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12-28-2007, 05:45 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: hudson valley | | | Transitioning from PC games to a console for FPS
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I love first-person-shooter games (though i'm quite non-violent in real-life).
Ive played games on my mac for years and was wondering about moving to a console. XBOX 360 perhaps.
To the kids brought up on nintendo and PS this will sound wierd, but Im a forty something guy and I'm not to sure about the move to the console hand control. I'm pretty handy with the mouse/keyboard control on the pc platform...how hard is it to adapt to the controller?
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12-28-2007, 06:38 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Modesto, CA | | | It took me a while but not too long. Just be patient and give it a few weeks.
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12-28-2007, 10:38 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2004 Location: St. Louis, MO, U.S. | | Quote:
Originally Posted by richnota  I'm pretty handy with the mouse/keyboard control on the pc platform...how hard is it to adapt to the controller? | Not too hard, since knowing where to shoot is the most critical thing. Playing with analog sticks is kind of fun, and you'll probably come to appreciate the extra control that using a stick instead of WASD gives you. Aiming with a stick is completely silly. It will never be fast or accurate like a mouse. It's too bad none of the console makers have thought to throw a trackball on the controller. That would be a great setup.
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12-28-2007, 10:41 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Tomkins Cove, New York | | | Get used to less precise aiming measures...
It sounds like a major downgrade to me. |
12-28-2007, 10:45 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Jacksonville and Pensacola, FL | | | For what it's worth, they make mice and keyboards for consoles for this very reason, so you don't actually have to make the switch...
But really, I think it has it's advantages and disadvantages. I will say I like pulling the right trigger more than I like clicking a mouse button, but aiming with a stick with take some adjusting.
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12-29-2007, 03:22 PM
| | Banned | | Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Marathon Man | | | Using dual stick control quickly becomes second nature. I prefer it to the mouse-and-keyboard method even. Just make sure to invert the Y axis! |
12-29-2007, 04:03 PM
| | Not Actually Knighted... Yet! | | Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Cincinnati, Ohio | | the bad thing about FPS on console also is the whole button layout, I don't understand why the video game companies think you should have 4-6 buttons plus a joystick for your thumb to hit, two for two other fingers and none for the rest... I have seen one company that had the right idea, but the build quality was **** so they quit making the controllers... http://www.llamma.com/xbox/Reviews/f...controller.htm
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so I guess you can still get them around, I found one selling for $4 lol
might get it just to try it for myself
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12-29-2007, 04:14 PM
| | Banned | | Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Marathon Man | | | It reminds me of when the special "Resident Evil" pad was released. Didn't look too good. |
12-29-2007, 05:09 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2004 Location: St. Louis, MO, U.S. | | Quote:
Originally Posted by K_Shizzle Get used to less precise aiming measures...
It sounds like a major downgrade to me. | Yeah, it is. A slight upgrade for the left hand, and a major downgrade for the right hand. You come out behind, but the good news is that console FPSes are glacially slow in order to compensate for the poor controls.
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12-29-2007, 05:41 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Pittsburgh | | | just stick with counter strike on the computer =] |
12-29-2007, 05:45 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Louisville Ky | | Quote:
Originally Posted by santucci218 just stick with counter strike on the computer =] | +1
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12-29-2007, 06:04 PM
|  | Funkify your Life | | Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: The Bucket, RI. | | | Any thoughts on just plugging your computer into your TV? Is it close enough?
Most newer video cards can handle it. All you need is a cable with a DVI plug on one end and an HDMI on the other. |
12-29-2007, 06:27 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Nova Scotia | | | Just a get a really good gaming computer. The stick doesn't even compare to the mouse for aiming. |
12-29-2007, 07:08 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: hudson valley | | Quote:
Originally Posted by PrimusNut Just a get a really good gaming computer. The stick doesn't even compare to the mouse for aiming. | any suggestions on a decently priced gaming PC? (both the missus and I have mac laptops...not too good for FPS games) | | Thread Tools | Search this Thread | | | | 
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