

See, it’s very clear that Kerbal Space Program was designed with a keyboard, mouse, and computer screen in mind. As far as I’m concerned, however, it’s that last part - in the tutorials - where the line begins to blur between “Wow, I’m bad at this” and “this is a poorly-planned port job”. The only way to avoid is to take your time, plan things out, and, above all else, do the tutorials. You need to balance your ship correctly, you need to make sure it burns fuel at just the right rate, you need to regularly correct your pitch and your yaw, you need to know when to decouple each stage at each and every stage, there are countless things that can go wrong, and unless you’re thinking very carefully and paying very close attention, odds are good at least one of those things will go wrong - which, really, is just another way of saying you (or at least your ship) will literally crash and burn. This, after all, is a game where you’re building a space program from the ground up, doing everything from putting together the components in the right order as you build your ships, to launching them and getting them into orbit, to carrying out missions and tasks whilst in space, to safely guiding your astronauts back home. Kerbal Space Program may essentially be rocket science for (kinda) dummies, but it still expects you to do a whole lot of reading and practicing in order for you to understand what you’re doing. There’s no reason why it can’t be both of those things, of course. The thing is, I can’t tell if my displeasure with the game is because I’m not smart enough to play it, or because it’s a lousy port. It’s about as far from accessible as you can possibly get, which means, in turn, that’s it’s not particularly fun. That description, unfortunately, does not apply to the PS4 version.
#KERBAL SPACE PROGRAM PS4 BAD PC#
By all accounts, Kerbal Space Program on PC is a must-play, a game that manages to take literal rocket science and make it fun and accessible even for those people who aren’t necessarily scientifically-inclined.
