Bu-bu-but it has RGB light effects and 8 extra buttons that I’ll never use, and it was only $30! The sponsored Amazon link assured me that this would push my gaming skills to the max! They can’t just write that about anything!
I definitely do with FFXIV. I’m awful at using keyboard shortcuts like f1-9. Bonus is that I can also use the buttons in fpses and switch weapons and shit that way as it’s more natural for me.
Just to give other ideas: On my 16-button, I have Volume up and down, Ctrl (+click to open in new tab) and Win(acts like altdrag on awesomewm), Mouse4 and 5, ctrl+tab and ctrl+shift+tab(next/previous tab), Ctrl+t and ctrl+w(new tab and close tab), win+tab and win+shift+tab(next/previous window), and win+left/right/up/down which I’m to lazy to remap to something more useful now that I’m not on windows anymore. The 5 extra buttons on top are rapid click, doing 40 clicks per second while held down, and stock dpi up/down, lighting mode and profiles switches that I never use.
It was mostly empty and unused for years, but when it finally broke It felt like I had a hand chopped off, so I pretty much had no choice but to buy the same one again, even though it is heavy as fuck and the cable is stiff like rebar.
I finally found a well-built comfortable mouse that has tons of wacky RGB effects and just a few extra buttons in a surprisingly useable layout.
The one I ended up with was the Roccat Kone XP. The best part is that I rarely notice the extra buttons until I need to use them and otherwise just feels like a normal mouse most of the time.
Totally not everyone’s cup of tea, but you can in fact get a feature mouse that also is well built. They do exist!
I had gone through probably half a dozen mice before it in the 5 years before this one, but this one has lasted around 2 years without a single complaint.
Lol that one razer essential mouse with lights on it goes for under $20 sometimes and is genuinely as performant as a gaming mouse 5x the price tho. Probably the one component I’d most commonly recommend for someone planning a new build just due to insane value/$
Yes. I had a Nostromo I used for processing photos. It was excellent, but required Razer’s Synapse software to work. One day there was an update that killed it. Never got it working right again, despite seriously trying for months.
Back when I used to play Fortnite, these extra buttons were the only way I could build, I never understood how people unironically used the default binds, like mate does your finger reach F2 while pressing wasd?
It’s been really long since I’ve played, but I hope they’ve changed the default binds at some time. At the very least middle click has to be binded to straight wall.
Actually, a 10-button mouse for $30 seems pretty good. If it is uncomfortable like OP’s example suggests, I wouldn’t use it as a first choice, but it could be a cheap backup that I could swap in without needing to change bondings. I would use all of those for MMOs, and probably most of them for shooters/MOBAs.
Honestly that car most reminds me of the mad cats R.A.T. mice which look like they’d be hella uncomfortable but somehow are quite the opposite. Though I’m still happiest with my model o-
While the RGB bit is a complete ripoff for something I don’t ever want to use, I was actually looking for something good with more buttons (PUBG requires two keyboards and a church organ), and it did take me a while until I found something that is actually quality AND it has enough buttons. So many “pro” mice don’t have more than the usual 3-4 buttons, and I don’t get how people don’t want to de-clutter all the keys around their WASD/arrows.
I love buttons. The correct number of buttons is almost always more.
Though my favorite mouse (MX Master) only has like 6 buttons, it has intelligent free-srolling and a horizontal thumb wheel. Whether I’m mapping, editing video, using excel, or gaming it’s amazing.
Okay, not much of a gamer, but a teacher, and when I was working at a school with a 0-4 grading scale I so badly wanted a mouse with 5 side buttons so that I could scroll through Google classroom and grade one handed.
Hey Quest 64! I almost beat this game as a kid, I think I was renting it.
I miss Blast Corps and Body Harvest as well, so many unique games on N64. Body Harvest was a clear predecessor to the 3D GTA games, being able to jump into any vehicle felt insane at the time.
Blast Corps was my favorite single player game on the system that wasn’t Ocarina of Time. Though, I still think the ending to the story was awful and anti-climatic.
This game was the only one that managed to give me motion sickness. I don’t know what was up with the graphics, but I felt nauseous after watching my brother play it for a few hours. Maybe it was all the flashing lights, small fonts, repetitive music, and confusing camera angles.
I had it, but I had no idea what I was doing, so I didn’t make it very far.
I don’t remember if this came out before or after we got internet at home (and I never had the Nintendo Power magazine), so there wasn’t much to do about that.
Back in 97 my older sister got a both babe job at E3 and got extra tickets for me and my mom to take me. This is back when it was strictly a trade conference and not really open to the public. I was waiting in line for a new Gameboy game when a dude overhead me rambling to my mom about the Brady guides I loved to read so much back then (my mom is a patient saint haha) when a dude in line interrupted me and told my mom about his website that had free guides for all the new games online. My mom was pretty excited about free guides and he handed her his card which I looked at eagerly, it was Jeff Veasey, the creator of gamefaqs.com.
I can’t tell you how much of my parents toner i burnt through over the years printing from that website, it was probably cheaper to just buy the guides haha. Still one of my all time favorite sites.
Oh yeah that Gameboy game I was waiting to see was some new Japanese monster game called Pokemon.
I have a friend who just consumes his video games and moves on. I like to replay over and over really wring out that dopamine. He ridicules that I still fire up StarCraft 2 for some co-op maps from time to time, eww he says a 20 year old game?
StarCraft 2? I mean I still play Total Annihilation or Beyond All Reason, StarCraft 2 is practically a totally new game!
The nice thing about old things is that generally people only bother to keep returning to the good old things and the bad old things fade away and are forgotten, also the communities around old things while small tend to be very friendly and toxic people are muchhhhhh less common than with popular new games.
I just played sc2 co-op for the first time in 3 years a couple nights ago. Something about making a giant army and smashing it against another giant army is just fun.
Quest 64 is my FAVORITE “bad” game! The difficulty spikes were annoying, the damn island that traps you there until you kill a boss is always stronger than I am, the game drones on near the end, but there was nothing like that combat system on the N64! I want a modern remake to solve the many problems plaguing this game!
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