« Reply #14 on: Wed, 09 September 2009, 23:15:29 »
I was a dedicated FPS gamer in the past before my left hand started hating my gaming habit. My best FPS gaming days were spent with a keyboard with Black ALPS. I liked to play very fast paced one-shot one-kill type of FPS games and was never as good once my MicroConnectors board with the Black ALPS died.
I'm using a Filco Brown Cherry right now and haven't tried gaming on it at all yet. I just got it so I can't say how this would compare with a Black ALPS board, but I think it'd be inferior. I picked this board because of the low resistance, which I love most of the time, but I've found that it's hard for to me feel if I've pressed a key at times when I'm typing very fast. This will be a problem playing a game in which you need to scramble around a lot.
Casual gaming it doesn't matter what you use. We had a pro gamer come through yesterday who swore by the Black Linear Cherrys but he couldn't type text on them - they are too stiff.
Yeah, I think having some resistance can really allow you to get a better feel for movement and control of a character in a game. Think of driving a car and driving a car that has some responsive steering with some resistance in it and driving a car with uber power steering in which a hard turn at 50mph feels no different on the wheel than a slow lazy curve at 10mph.
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