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bbbhltz, rok temu do gaming w Do you prefer playing with Keyboard or controller more, and for what type of games?

This is actually a good question. I hope you get some replies from serious gamers.

I am not a serious gamer, but I’ve always preferred keyboards for FPS and RTS games. Years ago when I tried an FPS game for the first time on a console using a controller it was a disaster and took weeks to get used to.

tal, rok temu

That being said, normally console FPSes are designed to be much more-forgiving as to response time to account for the controller, and there’s typically some level of auto-aim. If you’re playing against other players, they’re going to be using analog sticks too.

I mean, don’t get me wrong, I’m with you on this, would rather have the mouse, just that I dunno if I’d call it a disaster. It’d be a disaster if people using mice/keyboards were competitively playing against people with analog sticks in an FPS.

feminalpanda, rok temu do gaming w Do you prefer playing with Keyboard or controller more, and for what type of games?

Controller, playing on keyboard strains my arm muscles.

sub_, rok temu do gaming w Do you prefer playing with Keyboard or controller more, and for what type of games?

I play games on PS5, Switch, and Mac Mini.

On consoles, I use gamepad, usually with back buttons / paddles. Nothing interesting.

On my Mac Mini, I mostly play emulated games and point and click games.

• For emulated games, mostly using gamepad, except for shmups, fighting games, and arcade MAME games, which I use my Hori Mini Fighting Stick
• For point and click games, Civ, and OpenRA, I use a cheap Huion drawing tablet
• I don’t play much FPS, but the last one I played was TimeWarpers (an idle FPS game), and I managed to use a trackball to play it comfortably

I switched from right hand mouse to left hand trackball (It’s Kensington Expert trackball, not really right or left handed) earlier this year, because my right hand was aching. I thought it was RSI, but now when I think about it, it might have been uric acid.

bbbhltz, rok temu

I kind of want one of those Hori fight sticks. But I only play SF and Darkstalkers from time to time so it might not be worth it.

sub_, rok temu

The mini fighting stick is quite ok, but it doesn’t work directly with my Mac. I have a Mayflash Magic-NS adapter that allows the OS / emulator to detect it.

I’m just using it for nostalgia, reminds me of playing old arcade games.

tal, rok temu

There’s a not-terribly-active community on the Fediverse that I saw earlier dedicated to arcade sticks.

looks

!arcadesticks

sneezymrmilo, rok temu do games w You teleport into the last game world you played. What happens next?

Haha damn I’d be in Night City. I’d probably be getting mugged by some gangoons.

Welt, rok temu do games w You teleport into the last game world you played. What happens next?

My cousin calls and asks if I want to go bowling.

Would be weird since my cousin is dead

TheEighthDoctor, rok temu do games w You teleport into the last game world you played. What happens next?

Shit Keanu Reaves is in my head making snarky comments about my choices. Could be cool.

joelfromaus, rok temu do games w You teleport into the last game world you played. What happens next?

WH40K: Darktide. In the grim dark future of the 41st millennium I am so F-ed in the A.

ours, rok temu

We have a grim, and painful life to look forward to. At least it will be brief so there’s that.

So you rather die grinding in the factories, in prison, as emperor-corpse food or horribly in battle? Tough choice.

CharlesReed, rok temu do games w You teleport into the last game world you played. What happens next?

I'd probably either get killed by a nosalis or forget to change my mask filter. Greetings from Metro: Last Light!

keefshape, rok temu do games w You teleport into the last game world you played. What happens next?

Groan. That means I am stuck in boring but pretty Starfield forever.

Guess I would finally build an Outpost 😆

boeman, rok temu

But you’ll have cool dragon shouts powers.

TwattyMctwatterson, rok temu

I wouldn’t hate being a space trucker.

aeronmelon, rok temu do games w You teleport into the last game world you played. What happens next?

Lucky me, I live in Stardew Valley now. And I’m never going back.

0x442e472e, rok temu do gaming w Do you prefer playing with Keyboard or controller more, and for what type of games?

I was much more into Gameboy, SNES and later PlayStation than the DOS games that were available to me. However, once I really got into PC gaming, controllers felt extremely limiting to me and nowadays I cannot even use them anymore. I prefer mouse and keyboard even for racing games and platformers

loops, rok temu do gaming w Do you prefer playing with Keyboard or controller more, and for what type of games?

I grew up on consoles, mostly Playstations, so I can use controllers a lot better then some people. I prefer to use them in FPS’, movement and melee feels a lot more natural with a controller then with a keyboard. Aiming is, I dare say, an art-form with a controller and it can get really difficult when the sticks are old and losing their sensitivity (*or it’s just a crap controller).

Not to mention how comfortable it is not having to have your fingers splayed across a flat surface for the whole game.

ProvokedGamer, rok temu

Same here, I grew up with consoles (Xbox mostly). I’m not used to keyboard so I don’t play that well on keyboard than I do on controller for most games. The only times I do use keyboard is for point and click or strategy games.

zyberteq, rok temu do games w You teleport into the last game world you played. What happens next?

Got a nice job with autonomy, quite a bit of credits and a sweet spaceship. If only we could have cats in Starfield

misk, rok temu do zapytajszmer w Jaką instancję Pixelfeda polecicie?

Hot take: żadna.

Profile Pixelfed można śledzić z poziomu Mastodona gdzie zupełnie sensownie wplatają się w resztę treści. Można też je dodać na oddzielną listę, bo Mastodon 4.2 pozwala na wykluczenie danej listy z głównej osi czasu.

lysy, rok temu

Nie mam i nie chcę Mastodona, dlatego się pytam o Pixelfed :P

grte, rok temu do gaming w Do you prefer playing with Keyboard or controller more, and for what type of games?

Different tools for different purposes. Strategy game, or a game where precise pointer control matters? Mouse and keyboard.

Racing, platformer, fighting game, that sort of thing, controller.