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Pretty cool of them, though I felt like Super Meat Boy is atrocious on a keyboard.
I'm a rare breed of person who loves PC games as well as all of his consoles, and my stance is that some kinds of games are just better with certain types of controls. FPS with mouse/keyboard, and 2D platformers with a gamepad, par example. Granted, you can play many PC games with a controller attached via USB, but this is only really a bonus if you don't have the console version available to you.
I'm a rare breed of person who loves PC games as well as all of his consoles, and my stance is that some kinds of games are just better with certain types of controls. FPS with mouse/keyboard, and 2D platformers with a gamepad, par example. Granted, you can play many PC games with a controller attached via USB, but this is only really a bonus if you don't have the console version available to you.
@flintcsci
I disagree, most 2D platformers are vastly superior with a keyboard, especially super-hard-pixel-perfect ones like SMB, IWBTG, and the Matt Thornson games. Super Meat Boy just made the mistake of making 'Space' the default Jump button ('Space' and 'up' are poor choices for hardcore platforming jump buttons, space is too unresponsive and up gives too many tasks for one hand to constantly do leading to confusion and mistakes on tricky parts).
I disagree, most 2D platformers are vastly superior with a keyboard, especially super-hard-pixel-perfect ones like SMB, IWBTG, and the Matt Thornson games. Super Meat Boy just made the mistake of making 'Space' the default Jump button ('Space' and 'up' are poor choices for hardcore platforming jump buttons, space is too unresponsive and up gives too many tasks for one hand to constantly do leading to confusion and mistakes on tricky parts).
@flintcsci
I play Super Meat Boy on a PC with a wireless Xbox 360 controller while sitting on my couch in front of a 47" HDTV. There's absolutely zero reason to say that this is a game that controls better or is played better on a console. There's no advantages from one to the next. Just saying.
And, honestly, if anyone is serious about gaming on PC these days, they should have a 360 controller on hand. Period.
I play Super Meat Boy on a PC with a wireless Xbox 360 controller while sitting on my couch in front of a 47" HDTV. There's absolutely zero reason to say that this is a game that controls better or is played better on a console. There's no advantages from one to the next. Just saying.
And, honestly, if anyone is serious about gaming on PC these days, they should have a 360 controller on hand. Period.
I guess it could work for some people, but I just think keyboard layout and ergonomics are awkward for games like SMB. Maybe I'm just hard-wired from the NES-Genesis era. I even struggle playing a Super Mario Bros. ROM with a keyboard because it just doesn't feel right, regardless of keymapping.
Even though I play several indie games via gamepad, I'm very happy they are on PC. Not only am I at the PC a lot more for work purposes (and thus I can procrastinate without moving to a different part of the apartment), but I can take them with me on the laptop.
@flintcsci
I agree with you there. I hate playing platformers on a Keyboard. For a lot of simple sidescrollers I like to use a USB SNES controller. So much win.
I agree with you there. I hate playing platformers on a Keyboard. For a lot of simple sidescrollers I like to use a USB SNES controller. So much win.
Besides the obvious motion control addons(Kinect, Move), exactly what game couldn't be made for the PC that was made for a console?
This just seems like a PC circlejerk from Team Meats PR department.
This just seems like a PC circlejerk from Team Meats PR department.
Well, if you make a game for a console, it can already run on nearly every $500 PC. This obviously makes sense.
I have head Super Meat Boy on my radar for a while now. It is about time I pick it up and join in on the frustrations of thousands of gamers around the world.
@flintcsci
Yeah I seem to me in the minority here, I guess I'm just hardwired for keyboard since I grew up on DOS platformers.
I do find that while arrow keys > D-pad > Analog stick (in 2D) I slightly prefer a gamepad for secondary actions (especially if there are many of them) like jumping and attacking (so if I had 2 right hands and split the controls up between a keyboard AND a gamepad, I'd be unstoppable!).
So games like SMB that rely so much on precise movement and only have one or two secondary actions are much easier for me with a keyboard, while games with complicated actions where movement is less important, such as the 2D Metroid games, I prefer with a controller.
Yeah I seem to me in the minority here, I guess I'm just hardwired for keyboard since I grew up on DOS platformers.
I do find that while arrow keys > D-pad > Analog stick (in 2D) I slightly prefer a gamepad for secondary actions (especially if there are many of them) like jumping and attacking (so if I had 2 right hands and split the controls up between a keyboard AND a gamepad, I'd be unstoppable!).
So games like SMB that rely so much on precise movement and only have one or two secondary actions are much easier for me with a keyboard, while games with complicated actions where movement is less important, such as the 2D Metroid games, I prefer with a controller.
ICLHStudios: You've gotten good at playing platformers on the keyboard, just like some people have gotten good at playing the piano with their hands behind their backs. It doesn't mean that gamepads aren't superior for platformers in general (they are.)
Well that's just a good business decision obviously, but they could certainly make their games better for PC, I mean I loved Super Meat boy and was obsessed with it for about a week until I beat it, but everytime I turned it on it said "Plug in an xbox controller or continue at your own peril". So... optimize it for a keyboard geniuses.
Has anyone else ever tried 360 controller with a mouse? I have and it was so strange but so awsome at the same time..
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