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PaperclipPerfector  1mo ago (text post)   2532 thread views

Friday Fun Thread for September 19, 2025

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I hate controllers. I tried to play Hades with a controller and realized that I couldn't. With KB&M I can dash and attack without adjusting my fingers instead of having to move my thumb between A and X every 250 milliseconds.

I also can't adapt to controlling the camera with a thumbstick. I find FPS-style (forward is up) unintuitive, but flight sim style (forward is down) is even worse, as both regular and inverted X-axis feel wrong to me.

I hate controllers.

I also can't adapt to controlling the camera with a thumbstick.

I picked up this habit back when you had to enable mouselook in Quake console.

Very interesting.

I see that Quake was released in 1996. Personally, I was first introduced to keyboard/mouse-controlled action-focused video games by Claw maybe around year 2003, and quickly adapted to gamepads when my father bought a GameCube with Bush II's 2008 stimulus check. But I guess different people have different preferences.

I bought my first gamepad a couple years ago to play BotW and hated it. My son uses it to play Dead Cells now, so it doesn't feel like wasted money.

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