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Half Life: Opposing Force.

This is my first experience of a PC game, and I'm playing it on a Windows 7 laptop. I've managed to stumble through a few corridors on the first level and fend off a handful of headcrabs, but I'm really all at sea with the 'mouse and keyboard' control arrangement, which I find awkward and completely unintuitive. The idea of trying to negotiate a major firefight while peering down at the keys doesn't bear thinking about......

Does anyone know whether there's a console-type pad which might work with this game?

Revisiting more of my Wii U collection. Played these two a bit today:



The latter is easily the better of the two and I'll certainly play it again in the future, which I don't think I can say for the former. Mario games do less and less for me the older I get.

Oh well. Back to Lego City Undercover, the one exclusive that made me glad to buy a Wii U.

I'm playing "Baten Kaitos: Eternal Wings and the Lost Ocean" on the GameCube.

It seems like a cliched story at first - a young man fighting an evil Empire to avenge his murdered family - but it takes many twists and turns! Humans who aren't truly human, betrayals, unexpected allies... It's great!

Portal

I suppose you could play that game by itself, but all of the Easter eggs and things are probably more enjoyable if you play vanilla Half-Life first =) Unless you already played it on a console.



Are you playing it with an actual mouse, or with the laptop's touchpad? Because if you're using the touchpad, even for a pro it's going to feel "awkward and completely unintuitive". Grab an optical mouse with two buttons and a scroll wheel, the wheel (by default) lets you scroll through your weapons.



Shouldn't have to look down at the keys, just keep ring, middle, index fingers on A W D (default config). Pinky is for shift and ctrl (run and crouch), thumb is for space (jump). If you're in a bind, ring finger on Q will swap to the last weapon you had equipped (I try to keep two good ones handy while I'm safe), and pointer finger can stretch over to E for the action key, or R to reload.



Yes, but I don't know if there are any joystick configurations included, so you'd have to go into the options and bind all the buttons yourself.

If you already have a PS3, 360, or Wii, and you like those controllers, you can use them on PC without too much effort. A couple drivers and a USB cable or Bluetooth support is all you need.

Otherwise Logitech still sells PC gamepads in retail stores for way cheaper than one of those lame "Xbox 360 Controllers for Windows".

^ Thanks for that very comprehensive advice SabbraCadabra . I'll definitely give it a go, though for someone who has only ever managed to type with one finger on a keyboard, it may still prove an impossible challenge.

I was in fact using a standard optical mouse, and I did complete the original Half Life on the PS2 a few years ago.

Tried this today for the first time. I've had it since I bought a Wii U (it came bundled with the system) but never bothered to play it before.

Eternity Warriors 4

Fantasy Life
Pretty hooked, so much to do, always wanting to do just one more quest... Great fun!

I've been away from my Ps3 and Ps4 because I've been traveling. So I have been playing Project Mirai DX. I beat the story mode and unlocked all of the characters in Dead or Alive Dimensions while I was at my grandparents house.

When I get home I'll be playing Silent Hill Homecoming and Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel a lot.

I think I just got a Streetpass from you on Friday

Probably not because I just started using Street pass today.

Pokemon Explorers of Sky for the NDS [one of my absolute favourite games!]

Darn! I'm on my way home and my 3ds battery is low and there's over 1 hour and 46 minutes until I'm back at my house.

I don't have a car charger and I don't want to start playing anything because we are going to get food when we get closer to home. So when I get home I'm probably going to play a bunch of random fighting games.

It's been a while since I've played Marvel vs Capcom.

Finished.

Last mission was epic, fighting the final boss on a space station that's getting torn apart falling through Earth's atmosphere, and then having to dive from orbit to the surface while dodging space debris, with beautiful music. Skip to 22:18 in the video below if you wanna see it.

Perfect timing. I beat Lego City Undercover last night and this arrived in the mail today.

Amusingly, Lego City Undercover ends with a mission that involves a space station breaking up in orbit, and Star Trek begins with one.