Adventure Forums - View Single Post - Direct control - clarification. Plus, is point & click dead?

Terramax · 05-05-2006, 12:24 AM

With 3D game like BS3 and Grim Fandango, I most certainly prefer them as a pad control as opposed to keyboard and point and click. I feel more in control with my destiny in the game somehow.

I got so frustrated with the pc version of BS3 I went out and forked out on a separate PS2 version. I'm so glad the next one is giving you the choice.

Yes, I think the point and clicker is dead and has been for a long time. In the age where gamers are aspiring more 'freedom' in games, point and click creates a certain barrier between the lead characters in the story to the audience.

That's not to say that I hate point and click, 2D adventures like Curse of MI and BS1 will always remain most playable in that form. But more open games like Dreamfall and Fahrenheit play so much better with pad.

05-05-2006, 12:24 AM	#105
Terramax Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2005 Posts: 1,595	With 3D game like BS3 and Grim Fandango, I most certainly prefer them as a pad control as opposed to keyboard and point and click. I feel more in control with my destiny in the game somehow. I got so frustrated with the pc version of BS3 I went out and forked out on a separate PS2 version. I'm so glad the next one is giving you the choice. Yes, I think the point and clicker is dead and has been for a long time. In the age where gamers are aspiring more 'freedom' in games, point and click creates a certain barrier between the lead characters in the story to the audience. That's not to say that I hate point and click, 2D adventures like Curse of MI and BS1 will always remain most playable in that form. But more open games like Dreamfall and Fahrenheit play so much better with pad.