That’s not even close to true.
15% of Steam sessions are using a controller on a PC
Comment on 3rd-person shooters optimized for controllers?
ISOmorph@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
I don’t feel comfortable using a mouse I mainly play on PC
You sir, are definitely one in a million
That’s not even close to true.
15% of Steam sessions are using a controller on a PC
Yeah, these days I play everything with a controller - because I’d rather sit on the couch than in a desk chair.
Please explain how people sometimes using controllers on PC means that there exists a considerable amount of PC gamers who are uncomfortable with using a mouse.
Every person who games on a PC has a keyboard and mouse available to them. If 15% of those on average choose to use a controller instead that’s a lot of people who are more comfortable using that than keyboard and mouse.
No. It might simply be that people prefer using a controller for specific games, which is a very reasonable explanation if you’re familiar with video games. The statistics says nothing about this because it’s too general.
I wish I wasn’t if true, but I already put all of my skill points in keyboard and controller, and I don’t have enough reasons to work on my mouse skills.
Wait keyboard and controller? At the same time??
Keyboard for fighting games and shmups, and controller for anything else.
Keyboard for fighting games
Wh-what?
Snob
I exclusively game on PC with a controller too, and when a game doesn’t have support for a controller it is a deal breaker.
Nerds need to grow up and stop this nonsense. Millinials are pushing 40 and you still don’t understand that non casuals are the minority.
There was an era, very early on, when PC first-person shooters were generally played with the keyboard. Wolfenstein 3D. I remember people who specifically wanted to play Doom with the keyboard rather than the mouse.
Doom 1-2 was for the keyboard the same way as Wolf3d.
I’m pretty sure that Wolfenstein 3D had mouse support, unless it was added later, and I’m sure that (original) Doom did.
checks
soulsphere.org/apocrypha/keyboard/
Debunking the Myth that Doom was Keyboard-only
It also mentions Wolfenstein 3D:
I don’t know if I used the mouse with Wolfenstein 3D when it first came out. But I recall playing the Mac port later with a mouse, and that it didn’t feel great there.
Doom could be played with a mouse, but it was made for the keyboard. Because of the only horizontal freedom of turning, the mouse was just uncomfortable.
I used to play WoW that way back when all I had was a laptop (2004?). Got surprisingly good at it. Still, I would recommend using a mouse.
TIL WoW can be played with a controller
Maybe, but it certainly couldn't be back then.
Is that not what you just said you did back in 2004? The conversation is about playing games with a controller on PC is it not?
halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Not by a long shot. There’s a reason Steam has an entire section of the library page that shows controller compatibility. Not to mention Big Picture mode and all the living room gamers. Keyboard sand mouse on a couch is terrible, no matter what hardware you have or how you try to convince yourself it’s not.
I personally use a controller 99% of the time. In both casual and competitive games.
mang0@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Huge difference between not feeling comfortable at all with using a mouse and preferring to use a controller depending on context