Are the games "Psychonauts" and "Tomb Raider: Underworld" keyboard games?

xboxist

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Or are they best played with a gamepad? They're on my list of games to play and I keep putting off getting a good controller.
 

KaOTiK

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I played Psychonauts with KB and Mouse and didn't have much of a problem. But it would have been easier with a controller I'd say. Great game regardless
 

BlueWeasel

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I think all of the Tomb Raider games play great with the KB+M, Underworld being no exception.
 

gorcorps

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Psychonauts is much better with a pad. Worth getting a controller for though IMO.
 

Staples

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Almost every game besides FPS are better played with an analog joystick. But you probably won't have problems with most platformers with a keyboard. Now racing games, I don't see how anyone can have fun with digital controls.
 

Pia

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I doubt it matters much what you play Psychonauts with, action obviously isn't the focus of the game. I've played it halfway through with KB+M and it was highly sufficient.

That said, since there are many games which are best played with a pad, why not get one and see for yourself what works best.
 

LumbergTech

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i played pyschonauts w/ kb/m and i didn't have any problems

seemed fine to me

plus it MUST be played at 1080p or higher its just such an amazing looking game artistically
 

DarkForceRising

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I played Psychonauts with a pad, and it was good.

A word of warning if you use the 360 controller though: Windows reads the L and R triggers as a z+/z- axis, and Psychonauts won't let you bind them to separate buttons by default. I had to use Xpadder to get it working.
 

Ika

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psychonauts definitely seems more on a controller, as a 3D platformer type. great game, but i never finished it... maybe I should dig it up.
 

Skurge

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I have underworld, you will get through the levels much faster with a controller.
 

darkewaffle

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Psychonauts is definitely a pad game.

At first I thought that said "bad game" and I was like :(

I played Psychonauts on the xbox, which felt pretty good. It's hard to analyze whether it would have been better or worse on a KB/Mouse, but I think I'd say controller suits it better.
 

Jesusthewererabbit

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At first I thought that said "bad game" and I was like :(

I played Psychonauts on the xbox, which felt pretty good. It's hard to analyze whether it would have been better or worse on a KB/Mouse, but I think I'd say controller suits it better.

Oh no, there is nothing bad about Psychonauts. It's up there with Mario 64 as one of my favorite 3D platformers.

I played some of it with KBM, and it worked fine, but I enjoyed it much more after I switched to a pad.