I don’t feel comfortable using a mouse and I have no interest in working on my mouse skills. I play all of my games with either a controller or a keyboard, and I’m looking for 3rd-person shooters I can play with a controller.
I’m mainly interested in action games. I’m OK with a world with gated areas a la metroidvanias/soulslikes, but I’m not interested in full-on open world or narrative-driven games.
Examples of 3rd-person shooters I enjoyed playing with a controller: Gungrave, Vanquish, and Evil West.
Examples of 3rd-person shooters I don’t enjoy and have no interest in: Uncharted, The Last of Us, Red Dead Redemption, Dead Space, Control/Alan Wake, or GTA.
I mainly play on PC, Steam in particular, but I’ll boot up emulators if the game is worth it.
You may also consider a vertical mouse.
There are cheap but decent ones on Amazon, Kysona and Nulea (I think? sp?) make some, and there are also rather expensive ones.
Basically, you hold the mouse as if you are holding a cup of soda, like you’re pounding your fist on the table, not palming the table.
They were basically mainly marketed as ergonomic, for carpal tunnel sufferers… but when you think about it, a very long gaming session, everyday, all the time, whatever… yeah the ergonomics do actually make more sense, they’re fairly close to the same grip and shape of many trackball mice.
Alternatively, get a new Steam Controller when they come out in a few months.
Its a controller; sticks, buttons, pads triggers, also has two little uh, kinda like laptop track pads.
Its basically a Steam Deck w/o the screen in the middle, but lighter and more ergonomic.
I play older shooters (often emulated) with sticks, newer ones with a pad.
As far as a third person shooter that works well with controllers?
Uh… Splinter Cell Chaos Theory?
You can get that on Steam.
Metal Gear Solid V?
Those are both probably narrative driven though, MGSV has multiple open worlds, basically?
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