Legacy controls

JULAY

JULAY

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Does anyone else use legacy controls for first person games? I started playing Wolfenstein and Doom back in the day, when the default was that up and down arrow keys would move forward and back, left and right arrow keys would turn left or right, and strafes were done with the left hand. There was no looking up or down in first person titles from that generation. When Goldeneye came out for N64, the default controls replicated this scheme, left stick moved forward and back, and turned, while C buttons strafed and looked up and down. I played the shit out of Goldeneye and Perfect Dark to the point that when games switched over to the new standard of one stick looks, one stick moves I was (and still am) completely unable to adjust. Unfortunately, lazy ass development studios typically don't include legacy as an option any more, so I've missed out on dozens of well-regarded first person titles over the years.

Anyone else still rock legacy controls?
 
No, I adapted so I could keep gaming, although I did got stuck playing with inverted up/down controls (autistic, boring story) and can't go back now. It's actually better if you can get used to it.
 
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JULAY said:
Does anyone else use legacy controls for first person games? I started playing Wolfenstein and Doom back in the day, when the default was that up and down arrow keys would move forward and back, left and right arrow keys would turn left or right, and strafes were done with the left hand. There was no looking up or down in first person titles from that generation. When Goldeneye came out for N64, the default controls replicated this scheme, left stick moved forward and back, and turned, while C buttons strafed and looked up and down. I played the shit out of Goldeneye and Perfect Dark to the point that when games switched over to the new standard of one stick looks, one stick moves I was (and still am) completely unable to adjust. Unfortunately, lazy ass development studios typically don't include legacy as an option any more, so I've missed out on dozens of well-regarded first person titles over the years.

Anyone else still rock legacy controls?
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I rocked your mom last night with some legacy controls.
 
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As a kid I didn't even know you could strafe in Doom. I didn't have an easy time with it, to say the least.
 
I tried replaying Goldeneye about a week ago and it was completely unplayable. I'm so accustomed to COD controls that I can't even force my brain to go back to the old kind.

But I have been playing Shadows of the Empire with no real problem, so maybe it depends on the game.
 
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No, I adapted so I could keep gaming, although I did got stuck playing with inverted up/down controls (autistic, boring story) and can't go back now. It's actually better if you can get used to it.
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Oh. I do the inverted look too. Flight sims got me started on that, Fortunately, nearly every game lets you invert the Y axis.
 
JULAY said:
Oh. I do the inverted look too. Flight sims got me started on that, Fortunately, nearly every game lets you invert the Y axis.
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Yeah, it's a good thing. For me it was some swordy axey Xbox game that wouldn't allow changes to controls during gameplay and had horrific load times and few checkpoints. A buddy of mine was obsessed with it and it was his vidya so we all had to cope or not play.
 
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