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.

  • eezeebee@lemmy.ca
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    1 day ago

    I’m also a PC gamer who prefers using a controller. No doubt a mouse is better for aiming, I just find a controller more comfortable and easier to relax with while playing, especially after working a desk job all day.

    You should check out Remnant 2 and Risk of Rain 2.

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        8 hours ago

        Yes. Unless it’s the rare occasion I want to play something competitive like CSGO then I’d use m&k.

      • PuddleOfKittens@sh.itjust.works
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        12 hours ago

        I played through the Tomb Raider reboot with a controller, mainly because I thought it would be mostly non-gun stuff (and I was sort of right) and the non-gun stuff played easier with it. Also I use IJKL instead of WASD and I didn’t want to have to rebind literally every single key on yet another game. Controllers suck for aiming regardless of which thumbstick I use to aim, so there’s no point rebinding it and I can just use defaults.