Comment on This is the E3 trailer of Half Life (1997)

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• who@feddit.org ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  What shooters had you been playing that required using buttons to turn? I’m pretty sure Half-Life didn’t invent mouse look.

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  • Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The OGs like Wolf3D and Doom did not even have mouse support until later.

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    • who@feddit.org ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      The OGs like Wolf3D and Doom did not even have mouse support for aiming until much later.

      I don’t think this is true, at least not for the original PC Doom, but I don’t have a record of it handy. shrug

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      • Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I fudged the phrasing; you could move with the mouse and I think turn with it, you couldn’t look up and down. My dad played that way.

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• PhobosAnomaly@feddit.uk ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Mouse look was revolutionary.

  I tried to play Half-Life Uplink with the right directions of looking mapped to 789, 4 and 6, 123. It wasn’t very intuitive.

  That said, I played Quake 1 with lookup and lookdown bound to PgUp and PgDown, and Quake II on PlayStation with lookup and lookdown mapped to L1 and R1.

  Looking back, that was a wild few years.

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