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Comment on 3rd-person shooters optimized for controllers?
ISOmorph@feddit.org 4 months ago
I don’t feel comfortable using a mouse I mainly play on PC
You sir, are definitely one in a million
Denjin@feddit.uk 4 months ago
CallMeAnAI@lemmy.world 4 months 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.
halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world 4 months 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 4 months ago
Huge difference between not feeling comfortable at all with using a mouse and preferring to use a controller depending on context
Rooster326@programming.dev 4 months ago
That’s not even close to true.
15% of Steam sessions are using a controller on a PC
mang0@lemmy.zip 4 months 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.
Denjin@feddit.uk 4 months 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.
mang0@lemmy.zip 4 months 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.
actionjbone@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
Yeah, these days I play everything with a controller - because I’d rather sit on the couch than in a desk chair.
Drusas@fedia.io 4 months 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.
Doc_Crankenstein@slrpnk.net 4 months ago
TIL WoW can be played with a controller
Drusas@fedia.io 4 months ago
Maybe, but it certainly couldn't be back then.
Doc_Crankenstein@slrpnk.net 4 months 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?
mohab@piefed.social 4 months 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.
boletus@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
Wait keyboard and controller? At the same time??
mohab@piefed.social 4 months ago
Keyboard for fighting games and shmups, and controller for anything else.
mysticpickle@lemmy.ca 4 months ago
Keyboard for fighting games
Wh-what?
tal@lemmy.today 4 months 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.
Lembot_0005@lemy.lol 4 months ago
Doom 1-2 was for the keyboard the same way as Wolf3d.
tal@lemmy.today 4 months ago
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.
Lembot_0005@lemy.lol 4 months 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.
SlothMama@lemmy.world 3 months 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.