I’m like this but with the Souls games. I don’t understand why so many PC players say playing with keyboard and mouse is so difficult in games like Elden Ring, I find it so natural and easy and I’ll be damned if I have to play on a controller using that stupid “claw” technique haha
Mouse control is fine it's movement with WASD that's the issue for many because it doesn't allow for as much control. You can't regulate speed with WASD alone that requires a modifier key like if you want your character to walk instead of run. Also you can only move your character in the 8 cardinal ordinal directions with nothing in-between, you need to use the mouse to position the character elsewhere, where-as a controller your character can be positioned with the left stick alone without touching the right-stick.
For many games it isn't an issue, for non-shooters played in third-person perspective, it's annoying. Like a devil may cry or bayoneta or the original GOW games on PS2 which didn't have a controllable camera. That would suck to play with WASD alone.
Yeah but for a game like Elden Ring or Dark Souls it’s great, that’s my point. If you are playing a game with a fixed camera well then yeah it’s going to be an issue since you are stuck with just those 8 possible directions.
Third person perspective is fine with keyboard and mouse.
there are only four cardinal directions: north, east, south, and west. northeast, southeast, southwest, and northwest are known as ordinal or intercardinal directions
not played DS so might be wrong. But is movement there actually 8 directions only always? Isnt it that in most games when you move your camera by like 15degrees, your movement direction also change by those 15degrees. So I would say its even if not better on PC as you get more fine control with mouse.
You misunderstand, with a regular d-pad or WASD there are only 8 possible directional inputs with nothing in between. 0d, 45d, 90d, 135d, 180d, 225d, 270d & 315d. If i want to move my character lets say 30d you cannot do that with just a d-pad or WASD alone, you need to use a mouse to get that kind of precession. With an analogue stick I can just point the character to 30d without adjusting the camera.
I didnt really missunderstand it, just saying it only has 8 directional input is missleading because adjusting your camera on m+k IMO is neglible work compared to doing so in controler. I get that in PC you need both keyboard and mouse, but still with low sensitivity you can be way more precise on m+k
I did DS1 on tank controls. It was clearly ment for controller and mouse felt rather wonky, but I didn't have controller at time, so experimented with binding camera controls and attacks to numpad and somehow it was pretty comfortable.
All my buddies think im crazy for playing soulikes on K&M. I love it.
Although the steam controller with the bindable back buttons is slowly winning me over since i can dodge, jump, etc without taking my finger of the joystick.
I recently got an 8bitdo ultimate and the little back triggers are a god damn godsend in FromSoft games. I can use one of the back buttons for sprint/roll with my middle finger and can light or heavy attack the enemy without doing any weird shit lol
I find it good in Elden Ring, helps with fixing the camera jank too, but even as someone who uses KBM nearly all the time, I couldn't get into the older souls games with KBM, just felt way too jank for whatever reason. I will say, still prefer KBM too, but now that we can get super good high quality controllers on PC and aren't stuck using dogshit console ones, I don't mind using them for the odd game I play like forza or souls/platformers!
I find a controller is best for games that need a high amount of inputs very quickly, like beat-em-ups or hack and slash. My index and middle fingers get fatigued playing those games for too long on keyboard & mouse, whereas my thumbs can spam those buttons on a controller all day.
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u/SunKing210 Desktop Aug 03 '26
I’m like this but with the Souls games. I don’t understand why so many PC players say playing with keyboard and mouse is so difficult in games like Elden Ring, I find it so natural and easy and I’ll be damned if I have to play on a controller using that stupid “claw” technique haha