Comment on 3rd-person shooters optimized for controllers?
tal@lemmy.today 3 weeks agoThere 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 3 weeks ago
Doom 1-2 was for the keyboard the same way as Wolf3d.
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/
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.
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.
Tarquinn2049@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I suppose it depends on perspective, but I feel like if John Romero says it was made with mouse controls intended as the default, he’s probably right, as he would be one of the few people to know what they had in mind when making it.