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3rd-person shooters optimized for controllers? (piefed.social)
submitted 2 months 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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[-] Drusas@fedia.io 1 points 2 months ago

I used to play WoW that way back when all I had was a laptop (2004?). Got surprisingly good at it. Still, I would recommend using a mouse.

[-] Doc_Crankenstein@slrpnk.net 1 points 2 months ago

TIL WoW can be played with a controller

[-] Drusas@fedia.io 1 points 2 months ago

Maybe, but it certainly couldn't be back then.

[-] Doc_Crankenstein@slrpnk.net 1 points 2 months ago

Is that not what you just said you did back in 2004? The conversation is about playing games with a controller on PC is it not?

[-] Drusas@fedia.io 1 points 2 months ago

No, I played it on an IBM ThinkPad, which was a laptop that had a nipple in the middle (yes, that is what they called it), which can be used as a mouse. I used the nipple a lot.

[-] Doc_Crankenstein@slrpnk.net 3 points 2 months ago

Bro I'm 33, I remember the laptop nipples.

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