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I remember when I felt that way like 10 years ago. Then I forced myself to play through a couple games and got over it.

For competitive or super fast stuff like this ROTT remake, yeah, a controller can't begin to keep up with mouse precision. However, for almost all singleplayer/co-op games these days it doesn't even begin to matter.

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Originally Posted by MechDeus

I remember when I felt that way like 10 years ago. Then I forced myself to play through a couple games and got over it.

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I was over it about 45 minutes into TimeSplitters. And I was playing Counterstrike on the college LAN regularly at the time so it's not like I wasn't accustomed to the intricacies of mouse and keyboard control.

I can see why nerds were pissed about it in 2001. It's 2013 though, seriously. Games like FC3, Halo, etc. are designed around pad play and they play great. Enjoy or whine, who the hell chooses whine?

You could also choose to just play other games that actually have sane input options.
Playing a FPS with a gamepad is like playing a lightgun shooter with gamepad. It's doable, but it's a huge compromise.

Not if the game is designed for it, which modern FPS' usually are. If classic FPS' are like lightgun games than modern FPS' are like rail shooters such as S&P and Space Harrier.

They've been slowed down and kludged out with aim assist, but they'd still control better with a proper pointing device.

S&P and Space Harrier would control better with a light gun or mouse, but they still work just fine with a controller.

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Originally Posted by kedawa

You could also choose to just play other games that actually have sane input options.
Playing a FPS with a gamepad is like playing a lightgun shooter with gamepad. It's doable, but it's a huge compromise.

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Not when the people who are making the game are sitting at their desk testing it out using a gamepad as the primary input device. The game was designed around it from the start. It's stupid to say that the input device used by the creators during its design is not the correct one.

Unless it's waggle.

Eh, DKCR was awesome as fuck-all even with the waggle. I'd be lying if I said I wasn't looking forward to playing it on 3DS though.

I've been attempting to hold strong against the controller on PC movement for years but I usually just give up in the name of immersion.

But really, when you look at how much aim-assist goes into these games I don't think the "It's designed around it!" argument holds up. It's always (or should always be) more satisfying to do it yourself when you're perfectly capable with a mouse (or something equally precise that Valve is working on?)