Edit Sorry about the ugly word vomit from lemmy ripping out the video description on peertube, I didn’t know it was going to do that
I decided to try Xonotic on my steam deck using joysticks + gyro to see if I could play somewhat competitively. Turns out, it is a blast!
Not claiming I am amazing at Xonotic (the bots are HARD btw) but wow there is a huge potential here for strafe jumping mechanics with games designed to be controlled by joysticks + gyro. It is a blast!
I really hope it becomes more mainstream. It’s really a game changer (literally)
Gamers have been looking for the next big innovation in gaming, many have fixated on VR as being that thing with $4000 VR goggles…
…meanwhile there are kids and randos everywhere mastering touchscreen + gyroscope mobile shooters on games like call of duty mobile, pubg mobile, farlight 84 etc and other touchscreen games like minecraft fleshing out this whole other realm of gaming that pc gamers as a rule have almost no clue about that will absolutely become a huge part of the future of gaming if not define it.
Simultaneously for the generation of people who grew up playing console shooters with gamepads (who couldn’t afford gaming PCs), gyroscope brings the capacity to finally make gamepads actually GOOD tools to play shooters with.
It is a wild time to stumble into all of this and I gotta admit I love how all the people with super expensive gaming rigs are utterly clueless about how gaming is going to change. It is a wonderful feeling that for once they don’t get to dictate how pc gaming evolves.
