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To play Quake or Counter-Strike competently, you have to use a PC, a keyboard, and, crucially, a mouse. A console controller can't hope to compete. And a ton of
by nine_k 2y ago
To play Quake or Counter-Strike competently, you have to use a PC, a keyboard, and, crucially, a mouse. A console controller can't hope to compete. And a ton of players play on consoles from a sofa, before a large TV. To capture this audience, the FPS games had to slooow doooown.
- galkk 2y agoDon’t forget that many tvs also have horrible lag, even in “game mode”.
- aidenn0 2y agoCounterStrike (back when it was an HL mod) was the last game I really got good at. And by good I mean "somewhat competitive people didn't hate having me on their team" not "I was the MVP." I sunk a lot of time into doing so.