The keyboard is another useful thing to have in a role-playing game that offers you enough variety so that using a certain skill is not mandatory, unless you want to be a try-hard and kill everyone, of course. While I spent a good portion of my role-playing time not being able to point out exactly why I felt this aversion toward controllers and console role-playing games, it finally dawned on me, by the time I was busily setting up my 34th bind in World of Warcraft.įirst of all, the mouse is a wonderful device that allows you to shift your viewpoint at an approximate rate as you would in real life, from slightly raising and lowering your gaze to quickly turning and checking your six in a fluid motion that allows you to carry on with what you were previously doing. I can't understand how anyone can play that game, let alone enjoy it, with a mouse and keyboard.
Such was the case with Dark Souls 2, which unfortunately I had to put down merely a couple of hours in, for the sake of my sanity. I'm always excited whenever a new role-playing game comes out on PC, because I always regard consoles as 'those dreadful contraptions that force developers to create their games around old hardware, gimmicky mechanics and the lack of proper controls: mouse and keyboard.'