Fallout 3: More Southpaw, even less Legacy

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[October 29, 2008]

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Well, I can finally confirm that Fallout 3 (Xbox360) has two good things going for it:

1) Fully customizable button mapping.

2) Support (through the Xbox 360 dashboard) for the Southpaw control scheme.

Once again, there is no Legacy option. I’m starting to notice something of a trend that basically no games are including Legacy controls this year. (My control style of choice) Read down the list of recent releases on alt-controls, and Legacy gamers will be severely disappointed. (Fingers still crossed on GOW2 to come through for us again!)

I can’t comment on gameplay for Fallout 3 yet, as I’ll probably pick up the PC version soon. IGN gave it a 9.6 and Gamespot gave it a 9.0. I’d say if you can find a system with controls to your liking it will definitely be worth a look to see the post-apocalyptic world created by the folks who made Oblivion.

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13 Responses to “Fallout 3: More Southpaw, even less Legacy”

  • 2Three says:
    October 29th, 2008 at 7:50 am

    Legacy seems to be dying out.

    And I would think that based on the fact that Southpaw is available through the Xbox 360 dashboard that Southpaw and Legacy are not available in the PS3 version.

  • soulwarrior says:
    October 29th, 2008 at 9:10 am

    As Fallout 3 uses an evolved version of the Oblivion engine I do also fear that southpaw is left out of the PS3 version :-(

  • Kula says:
    October 30th, 2008 at 3:26 am

    Out of all the alternative control schemes, I would imagine legacy-southpaw is the least used followed by legacy and southpaw.

    I switched over to southpaw from legacy a couple of years ago, but it’s still a shame that legacy doesn’t get much support any more.

  • SAKY says:
    October 30th, 2008 at 7:10 am

    Without intervention from this group and the folks at ablegamers.com I fear we will see the same options from developers year in and year out. So yes, Gears of War, Halo , and Call of Duty are series that we can count on for inclusion of the standard four control layouts….for now. No worries there. Sadly, I fear, the legacy options are going to get phased out as years pass and then southpaw after that.

    Folks we can’t rely on controller mods forever. In many ways they fail to deliver already, circular menus and driving some to mind. I think there is is going to be a point where all industry devs are going to stop adding these options. My advice is to voice yourself now because it’s only going to get harder as time passes as more developers forget these options ever existed.

    Seems like I’ll be saying this until im blue in the face…er…fingers. On the bright side, I’m glad to see button mapping.

    @ soulwarrior
    That will probably be the case as PS3 doesn’t have a firmware level southpaw option like the 360 has. Like you and 2Three have said, this senario was also true for Oblivion.

  • Nathan Rain says:
    October 30th, 2008 at 5:38 pm

    Thank you so much for clearing this up, I’ll be picking this one up shortly thanks to your article :–)

  • 2Three says:
    October 30th, 2008 at 8:29 pm

    @ SAKY

    I agree with you that modded controllers are not a permanent solution… they do have issues as you mentioned and games that have been programmed to offer the proper control configurations always feel better, in my opinion.

  • gundemon says:
    October 31st, 2008 at 5:56 am

    amazing that Oblivion 360 was released with no southpaw but was patched later to fix it but the PS3 version was never fixed. Fallout 3 was released with southpaw support via the dashboard out of the box, and the PS3 version still has no support. I have to wonder if this omission is on the hardware level in some cases.

  • SAKY says:
    October 31st, 2008 at 7:27 am

    @2three well the DICE article has lifted my hopes. I’d say more but I can’t get foot out from my mouth. :)

  • Chris says:
    May 7th, 2009 at 2:39 pm

    Some one know or can leave details how to access southpaw for Fallout 3 through X Box 360 dashboard ??

  • 2Three says:
    May 8th, 2009 at 11:57 am

    1. From the Dashboard, push the controller’s “Guide” button.

    2. Shift two spots to the right to bring up “Settings”

    3. Select “Profile,” then “Game Defaults”

    4. Select “Action”

    5. Set “Movement” to the right stick for Southpaw controls.

    This doesn’t unlock Southpaw for all games (though it would be nice if it did) - but Fallout 3 is a game that will support Southpaw once you do this.

  • Christian says:
    November 19th, 2009 at 11:09 am

    Hey on fallout3 how do i get it off southpaw it wont go off so when i started it it wads on there how do i get it off without starting a new gamer profile

  • Christian says:
    November 19th, 2009 at 11:10 am

    any thing that could help me get off this would help greatly thanks

  • 2Three says:
    November 19th, 2009 at 7:07 pm

    @ Christian

    You can turn it off through your dashboard personal settings. See my above comment on how to access stick settings and you can change it back there.

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