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Let's take a moment to remember the time period when everyone had to adjust to using dual-joysticks on controllers. (media.piefed.world)
submitted 9 months ago by to c/retrogaming@lemmy.world
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[–] 16 points 9 months ago* (3 children)

I've always wondered what's specifically going on their minds when that happens. I remember getting into shooters and pretty much immediately understanding the two separate axes in Duke Nukem 3D at like age 7-8 (yeah I played violent games when I was young my parents only restricted movies). Maybe that's why? My brain was just better able to learn at that age? Or is it that I am autistic? Is neurology a factor?

EDIT: Just realized, even younger, I played and beat Star Fox SNES, which only had 1 axis, where aiming and moving were bound together. Maybe it was the baby step of playing a simpler 3D shooter game.

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  • [–] 13 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    You can try emulating how they feel by finding a game that lets you bind side to side movement on the mouse, and rotation to A and D. Some old shooters were set up that way I think.

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  • [–] 14 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    My dad always played Doom and Heretic by MOVING with the mouse and aiming with the arrows on the keyboard. It was so weird watching him play. And despite him playing Wolfenstein and Doom and Heretic and Rise of the Triad, he quit once we got Quake. I still played Quake using nothing but the keyboard, like I did the other games mentioned. I didn't start using the modern wasd and mouse setup until Tribes 2, since it was fairly close to the defaults (IIRC, it used asdf instead of wasd but I rebound them so it was more like the arrow keys; just one set of keys to the right of wasd. I used R to go forward).

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  • [–] 3 points 9 months ago

    Look, I NEVER played that way with the mouse move. Ya, its fukin bizarre.
    But it allowed you to sweep forward and back in sudden waves, super agile. If you were good at it, it gave you a significant edge.
    And the games that had that sort of locomotion were originally written to run on x386 processors, so you were fast in a slow world.

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