There’s no real secret other than to just play games and get used to it. FPS may or may not be the best choice for this. You could also play other games like strategy or city builders instead.
My sensitivity is so if I drag my mouse straight to either side, I’ll do about 7 or 8 full spins by the time I get to the end of my mat.
The sad part for me is that I only know if Intruder, Sub Rosa, etc. because of General Sam, a YouTuber who almost always plays multiplayer games with his friends.
Although he makes it seem fun, and he is absolutely a toxic player, so I was interested in checking out Intruder at one point because of his videos on it. I think it’s still on my wishlist.
Imo that’s how these things go almost 100% of the time.
New unknown game gets a ton of random hype around it insanely fast? Looks pretty jank and kind of barebones? Has some sort of party play/chat mechanic? Must be a YouTuber/streamer game.
Kinda like Lethal Company (and all other games like it), Intruder, Sub Rosa, Perfect Heist; and all those other asset flip type games. Hell even all those “store simulator” games that all look identical fall into this too.
It’s why the story is so flimsy across all those old popular platforming series, they took a “gameplay first” approach.
Look at the story for the Jak games. It’s all convoluted as hell, and there are tons of plotholes and such, but it’s probably one of the best series-lomg stories of those classics. Sly 1 had a clear story, and then when it sold so well that there were actual fans wanting a sequel, they had to come up with a story to justify it. Same goes for Tak, Ty, Ratchet & Clank, and so on.
I’ve been replaying old PS2 platformer classics like Jak & Daxter, Tak, Sly Cooper etc.
Tak has pretty funny humor, if a little childish at times. And it may have not aged well in general (all white people voicing possible island tribespeople that practice a magic/religion called Juju), but it’s still fun and was pretty inventive back then with the cartoon proportions and interactivity with the animals throughout.
Everyone still loves Jak, and a lot of it is due to the art style. Everything in those games is so alien and yet also kind of familiar, but the way they mix the mystical with the sci-fi always intrigued me. It’s kinda like Shadowrun imo.
Playing Sly, I realized there was an abundance of anthro characters in the early 2000s. But the games took inspiration from cartoons and comics and leaned into those aspects and aesthetics heavily. There’s always a sound effect and sound bubble that pops up when you knock out a bad guy, the colors are vibrant and over the top and the stories are too. They live in a weird magical retro-futuristic world with laser guns, jetpacks, super-geniuses able to create mutant monstrosities, immortal cyborg owls that run on pure hate whose body parts can then be repurposed into a multitude of uses (hypnotization, perpetual engines, etc), and so on.
Video games used to be about fun.
I don’t like to have to do that swing move that streamers and other hardcore gamers use. I like to use as little arm movement as possible