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[Jeff Chen]

it was like 10 years ago that I downloaded the room reloaded stuff and finally was able to play Doom2 with mouse... dude that was magnificant.

 

[pslayer666]

Mouse really feels unnatural for me with Doom 1 and 2 since you can't really look up and down.

I just use KB and alt to strafe.

This. I could never play Doom with a mouse, but strangely enough I could also never play any other FPS game without one

 

[RockmanWhore]

Now I play it with a mouse, but back then keyboard only. I began playing with a mouse with Half Life 1.

 

[Stallion Free]

If some PC Guys say keyboard, the should never ever show up in a console-topic and talk about how shooters can't be played without mouse.

You are aware that when Doom was released it was released for DOS, right?

 

[TUROK]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_soanQcrIdo

I'd like to see anyone who plays Doom with just a keyboard finish this on Ultra-Violence without the mouse.

 

[Lufiaddict]

I want a Kinect port so I can play it WITH MY BARE HANDS!

 

[Dr. Zoidberg]

I remember that and the awful drivers at the time. Didn't it connect through a COM port as well? The early versions.

Not that I remember. I had a couple of these and they were all 15-pin Joystick/Game/MIDI port devices. I never needed any drivers either, AFAIK.

I'm referring to the original white super-famicom-esque version, not the pro or whatever.

 

[buffelo]

Taken from the Doom Wiki http://doom.wikia.com/wiki/Controls

The instruction manuals provide a tip that recommends using the keyboard and mouse simultaneously, saying "the mouse provides fine control for aiming your weapon (allowing you to smoothly rotate right and left) [...]". The keyboard and mouse combination also provides rapid rotation and easier strafing, resulting in quicker maneuvers than when using the keyboard alone.

Keyboard and mouse - the way id intended.

 

[Nibel]

It was made for keyboard-only gaming, so..

 

[KittenMaster]

Depends. If I'm on, say, a laptop or just want to kick it with a keyboard, I would make WASD my forward/backward and strafing movements and arrowkeys turn, and then the up and down arrow keys can be mapped to fire/open.

 

[Man]

PS1 gamepad. Shoulder button strafing, dpad, comfy couch (lul).

 

[Backfoggen]

Dual analog. The XBLA version plays great.

 

[elektrixx]

I'm currently playing ZDoom with a 360 controller. It's THE BEST.

 

[Polari]

Keyboard. I wish there were still FPS games that don't really use a mouse. I miss the simplicity. Doom is still the apex of the genre to me. There's something incredibly visceral about it that no other game has managed to capture to the same extent. The first Quake was pretty great too though.

 

[SparkTR]

Mouse for x-axis aiming is great, my preferred gameplay setup when playing vanilla. Mods are another beast though, some are damn near impossible to complete without full mouse aiming.