Raistline said:
nightsurge said:
As to his argument about controllers being tougher, he is on the right track, he just didn't expand upon it very well, or you didn't include all of his arguments. Dual analog is much more difficult to use than a mouse for aiming. It requires much longer practice to master your sensitivity level. The unfortunate downside to this is that developers think they need to add auto-aim on consoles. I absolutely hate this feature because it is ALWAYS messing up my sniping on CoD4 when players are running in front of my aiming reticule.
Now, I'm not saying console players are more skilled because their input device is harder to master. The players on either game are equally skilled. I am the top player on either platform when I play, and I see no difference in skill level of others. If you take the best players on consoles, give them time to adapt to kb+m they will be just as good as the best players on consoles and vice versa.
Oh, and just to try it out, I used a program called X-padder (I think) to map my 360 controller for CoD4 on PC, and while using the controller I was still in the top 3 players. The only problem with the controller was that when looking down the sights, there was no change in sensitivity like there is on console, so I was not used to that and it ruined it for me. If they could make a good "half" controller for the 360 that I could do movement with a controller and aiming with a mouse, I'd die a happy man. |
His full explenaton of the controller is more difficult was a bit more in depth than I had first said. Here are some of his points on the subject.
1.Controller requires hours upon hour upon hours of practice to be good at it.
2. A new player could never be nearly as good as an experienced player.
3. On PC new PC player can get a kill while on the Console they need much more practice to be able to do so. (this I disagree with since there are so many new players in FPS' that seem like they are playing the game with thier toes)
Keep up the comments, I am enjoying hearing points from both sides. Rather than 1-sided points from an Xbox fanboy(family member) who thinks that the xbox way is the only way and nothing can conivnce him to see other sides to it.
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It sounds like the situation is the same on both sides for new players... although, I never played PC FPS until CoD4 came out, and it only took me a matter of a few hours to get used to everything and be back at the top of the game leaderboard. I've been playing console FPS for far too long to remember how long it took me to master that. It was Rainbow Six, and that game was tough to learn but once you got good, you were GOOD. 
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