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Minecraft

Game » consists of 11 releases. First released on Aug 16, 2011

Minecraft is a procedurally-generated game of world exploration, resource harvesting, and freeform construction. Minecraft supports local and online multiplayer, and features are being added regularly.

I cant play minecraft until it has native gamepad support.

#1 Posted by Devil240Z (2485 posts) - 1 year, 6 months ago

I just cant do shooters(READ: Games played from the first person perspective) on a keyboard and mouse. Any word if this is remotely in the works?

#2 Posted by litrock (172 posts) - 1 year, 6 months ago

Probably not, but Minecraft is a pretty good game to learn to navigate WASD+mouse on, since it's relatively undemanding and has a pretty wide margin of 'aiming' error. Might as well learn sometime, you'll open up a world of possibilities when you do! ( I learned on Mass Effect just a few years ago, myself. )

#3 Posted by NekuCTR (1632 posts) - 1 year, 6 months ago

Their making an xbox version so it wouldn't be hard to apply that to the pc game I guess. Mind if I ask why it's such a problem? I mean shooters are pretty well tailored to a mouse and keyboard.

#4 Posted by Spankmealotus (224 posts) - 1 year, 6 months ago

Just wait for the Kinect version, I bet that will be stellar.

#5 Posted by JasonR86 (7909 posts) - 1 year, 6 months ago

@Devil240Z:

The game is coming to Xbox 360 so you'll get your chance then.

#6 Edited by Devil240Z (2485 posts) - 1 year, 6 months ago

@litrock: @NekuCTR:

Its mostly dumb stuff. My desk and chair is crap so its hard to get comfortable hovering over my computer. and my space bar is all gummed up cause I spilled soda on it. But I am a console kid too so I just prefer a controller when I can have it.

#7 Posted by PopeSlyph (5 posts) - 1 year, 5 months ago

You want Minecraft to have native gamepad support because... You spilled soda on your keyboard?

#8 Posted by mandude (2589 posts) - 1 year, 5 months ago

You could try downloading something like Xpadder, and hooking a controller up to it.

#9 Posted by MaFoLu (1827 posts) - 1 year, 5 months ago
#10 Posted by kashif1 (1428 posts) - 1 year, 5 months ago

My brother plays it with a ps3 controller, it can't be too hard to set up.

#11 Posted by lockwoodx (2453 posts) - 1 year, 5 months ago

Minecraft does have native gamepad support.

#12 Posted by Synthballs (2191 posts) - 1 year, 5 months ago

@Buzzkill said:

Minecraft does have native gamepad support.

That's a piece of shit using nothing but a touch pad. A little OT but, still, why play it on that when you can play it on a PC?!

#13 Posted by Ravenlight (7262 posts) - 1 year, 5 months ago

@mandude said:

You could try downloading something like Xpadder, and hooking a controller up to it.

I use that setup occasionally. It was dirt-simple to configure and is better on my wrists for massive strip-mining projects.

Sounds like the OP is just lazy, though.

#14 Posted by jetsetwillie (857 posts) - 1 year, 5 months ago

@mandude said:

You could try downloading something like Xpadder, and hooking a controller up to it.

thats what i did. i just googled 'minecraft 360 controller support' and 5 mins later was playing minecraft with my 360 controller.

#15 Posted by ccfox (2254 posts) - 1 year, 5 months ago

@PopeSlyph said:

You want Minecraft to have native gamepad support because... You spilled soda on your keyboard?

#16 Posted by Niall_Sg1 (360 posts) - 1 year, 4 months ago

Just use Xpadder, you basically create the template of any controller you're using a map the controls to it, however you like.

http://xpadder.com/

#17 Posted by believer258 (8190 posts) - 1 year, 4 months ago

Throw my vote in for XPadder. I used that on Minecraft a few times a while back and it works, though I switched back to M+K because it just worked so much better for me.

Also, rule of thumb: Soda does not go near computers. Pain in the bum, I know, but the two do not mix well.

#18 Posted by art_monkey79 (27 posts) - 1 year, 3 months ago

I thought the same thing. I prefer a controller over keyboard and mouse, because of a physical disability, it's just easier. Though I found mind craft is slow enough, in your reaction time that I find keyboard and mouse the way to go. Your in the inventory enough that being able to select things with the mouse comes in handy.

This is a create game and the controls wont take away from the experience.

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