Bamba wrote:
Hearthly wrote:
You're woefully underestimating how shockingly bad I am at FPS/third person games with a pad.
Have you tried inverting the X or Y stick and seeing if that seems more natural? You've played a fair chunk of games on a pad now and you shouldn't still be unable to walk up behind someone and stab them. I realise there is a learning curve of sorts because I remember having to learn how to play FPS' (not third-person games though as they've always been better and easier with a pad) when I first got an X360 but I only had to put a few hours in before it started to click and you're way past that now.
Yeah I tried inverting and found myself in a weird space with it, in that it felt better in some regards but worse in others, probably because I still had muscle memory from playing flight sims back in ye olde days.
Fundamentally I just don't play enough FPS/3rd person games on consoles to really teach myself how to get used to it, and indeed avoid doing so wherever possible (i.e. console exclusives essentially force me into a space I'm not comfortable with from a control perspective), I struggled terribly with Death Stranding when it came to the shooty bits and can't wait to play it through again on PC.
Basic world traversal I'm OK with but once you start adding in combat and using the 8462 buttons the average gamepad is festooned with these days, it all goes to shit.
I'm fine with arcade games and racing/driving sim games though, in fact when playing GTA4 and GTA5 on PC I'd use a gamepad for the driving bits and then switch to K+M when on foot.
When I was over in Manchester about 18 months ago I watched my nephew playing Dishonored 2 on his PS4 and I swear it was like fucking voodoo, the finesse and accuracy he had pulling off the most outrageous manoeuvres with a pad really was something to behold.