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3rd-person shooters optimized for controllers? (piefed.social)
submitted 1 day ago by mohab@piefed.social to c/patientgamers@sh.itjust.works
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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.

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[–] ISOmorph@feddit.org 27 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (35 children)

I don't feel comfortable using a mouse

I mainly play on PC

You sir, are definitely one in a million

[–] Rooster326@programming.dev 7 points 1 day ago (9 children)

That's not even close to true.

15% of Steam sessions are using a controller on a PC

https://steamcommunity.com/games/593110/announcements/detail/4142827237888316812

[–] actionjbone@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 day ago

Yeah, these days I play everything with a controller - because I'd rather sit on the couch than in a desk chair.

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