Driving sequencs on a PC suck

[Ducimus]

I just have to vent, ANY PC game where your forced into a driving sequence, just sucks. Infact, ill say utter failures. Im about to rip every game with a driving sequence i can think of off my hard drive, and NEVER install them again.

Trying to get around driving sequences on a PC, is like playing a first person shooter on console - RETARDED. Driving sequences are made for consoles. you really need an analog stick to control it correctly. Doing it on a keyboard, you just don't have the fine tunning you need. Its alot like playing a FPS without a mouse - it sucks balls.

stupid freaking driving sequences. DAMN i hate them. Piss poor game design.

[Herr-Berbunch]

Buy an xbox controller, works on PC just fine for driving. :O:

[Ducimus]

Buy an xbox.....:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7qnd-hdmgfk

[Dowly]

I usually just use my joystick, which I must admit is kinda hard now with the
monstrosity known as X-52. :doh:

[Rilder]

Personally I don't mind driving sequences with my keyboard, maybe its just because I've never been used to anything but a keyboard. Not exactly precise maneuvering but eh. Of course I hate games centered around cars (Well I hate cars in general) so its generally a non issue.

Tanks though, I never have any issues driving tanks with my Keyboard. :O:

[Herr-Berbunch]

Tanks though, I never have any issues driving tanks with my Keyboard. :O:

All you need is W and SPACE.

Forward, Fire, Forward, Fire, geddoutmygoddamnway, Fire again, Forward . . . :D

[Herr-Berbunch]

Hey! I never said buy an Xbox. I would never say buy an Xbox.

My Bro-in-Law was looking for a console the other week and asked for my recommendations: I struggled to say PS3 over 'buy a decent PC that isn't an all-in-one with a poxy Celeron™ slowcessor". The pratt bought an Xbox. I'm hoping he gets the ring of death soon. :woot:

In essence, please don't mis-quote me.

Unless it's for a funny purpose, and that's not, people will just now think I'm a bigger prick than before. :O:

[Ducimus]

I was being sarcastic. I refuse to stoop down to the level of an xbox in any capacity. I mean, if i wanted to sit there with an xbox controller, i'd have a damn xbox.

[Arclight]

You might try a replica; I've got a Saitek gamepad that functions (and looks, granted) like a 360 controller but is still fully programmable. Works on anything from the latest (console-ish) game to the early DOS games.

I'm not a fan of the Xbox myself, but that won't keep me away from a good PC gamepad. :)

[Herr-Berbunch]

Don't think of it as stooping to any Xbox level, think of it as a M$ product for the PC that actually works quite well out the box - with the bonus that kids can use it on an Xbox if they want. :yeah:

And I recognise sarcasm, for it takes one to know one. :D

[CCIP]

I own an X-Box controller. It's pretty good. I just think of it as a good-quality, affordable gamepad - it's not like gamepads are somehow foreign as PC controllers. I've almost always had one for the PC, in case I planned to play games requiring one :yep:

As for driving sequences, it's more the fact that there seems to be a "tradition" of games with horrible vehicle controls in general. I think Grand Theft Auto had started this trend in action games of what Yahtzee called "a car that drives like it has another car strapped to its roof".

[Herr-Berbunch]

L.A. Noire. :O:

...in that moving on foot feels like driving a car, and driving a car feels like there is another heavier car tied to the roof rack.http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/zero-punctuation/3347-L-A-Noire

(I had to sit through Driver: San Francisco first as I thought that was it!) :/\\!!

But yeah, GTA3 started it.

[Red October1984]

The only driving i do on my PC is Battlefield and ArmA. If i want driving, yes indeed, I go play xbox. Midnight Club LA and Burnout are terrific driving games for the 360. Battlefield driving isnt bad at all, but ArmA driving makes me want to slap the devs silly. ITS TOO HARD!

[Oberon]

ARMA driving, hard? :hmm2:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KcHXwcudKew

Never had any problems, aside from attracting bullets. :smug:

[Ducimus]

It drives me insane. A keystroke increments so many units left or right, with nothing in between. I end up fishtailing everywhere i go, overcorrecting to the left, and to the right, and smacking everything in my way. Then eventually the health bar goes down and i end up reloading the game, again, and again, and again and again and again and again, until maybe, ill finally get it, whatever it is.

Racing in Rage for example. You HAVE to suffer through it in order to continue. I got to the first racing portion, played bumper cars, continually kept loosing. I raged quit, and havent touched it since.

Red faction Gureilla. That ending mission before the first area is taken over? Umm yeah. That sucks. I kept missing the targets by mere inch's left or right. Nevermind that 10 bajillion cars come out and all of them are acting like homing missles.

L.A Noire. I was having fun until I had to chase cars. Fishtailing left and right, smacking this, smacking that. Haven't touched it since.

Im not even gonna touch GTA. Endless city driving.

I'm sure if i sat here i could think of more games where i was having fun right up until some stupid freaking driving sequence where you have to press the keys *JUST SO* or you fail, again and again and again.

Combine that with checkpoint saves (another lovely thing consoles brought to games), and it's alot like playing the original tomb raider where it was all one big jump puzzle and you have to land on X pixel from Y angle.

I wouldn't mind it so much if there was an alternative, instead of being forced into this stupid freaking driving sequence.

I hate consoles.