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Article #697971Re: Mid-Month Ramble - June 2017
From: Justisaur
Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2017 11:38
Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2017 11:38
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On 6/20/2017 6:36 AM, Spalls Hurgenson wrote: > On Mon, 19 Jun 2017 10:46:30 -0700, Justisaur <just...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> On 6/19/2017 8:17 AM, Spalls Hurgenson wrote: > >> I seem to be mostly using a controller these days too. I guess I don't >> play a lot of fp games anymore. Even GTA V, and the Saints row games >> I'd switch between controller and keyboard when driving/walking as it's >> far easier to drive with the controller and far easier to aim guns with >> the mouse. Of course that takes even more time than switching from WASD >> to ESDF > > I'm still not anywhere near a comfortable with a controller as I am > with a keyboard. I think this has to do with brain wiring; I was a > keyboard gamer since the days of my youth; I didn't even TOUCH a > gamepad until I was an adult (and even then it was only for > occassional and brief experimentation with the Sega Genesis). I didn't > own a gamepad until maybe 2010, and really didn't start using one > semi-regularly until I bought an XBox360/PS3 in 2014. My brain and > thumbs just aren't wired up to optimally use a controller, unlike a > kid who grew up playing Nintendo. So it's always keyboard for me, if > it is an option, > I didn't have a console until I was in my late teens and that was a intellivision, which has a completely different type of controller (and pretty awkward for at least half the games.), and I didn't play it that much. I never owned a nintendo until we got a used gamecube maybe 10 years ago. I did get a playstation 2 about 15ish years ago, but I was well into my 30's by then. I did play a lot of video games at the arcade as a young whippersnapper, so maybe that had something to do with it. - Justisaur
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