Valve Is Adding Custom Button Remapping To Portal 2

A few minutes ago, Chuck Bittner (aka AskACapper) posted an image on Twitter. It was an email from Jeep Barnett of Valve confirming that custom button remapping will be added to Portal 2.

[Pandamobile]

Why the hell doesn't this guy just play PC games? You can use whatever button maps or input devices you want...

[rabidpancakeburglar]

It's for disabled gamers

*massive facepalm*

[Kreyg]

Why should he be forced to play PC games is the real question. Sure you can remap to anything you want, but when you read through the comments on Chuck's petition, you realize it's a feature almost 80,000 people have said they want on consoles. Hell, you'd think that after all these years, it's a feature you'd see on console games.

[Dart89]

*Why the hell doesn't this guy just play PC games?*

Maybe he dosen't have the time or money to build one and how about showing some respect for disabled gamers.

[Pandamobile]

How am I disrespecting the guy? Common sense would dictate that given his situation, he'd want to be able to play games in a way that suits him.

If he wants controller remapping and an invertible Y axis, all he has to do is go into the settings for just about any computer game and change them to suit his needs.

[Urrakia34]

I fail to see how Panda disrespected him. Stop getting your panties in a bunch.

[BattleAxe]

Give it a rest Panda, people like you are relentless in telling people what platform they must play their games on. Yeah the PC is great, but not everyone wants to game on the PC. You're happy when Valve heavily supports their games on PC, but when they support the console version you hate it....get over it.

On a positive note, good on Valve for supporting their game as well as they are.

[trainsinrdr]

Haha thats you told.

[Ser]

What if he just doesn't want to? I wouldn't want to.

He shouldn't have to pick a certain platform just because he's disabled. That's stupid.

Edit: I agree, which is my more developers need to open their eyes to this sort of thing. Still, he shouldn't be forced to game on a PC just because of his disability. What if he wanted to play a game like Uncharted 3? More developers should start supporting this type of thing.

[Pandamobile]

He shouldn't be forced to play games without unmappable controls, either.

That's stupid.

[Ser]

Spelling correction: "which is *why*"

[Adexus]

If you've seen him play games then you'll know he has his controller right up to his face and he uses his chin to move the right analog stick, now it might just be me but it might be a little bit trickier for him to play with a keyboard and mouse...

[Pandamobile]

WOW. DID YOU KNOW THAT YOU CAN USE A CONTROLLER ON A PC TOO?

Seriously, you guys, do some research.

[Ocelot525]

"Seriously, you guys, do some research."

like you should do about half life 2 HDR effects on the console and PC

[SexCells]

Wow congratulations Chuck, good to see developers like Valve listening.

[evillizard91]

That's really cool of valve!

[Lord_Sloth]

This is a feature I really want in my games. I don't know why so many devs are neglecting this feature now. It used to be pretty common.

[FAGOL]

Anyone know or have an idea why console games don't have custom button remapping? Because I can't think of any.

[iamgoatman]

Lazy developers?

[xDSJxPyro]

Very nice move Valve, you once again prove why you are so great when you do things like this. Now if we can get more devs behind this endeavor.

[Shmotz]

First time I've ever seen an online petition work, now I can say well it worked for Portal 2 so maybe it will work now.

[MoeThirteen]

Hopefully Valve's common sense here catches on like an industry wide positive STD.