Vertigo-X said:
No, they don't need analog control. If you were to move straight and you wanted to keep your cursor on a single point somwhere behind you, you'd have to practice a long time to get it right in either setup. The problem is that the player needs to remember where he or she is headed with respect to where he or she is looking. This can easily be compensated in both setups, but like I said it requires a lot of practice and exposure.
I thought it was generally agreed upon that keyboard without mouse is worse than a single analog stick. I guess not, though. :-/ |
Analog control helps when you want to look around while moving though, since you can just roll your thumb to counter the direction you're aiming without any jaggy as you shift from forward to side motion. It also helps cause you can recorrect side motion with less overshooting, especially useful on narrow ledges.
I think most people actually HAVE come to the consensus that single analog is better than just keyboard, but you still have a few diehards that don't want to admit that they aren't at the pinical of hardcore gaming or something. Not totally sure. So far, the only people that have attempted to say that keyboards are better either site the mouse(which isn't part of the equation), the hotkeys (which aren't always needed, and could still be implemented with most controllers using any extra buttons), or they come up with some odd excuse that it's not important in mouse+keyboard games.
Other than this, it seems to be fairly consistent that Analog is better at movement, but mouse is FAR better for aiming, and most PC gamers are simply are willing to put up with the crap movement in order to have the better aim, in the meantime the keyboard movement is "good enough"
Of course, that just makes me even more certain that the Wiimote + nunchuk is eventually going to become the icon of unified gaming.
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