Comment on 3rd-person shooters optimized for controllers?

• tal@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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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    • Tarquinn2049@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.

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      • Lembot_0005@lemy.lol ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Are you sure you’re not talking about Quake? Because Quake, while perfectly playable with the keyboard only, can get some nice usability nuances from the mouse.

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