Comment on PC gaming fan Steven Spielberg says he "can't do controllers," prefers keyboard and mouse

PennyRoyal@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• Godort@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  It depends on the game.

  Trying to play a platformer using a keyboard is miserable. On the flip-side, trying to play an RTS with a controller sounds like one of the worst experiences imaginable.

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  • pyre@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    it’s only miserable if the developer doesn’t care about mkb.

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• BroBot9000@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Analog sticks beat WSAD for movement any day and the mouse beats analog sticks in aiming.

  Different tools for the job.

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  • nxn@biglemmowski.win ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    There are keyboards with hall-effect/magnetic switches that allow precise measurement of how much any given key is held down. With that said it’s be possible to map the signals from WASD to emulate a controller’s left stick (at least in games that allow simultaneous kb+m and controller inputs, but that’s fairly common in my experience).

    I have a keyboard like that on pre-order and I’m definitely looking forward to trying it. 4mm of travel isn’t much, but it should still be better than a binary signal.

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• Sidyctism2@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  nah

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• TachyonTele@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  (and thus another 20 page long argument about gamepads and kb+m was started on the interwebs)

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