Comments on: Fallout 3: More Southpaw, even less Legacy

By: 2Three

2Three — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 02:07:20 +0000

@ 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.

By: Christian

Christian — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 18:10:13 +0000

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

By: Christian

Christian — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 18:09:45 +0000

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

By: 2Three

2Three — Fri, 08 May 2009 18:57:14 +0000

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.

By: Chris

Chris — Thu, 07 May 2009 21:39:08 +0000

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

By: SAKY

SAKY — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 14:27:53 +0000

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

By: gundemon

gundemon — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 12:56:12 +0000

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.

By: 2Three

2Three — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 03:29:42 +0000

@ 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.

By: Nathan Rain

Nathan Rain — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 00:38:02 +0000

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

By: SAKY

SAKY — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 14:10:13 +0000

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.