Sym wrote: MADEWITHROBOTS wrote: Sym wrote:"Nobody wants to play FPS with a M/KB anymore"
WTF?
Morons...
Eh..that's not what they said. It still seems an arrogant statement, but I think RPS has taken what they said completely out of context.
Of course I was summarizing, but this is the exact quote.
"We made the game run without a mouse and keyboard. And now nobody plays shooters the way they used to play them before Halo ’cause nobody wants to."
How else can you interpret that?
Wow, no. This is the
exact quote:
"We did a bunch of ambitious things on Halo deliberately to reach out to people. We limited players to two weapons, we gave them recharging health, we automatically saved and restored the game—almost heretical things to first-person shooters at the time. We made the game run without a mouse and keyboard. And now nobody plays shooters the way they used to play them before Halo 'cause nobody wants to."
You need to include the whole thing if you want it to be viewed in context.
While you can interpret it in the way you have, you can just as easily interpret it as him referring to the fps design changes when saying no-one wants to play shooters the way they were before - ie. everyone now wants/expects recharging health, limited loadouts etc. etc.....and he has a point.
Of course, you're entitled to your opinion and if you want to see it as a slight on kb/m, then that's fine. But as far as I'm concerned it's sloppy journalism on RPS's part - even Kotaku managed to remain objective (admittedly after having it pointed out to them - not by me, I might add!):
http://kotaku.com/5984914/destiny-dev-says-nobody-plays-shooters-the-way-they-used-to
As for this.....
The Adli Corporation wrote:i'd wager that people who dont want to play FPS games with KB/M have never played shooters with a KB/M.
Also wow, also no. I think you'd be surprised.
Personally, I grew up with fps on kb/m - Doom, Doom II, Quake, Deus Ex, Half-Life etc. etc. I still preferred kb/m to the N64 and GameCube pads, original Xbox was 50/50 but the 360 pad is easily my preference.
I can see that both control methods have their pros and cons, and I can appreciate that the mouse offers a mechanical advantage, but I much prefer a pad for a few reasons and I think you'd find that a great many other people do too. There's no right or wring answer here, it's all personal preference, but both systems are good.
