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5 Simple Tips How to Prepare for PS5 and Xbox SX

In the face of the inevitable invasion of next gen, it's easy to panic. With our advice, you'll stay calm and be ready to greet PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X!

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If you never have, play FPS on a pad

The claim that "you can't play FPS on consoles" used to hold some credibility at the beginning of the era of PS2 and the first Xbox, although Black and Halo were already showing it could be done. In the seventh generation, in the heyday of the aforementioned Halo series and the rival Killzone 2, this claim was already a display of ignorance. Today, when virtually every major FPS except Half-Life is made primarily for consoles and sells like hotcakes, it just can't be true.

Around the time of the debut of the first Halo, it became clear that playing first-person shooters on pads was possible. - 5 Simple Tips How to Prepare for PS5 and Xbox SX - dokument - 2020-06-19
Around the time of the debut of the first Halo, it became clear that playing first-person shooters on pads was possible.

I think it's quite weird some people say that, at the same time being used to learning new mechanics and control schemes more than the people, who don't play at all. Learning to shoot on a pad is no different than learning the mechanics of a new soulslike. Simply recognizing the fact that it is possible is usually enough to actually be able to do it.

Significantly, one of the best FPS of 2009 never made it onto the PC. - 5 Simple Tips How to Prepare for PS5 and Xbox SX - dokument - 2020-06-19
Significantly, one of the best FPS of 2009 never made it onto the PC.

So it is worth finally coming to terms with the fact that shooting with a gamepad is not only possible, but even fun. All you have to do is give it a few hours. Sure, it's less precise than a mouse – but the developers are taking a step back and balancing the gameplay accordingly. As a result, the fun is still the same – and it's about having fun, after all. And it will be even more fun if we don't limit ourselves to just one hardware platform, which the developers often treat with disregard.

Michael Grygorcewicz

Michael Grygorcewicz

He first worked as a co-worker at GRYOnline.pl. In 2023 he became the head of the Paid Products department. He has been creating articles about games for over twenty years. He started with amateur websites, which he coded himself in HTML, then he moved on to increasingly larger portals. A computer engineer, but he was always more drawn to writing than programming, and he decided to tie his future with the former. In games, he primarily looks for stories, emotions, and immersion that no other medium can provide - hence, among his favorite titles, are games focusing on narration. Believes that NieR: Automata is the best game ever made.

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