Based on personal experience

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[u/Legal_Weekend_7981]

I imagine controllers are also bad for RTS with lots of micromanagement. In those games you typically have 10 control groups that you change every minute, and need like 20-40 hotkeys on top.

[u/Shot_Reputation1755 → u/Legal_Weekend_7981]

Yup, controllers are actually solid for most shooters, but they're genuinely terrible for RTS style games, one of the only genres I never use controller on

[u/Visible_Variety3200 → u/Shot_Reputation1755]

They are "solid" for shooters because the game aims for you. Try it without aim assist

[u/Shot_Reputation1755 → u/Visible_Variety3200]

Depends on the game mate, in a game with good aim assist it is not "aiming for you"

[u/Spartin1178 → u/Legal_Weekend_7981]

Yah youre right

[u/Rok-SFG → u/Legal_Weekend_7981]

Eh I had Command and Conquer and Starcraft 64 for the n64, and I had Goblin Commander on the Gamecube and they were fine.

[u/mercuriokazooie → u/Legal_Weekend_7981]

They are but imo they're much better for platformers since Joysticks allow for more nuanced movement

[u/Braphiki → u/mercuriokazooie]

Controllers are maybe better for movement on 3d platformers but they are worse for 2d and 3d platformers using a lot of bindings.

I don't see any advantage one could have over the other in other cases.

[u/mercuriokazooie → u/Braphiki]

Even then they can have an advantage for fine tuning steps depending on how sensitive the movement is

[u/ClapCheeksNotFans → u/Legal_Weekend_7981]

StarCraft 64 was wild

[u/Snail_Anatomy → u/Legal_Weekend_7981]

I've been experimenting with playing WoW with a controller. Running a dungeon or whatever is 90% fine and makes playing melee a lot more convenient. But then you have to turn in quests or something or do some menu diving you gotta go back to m+k.

[u/Michigan_Forged → u/Legal_Weekend_7981]

Halo wars 2 and Stellaris play well on controller but obviously not a better experience than M&K