Comment on Let's take a moment to remember the time period when everyone had to adjust to using dual-joysticks on controllers.

Fandangalo@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

• halfsalesman@piefed.social ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I’ve always wondered what’s specifically going on their minds when that happens. I remember getting into shooters and pretty much immediately understanding the two separate axes in Duke Nukem 3D at like age 7-8 (yeah I played violent games when I was young my parents only restricted movies). Maybe that’s why? My brain was just better able to learn at that age? Or is it that I am autistic? Is neurology a factor?

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  • nul9o9@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    You can try emulating how they feel by finding a game that lets you bind side to side movement on the mouse, and rotation to A and D. Some old shooters were set up that way I think.

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    • Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      My dad always played Doom and Heretic by MOVING with the mouse and aiming with the arrows on the keyboard. It was so weird watching him play. And despite him playing Wolfenstein and Doom and Heretic and Rise of the Triad, he quit once we got Quake. I still played Quake using nothing but the keyboard, like I did the other games mentioned. I didn’t start using the modern wasd and mouse setup until Tribes 2, since it was fairly close to the defaults (IIRC, it used asdf instead of wasd but I rebound them so it was more like the arrow keys; just one set of keys to the right of wasd. I used R to go forward).

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• sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I’ve seen this happen with 20 and 30 year olds.

  Its an entire learned skill that a large segment of the population never learned.

  … much like reading and writing, these days.

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  • CheeseNoodle@lemmy.world ⁨25⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

    But… people live their whole lives in first person view?

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• aesthelete@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I’ve seen many boomers either stare at their feet or the ceiling & they have no clue how to solve their situation because they are disoriented. Same with young kids learning.

  Any last words, Jim?

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  • edgemaster72@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    * turns around *
    Huh?

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• Ephera@lemmy.ml ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Yeah, it’s just wild to me, that we went full-force ahead with the whole 3D thing, when you lock out so many potential players with it.
  With 2D games, you can chuck someone a controller and even if they’re just haphazardly pressing buttons, they can still participate in the game. With 3D, no chance.

  And even those who do have practice still struggle with it. Think of a difficult 3D game and I bet it’s a valid joke that the true end boss is the camera.

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• Wildmimic@anarchist.nexus ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  It’s even a thing in our generation - my now ex was pretty stumped playing skyrim. 2d games were no issue.

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