As I have said in the past, I thought the Wii Remote system was kind of goofy, but it was very good for a big guy like me. I have big hands, so it isn’t like that doesn’t apply to almost any gamepad I pick up. The physical controller itself is nice and solid, if a bit small for me. Sometimes it is just quicker to reach up and hit the big Enter key that try to remember which key I need on the controller. There are still some things that are easier done on the keyboard. It was also nice to see how transparently the game moves from controller to keyboard input, depending on what I am doing. So learning some control meant playing no worse that I was used to playing and occasionally getting better. Forza Horizon supports bad game skills quite well really. I was already used to driving wildly off the road, through trees, fences, hedges, front yards, construction sites, and whatever other bits of destructible terrain was in the game. So it took a couple hours of play to learn to not just jam the throttle all the way down with the R2 button and to not just jam the left analog stick back and forth to its extreme positions while driving.Īnd then it took a bit longer to grow past my abilities with the keyboard while using the controller. When you’ve been playing on the keyboard with its binary on/off control mode you have no opportunity to learn any finesse in control, or at least not the control that an analog input gives you. The thing is, there were bad habits to unlearn. Imagine that, a new controller didn’t magically make me better at the game. So off I went, to try driving with a controller. This is sort of where things end up after 25 years together, though we both still cheated and bought something else for each other, as we do every year.Īnyway, once I had the time to play with my gift, I got it connected to my system via Bluetooth and Forza Horizon 4 recognized it right away when I launched it. Since it was already December, this became a gift from my wife under the tree, to match the Lancome La Vie Este Belle gift set she bought as a present that I could give her. I faced the paralysis of too many choices and not enough information.Īnd then Belghast tweeted something a few days later recommending the 8BitDo SN30 Pro+ Blluetooth gamepad being on sale at Amazon and I jumped on that, getting the black model. Well, there are a lot of choices, enough to thwart any decision on my part. XBox compatible seemed to assure compatibility with Windows, so I went to Amazon and… And, since I couldn’t find it after some desultory searching, I decided to buy a new game pad. I used it a couple of times over the years, but with no great success. I have/had a UBS game pad controller around the house somewhere, a Logitech Dual Action that was $4.99 back in 2011 when the offer for it came up. Drifting, for example, requires a subtlety of control not possible with the keyboard, so far as I can tell… though we cannot discount me simply being bad.Īnalog sticks, with their variable range of input, make a difference… or such was my theory. But Forza Horizon has been designed with analog input in mind, so while I wasn’t horrible at the game, and did improve over time, the keyboard as a controller was always going to be a barrier. I played Mario Kart on the DS, which had just a d-pad for steering and a button for acceleration and did well enough, learning the “ Mario Kart tap” method to stay on course. Which honestly isn’t as bad as it sounds.
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