Re:SteamMachines
by scassidy on Wednesday September 25, 2013 @01:39PM
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Are people using a mouse and keyboard going to play against people using a controller? The results will be hilarious (in that anyone using a controller wont stand a chance). Everyone will be forced to use a mouse.
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There have been games that have released with this allowance. They achieve balance by offering powerful aim-assist to the gamepad players.
In any other context that would be the foulest cheating... but in the context of game-design for vastly different interfaces, it's a perfectly reasonable handicap.
You wouldn't be able to (and can't) do this on competitive PC/Steambox games though because you can just fake it on PC, so gamepad players would never be able to compete.
Re:SteamMachines
by CrazedGeek on Wednesday September 25, 2013 @01:50PM
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It also works reasonably well for cooperative games. I beat Portal 2 with a friend this way.