Terraria's Looking Pretty Good on Consoles So Far

@JackSukeru said:

Terraria is pretty cool and fun with a friend for a while.

@prod88 said:

@patrickklepek: i didn't say that, you're a lier

perfect

PC version was fun, I could see it being fun on consoles too, the controller is really the big question here.

I wonder how this controls with a gamepad.

@thebunnyhunter said:

I was hoping it would control kind of like a dual joystick shooter, use the right stick to choose a direction and then use the triggers to set how far out the pointer to be

Thought about it, and I agree.

I just want gamepad support.

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I don't think the majority of console gamers are going to take to this as much as the PC guys did, aching to know what this new content is going to be as well.

@MrBlueJackle said:

I love that they didn't actually show any of the new content at the end.

@JoshingMad said:

*sigh*

I'm just gonna go on a limb and say this "new content" will never come to PC. With everything that's been compounding my feelings about Terraria lately, I feel this is the most likely scenario.

Also... seriously? They ignore Team Diggle's offer and instead gave the porting reins to a shovelware company? Hell with this.

The hell is a Team Diggle?

He might mean Gaslamp games (the Dungeons of Dredmor guys) I think they offered to take the development reigns for Terraria when the original guy stopped working on it.

really a cursor on consoles? i don't like it 

they better bring that new content to steam :):):):):)

Why don't us pc players get the new content? We are the reason this is even possible. I'm happy people who would rather play it on the console can, but why not give us the new content?

I love that they didn't actually show any of the new content at the end.

@JoshingMad said:

*sigh*

I'm just gonna go on a limb and say this "new content" will never come to PC. With everything that's been compounding my feelings about Terraria lately, I feel this is the most likely scenario.

Also... seriously? They ignore Team Diggle's offer and instead gave the porting reins to a shovelware company? Hell with this.

The hell is a Team Diggle?

I'd wait to see how the cursor works before completely writing it off. If you think about trying to build a structure with a controller with no cursor whatsoever, it seems like it would be maddening. However, if the cursor is there and only goes as far as you can build or dig (which it seems like that's as far as it goes in that video,) than that seems like one of the best ways to handle it. 

@Terramagi said:

@DeF said:

@Terramagi said:

So THIS is what a bad PC to console port looks like.

Are you trolling? Game looks exactly like it does on PC.

This was the same logic people used for Dark Souls.

Didn't work there. Mouse shouldn't emulate an analog stick, and an analog stick shouldn't emulate a cursor.

I don't see how this makes this a bad PC to console port.

I really hope the manage to work something out with a controller, and then add controller support to the game.

I really want to play this with my xbox controller on my pc.

@DeF said:

@Terramagi said:

So THIS is what a bad PC to console port looks like.

Are you trolling? Game looks exactly like it does on PC.

This was the same logic people used for Dark Souls.

Didn't work there. Mouse shouldn't emulate an analog stick, and an analog stick shouldn't emulate a cursor.

@Terramagi said:

So THIS is what a bad PC to console port looks like.

Are you trolling? Game looks exactly like it does on PC.

So THIS is what a bad PC to console port looks like.

really don't know if I am into playing this with a cursor on XBLA. Will need to see what they think after a QL on it...

I will be a sad panda if this new content does not come back to PC. Here's hoping it's just a timed Microsoft money hat that's keeping them silent on that.

Digging looks like it'll be horrible tedious if you just have to cursor over each individual block at a time. Like it worked fine with a mouse just because of how quickly and precise you were able to be with that but with like a grid system on a controller that seems so much worse. :(

@Xeiphyer said:

@cmblasko said:

@AlexW00d said:

@cmblasko said:

@AlexW00d said:

I guess a console release is what it takes to get people to notice this game :/

I wouldn't quite say that, this trailer says that 1.6 million copies have already been sold. Terraria used to be pretty consistently at the top of the Steam top games charts.

I meant on Giant Bomb. Never really saw anyone mention it on here.

Oh ok, yeah besides Jeff I don't even think anyone else on the staff really played it.

Jeff has definitely talked about it a lot on the bombcasts, though as far as site coverage goes... I don't think there's been any.

You mean like a Quick Look?

@cmblasko said:

@AlexW00d said:

@cmblasko said:

@AlexW00d said:

I guess a console release is what it takes to get people to notice this game :/

I wouldn't quite say that, this trailer says that 1.6 million copies have already been sold. Terraria used to be pretty consistently at the top of the Steam top games charts.

I meant on Giant Bomb. Never really saw anyone mention it on here.

Oh ok, yeah besides Jeff I don't even think anyone else on the staff really played it.

Jeff has definitely talked about it a lot on the bombcasts, though as far as site coverage goes... I don't think there's been any.

*sigh*

I'm just gonna go on a limb and say this "new content" will never come to PC. With everything that's been compounding my feelings about Terraria lately, I feel this is the most likely scenario.

Also... seriously? They ignore Team Diggle's offer and instead gave the porting reins to a shovelware company? Hell with this.

@patrickklepek said:

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…shit just got…real…?

Have they said if the new content would also be on PC? I'd gladly buy new content but that would suck if it was only for the console versions. (which I won't be able to play)

Sure looks like the PC version.

@AlexW00d said:

@cmblasko said:

@AlexW00d said:

I guess a console release is what it takes to get people to notice this game :/

I wouldn't quite say that, this trailer says that 1.6 million copies have already been sold. Terraria used to be pretty consistently at the top of the Steam top games charts.

I meant on Giant Bomb. Never really saw anyone mention it on here.

Oh ok, yeah besides Jeff I don't even think anyone else on the staff really played it.

@cmblasko said:

@AlexW00d said:

I guess a console release is what it takes to get people to notice this game :/

I wouldn't quite say that, this trailer says that 1.6 million copies have already been sold. Terraria used to be pretty consistently at the top of the Steam top games charts.

I meant on Giant Bomb. Never really saw anyone mention it on here.

@AlexW00d said:

I guess a console release is what it takes to get people to notice this game :/

I wouldn't quite say that, this trailer says that 1.6 million copies have already been sold. Terraria used to be pretty consistently at the top of the Steam top games charts.

I was hoping it would control kind of like a dual joystick shooter, use the right stick to choose a direction and then use the triggers to set how far out the pointer to be

That is a pretty cool trailer, but if this is meant for consoles, why is there a cursor on at all times? :/

@Cincaid said:

@JackSukeru said:

@Supercancer: I didn't. I came to the video when those were the only two comments, then pressed "Latest" saw the edit and went back the the cashed version of the page.

Not to mention that you can easily look at prod88's page and look at his history. No idea why he'd call Patrick a "lier", but oh well.

I'm willing to bet he was joking.

@NekuCTR said:

Oh god, manipulating a tiny cursor with an analog stick, to select tiny tiny tiny pixel sized blocks looks SUPER unapealing. I'll stick with the PC version.

Yep looks exactly like the wrong way to do this. Not sure what the right way is but whatever... This seems very clunky. Also I'm so sick of hearing that it's Minecraft-like, after the initial resource gathering, it's way more like a Metroidvania game with some digging to unearth new weapons.

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I could never get into it. I guess I just enjoyed the sandbox building aspect of Minecraft more than the combat and loot part of Terraria.

This game was fucking awesome, I had a lot of fun playing it. I'm glad that more people will get to try it out now.

Pretty slick trailer, too.

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so guys, I'm confused. What is this again?

@patrickklepek said:

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Is it still needed at this point to keep pointing out how it's a Minecraft-like game at all? We all know what Terraria is, and there's tons of these kinds of games now.

@Cincaid: To be fair it was probably all in jest.

@patrickklepekbasically said:

let's not take this too seriously.

Yup.

@patrickklepek said:

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Bingo.

It has...a cursor....

I don't know how you would do it otherwise, though. Terraria is one of those games that you really, really should play on a PC. It's not exactly Metro 2033 in terms of system reqs.

But this game will make bank and the people playing it probably will still enjoy it. So I guess we all learned a valuable lesson about the magic of sharing.

@patrickklepek said:

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Bingo.

Lavacastle. Never forget. Bastard.

@JackSukeru said:

@Supercancer: I didn't. I came to the video when those were the only two comments, then pressed "Latest" saw the edit and went back the the cashed version of the page.

Not to mention that you can easily look at prod88's page and look at his history. No idea why he'd call Patrick a "lier", but oh well.

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@Supercancer said:

@NaDannMaGoGo: It's a reasonable compromise though, I mean how else would you be able to fine tune which block you want to place/mine.

It is kind of jarring seeing cursors on console games, though. Kinda like playing an RTS on a console.

Yeah as I said, compromises have to be made in this case. Terraria is just obviously more suited to real mouse controls. I mean, in fact many games are. After all you just can't get the same quick and precise movement from anything else really. And I don't mean this in a PC-elitists way, it's just how it is.

I'd recommend those who play it on Console try it out on PC too if possible.

Either way, the game is very much so worth it's value and the great thing for new adapters of this game is, that they get it in its full beauty, while those who were there at the start got a still somewhat great but in comparison much more limited game, that then got a bunch of great upgrades. While that is great it's still just so much more fun to play a great game in its entire beauty immediately.

@Supercancer: I didn't. I came to the video when those were the only two comments, then pressed "Latest" saw the edit and went back the the cashed version of the page.