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.

  • Denjin@feddit.uk
    32·
    13 hours ago

    Every person who games on a PC has a keyboard and mouse available to them. If 15% of those on average choose to use a controller instead that’s a lot of people who are more comfortable using that than keyboard and mouse.

    • mang0@lemmy.zip
      31·
      12 hours ago

      No. It might simply be that people prefer using a controller for specific games, which is a very reasonable explanation if you’re familiar with video games. The statistics says nothing about this because it’s too general.

      • Denjin@feddit.uk
        12·
        11 hours ago

        It might simply be that people prefer using a controller for specific games

        So you could say, it’s more comfortable for some to play those games with a controller…

        • PuddleOfKittens@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          21·
          4 hours ago

          Some games literally don’t use a mouse. For instance Baba Is You or The Binding Of Isaac or Shank would, at best, use the mouse for menus. You could play them exclusively with a keyboard but 1) you’re giving up analog input, and 2) unless you have a gaming keyboard, some of those games will have horrific keyboard ghosting especially if they have any sort of combos like Shank does.

        • mang0@lemmy.zip
          21·
          10 hours ago

          OP specifically wrote:

          I don’t feel comfortable using a mouse

          This is in general and not specific to any game… There exists a myriad of people who are comfortable with using mouse and keyboard while still preferring controllers for some specific games. You should try to better your reading comprehension.

          • Denjin@feddit.uk
            12·
            10 hours ago

            This is in general and not specific to any game

            My reading comprehension? Please show me where I said anything that contradicts that.

            • mang0@lemmy.zip
              2·
              9 hours ago

              OP specifically wrote:

              I don’t feel comfortable using a mouse

              You said:

              So you could say, it’s more comfortable for some to play those games with a controller…

              Please explain how people preferring to play some games with a controller is related to people who are uncomfortable with using a mouse at all.