I’ve mostly done joy sticks.

  • Edge004@lemm.ee
    14·
    9 months ago

    I like to use pads as a substitute for a mouse. Games like peggle, zuma, and mini metro are great with the pads. I also like to use the pads with gyro to aim in first person games. Portal is a good game to ease into that.

  • n0xew@lemmy.world
    10·
    9 months ago

    Age of empires II, I’ve cleared a few campaigns with it! Left pad as mouse region on bottom left icons, right pad as mouse.

      • n0xew@lemmy.world
        1·
        9 months ago

        To give context I was never a good competitive player, so I’m talking about casual play. I think I’m slightly less responsive than mouse+kb, but playing on the train is just a blast!

        I also had to bind other buttons to improve response time:

        • dpad down to go to last notification
        • dpad to cycle between forums
        • dpad eight for inactive villagers, left for army

        Then Right Joystick is a radial menu to go to 6 groups. A is select all on screen. On top of that, I binded shift to L1 (the bottom left palet) which can be user in combination of most other buttons I binded: e.g. create 5 units, assign to group, select all inactive villagers etc…

        I went through the William Wallace campaign to tune my conf, but I find it pretty good now!

  • nycki@lemmy.world
    7·
    9 months ago

    right pad for mouse, left pad for hotkeys, all the way. Great for games that use the entire left half of the keyboard.

  • Telorand@reddthat.com
    61·
    9 months ago

    Anything that’s an FPS, like Deep Rock Galactic or Borderlands, or any game that requires a mouse, like Little Inferno or Machinarium. Usually it’s a combo of left stick and R pad + gyro.

    I also use a combination of stick and L pad for Helldivers, with the pad being set up as a Dpad.

      • Telorand@reddthat.com
        6·
        9 months ago

        It becomes your mouse. Making quick turns or precise aims is a lot easier with the pad and gyro.

        I bought a Steam Controller years ago for that same purpose, and it makes a world of difference.

  • marlowe221@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    9 months ago

    Turn based strategy games. Especially 4X games like Civilization or the Master of Magic remake.

  • Eggyhead@kbin.social
    4·
    9 months ago

    There’s a community profile for Monster Hunter rise that maps the quick access wheel to the right touch pad really well. I wish I could do whatever that guy did but for world as well. It’s really useful.

  • Macaroni_ninja@lemmy.world
    4·
    9 months ago

    The right one as mouse, in RPGs, mostly isometric ones without gamepad support. Currently Pillars of Eternity 2. Works surprisingly well.

    Also the left one I started using for virtual menus in games where I need to use lots of quickslots and/or abilities. The customisability is awesome, you can even add little icons to show what each menu item represents.