dms
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I'm an old git who has played FPS .... well since they started making FPS! Obviously I've always played them on PC and with keyboard and then keyboard and mouse.
I wanted to buy Doom Eternal on the Xbox Series X to play on the PJ with surround sound but the Mrs insisted I try it on the £1/3month game pass first. Sensible.... the game looks and sound fabulous in the lounge.
And what a surprise, I find it nigh on impossible to have a satisfying game with the controller. I think it took something like 1.5hrs to do the first level on easiest difficulty and with multiple deaths.
In the past I've only tried a Borderlands 3 on the console for any length of time (co-op split screen, Mrs hated the controller and gave up ;-(. I've played various third person games and found the controls very clunky. I can't claim I've put the hours in.... but to be honest it's so frustrating being rubbish and dying on easy mode on Doom Eternal when I know I could plough through it on the PC!
So does anyone have tips how to relearn how to use these rotten dual stick controllers or would you recommend I just get an Xim Apex? It's of course really annoying that games with support kb/mouse on PC don't on the console when the console officially supports these inputs!
I've pre-ordered Cyberpunk 2077 so I've got about a week to stop sucking ;-)
Last option is I just give up, wait till next year when I can get a 3080 or 30xxTi at a fair price and go back to being a PC gamer for anything other than games meant to be played on twin sticks (Diablo and all it's clones, Ori etc)
I wanted to buy Doom Eternal on the Xbox Series X to play on the PJ with surround sound but the Mrs insisted I try it on the £1/3month game pass first. Sensible.... the game looks and sound fabulous in the lounge.
And what a surprise, I find it nigh on impossible to have a satisfying game with the controller. I think it took something like 1.5hrs to do the first level on easiest difficulty and with multiple deaths.
In the past I've only tried a Borderlands 3 on the console for any length of time (co-op split screen, Mrs hated the controller and gave up ;-(. I've played various third person games and found the controls very clunky. I can't claim I've put the hours in.... but to be honest it's so frustrating being rubbish and dying on easy mode on Doom Eternal when I know I could plough through it on the PC!
So does anyone have tips how to relearn how to use these rotten dual stick controllers or would you recommend I just get an Xim Apex? It's of course really annoying that games with support kb/mouse on PC don't on the console when the console officially supports these inputs!
I've pre-ordered Cyberpunk 2077 so I've got about a week to stop sucking ;-)
Last option is I just give up, wait till next year when I can get a 3080 or 30xxTi at a fair price and go back to being a PC gamer for anything other than games meant to be played on twin sticks (Diablo and all it's clones, Ori etc)