VinLAURiA said:
I'll break it down for you, champ: RTSes, MMORPGs, MOBAs, and dungeon crawlers (the latter of which includes Zelda) are all boring
Thanks for the feedback, I'm sure the developers of all those genres will gladly take your subjective opinion and proceed to throw it into a bin.
VinLAURiA said:
the keyboard is a big slab of over a hundred two-state buttons that's used by devs merely as an excuse to make their games as ungodly complicated as possible,
Actually the keyboard used for typing words. That's why it has so many keys, so people can type on it. Games aren't it's only purpose and developers know that. And there are plenty of uncomplicated games on PC (literally MILLIONS of free flash/browser games for a start), did you forget about those?
VinLAURiA said:
and your precious mouse is a dumb lump of plastic you drag across a desk like a frickin' palsy victim with absolutely no correlation to in-game motion,
And pressing buttons on a controller has correlation to holding an assault rifle or punching someone in games? Wooo double standards. Actually no, triple standards.
VinLAURiA said:
whose advantages it grants to the user in precision and accuracy don't change the fact that said user is still dragging a dumb lump of plastic across a desk like a frickin' palsy victim with absolutely no correlation to in-game motion. Good for spreadsheets, 3D modelling, file management, and a bunch of other handy tasks but ultimately just a productivity tool.
Yes, a productivity tool which is both highly accurate and intuitive, which is why it's used in so many productivity tasks, which is why it works so well for gaming. You're sorta proved my point there.
Also you seem to hate plastic a lot - what is your Razer Hydra made out of exactly? Platinum? Looks like lumps of plastic to me, rather colorful lumps of plastic I would give my 3-year-old to play with.
Also you do realize you can get mice made of aluminum...or would you then resort to saying "dragging a dumb lump of aluminum across a desk"?
VinLAURiA said:
Y'know what I did? I dropped a hundred dollars on a Razer Hydra. It's a Wiimote-like device for the PC and I bought it to replace KB/M for the games I play. Yes, I spent extra money to equip the gaming PC I built - one that that has a perfectly functional mouse and keyboard, mind you - with not only a console-style control method, but a Wii-style control method. Why? Because I like it more and I'm a guy playing a video game and not a damn laser cutter, so precision can go screw itself sideways along with all those who value robotic efficiency and the biggest "edge" that represent everything that's wrong with video games. Games are not a @#$!ing job, not even if you try to make them one by being a "professional" gamer instead of getting actual work like everybody else.
Well have fun with your Portal controller (because that's the only game it works well with apparently), it's good that you find motion controls more fun than KB/M. That's all fine, to each their own. But you won't get anywhere trying to prove that those controls are more efficient/accurate/etc compared to KB/M, and the product itself hasn't proven it either with only ~29 customer reviews across BOTH Amazon and Newegg which are fairly representative of how well a product has sold in comparison to other products. Jack-all people have bought it, and there's a reason for that. I'll let you figure it out.