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ToastyPOP posted...

I'm just saying there's nothing intrinsic about the keyboard that makes it inferior to controllers for platformers. You can learn to play SMW with a keyboard and be just as good at it as with a controller. Lots of people grew up playing and beating Mario, Sonic, Mega Man, etc with a keyboard via emulation.

a standard keyboard does have simultaneous key-press limitations. otherwise I would still disagree but it's largely subjective. if you say a keyboard is just as good for you as a controller I can't tell you it isn't. but for me, having grown up with both at the same time, I would say a controller is undoubtedly better.

I in fact specifically did not play much of the PC platformers at least partly because it's not fun playing them with a keyboard, and I say that as a more or less life-long PC gamer. Even having beaten for example Thexder 2: Firehawk with just keyboard, that whole experience would have been vastly improved with a working controller. (well, probably. it feels like it would have been better but who knows. it's tricky to compare because the games are different. the PC platformers are worse games with IMO worse controls. but it's hard to pull apart the game itself from the different controls. I also have not played many games on emulators for partly similar reasons: it's just not as fun as playing it on a TV and with a controller.)