controller for Strider on PC

[luv2liv]

anyone got this game???
http://www.gamestop.com/pc/games/strider/113795

it is beautiful but i cant enjoy playing it with kb. i have the PS3 controller with MotionJoy driver. but for some reason, Strider wouldnt acknowledge the controller while Windows7 sees the PS3 controller fine.
anyone has this game n playing with a gamepad?

 

[shortylickens]

I use the 360 gamepad, USB.
It works great for everything.

 

[Aikouka]

I use the 360 gamepad, USB.
It works great for everything.

While I don't have the game (I'm still on the fence), I would probably have to place my money on the 360 controller. It's pretty much the safest bet for a controller that works well in Windows. If you prefer wireless, you can get a wireless version that specifies that it's for Windows (Amazon). It's only $6 than the one that is for the 360, but the Windows variant comes with the wireless adapter!

 

[SGX]

You can use motionjoy to essentially make the PS3 pad be recognized as an X360 pad.

 

[luv2liv]

You can use motionjoy to essentially make the PS3 pad be recognized as an X360 pad.

oh snapp! i will try this when i get home. thanks!!!
in 1 of the configuration file, Strider did list the xbox 360 controller but no other options.

 

[Anarchist420]

how good is it? does it work with driver-forced SGSSAA? does it come with Strider '89 or Strider M2 (or both)? if so, then how accurate is the emulation?

 

[cmdrdredd]

how good is it? does it work with driver-forced SGSSAA? does it come with Strider '89 or Strider M2 (or both)? if so, then how accurate is the emulation?

I've played about 4 hours and it's ok but not spectacular. You will backtrack a lot, you will die a lot, and it doesn't come with any old school versions or anything like that. It's not all that special looking either(it doesn't need anything more than the in-game AA). It's got a cool old school feel though and varying upgrades for your weapons. You are free to explore anywhere too as long as you have the proper upgrades to open the doors in certain spots. There's a good number of unlocks if that's something you're into. The game does have some glaring bugs. Some of the text gets garbled and cut off so that english sentences look like a foreign language and sometimes running full screen will drop the resolution down to something that looks like SNES so you have to cycle between windowed and full screen and swap resolutions for it to finally be correct.

I play with a PS4 controller hooked up via USB using the DS4 to xInput wrapper tool.
http://forums.pcsx2.net/Thread-DS4-To-XInput-Wrapper

 

[sze5003]

Is that tool required? I've heard the ps4 controller can work just plugging in with some games but not all.

 

[cmdrdredd]

Is that tool required? I've heard the ps4 controller can work just plugging in with some games but not all.

This tool makes it so that it works with every game the same as an Xbox 360 controller. Rumble and everything. Your computer will think your DS4 is a Xbox 360 controller and the developer is trying to map the mouse cursor to the touchpad and the left mouse button to the touchpad button.

 

[sze5003]

That's great, I'm going to grab it and keep it on my PC in case I need to use it. Do games recognize button mappings as Xbox buttons? Or does it show triangle, square, so on.

Good find btw.

 

[cmdrdredd]

That's great, I'm going to grab it and keep it on my PC in case I need to use it. Do games recognize button mappings as Xbox buttons? Or does it show triangle, square, so on.

Good find btw.

It thinks you have an xbox controller so it will ask you to press Y, B, A, and X LB, RB, Lt, RT instead of circle, square, triangle, cross, L1, R1, L2, R2. Games are programmed for the Xbox 360 controller defaults.

 

[giantpandaman2]

The gameplay improves as you get further along. Once you unlock the different weapons and skills there's quite a bit of variety in terms of how you approach different enemies and areas. IE-flip to magnetic, do a dash to stasis a close enemy, switch to explosive, slash like crazy, switch to ice to freeze a distant enemy with kunai, switch back to magnetic, dash to redo stasis, etc. etc.

It plays a lot like strider mixed with the original metroid games in terms of the backtracking as you unlock weapons and upgrades that allow you to access new areas. Personally I didn't die a lot on normal, going through again on hard. Hard causes a lot of deaths very quickly if I'm being lazy and not properly approaching even the most normal of enemies.

 

[gus6464]

360 controller is the business with Strider. Plus I love how turning it on automatically launches steam big picture mode on my PC.