PC Gamers: Do You Have Trouble With Console Shooters?
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I'm a gong show trying to aim on a console. I need a reticle that takes up 2/3rds of the screen if I want to hit anything in a timely fashion.
It's a pity because making sneaky little headshots from a distance is one of my favorite things to do in FPS games. We borrowed Last Light for the PS3 and I ended up buying it for the PC rather than even attempt playing it on there. Metro was annoying enough with a mouse.
It's a pity because making sneaky little headshots from a distance is one of my favorite things to do in FPS games. We borrowed Last Light for the PS3 and I ended up buying it for the PC rather than even attempt playing it on there. Metro was annoying enough with a mouse.
Do I have trouble with them? Not at all...'cause I don't play them. Ba dum tish.
In all seriousness, back when I played console games, console shooters didn't give me -too- much trouble, but I did find the controls more difficult than with PC shooters. For me, analog sticks, for whatever reason, seem to frequently lack the responsiveness and ease of control that a mouse does when moving a first-person crosshair. Now I seldom had as much trouble with over-the-shoulder shooters like RE4 or Dead Space, funnily enough. However I think part of that is due to the mechanics of third person shooters like them. In such games, turning your character in the direction of an approaching or attacking enemy immediately puts your crosshairs/laser sight in the general vicinity of the enemy, so once in aiming mode a little nudging with the analog stick puts your sights on what you want to shoot. With FPS's, it's tougher because your camera controls and aiming controls are often connected. It creates a difficult dichotomy wherein if the controls are too fast and sensitive, you'll overshoot the target constantly but if they're too slow, you'll be laboriously panning the camera while an enemy just outside your peripheral vision runs up and cuts your ear off or takes potshots at you while you slowly turn to the side like an oscillating fan.
In all seriousness, back when I played console games, console shooters didn't give me -too- much trouble, but I did find the controls more difficult than with PC shooters. For me, analog sticks, for whatever reason, seem to frequently lack the responsiveness and ease of control that a mouse does when moving a first-person crosshair. Now I seldom had as much trouble with over-the-shoulder shooters like RE4 or Dead Space, funnily enough. However I think part of that is due to the mechanics of third person shooters like them. In such games, turning your character in the direction of an approaching or attacking enemy immediately puts your crosshairs/laser sight in the general vicinity of the enemy, so once in aiming mode a little nudging with the analog stick puts your sights on what you want to shoot. With FPS's, it's tougher because your camera controls and aiming controls are often connected. It creates a difficult dichotomy wherein if the controls are too fast and sensitive, you'll overshoot the target constantly but if they're too slow, you'll be laboriously panning the camera while an enemy just outside your peripheral vision runs up and cuts your ear off or takes potshots at you while you slowly turn to the side like an oscillating fan.
I'm not very PC oriented these days but I did grow up playing FPS on the PC well before I even tried it out on the console. You spend 5 or 10 minutes learning the controls and it works just as well. No sweat.
I can play FPS's on consoles and PC's as long as I use a controller because I'm more fammiliar and adjustable to use one than I am a K+M.
Playing TF2 and other FPS's along with Skyrim with K+M just makes me feel like I'm ink a tank and doesn't feel natural to me but that's my opinion and preference.
Playing TF2 and other FPS's along with Skyrim with K+M just makes me feel like I'm ink a tank and doesn't feel natural to me but that's my opinion and preference.
I am embarrassingly bad at aiming on consoles when I haven't used one in a while.
I'd say it's because I just get out of practice with using the controller (despite always planning to get one, I don't actually own a console myself), but I don't have the same problems with third person shooters or totally different genres like fighting games... could just be that I suck at Halo, of course
My solution for overcoming the problem is to try and play the whole game with a melee weapon. Probably not what you're looking for, especially not if you play with other people (my ex definitely never got sick of me charging about with a Gravity Hammer. Not once).
I'd say it's because I just get out of practice with using the controller (despite always planning to get one, I don't actually own a console myself), but I don't have the same problems with third person shooters or totally different genres like fighting games... could just be that I suck at Halo, of course
My solution for overcoming the problem is to try and play the whole game with a melee weapon. Probably not what you're looking for, especially not if you play with other people (my ex definitely never got sick of me charging about with a Gravity Hammer. Not once).
..Oh God, yes.
I just can't pick up a controller, after years of playing PC games, and use it to shoot an in-game gun, or any projectile. The analog is too sensitive, except sometimes it's not, it's too constrictive...
I just can't pick up a controller, after years of playing PC games, and use it to shoot an in-game gun, or any projectile. The analog is too sensitive, except sometimes it's not, it's too constrictive...