



This game and most others are routinely on sale dirt cheap (~$20 maybe every other month) and each console has subscription services that include vast libraries for low monthly prices. It also looks better, plays great from the couch, and lets you play offline for a lag-free experience. It's amazing and absolutely none of the hacks you might try for using a gamepad on the PC version will get you remotely close. So freak out if you must, PC gamers, but try not to hurt yourselves.Do yourself a huge favor and buy a game console. But I think that’s been the assumption for awhile, hasn’t it?Įither way, the standard mouse-and-keyboard control setup we’ve come to know and love in previous Diablo games isn’t going anywhere. Wilson added that if a console version of Diablo 3 does get the green light, he “can pretty much guarantee” that controller support will be added to the PC version of the game, but that he doesn’t think it will be ready in time for the initial release – which as I read it tends to suggest that a console version is already in the works. “With some of our early experiments in putting a direct control scheme into the game via a 360-like analogue controller, I’ve been, ‘Oh this feels even better, with direct control…'” “One of the reasons why we’re exploring the idea of a console version of Diablo 3 because we feel that the controls and the style of the game lend itself to a console,” he continued. “It’s just that the game that we wanted to make suits the PC platform.”īut the times, they are a-changin’, and although Blizzard still doesn’t think a Starcraft-style strategy game would work on consoles, a game like Diablo 3 is a different matter altogether. “We don’t see ourselves as a PC developer – we see ourselves as a game developer,” Wilson told PC Gamer. If you’re a die-hard PC gamer, get ready to freak out, because the console crowd is pounding on your door and Blizzard is about to open it up and invite ’em in! Or something like that. Diablo 3 Director Jay Wilson says the game feels mighty good on an Xbox 360-style analog game controller.
