Comment on 3rd-person shooters optimized for controllers?
tal@lemmy.today 4 hours 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 hours ago
Doom 1-2 was for the keyboard the same way as Wolf3d.
tal@lemmy.today 3 hours 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/
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 hours 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.