Hi there !
I've come here looking for advice concerning old games controls : I am a gamer, I game daily and I'm used to keyboard and mouse as well as controllers. I can play PS3 era to PS5 era games without any probems. However when I start to get into older games (PS1 and some PS2 games) I really struggle with how different the control of movement was back then.
It's a completely different feeling, and not at all what I'm used to. The way you'd control your character with more modern games is not really how you control them in older ones : I want you to go straight towards the back and you're heading back but backwards, I'd like you to just turn slightly left and you're doing a 360°, straight and back are always changing position so I assume it's straight/back from the POV of the character rather than the POV of the camera ? and such things...
The games I'm struggling with are fixed angles or at least wonky-always-moving-camera ones. I have played a few fixed angle games and gotten used to it, so I don't know if it's the camera I really struggle with. I've played RE1R, Tormented Souls, The Medium and such, so I don't know if that could be an issue with how I perceive movement ? If maybe the fixed angles in these games are not at all similar to fixed angles in older games and I just don't realize it ?
The games I'm thinking of are RE3 OG and SH3 : I bought RE3 on Steam recently and since it's "in medias res" putting you directly at the start of the game with zombies in front and behind you, I couldn't even try to get used to the controls before dying within 3min of game start... I then tried to play SH3, I thought I'd be okay and I did do better than RE3 but the camera is still "wonky" and the movement hard to get used to. I didn't really struggle playing Rule of Rose for example, which is also a PS2 game.
And so, I'm looking for advice on how to learn and get that feeling for the movement and control of the character on those older games, I'd love to play and experience them for myself rather than watch gameplays of them. Any advice you may have, I'm willing to try it out !
Thanks in advance !