Kind of a meaningless gesture once you've already bought and played the game. This is why I get frustrated with the fucking bullshit "release it today and fix it some other time" mentality.

If a game has issues with something as basic and foundation focused as simple controls then it shouldn't be released until it works properly.

If they can spend as much as they did on advertising Dungeon Siege III why can't they afford to make sure the controls for the game are good for every platform it's released on?

I mean it just makes them look sloppy and lazy, I have the image in my head of some head developer guy somewhere in Obsidian's HQ getting near to the last hurdle and simply sitting back with the plan to patch it after release already in the works, also with the plan to act like they hadn't realised that it was as bad as it turned out, but also admitting that they thought it could have been better had they done some extra work.

Obsidian Entertainment keeps supporting their unwanted reputation of releasing games that should've been in development for at least 10 more months. Who among us really believes that Alpha Protocol was in finished condition when they released it?

Who among us believes that with a few more months Fallout: New Vegas would have been way, way less buggy?

Who among us has actually played an Obsidian Entertainment game out of the door that wasn't a buggy mess and had chunks of it missing?

I could go on but I think I'm pushing it, most of you are quick-witted individuals and get the point. I just think they're going to have to push for longer dev times when they're signing up for doing sequels or branch-off-games to other main games. Like KOTOR II or Fallout: New Vegas.

Seems to me that controls would be one of those things that you would want to get right above all else. Eh, maybe that's just me.

This is an all to common trend for PC releases, this is just a new level that we don't commonly see. Most developers can hardly be assed enough 90% of the time to do simple things like disable mouse smoothing and acceleration on the PC versions.

give it up Obsidian.  After Alpha Failocol you'd think you'd have learned to stop half-assing shit.
 
whatever.

First sentence is PERFECT

That's weird, I didn't notice anything wrong with PC controls, they are very precise and I never thought once how there is a problem.
 
Btw, Dungeon Siege 3 is one of the best ARPGs I played in years..

Why is Obsidian still a company?

Love the stock photo joke. Don't care about what the developer has to say, just love the photo.

Not even proper gamepad support. They couldn't give any less of a shit.

I know it's not nice to wish bankruptcy on a developer, what with a shitload of studios getting shuttered these past few years. 
 
But goddamn it, someone needs to pull the plug on Obsidian.

Oh Obsidian...

i guess i've always taken controls for granted. but I am still somewhat interested in playing this game, if they fix it

im starting to see a trend with obsidian games. they seem to come out buggy as hell or broken every damn time i wonder whats up?

Playing it on the PC with a 360 controller. Works fine. It is nice that they are fixing it but for me it doesn't make a difference.

:( I saw the headline "Obsidian Aims to Fix Dungeon Siege..." and immediately assumed they were working on correcting the multiplayer situation. I'll still hold out hope, but it's a long shot.

Obsidian should switch to the downloadable market like Double Fine. They've proven time and time again since their inception that they can't handle 'big' game development.

consoles didn't ruin this game, obsidian did. the original is still the best so i had very little hope for this one. although had they not nerf'd the whole co-op experience this would probably have been a fun co-op game to play. and if you have a gamepad the game plays fine. 
 
 of course one torchlight 2 comes out pretty much every dungeon crawler is screwed. 

Even if Obsidian came up with a cure for cancer the same people would be raging on forums.

The controls are fine, just takes some time to learn and adapt to them. But heaven forbid, if someone actually tries to make something different and doesn't copy the controlling scheme from the 125 Diablo/WoW clones.  

The only thing missing is the option to bind your keys and yes, there have been other developers/publishers that have left that option out of their game, and some of them never even bothered to patch it in later.
 
The game itself if one of the best action rpgs I've played and so far the best game of 2011 (until Arkham City comes out).

Who among us really believes that Alpha Protocol was in finished condition when they released it?

Who among us believes that with a few more months Fallout: New Vegas would have been way, way less buggy?

1. Gamebryo is a mess of an engine.
2. Even after many significant patches there are still issues with F:NV
   

Who among us has actually played an Obsidian Entertainment game out of the door that wasn't a buggy mess and had chunks of it missing?

:( I saw the headline "Obsidian Aims to Fix Dungeon Siege..." and immediately assumed they were working on correcting the multiplayer situation. I'll still hold out hope, but it's a long shot.

The controls are fine, just takes some time to learn and adapt to them. But heaven forbid, if someone actually tries to make something different and doesn't copy the controlling scheme from the 125 Diablo/WoW clones.   The only thing missing is the option to bind your keys and yes, there have been other developers/publishers that have left that option out of their game, and some of them never even bothered to patch it in later.

I thought of something really clever to say to this, but decided Obsidian weren't worth the breath.

They are a terrible company, they make terrible games and people are still surprised when a game they make sucks. It's like watching people think that the next sonic game will be good each and every time.

I'm done with them for good.

I know it's not nice to wish bankruptcy on a developer, what with a shitload of studios getting shuttered these past few years.  But goddamn it, someone needs to pull the plug on Obsidian.

Dayum Obsidian, i loves ya, but you dun messed up again!

   of course one torchlight 2 comes out pretty much every dungeon crawler is screwed.  

Pickup a strictly PC game series. 
Turn it into a console game for it's long awaited sequel. 
<insert troll face>

Oh Obsidian, how your still around is beyond me. So... How bout that Titan's Quest and Torchlight huh?

too little, too late Obsidian

played the demo on steam, hated the controls, played it for an hour anyway, that is one demo that actually backfired, it un-sold me on the game and i cancelled my pre-order.

something about first impressions, right Obsidian?

The game was ruined when square enix got a hold of it and turned the series into a console noob game and ruined it for life so nobody gives a fuck what they do to it anymore. 
 
The series is now a Horrible  game series for console noobs and has nothing to do with the old PC games end of subject  and the game is not worth playing.

I don't think I wanna get this game regardless of the control scheme.

Well, it's half-off on Steam right now, and with my Xbox gamepad the demo plays pretty good.

Really I just want Diablo III but whaddya gonna do?