Enough with crappy console > PC ports.

[Metzli]

There is no mouse control option at all. You are forced to use the keyboard for everything in this game. Complete and utter crap. The least a company can do is support the primary peripherals (SP?) of the medium they are porting the game to. Don't buy this garbage and support this lack of effort on their part.

[Joe Black]

I am glad i bought it, hell I even preordered it.
I realy like this type of casual game, this type of stupid humor and parody reference etc...
Lotr Lego, as any other lego game by Traveller's Tale, is best played with gamepad.

My advice is buy gamepad, it's best device for platformers.

[Insane fox]

the game is great ! just go get a gamepad :D

[KingMarinho]

Could be ;) I play the whole Lego-series with gamepad and it works better for me, then with keyboard/mouse. Give gamepad a chance, its a really good game, i mean it's Lord of the Rings WITH Lego!!! Wonderful :) enjoy and have fun.

[coupe_69]

Why an earth would you want to play this with a mouse and keyboard? It's so much easier and more enjoyable with a 360 pad as are most 3rd person games on the PC. I'm sorry but your prepubescent whinging is totally unjustified, go buy a pad!

[Metzli]

Your prepubescent reasoning is unjustified. "I love this so you should too. Waah. Waah".

[Nomad Time Lord]

What possible benefit would a mouse provide besides the rare cases where you have to manually aim? A mouse is a bad substitute for a game that requires no camera movement. The reason you're getting so much flak is because you're just dismissing using a controller outright, and complaining for lack of mouse support in a game that doesn't need it.

May as well complain that Microsoft Word doesn't have good enough gamepad support; the peripheral doesn't match the functional requirements.

You're saying "I want to use my right hand for one of two functions only, and keep my left one busy with the other 12."

Oh, and you're also getting flak because your title claims the game is a crappy console port when it is far from it.

[Marioface5]

I can understand why you could want to use the mouse buttons. Most mice have at least five bindings available (M1, M2, M3, Mouse Wheel Up, Mouse Wheel Down) and a good amount have extra buttons for even more functions. You could definitely play the Lego game with mouse controls along with the keyboard, and there's really no excuse for developers not taking what relatively little time would be needed to add such functionality.

However, not including it doesn't make the game bad or a crappy port, and whining about it won't get you anywhere. You have a gamepad, so use it. Or, if you want to be stubborn, just use the keyboard. Unless you can find a program to map mouse functions to keys (and if you can, great!) those are your only options aside from not playing the game at all.

[Metzli]

I find using a keyboard and mouse comfortable. I find using two hands on a keyboard for gaming pretty uncomfortable. And If I wanted to use a gamepad I'd just get the game for a console. My complaint is that they didn't even add the option to use one of the two primary peripherals of a PC with the game. Even in the menus. A PC always has a keyboard and a mouse. Having ZERO mouse support, at all, is just laziness.

As I have tried to say before, I really don't care what control scheme you prefer, or you think is the best. And neither does this post.

[Rook]

I understand being comfortable with m/kb, but what function would the mouse serve? Movement is with keys, and there is very little camera control. Fighting would be the only thing that the mouse could be used for, but there is no need to have said function bound to a device basically designed for movement response.

As far as using gamepads for only consoles, that doesn't completely make sense. There are many ways in which it is more convenient to have a PC as a central system rather than a specific gaming device.

[TKimball]

I was looking at the Amazon sale for this. Then I read this post. Thankfully, I didn't buy it. Every (modern) computer has a mouse and keyboard. Not so for a controller. No sale!

[Voldy-din]

I even optioned to use my controller--even though I prefer mouse and keyboard--but even with it, the video settings won't change. Really regretting buying this game when I can't even change something as simple as the damned video settings.

[Voldy-din]

Escrito originalmente por spin:

Can't believe people here are flaming the OP for a very valid point he raises. There is no excuse to completely omit M+KB controls from a PC game. It doesn't matter if it plays better with a controller. This is just sheer laziness on the part of the developers, and PC gamers who are actively defending this are the reason these companies think they can get away with substandard, shoddy pc ports.

Agreed, completely.

[Sixaola]

Here is a lesson kids, research the game before you buy it. I have found Amazon to be a great place to ask questions like those. These forums are not so bad for such an easy questions.
ON the other hand, #firstworldproblems

[Emerald Unicorn]

Escrito originalmente por Metzli:

The whole complaint was about lack of control scheme options. If you like gamepad, good for you. You obviously don't understand my problem.

I would just like to point out that this is a rare circumstance where M&KB players and Controller players are in a role reversal lol... And I will quote again, "You obviously don't understand my problem." I believe this is how most of us that prefer controllers feel about most games, and its always the M&KB players trying to state their opinion of mouse being better as a fact.

And while I realize that the chance of any major game devs seeing this is next to nothing, I think that any game that is on one or more consoles, and PC, should have an option to switch the HUD and in game menu/interaction buttons to a (current) console of our choosing. You already designed the HUD layout and button mapping, let us utilize it while we play with our PS3 and 360 controllers!

Now to you, Metzli. I do agree it is odd that a game does not support it. Personally I do not think it is necessary for this game. And it doesnt make it a crappy port. A crappy port is something like Dark Souls lol, though I still love it. I do think it is fair to give a warning about no mouse support, but I think discouraging people to buy it is not the right course of action. Like if you wanted to buy a car, but they didnt sell it in your color, so you tell people not to buy it even if they could get it in a color they liked.

[Metzli]

Except you can fix a car's color fairly easily. I doubt you can find a way to add mouse support to a game with no mouse support without some custom coding, and even then it's unlikely.

I agree that Dark Souls was a crappy port though. But that is also a different story. DArk souls was never intended to be a PC port. The fans wanted it so they put some resources into it. Smaller company. The controls worked fine though, and there was that guy who fixed the graphical failures for us pretty quickly. When a large company, who intends to make a PC version from the beginning, still can't add mouse support, then we have a problem.

Not saying that excuses dark souls, but fan service buys them some forgiveness in my eyes.