Comment on 3rd-person shooters optimized for controllers?

ISOmorph@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• 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.

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  • 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

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• Rooster326@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  That’s not even close to true.

  15% of Steam sessions are using a controller on a PC

  steamcommunity.com/games/…/4142827237888316812

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  • actionjbone@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Yeah, these days I play everything with a controller - because I’d rather sit on the couch than in a desk chair.

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  • mang0@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    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.

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    • Denjin@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      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.

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      • mang0@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        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.

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• mohab@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  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.

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  • boletus@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Wait keyboard and controller? At the same time??

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    • mohab@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Keyboard for fighting games and shmups, and controller for anything else.

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      • mysticpickle@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Keyboard for fighting games

        Wh-what?

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• Denjin@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Snob

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• SlothMama@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  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.

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• CallMeAnAI@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  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.

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• tal@lemmy.today ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  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.

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  • Lembot_0005@lemy.lol ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Doom 1-2 was for the keyboard the same way as Wolf3d.

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    • tal@lemmy.today ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I’m pretty sure that Wolfenstein 3D had mouse support, unless it was added later, and I’m sure that (original) Doom did.

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      soulsphere.org/apocrypha/keyboard/

      Debunking the Myth that Doom was Keyboard-only

      It also mentions Wolfenstein 3D:

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      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.

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      • Lembot_0005@lemy.lol ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        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.

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• Drusas@fedia.io ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  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.

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  • Doc_Crankenstein@slrpnk.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    TIL WoW can be played with a controller

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    • Drusas@fedia.io ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Maybe, but it certainly couldn't be back then.

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      • Doc_Crankenstein@slrpnk.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        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?

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