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When playing the classics of the FPS genre, such as Doom, Wolfenstein 3D, and Quake, do you prefer to play with only the keyboard, or keyboard and mouse (WASD + mouselook)? Maybe a wacky control scheme of your own?
To this day, I play these all with only keyboard controls, especially Doom and Wolf3D. Over the years I've slowly grown more accustomed to WASD and mouselook with Quake (especially Quake 2 and after), but Doom and Wolfenstein didn't allow you to even look up, meaning that I find using mouse and WASD feels pretty awkward.
I've always played with left and right arrows to turn, up and down to move, ctrl to shoot, alt to strafe, and spacebar to use. People will argue "B-But the Doom manual says that you can use a mouse, so it was intended!" Yeah, and I'm not saying that you CAN'T use mouselook, it's not "wrong", but I just don't like to. I was aware at the time that you could use a mouse, but no one knew about WASD back then, so there wasn't a point of using a mouse for most of us. Besides, those trackballs kind of sucked. Maybe those keyboard controls feel a little awkward, but I find that you get used to them pretty damn quick.
I just like classic Doom how I've always played, because I'm used to it, and because it honestly feels less awkward than WASD + mouselook. That being said, it seems that a large majority of people play Doom source ports these days, which are fun as well, but they're just a different flavor.
I only ended up really transitioning to WASD + mouselook for games around the time of Half Life and System Shock 2 and Deus Ex, where the scheme became a default.
To this day, I play these all with only keyboard controls, especially Doom and Wolf3D. Over the years I've slowly grown more accustomed to WASD and mouselook with Quake (especially Quake 2 and after), but Doom and Wolfenstein didn't allow you to even look up, meaning that I find using mouse and WASD feels pretty awkward.
I've always played with left and right arrows to turn, up and down to move, ctrl to shoot, alt to strafe, and spacebar to use. People will argue "B-But the Doom manual says that you can use a mouse, so it was intended!" Yeah, and I'm not saying that you CAN'T use mouselook, it's not "wrong", but I just don't like to. I was aware at the time that you could use a mouse, but no one knew about WASD back then, so there wasn't a point of using a mouse for most of us. Besides, those trackballs kind of sucked. Maybe those keyboard controls feel a little awkward, but I find that you get used to them pretty damn quick.
I just like classic Doom how I've always played, because I'm used to it, and because it honestly feels less awkward than WASD + mouselook. That being said, it seems that a large majority of people play Doom source ports these days, which are fun as well, but they're just a different flavor.
I only ended up really transitioning to WASD + mouselook for games around the time of Half Life and System Shock 2 and Deus Ex, where the scheme became a default.
