@Ramen of Doom Trust me, they aren't doing it to be nice, it's damage control in hopes of turning around sales.

@wenchwogg This needs to become standard in all games. I remember being really pissed when I played right through Lego Indiana Jones with a friend and discovered afterwards that I didn't have a save of my own. The only achievements I could earn were the ones you can get in a single session. Bleurgh.

@Cleric OMG, there WAS a game that had this. I can't remember the name. But it released with like broken, or half functioning sound or something. I forgot about it until you reminded me, but I can't remember what it was for the life of me. It was many years ago.

@(Unverified) Was just about to mention that. They're "working on better PC controls" but the last patch makes the whole thing backwards, with no way to change or revert. Shelving this until they fix it.

@infernus Moderator on Obsidian's forum says we'll have full key mapping by next week at the latest, so hopefully, it won't have to be on the shelf for long. I enjoyed the first hour i got to play before this patch fubar'd the whole thing.

@captplut9465

Welcome to the new world order:

Portable and Console games reign supreme, and PC games are a sad afterthought.
Now it's all catered to semi-casual gamers, so skill systems, basic game features and anything requiring half a brain has been removed to make it "more approachable".