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Randomly Mine: Control (Not The Game)
🕑 Added 2020-02-21 14:01:01 +0000 UTCI often receive comments on my Arena Shooter videos about how the video wasn't exactly Nostradamus in its predictions. Looking back on it, I probably should've labelled it the "Potential" return, but that's just semantics.
Yes, my fantasy of living an era I didn't even grow up in hadn't come to fruition, and sometimes you just gotta take the L. However, something that'll always be comfort food in text-form, is Gamespot's glorious Review of Alien: Resurrection, where the critic in question gave the game a negative review for featuring controls identical to what would become to standardize the industry.
I recommend checking it out if you aren't familiar, it is entertaining.
Though a good laugh is all it should be taken as, because frankly I recall a time where Halo Style Movement controls seemed alien (heh), and strafing with the right analog stick seemed perfectly sensible. Granted, I also thought Megaman NT Warrior was a good show. But the Gamespot Review's proof that even adults held the same viewpoint as Childhood me.
While chatting on Quiette Shy's Livestream however, a commenter made an observation about why we're today so used to modern Analog controls.
That it's more aligned with PC.
I'm someone that played regardless of platform. Didn't matter if it was a Playstation, Xbox, Gamecube, or PC, if it was a video-game, I was on it. Through this, one will develop expectations.
One of the most common, a preference for moving with my left hand and aiming with the right, didn't stem just from Halo's Popularity, I didn't play the franchise until much later in life. Instead, it came from PC, where WASD & Mouse, also translated to left hand for movement, right hand for mouse. Gamepad is quite different from M+K, but with Gamepad's change from compensations for the lack of complex controls to optimized layouts, the base-line for everything came to be that, left to move, right to aim.
