/vr/ - Retro Games

>>10754308
But what few it had, it had the best and used it well

>>10534632
In those days, keyboard+mouse was the default controls for FPS. Took me a long while to adapt to dual analog, as I still preferred keyboard+mouse for FPS since it just seems I am more accurate and proficient in the games even though movement was not analog with the WADS buttons. Just like how I prefer the Sega Saturn pad for almost all fighting games, even though most people prefer joystick, mouse+keyboard for FPS is just right to me even though most of the best players use Xbox controllers.

>>9232870
Since I started FPS games on PC with Wolfenstien 3D and Doom. Having gotten used to mouselook on Quake/Unreal there too, I never understood all the popularity of Halo, letting my friends get those victories, and only until Gears did I put the effort into trying to learn dual analog for FPS. I still think using a mouse is more accurate for aiming, but a lot of the younger generation have become pros with the dual analog style. Maybe that's why the Dreamcast couldn't hit a chord with FPS, despite having a couple of my favorites, like the Xbox did because my old muscle memory and joints just prefers the mouselook over sticks which is the preferred way to play these days.

>>7957263
The Dreamcast and PS2 versions do support mouse+keyboard controls.

>>7696121
I can only tell you of my own experience back then, and that is completely false in my situation. Back in those days, we used to have bi-weekly gatherings and we'd bring our latest games and systems with to show off. There were 10-12 of us, but only 3-4 of us had the Dreamcast (including myself). None of us used it for web browsing, as computers did it better, as a few of us had cable modems, and only 1 person got the broadband adapter for the Dreamcast to play PSO, yet even then they would browse on PC. The host had a few computers on the network, and old weak one was the "bitch" computer which was untouched to burn Dreamcast games for us all which was acquired from browsing online on a PC.

>>4202758
The Dreamcast does not sound like it is for your FPS tastes then. I thought a mouse & keyboard worked well with the genre in those days.

>>4148715
Some Dreamcast games were designed with a mouse in mind. I was so used to Mouse+Keyboard that I couldn't get into Halo nor Goldeneye. It took one night of playing Gears of War co-op with my friends to finally get used to using analog sticks.