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[uncreativename]

I always play first person games with a mouse and keyboard (except for MS Flight Simulator 2020 which I play with a controller) and I almost always play third person games with a controller. Usually third person games are designed for controller anyway.

There are a couple of exceptions though. I play all the Witcher games with mouse and keyboard, same for the Max Payne games. Oh right, and I played the Kotor games with keyboard and mouse too. I definitely remember pressing X over and over and over again to twirl my lightsabre :].

 

[uncreativename]

Oh, oops, this is in the wrong section! Can a mod please move this over to Gaming for me?

 

[Grildon Tundy]

I generally play with a controller on PC, except for first-person shooters. Third-person shooters, I go controller. Mouse and keyboard for strategy games and/or games that are UI-heavy during gameplay.

You might get more traction in the Gaming forum rather than Off-Topic.

 

[uncreativename]

It never even occurred to me that someone might try to play a strategy game with a controller on PC tbh . I'm sure someone who does that must be out there, though.

 

[Smiggs]

Mouse and keyboard, just as God intended. No exceptions for shooters, ever.

 

[HRK69]

I finished The Outer Worlds 2 on a controller with zero issues. Thousands of hours in CoD made it feel second nature I guess

The whole battle between controller and mouse/keyboard has always been nonsense drama imo. One of my co-workers is a massive FromSoftware fan, yet he's never played Bloodborne simply because he can't use a mouse and keyboard

 

[f~N_CH_1:3:3:3_SushiBoat]

MKB for everything but fighters.

 

[forsakkenSoul]

Some FPS games I play with KBM, others with a controller. I find controller way more comfortable and I really like how smooth the camera and character movement feels, the precision part is rough but it's something you can get used to.

I remember when I first started playing with a controller, jesus fucking christ, that shit was awful to get used to.

 

[TintoConCasera]

Depends on the genre! First person shooters I'll use keyboard and mouse, while slower games like a KCD2 for example I'll play with gamepad.

I usually prefer couch gaming with the gamepad. But FPS, strategy or CRPGs I usually play those on the desk with kb+m.

 

[BloodFree]

Only unwashed peasants use controller on PC, especially for FPS games. It is clear to me that their dirty hands are too jittery after they're done working and sowing the fields, so they are unable to appreciate the perfect precision that a mouse offers.

 

[Grenseal]

People who play with a controller are the same ones who pour their milk first.

 

[jason10mm]

People who play with a controller are the same ones who pour their milk first.

this kind of anti-cerealite talk just can't be tolerated, mods! MODS!!

 

[Verchod]

If it's a fairly quick paced shooter, I'll use keyboard and mouse. But if it requires any stealth, I'll use a controller. I need analogue movement for stealth, keyboards won't cut it

 

[Topher]

MKB. Hate first person with a controller. It's like trying to look around with a neck brace on

 

[rm082e]

I have been PC first since 2012. I use a controller for every game. I never use KBM. It's just a super console to me.

 

[Gaiff]

Can't even play FPS with controllers.

 

[Fbh]

I played Doom eternal on PC...with a controller

 

[mopspear]

You only play second-person games.

 

[WaterOnix]

Definitely KB/M. I think the last FPS I played with a controller was probably Halo: Reach

 

[poppabk]

I probably play more FPS on controller because my main PC is hooked up to my TV, but I always want to be playing with keyboard and mouse.

 

[Avid Reading Horse]

KBM of course. Play with what you want, but aim assist is a bit of a scourge for online FPS. Seeing crossplay and aim assist (for multiplayer at least) on PC die would be the dream of course, but doesn't seem likely given market conditions.

 

[Durin]

Keyboard and mouse pretty much all the time, because a shooter when you boil it down is a pointer-based game type, and a mouse is purpose built to aim a pointer.

Some slower paced shooters I might play on the Steam Controller depending on the quality of the gyro, and if the keyboard/mouse controls for third-person are poorly implemented will settle for a gamepad. I can play well enough on a normal gamepad, but aim assist will always be a band-aid for analog sticks.

 

[Exentryk]

Everything with a controller. If the game doesn't support controller, then I don't play it.

 

[Hoddi]

Twitch shooters need a mouse but I otherwise don't care too much what I use. I mostly play slower paced single player games and often prefer leaning back with a controller even if they're first person games.

It also depends on if I'm playing on my monitor or TV. But I don't have a very strong preference one way or the other.

 

[MayauMiao]

On desk, key+mouse except fighting games, shoot em ups, 2D side scrollers.

On counch controller all the way while avoid playing games that requires key+mouse.

 

[bender]

 

[DarkLordOtaku]

Only unwashed peasants use controller on PC, especially for FPS games. It is clear to me that their dirty hands are too jittery after they're done working and sowing the fields, so they are unable to appreciate the perfect precision that a mouse offers.

I do spend a lot of time sowing fields, tbf.

 

[Gp1]

M&K of course.

 

[simpatico]

Mouse and keyboard unless it's particularly parkour focused. I'm better on controller when it comes to complex movement. My fingers knot right up trying to do that stuff on KBM. Also Halo, I mean, c'mon. If it's a somewhat chill FPS I might controller it. If the menus are radial, almost certainly. Dying Light 2, controller all day. Stuff like that. Far Cry 4 and 5 got played on controller. It's nice having that flexibility. Hell in Cyberpunk I used both. Controller for vehicles and I'd hop out on KBM. Do that in Ghost Recon Wildlands too.

 

[CrustyBritches]

Everything on controller except mmorpg and strategy.

 

[Bojji]

I rarely play fps games these days.

But I play everything using the controller.

 

[PlayStaytion]

It's like playing Bioshock but with COD mindset, does that make any sense to you?

 

[Denton]

I play PC games on TV so controller for me. In some rare cases I go back to monitor and mouse, but last time I did that was probably Wolfenstein New Order or something.

 

[HerjansEagleFeeder]

Where's steering wheel as an option?

 

[winjer]

Playing an FPS on PC with a controller is heresy. And you are going to hell for it, where you will be forced to play Concord for all eternity.

 

[dgrdsv]

My choice of how to play is more linked to the dynamism of gameplay and the HDR implementation (my main monitor doesn't really support HDR while my TV is an OLED).
But this being said and things being somewhat equal I do prefer to play shooters on m+k, the camera position is secondary to the need to aim fast and precise.

 

[The Cockatrice]

There is absolutely no reason to play a first person shooter on PC with anything but a mouse and keyboard unless you're a story-mode skill gamer, aka trash.