Comment on What games popularized certain mechanics?

That_Devil_Girl@lemmy.ml ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• teft@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  ESDF is the superior keybinding

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  • SplashJackson@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It’s such a pain remapping controls on every. single. new. install.

    But it’s worth it. Fuck wasd

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    • mPony@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      it’s one key over, is it really swear-word level different?

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      • SplashJackson@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        If naughty words cause you a level of righteous indignance, my recommendation is to abstain from online activities until one reaches the age of majority

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  • offspec@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Asdf is just better for general key availability imo

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    • Kolanaki@yiffit.net ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I never understood this for shooters. You can’t walk forward and backward at the same time, so I don’t see why being able to press the forward and backward movement keys at the same time would be useful at all.

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      • offspec@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        It’s not about being able to push both movement buttons at the same time, it’s about being able to push more buttons in general. For hero shooters, mobas, MMOs, and other games with lots of inputs spreading out your reachable keys is really good.

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  • WhiteHairSuperSaiyan@lemmynsfw.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I am glad I am not alone!

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    • teft@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      There literally dozens of us!

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      • WhiteHairSuperSaiyan@lemmynsfw.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        But for real, i struggle to play games with wasd default and now keybind changes. Part of it is as simple as my hand is just used to using esdf and I constantly hit the wrong keys in those games. But the loss of useable keys on my pinky just feels so bad.

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  • Chef_Boyardee@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Been RDFG since about 2002. One of my roommates in college was in the top thousand on Unreal Tournament. He talked me into it. God, I get good at that game playing against him.

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• nokturne213@sopuli.xyz ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I remember using wsad on an ascii graphics game I played back in 85 or so. I think it was called dungeons and dragons, but was not made by tsr. Learn, hack, and Moria were all similar games but I did not play those until later.

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• pyre@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  yeah HL definitely was the one popularized it as default. quake players changed the bindings for it; i know because i played that game with old-school doom/duke controls

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