What's common is terribad players getting their panties in a knot because someone told them to git gud.
You are butchering English. Stop it. There is no such word as "terribad". Some idiot non-native english speakers made it up. "Git gud" also isn't English. I don't care what a bunch of MOBA playing emotionally stunted adolescents with no social skills think is acceptable in their "hardcore e-sports" communites.
We don't need even more people mangling the planet's "common tongue", respect the language.
None, because those e-sport guys are actually casuals. No really, they're casual-gamers. If all you play is LoL, DOTA, CS:Go or TF2, you have more in common with a housewife who plays candy crush than those who have a dozen games on their shelf.
And as casuals, they like things easy even if they talk about "challenge" and "competition". After all TF2 is a twitch action game, not some turn-based hex game where you practically have to be a graduate of West Point to understand the unit icons. LoL and other MOBA's are team based action RPG's who have more in common with Diablo than their supposed RTS ancestors.
think the only similarity that I've ever noticed (I spend a strange amount of time exploring people when I'm out and about) that transgendered (male to female specifically) people all seem to have in common is a need to brush their hair quite often - even when it's real hair and not a wig. I'm sure there are exceptions but I've never figured out why this seems to be true or if it's just something I've picked up on and now notice due to confirmation bias.
If you mean the "touching and re-arranging hair by hand" It's a "chick thing", you'll notice non-transgendered women doing it too especially those who might be considered a touch more "feminine"
If you mean using an actual hairbrush, that's probably an estrogen thing. For some, going on estrogen makes their hair a bit on the frizzy/unsmooth side even if it was straight before.
They're not to be confused with cross-dressers or homosexuals.
one caveat. Some crossdressers (and a small few gay fellows) are actually transsexual but just haven't figured it out yet. It happens. Carmen Carrera is an example of a transwoman who once identified as a gay man.
You'd think, well I would, that with the maximum karma that they'd let you babble as much as you want but it appears the 50 post threshold is absolute. It seems silly and arbitrary to me.
"But I am going... he destroyed my hometown five years ago, killed Aeris and and is now trying to destroy the Planet. I'll never forgive... Sephiroth."
1. Trash talk is part of relating to players. You're not supposed to get offended. you're supposed to up the ante and throw some back. why?
No it's not. In games outside of the Internet, you can be kicked out/disqualified for engaging in such behavior. There is this concept of "aspiration" where we "aspire" to be better people and NOT be jerks to other people when we don't have to be.
Say someone is playing a game and they're doing badly. Do you think they'll play better if someone tells them:
"Fuck yourself and your mother you pussy bitch fag beta nigger homo wetback"
or if someone says to them:
"You remember when you spent your power points on building that defensive tower in the corner? It would have helped the team more if you had used your points to purchase the Awsum Relic of Iggywilv Zyggtmol, which gives all allies, players and AI troops, a regen boost of mana and health."
The first does nothing except prove the immaturity of the player saying it. The second one actually HELPS the player who is having trouble play better. Which if the game is competitve, is what you actually want.
This filters the skinned whiners who are often sore losers, and they really are toxic to a game community. The more competitive the game, the more this is true.
you want to know who the toxic people are? Look in the mirror.
That's fine, but the rest of the world should not be responsible for keeping itself sanitized to your specific standards. It sounds like you are the one with limited social and emotional skills if you're that affected by someone calling you names for owning him in a game.
[sarcasm]Yes yes, lets use derogatory language, racial epithets and other jerkassery all the time. Why don't I go up to one of my female african-american co-workers and say "whassup you nigga cunt, how much welfare did you get this month?"[/sarcasm]
Society has rules of social interaction. And now there's more than just selfish over-privileged nerds on the internet and society is beginning to expect people to follow the rules of basic social engagement there too.
Say someone is playing a game and they're doing badly. Do you think they'll play better if someone tells them:
"Fuck yourself and your mother you pussy bitch fag beta nigger homo wetback"
or if someone says to them:
"You remember when you spent your power points on building that defensive tower in the corner? It would have helped the team more if you had used your points to purchase the Awsum Relic of Iggywilv Zyggtmol, which gives all allies, players and AI troops, a regen boost of mana and health."
The first does nothing except prove the immaturity of the player saying it. The second one actually HELPS the player who is having trouble play better. Which if the game is competitve, is what you actually want.
To be fair, it's probably not Aspergers, it's just the selfish jerkassery we can see in certain sub-demographics of the nerd demographic. If ones daddy got you a shell account on his workplaces Unix box when you were a kid. Or gladly paid a $300 month Compuserve bill. Or bought them a C64 in 84, an Amiga in '85 and a DOS machine in '86, they might not understand how spoiled and privileged they were.. And later on they might not understand "why" society's expectations of behavior have changed or "why" people are expecting them to behave on the Internet, which they originally used as an escape outlet from having to follow society's rules. A place where they could be their privileged selves with other guys who had Unix accounts on the machines at dad's workplace. Or had their parents spend thousands of dollars on their "tech toys" back in the 80's.
Though there are a few Aspies on Slashdot who don't understand "social rules". One compared Nintendo's policy on video sharing to the Holocaust recently.
Words are words. Internet or not. Say you're with some friends, and one has to leave to run errands for his wife. If you were to call him a "pussy-whipped beta fag and that his wife is a bitch and that all women are stupid bitches out for money", he might not want to hang out with you.
If you were on the internet playing an MMORPG and a player in group logged off to run and errand for his wife and you called him a "pussy-whipped beta fag and that his wife is a bitch and that all women were stupid bitches out for money", he probably wouldn't want to group with you again.
Same thing. The fact you don't understand that is why you might have a red dot next to your username when others read your posts.
Mouse aiming is the ultimate in easy-mode aim-assist for johnny-come-lately dudebro-gamer casuals whose first PC game was Quake or TF2 for the younger ones.
Really, when mouse aiming was introduced the pre-mouse-aiming players considered using it "easy-mode".
This is scored "0"? It's actually insightful. CP/M wasn't considered a suitable game platform in the early days of PC gaming because there were a plethora of different CP/M machines with different keyboards, screen resolutions, CPUs, RAM...even different disk drive formats. CP/M wasn't just one platform...it was actually several.
The Commodore 128 was probably the CP/M machine with the most compatiblity with others, that being due to the the 1571 being able to read and write other CP/M disk formats.
Maybe there's a market for someone who buys their own games (refuses press versions and the likes) after release and does honest reviews?
yes, and no.
If you ask people if they would like to see that, they say yes. But...then they all want the new hotness and don't want to wait months for an "honest review"
I've seen that sort of thing in the Second Life fashion community (virtual fashion is a thing, a very BIG thing in SL). The people the fashion community pays the most attention to are the ones that get the new stuff given to them from the designers themselves. Those who buy their own stuff and write about it after "test driving it around and kicking the tires" (to use a car analogy) are pretty much nobodies.
Console controls? Showstopper for me. But don't mess up the controls.
Considering the past 4 Bethesda games were crossplatform with at least one or more consoles, you might have expected it. They're ARPG's, gamepads work well, because you're not going to be playing it like CoD or some bunnyhopping twitch-reflex PC shooter. Besides, analog movement is nicer than WASD.
Also it's 2015, developers expect even PC gamers to have a gamepad around for all those indie platform/action games that homage NES and SNES games.
- Console controls, they want you to use a console.They force you to take your hand off the mouse continuously. Fail.
Not "console" controls, "gamepad" controls. They expect most PC gamers to have a standard windows gamepad for those games that work well with them.
Bethesda games are action RPG's, which tend to work fairly well with a gamepad. Considering the previous FOUR Bethesda games are cross platform with at least one console....you might have expected it.
Yeah, it's mostly indies. Euro-devs mostly, too small, too poor or too PC-partisan to go console.
Which is why I say that Steamboxes are machines without a market.
Hardcore "PC Master RAce" guys aren't going to give up their mice/keyboards for big screen play. And they certainly aren't going to give up Windows, because that's where the "AAA" games with PC versions will be.
Console players aren't going to pay MORE money for a machine that is basically an indie-box. Since most of the better indies (Don't Starve, Terraria, Kerbal Space Program, etc etc) are on/or will be on consoles anyway.
Steam-machines are boxes without: Blizzard Bioware Bethesda Bungie etc etc.
I said "mostly", that's not an absolute. Yes there are some genre's that haven't had many console releases yet, but it is only a matter of time. It wasn't that long ago that someone like you might have said:
"let me know when I can play DOOM on a console" or "Let me know when I can play an MMORPG on a console" or "let me know when you can play a flight game on a console with a HOTAS"
Any RTS
I have several console RTS's within 20 feet of me....sadly they're all PSone games. Developers tended to be more wiling to try the genre out on console then. There was a port of RA3 on the PS3, but I don't have it. There are some indie games with RTS elements.
RPG: The excellent free Path of Exile,
PoE's a Diablo clone, right? Well there's always Diablo, or Sacred 2/3, or Dungeon Hunter Alliance, etc, etc. Some of the best Diablo-clones you've probably never played becasue they were console only.
There's no Guild wars on console...yet..but it is an MMORPG, so there's Planetside, DCUO, FFXIV, Onigiri and TESO. Destiny, Defiance, and Warframe as well. (Neverwinter on the Xbox)
Space Games:
Pickings are slim for space games, till next year anyway. there IS Dust514 on the PS3, which connects with EVE, but it's a shooter-with MMO elements. Elite Dangerous is upcoming for PS4, as is Kerbal Space Program and No Man's Sky next year.
I don't know what has happened to Drifter and Starbound, both were coming to PS4. Axiom Verge was announced at the same time as Drifter and has been out a while already. (The PS4 and Vita versions are partially done, but they say they'll going to wait till the PC version hits 1.0 but their progress is glacial)
That's one problem with some Indie developers, their "vision" is too big for their team I suspect the same happened to No Man Sky, but at least THAT has a scheduled release now.
it was the following year I think '95 or '96 that they started allowing students to use calculators as long as they had no graphing function
I remember having a TI 30 series (early LCD model) in 80/81....in 8th grade with the famous Great International Math on Keys book. It eventually died and was replaced with a Sharp EL515S in high school. I think I still have that one around somewhere.
Calculators were allowed in class, sometimes for tests/quizzes. Usually allowed for Finals, but you had to show the work so they were mostly used for double checking.
Yeah it is sort of like that. In the old days, they had a bit of a point what with there being fewer cross-platform games. You didn't see Bioware or Bethesda on consoles pre xbox/ps3.
But now both PC gamers and console gamers are mostly playing the same games. I mentioned the last "PC gamer Magazine" top 100 PC games list some time back on Slashdot. Of the top 10 "PC games", all 10 are cross-platform with at least one console. Even as few as 7 years ago they wouldn't have ALL been cross-platform.
Those games are:
10: Fallout NV 9: Portal 8 Deus Ex 7 GTAV 6 Dishonored 5 Skyrim 4 Team Fortress 2 3 Bioshock 2 Mass Effect 2 1. Half-Life 2
We don't have cross platform games because PC gamers control interfaces are superior in sensitivity and accuracy
Depends on what kind of controlling you're doing.
would rock console players face off forcing mass rage quitting of call of duty.
I see you're one of those guys who thinks PC gaming = first person shooter, That isn't the only game genre.
Course, I could and would say the same thing to those CoD fanboys on the PSfoo and Xboxfoo.
And thanks to USB console gamers aren't quite as limited in control setups as in the past. So there are console gamers who have hooked up keyboards and/or mice or HOTAS to their consoles. Well... Playstation gamers anyway.
I prefer hybrid control for shooters if I can get it. Analog stick for movement but mouse for aiming. It's kind of like how this PC guy prefers to control tanks in War Thunder:
War Thunder is all over the place control wise. You got PC guys using the "instructor mouse flying" (which uses just the mouse and two throttle keys) and playing in "arcade mode", then you got the simmer style guys with HOTAS playing in "realistic. Then there's the PS4 players, who mostly use the dual shock but some of whom use the mouse flying or a HOTAS, Yes, the PS4 version supports all the control methods the PC version does. It also supports head tracking with the PS4 camera.
Strangely the HOTAS guys tended to be more welcoming of PS4 users, considering us more "kindred spirits" than the mouse flying PC guys. "Those dual shocks of yours are more like a proper joystick than a mouse! Come play with us in the realistic modes, you'll do fine once you get up to speed. You can even plug in a cheap Thrustmaster T-flight X or Saitek x45/x52/warthog and they'll work just fine."
on a platform that costs too much and is far too slow.
That better describes the most common machines in the Steam Hardware Survey than the PS4 or Xbox One consoles. My guess is laptops with integrated graphics. Dual core's still outnumber quad-cores in the survey and still plenty of integrated graphics chips.
So you like wasting money on games you'll never play?
That said, I've got my own shelf of shame with unplayed and minimally-played games.
I've actually reduced the number of games I've bought with each Playstation generation. Played the heck out of the Bethesda games, Minecraft, and D3 though.
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What's common is terribad players getting their panties in a knot because someone told them to git gud.
You are butchering English. Stop it. There is no such word as "terribad". Some idiot non-native english speakers made it up. "Git gud" also isn't English. I don't care what a bunch of MOBA playing emotionally stunted adolescents with no social skills think is acceptable in their "hardcore e-sports" communites.
We don't need even more people mangling the planet's "common tongue", respect the language.
None, because those e-sport guys are actually casuals. No really, they're casual-gamers. If all you play is LoL, DOTA, CS:Go or TF2, you have more in common with a housewife who plays candy crush than those who have a dozen games on their shelf.
And as casuals, they like things easy even if they talk about "challenge" and "competition". After all TF2 is a twitch action game, not some turn-based hex game where you practically have to be a graduate of West Point to understand the unit icons. LoL and other MOBA's are team based action RPG's who have more in common with Diablo than their supposed RTS ancestors.
think the only similarity that I've ever noticed (I spend a strange amount of time exploring people when I'm out and about) that transgendered (male to female specifically) people all seem to have in common is a need to brush their hair quite often - even when it's real hair and not a wig. I'm sure there are exceptions but I've never figured out why this seems to be true or if it's just something I've picked up on and now notice due to confirmation bias.
If you mean the "touching and re-arranging hair by hand" It's a "chick thing", you'll notice non-transgendered women doing it too especially those who might be considered a touch more "feminine"
If you mean using an actual hairbrush, that's probably an estrogen thing. For some, going on estrogen makes their hair a bit on the frizzy/unsmooth side even if it was straight before.
They're not to be confused with cross-dressers or homosexuals.
one caveat. Some crossdressers (and a small few gay fellows) are actually transsexual but just haven't figured it out yet. It happens. Carmen Carrera is an example of a transwoman who once identified as a gay man.
You'd think, well I would, that with the maximum karma that they'd let you babble as much as you want but it appears the 50 post threshold is absolute. It seems silly and arbitrary to me.
There's a post limit?
uh oh, I'm in trouble
"But I am going... he destroyed my hometown five years ago, killed Aeris and and is now trying to destroy the Planet. I'll never forgive... Sephiroth."
1. Trash talk is part of relating to players. You're not supposed to get offended. you're supposed to up the ante and throw some back. why?
No it's not. In games outside of the Internet, you can be kicked out/disqualified for engaging in such behavior. There is this concept of "aspiration" where we "aspire" to be better people and NOT be jerks to other people when we don't have to be.
Say someone is playing a game and they're doing badly. Do you think they'll play better if someone tells them:
"Fuck yourself and your mother you pussy bitch fag beta nigger homo wetback"
or if someone says to them:
"You remember when you spent your power points on building that defensive tower in the corner? It would have helped the team more if you had used your points to purchase the Awsum Relic of Iggywilv Zyggtmol, which gives all allies, players and AI troops, a regen boost of mana and health."
The first does nothing except prove the immaturity of the player saying it. The second one actually HELPS the player who is having trouble play better. Which if the game is competitve, is what you actually want.
This filters the skinned whiners who are often sore losers, and they really are toxic to a game community. The more competitive the game, the more this is true.
you want to know who the toxic people are? Look in the mirror.
That's fine, but the rest of the world should not be responsible for keeping itself sanitized to your specific standards. It sounds like you are the one with limited social and emotional skills if you're that affected by someone calling you names for owning him in a game.
[sarcasm]Yes yes, lets use derogatory language, racial epithets and other jerkassery all the time. Why don't I go up to one of my female african-american co-workers and say "whassup you nigga cunt, how much welfare did you get this month?"[/sarcasm]
Society has rules of social interaction. And now there's more than just selfish over-privileged nerds on the internet and society is beginning to expect people to follow the rules of basic social engagement there too.
Say someone is playing a game and they're doing badly. Do you think they'll play better if someone tells them:
"Fuck yourself and your mother you pussy bitch fag beta nigger homo wetback"
or if someone says to them:
"You remember when you spent your power points on building that defensive tower in the corner? It would have helped the team more if you had used your points to purchase the Awsum Relic of Iggywilv Zyggtmol, which gives all allies, players and AI troops, a regen boost of mana and health."
The first does nothing except prove the immaturity of the player saying it. The second one actually HELPS the player who is having trouble play better. Which if the game is competitve, is what you actually want.
To be fair, it's probably not Aspergers, it's just the selfish jerkassery we can see in certain sub-demographics of the nerd demographic. If ones daddy got you a shell account on his workplaces Unix box when you were a kid. Or gladly paid a $300 month Compuserve bill. Or bought them a C64 in 84, an Amiga in '85 and a DOS machine in '86, they might not understand how spoiled and privileged they were.. And later on they might not understand "why" society's expectations of behavior have changed or "why" people are expecting them to behave on the Internet, which they originally used as an escape outlet from having to follow society's rules. A place where they could be their privileged selves with other guys who had Unix accounts on the machines at dad's workplace. Or had their parents spend thousands of dollars on their "tech toys" back in the 80's.
Though there are a few Aspies on Slashdot who don't understand "social rules". One compared Nintendo's policy on video sharing to the Holocaust recently.
Really?
Words are words. Internet or not. Say you're with some friends, and one has to leave to run errands for his wife. If you were to call him a "pussy-whipped beta fag and that his wife is a bitch and that all women are stupid bitches out for money", he might not want to hang out with you.
If you were on the internet playing an MMORPG and a player in group logged off to run and errand for his wife and you called him a "pussy-whipped beta fag and that his wife is a bitch and that all women were stupid bitches out for money", he probably wouldn't want to group with you again.
Same thing. The fact you don't understand that is why you might have a red dot next to your username when others read your posts.
Mouse aiming is the ultimate in easy-mode aim-assist for johnny-come-lately dudebro-gamer casuals whose first PC game was Quake or TF2 for the younger ones.
Really, when mouse aiming was introduced the pre-mouse-aiming players considered using it "easy-mode".
This is scored "0"? It's actually insightful. CP/M wasn't considered a suitable game platform in the early days of PC gaming because there were a plethora of different CP/M machines with different keyboards, screen resolutions, CPUs, RAM...even different disk drive formats. CP/M wasn't just one platform...it was actually several.
The Commodore 128 was probably the CP/M machine with the most compatiblity with others, that being due to the the 1571 being able to read and write other CP/M disk formats.
Maybe there's a market for someone who buys their own games (refuses press versions and the likes) after release and does honest reviews?
yes, and no.
If you ask people if they would like to see that, they say yes. But...then they all want the new hotness and don't want to wait months for an "honest review"
I've seen that sort of thing in the Second Life fashion community (virtual fashion is a thing, a very BIG thing in SL). The people the fashion community pays the most attention to are the ones that get the new stuff given to them from the designers themselves. Those who buy their own stuff and write about it after "test driving it around and kicking the tires" (to use a car analogy) are pretty much nobodies.
Console controls? Showstopper for me. But don't mess up the controls.
Considering the past 4 Bethesda games were crossplatform with at least one or more consoles, you might have expected it. They're ARPG's, gamepads work well, because you're not going to be playing it like CoD or some bunnyhopping twitch-reflex PC shooter. Besides, analog movement is nicer than WASD.
Also it's 2015, developers expect even PC gamers to have a gamepad around for all those indie platform/action games that homage NES and SNES games.
- Console controls, they want you to use a console.They force you to take your hand off the mouse continuously. Fail.
Not "console" controls, "gamepad" controls. They expect most PC gamers to have a standard windows gamepad for those games that work well with them.
Bethesda games are action RPG's, which tend to work fairly well with a gamepad. Considering the previous FOUR Bethesda games are cross platform with at least one console....you might have expected it.
Crono: (...)
Yeah, it's mostly indies. Euro-devs mostly, too small, too poor or too PC-partisan to go console.
Which is why I say that Steamboxes are machines without a market.
Hardcore "PC Master RAce" guys aren't going to give up their mice/keyboards for big screen play. And they certainly aren't going to give up Windows, because that's where the "AAA" games with PC versions will be.
Console players aren't going to pay MORE money for a machine that is basically an indie-box. Since most of the better indies (Don't Starve, Terraria, Kerbal Space Program, etc etc) are on/or will be on consoles anyway.
Steam-machines are boxes without:
Blizzard
Bioware
Bethesda
Bungie
etc etc.
They're a non-starter.
Mouse aiming IS the ultimate aim assist. It made aiming easy for the first generation of dudebro gamers playing Quake on their college networks.
It was considered "easy mode" by those who had played earlier shooters without it.
Complete and utter nonsense.
I said "mostly", that's not an absolute. Yes there are some genre's that haven't had many console releases yet, but it is only a matter of time. It wasn't that long ago that someone like you might have said:
"let me know when I can play DOOM on a console" or "Let me know when I can play an MMORPG on a console" or "let me know when you can play a flight game on a console with a HOTAS"
Any RTS
I have several console RTS's within 20 feet of me....sadly they're all PSone games. Developers tended to be more wiling to try the genre out on console then. There was a port of RA3 on the PS3, but I don't have it. There are some indie games with RTS elements.
RPG: The excellent free Path of Exile,
PoE's a Diablo clone, right? Well there's always Diablo, or Sacred 2/3, or Dungeon Hunter Alliance, etc, etc. Some of the best Diablo-clones you've probably never played becasue they were console only.
There's no Guild wars on console...yet..but it is an MMORPG, so there's Planetside, DCUO, FFXIV, Onigiri and TESO. Destiny, Defiance, and Warframe as well. (Neverwinter on the Xbox)
Space Games:
Pickings are slim for space games, till next year anyway. there IS Dust514 on the PS3, which connects with EVE, but it's a shooter-with MMO elements. Elite Dangerous is upcoming for PS4, as is Kerbal Space Program and No Man's Sky next year.
I don't know what has happened to Drifter and Starbound, both were coming to PS4. Axiom Verge was announced at the same time as Drifter and has been out a while already. (The PS4 and Vita versions are partially done, but they say they'll going to wait till the PC version hits 1.0 but their progress is glacial)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
That's one problem with some Indie developers, their "vision" is too big for their team I suspect the same happened to No Man Sky, but at least THAT has a scheduled release now.
Tape games were a UK thing, along with that spectrum. In the US the good games were almost always on disc.
it was the following year I think '95 or '96 that they started allowing students to use calculators as long as they had no graphing function
I remember having a TI 30 series (early LCD model) in 80/81....in 8th grade with the famous Great International Math on Keys book. It eventually died and was replaced with a Sharp EL515S in high school. I think I still have that one around somewhere.
Calculators were allowed in class, sometimes for tests/quizzes. Usually allowed for Finals, but you had to show the work so they were mostly used for double checking.
Yeah it is sort of like that. In the old days, they had a bit of a point what with there being fewer cross-platform games. You didn't see Bioware or Bethesda on consoles pre xbox/ps3.
But now both PC gamers and console gamers are mostly playing the same games. I mentioned the last "PC gamer Magazine" top 100 PC games list some time back on Slashdot. Of the top 10 "PC games", all 10 are cross-platform with at least one console. Even as few as 7 years ago they wouldn't have ALL been cross-platform.
Those games are:
10: Fallout NV
9: Portal
8 Deus Ex
7 GTAV
6 Dishonored
5 Skyrim
4 Team Fortress 2
3 Bioshock
2 Mass Effect 2
1. Half-Life 2
Ah thanks for the clarification, I knew about the Humble Bundles, , but not the other things.
We don't have cross platform games because PC gamers control interfaces are superior in sensitivity and accuracy
Depends on what kind of controlling you're doing.
would rock console players face off forcing mass rage quitting of call of duty.
I see you're one of those guys who thinks PC gaming = first person shooter, That isn't the only game genre.
Course, I could and would say the same thing to those CoD fanboys on the PSfoo and Xboxfoo.
And thanks to USB console gamers aren't quite as limited in control setups as in the past. So there are console gamers who have hooked up keyboards and/or mice or HOTAS to their consoles. Well... Playstation gamers anyway.
I prefer hybrid control for shooters if I can get it. Analog stick for movement but mouse for aiming. It's kind of like how this PC guy prefers to control tanks in War Thunder:
https://forum.warthunder.com/i...
War Thunder is all over the place control wise. You got PC guys using the "instructor mouse flying" (which uses just the mouse and two throttle keys) and playing in "arcade mode", then you got the simmer style guys with HOTAS playing in "realistic. Then there's the PS4 players, who mostly use the dual shock but some of whom use the mouse flying or a HOTAS, Yes, the PS4 version supports all the control methods the PC version does. It also supports head tracking with the PS4 camera.
Strangely the HOTAS guys tended to be more welcoming of PS4 users, considering us more "kindred spirits" than the mouse flying PC guys. "Those dual shocks of yours are more like a proper joystick than a mouse! Come play with us in the realistic modes, you'll do fine once you get up to speed. You can even plug in a cheap Thrustmaster T-flight X or Saitek x45/x52/warthog and they'll work just fine."
These devices are now sold primarily to users lacking the brainpower to use a mouse
http://segaretro.org/Sega_Mous...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
http://segaretro.org/NetLink_M...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
http://s.hswstatic.com/gif/ps2...
http://www.jokergameth.com/ps3...
http://www.tech21century.com/w...
on a platform that costs too much and is far too slow.
That better describes the most common machines in the Steam Hardware Survey than the PS4 or Xbox One consoles. My guess is laptops with integrated graphics. Dual core's still outnumber quad-cores in the survey and still plenty of integrated graphics chips.
My guess is that it's a slide rule in postscript. Too bad Slashdot messed up the formatting.
So you like wasting money on games you'll never play?
That said, I've got my own shelf of shame with unplayed and minimally-played games.
I've actually reduced the number of games I've bought with each Playstation generation. Played the heck out of the Bethesda games, Minecraft, and D3 though.