How will you controll this game?

[The_dumbest_name]

   Hey   I was just wondering,  will you use  your mouse to play this, or the keyboard?    Someone may have allretty asked this, I just didt see it.

   Thanks

[Cez]

Mouse

point & click interface.

[racx_00]

Actually thats quite an interesting question , seeing that the other 3D Adventure games these days are keyboard operated

[Say]

welcome to our forums! and I   your name !

[Yonkey]

LOL!  Welcome The_dumbest_name!  

Yeah, your username's definitely one of the funniest ones we've seen around here!  

[B'rrr]

WELCOME!! The_dumbest_name! ...hahaha cool name ; ) ...hope you'll enjoy these forums ; )

[MangoMercury]

Generic name compliment here, TDN!

Welcome and such.  Please join me in tormenting the cannibalistic César until he reveals the most intricate plot details of KQ9 :3

[racx_00]

Can i join ya mango

[Oldbushie]

Welcome, O Dumbly Named One! Perhaps there will be a combo between using the mouse and the keyboard? Maybe if you want to walk around with the arrow keys, I dunno.

[Jeysie]

Eh... as long as it's optional. I vastly prefer moving with the mouse. The keyboard-based movement in Grim Fandango and MI4 was something I found rather frustrating.

Peace & Luv, Liz

[racx_00]

Welcome The_dumbest_name

[Say]

aww how nice is everyone to welcome new comers

[Storm]

[shadow=teal,left,down]Welcome to the forum, The_dumbest_name!!  [/shadow]

Jeysie -
Walking with the arrow keys wasn't the most frustrating part of Grim Fandango... using the letter keys for preforming actions was. I could never figure out which one does what, and finished the game pressing all of them until I found the correct one every time  

[The Fat Emu]

Controlling Grim Fandango was awkward at first, but I became used to the controls after five minutes of experimentation in Manny's office at the beginning. Great, great game, that.

[racx_00]

It was hard to find out which objects you could collect , cos you couldnt just click , you had to look around and hit enter when you thought you could pick something up

[The Fat Emu]

Ah, but if you just press Enter when he turns his head, you miss so many funny lines. I prefer to look at the object first (E) before picking it up (Enter, P).

[Jeysie]

Not to diss Storm, but I found the action keys to usually be easy to keep track of, just because most of them were pretty logical... I for Inventory, U for Use item, P for Pick up or Put away, E for Examine, etc. Of course, I ended up just mapping them to my gamepad anyway. And I do have the advantage of one, being a native English speaker, and two, having spent many an afternoon as a rugrat messing around with text adventures.

The directional controls were a bit easier to handle with my gamepad, but I still didn't like them much. Certainly not compared to Gabriel Knight 3's control methods, for instance.

Peace & Luv, Liz

[Oldbushie]

What kind of gamepad do you have? I need one of those.

[Jeysie]

What kind of gamepad do you have? I need one of those.

I have a Logitech Wingman RumblePad. It's a nice little controller, decent design, good amount of buttons, and wasn't too expensive. I'm not sure if they sell the exact same model anymore, though... I bought it a few years ago. Still, Logitech's a good brand. I have a Logitech keyboard and mouse, too.

Peace & Luv, Liz

[mfortunato]

I love my Belkin Nostromo n45 and n50 keypad and gamepad.  They are totally mappable and are rugged as all get out.  The responsiveness is excellent as well.

I have tried a lot of joysticks and joypads in the past (from Microsoft, Cybex and Logitech) and I have found these to be the best.

I use the n50 keypad for 1st person shooters (along with my trackball) and I use the n50 for pretty much everything else (I love using it for flight games, like Freelancer).

Best of all, for their quality, I think they're well priced.