Carzy Zarx’s PC Gaming Emporium - Catch Up on All the Latest PC Gaming Related News

[JEMC]

WoodenPints said:

JEMC said:

I was actually surprised by some of the numbers as well. For example, I find it hard to understand why some would play an FPS with a controller on PC given how much better the k-board & mouse combo is, but there's an almost 10% of users that prefer to use one. I guess they're like you and play on a TV using the Big Picture mode.

And, on the other side, Third person action games usually play much, much better with a controller, specially if some form of driving is included, so learning that only half the players use one for those games is quite surprising.

I don't play in big picture mode just standard desktop with an Xbox controller as my mouse to navigate. Actually I started moving away from favouring Mouse+keyboard these past 5 years with probably 70-80% of my gaming been done on the controller then last year decided to replace the desk with a TV and now do everything via a Xbox controller.

I just generally find using a controller more fun and relaxing and would be one of those who choose to play a FPS on a controller whilst acknowledging m+k is probably the superior option for most of them not to mention it allows me to game more instead of my wrist and hands telling me to stop after a short period so age is probably a factor as well since I can't smash nerds 24/7 with my hands hovering on wasd like I used to back in 2000 on Quake 3.

My apologies for assuming that you were using the Big Picture mode, I thought you would use that since it's designed to make the navigations in Steam easier for controllers.

In my case, it's a per-game decision as I said before. Some play better with a controller and some play better with keyboard & mouse. For FPSs I wouldn't think of using a controller, as I'm the type of gamer that doesn't go run towards the enemy in a rain of fire, but rather leave some space and try to hunt them from cover, where the mouse offers an accuracy that no controller can mimic. Sadly, that game style means that I can't play some fast paced games, like DOOM.

As for my wrists, I'm not a kid either and I still don't have a problem with them even after spending my day at work in from of a PC. Then again, my gaming sessions almost never go beyond 2 hours so maybe that's the reason I don't have a problem with them.

Mummelmann said:

JEMC said:

Mummelmann said:

That is a bunch of absolute bullshit. I've played about 2000 hours of FIFA since 2015 and can confirm that this is nowhere near true. And it's so blatant and obvious that I don't understand why they're even bothering at this point.

Well, they claim that they won't use the new DDA tech on those games, not that they're not using something else.

Also, you need to play better games .

In my defense; I play good games as well. :P Currently finishing my second playthrough of Pathfinder Kingmaker (which actually made me go out and buy Pathfinder Pen & Paper system!).

My spring PC plans seem to have taken a hit though, with GPU's being rare as unicorns, no properly tempting display being released any time soon, and now RAM seems to be hurtling towards the sky in regards to price. I recently read that memory sticks were increasing in price by around 10% per day at online retailers here, this was at the end of February. Damn it!

First of all, thanks for acknowledging that Fifa isn't a good game XD.

Sadly, I didn't play RPGs back in the day, heck my first rol game was FF 7, and now those games like Pathfinder Kingmaker, Divinity or Pillars of Eternity seem to complex for a newby like me. But I plan to change that! I grabbed Pillars of Eternity when the EGS gave it away and I'll give it a go sooner or later (first I want to finish the trio of new Wolfenstein games, done with Old Blood and in the middle of New Order).

The PC hardware situation is sadly very disappointing. About this time last year I had to postpone my plan to upgrade half of my PC (new CPU and everything related to that, even RAM), but given how things have gone, I doubt I would have been able to upgrade without spending more money than necessary. Let's hope things start to settle down "soon" and prices go back to normal... whatever that means nowadays.