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Comment on 3rd-person shooters optimized for controllers?

Tarquinn2049@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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 ⁨day⁩ 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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- Die4Ever@retrolemmy.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  Did you miss the screenshot of John Romero himself saying that Doom was made for mouse input?
  
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  - Lembot_0005@lemy.lol ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    I did. I have no idea what screenshot you’re talking about.
    
    Anyway, even if he told something like that, the keyboard-only input was more convenient for Wolf3d and Doom 1-2.
    
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    PuddleOfKittens@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    Here’s a transcript of the image (typed out):
    
    (layout of a tweet, with a profile pic and blue checkmark etc) John Romero @romero Replying to @fullbright @fullbright @ADAMATOMIC @ID_AA_Carmack : DOOM was made for mouse input, so was Wolf 3D. Keen was expected to use keyboard. 3:11 PM - 2 Jun 2014 from Los Gatos, CA
    
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    Die4Ever@retrolemmy.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    You didn’t see this? lemmy.today/…/f41cda96-f506-431c-804f-708e96b2413…
    
    It was in the previous comment, so maybe something weird with your client or something
    
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