Are mouse & keyboards, control over saves, and health packs a thing of the past?
A lot of news on Bungie’s new shooter Destiny has come out this morning, and while it looks like an interesting game, there hasn’t been a PC version announced by the Halo developer. Something said by the studio’s co-founder, Jason Jones may bring some light as to why there might not be a PC version of Destiny.
“We did a bunch of ambitious things on Halo deliberately to reach out to people,” Jones told us. “We limited players to two weapons, we gave them recharging health, we automatically saved and restored the game — almost heretical things to first-person shooters at the time. We made the game run without a mouse and keyboard. And now nobody plays shooters the way they used to play them before Halo ’cause nobody wants to.”
I don’t know about you, but I play shooters with a mouse and keyboard, and it’s because I want to. I have a 360 controller for my PC, but I rarely use it. I have tried playing some shooters on my girlfriend’s PlayStation 3, and I can’t stand it. I know I am not alone here, and that there are thousands if not millions of gamers who prefer using a mouse and keyboard.
I also liked old-school shooters that had health packs and the choice to quick save when I wanted to. There are still shooters that don’t follow the Halo formula, like Max Payne 3, that are very successful. Halo is a great game, but it’s a bold statement to say that we don’t want to play shooters the way we used to.
