I remember a LOT of people giving up gaming entirely during the transition to 3D because of this. That was when a lot of the people who experienced the arcade era stopped keeping up.
I was pretty against 3D games until I played Mario 64 and realized their controls didn’t have to suck. Still feels good to play to this day, an impressive feat for a 3D game from 1996!
I gave up on console gaming for the same reason (the last console I owned was a Super Nintendo) but that’s because mouse+keyboard is just so superior that using dual-joystick controllers feels like punishment rather than entertainment.
It just takes practice. Once you learn it playing FPS games on controllers feels sluggish.
I remember when I first played Quake my character wildly looked up and down while I was trying to move because I was used to Doom where it didn’t matter if I moved the mouse up or down.
My grandmother owned a PS1 which was the first console I ever played on as a kid.
But it was also the last console she ever owned and she said it was because of the move to thumbsticks made her gave up on gaming. Kinda sad…
I remember a LOT of people giving up gaming entirely during the transition to 3D because of this. That was when a lot of the people who experienced the arcade era stopped keeping up.
I was pretty against 3D games until I played Mario 64 and realized their controls didn’t have to suck. Still feels good to play to this day, an impressive feat for a 3D game from 1996!
I gave up on console gaming for the same reason (the last console I owned was a Super Nintendo) but that’s because mouse+keyboard is just so superior that using dual-joystick controllers feels like punishment rather than entertainment.
I’m just now exploring PC gaming and i have NO idea how you all use the keyboard and mouse for FPS games. Controller is all i know and so much easier.
It just takes practice. Once you learn it playing FPS games on controllers feels sluggish.
I remember when I first played Quake my character wildly looked up and down while I was trying to move because I was used to Doom where it didn’t matter if I moved the mouse up or down.