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3rd-person shooters optimized for controllers? (piefed.social)

submitted 3 days ago by mohab@piefed.social to c/patientgamers@sh.itjust.works

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I don't feel comfortable using a mouse and I have no interest in working on my mouse skills. I play all of my games with either a controller or a keyboard, and I'm looking for 3rd-person shooters I can play with a controller.

I'm mainly interested in action games. I'm OK with a world with gated areas a la metroidvanias/soulslikes, but I'm not interested in full-on open world or narrative-driven games.

Examples of 3rd-person shooters I enjoyed playing with a controller: Gungrave, Vanquish, and Evil West.

Examples of 3rd-person shooters I don't enjoy and have no interest in: Uncharted, The Last of Us, Red Dead Redemption, Dead Space, Control/Alan Wake, or GTA.

I mainly play on PC, Steam in particular, but I'll boot up emulators if the game is worth it.

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[–] Lembot_0005@lemy.lol 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Die4Ever@retrolemmy.com 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Did you miss the screenshot of JOHN ROMERO, the man himself, saying that Wolf3D and Doom were made for mouse input?

[–] Lembot_0005@lemy.lol 1 points 3 days ago (2 children)

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.

[–] PuddleOfKittens@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days 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

[–] Die4Ever@retrolemmy.com 3 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

You didn't see this? https://lemmy.today/pictrs/image/f41cda96-f506-431c-804f-708e96b24138.png

https://lemmy.today/pictrs/image/f41cda96-f506-431c-804f-708e96b24138.png

It was in the previous comment, so maybe something weird with your client or something