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Gaming on a Touch Screen monitor?

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SnowyEnigma

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I've been thinking about the possibility of using a touchscreen monitor as a replacement to the mouse. I would think that accuracy would be increased a lot, but your arm would have to move more compared to a simple wrist motion of the mouse. Would tournaments let you use it? Just looking for some input.
 
ok if you are talking about video poker tournaments then yes.


anything else, then hell no.
The company I work for has only sold them for gambling machine type gaming, we have never heard of any other type of gaming to be done with a touchscreen LCD.

Plus its not accurate at all if you are playing fps games. Its the most retarded thing if you see someone try it.
I brought my laptop to work and tried it once with Call of duty. You will feel stupid if you try it.
 
Hmmm, I would think it would be very accurate since you'd be using your finger or stylus as the input. Plus your fingers would be the crosshair so you could point at your enemy's head and shoot! How would it be stupid and limited? Is the technology not yet fully developed? Is the crosshair too slow to follow your fingers? Finger to screen latency too high?
 
Originally posted by: SnowyEnigma
Hmmm, I would think it would be very accurate since you'd be using your finger or stylus as the input. Plus your fingers would be the crosshair so you could point at your enemy's head and shoot! How would it be stupid and limited? Is the technology not yet fully developed? Is the crosshair too slow to follow your fingers? Finger to screen latency too high?
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How does it look when you see a person fighting in an fps double tapping his monitor every time. Not to mention, where would your scroll function be and your second mouse button be? It would be like gaming with a one button apple mouse but with your ARM! 😛

Not to mention, it would be very uncomfortable. You either have to extend your arm and back to the screen again or you will have to keep your arm just inches away, extended and not resting on a surface. Would you really want to do that?? I dont.

Now give me something that can move a cursor based on where my pupils are focused and you have me sold!
 
You need to think a little longer about how FPS games work. The crosshair stays fixed in the center of the screen, and you use the mouse to move the character so that your target is under the crosshair. There is no mouse pointer. How would a touch screen even work?

Besides, your fingers can move a lot faster than your whole arm. Even if there was a practical way to get a touch screen working, most good players are accurate to within a couple pixels with the mouse, so I can't see there being any sort of advantage to the touch screen.

You'd also have to have absolutely everything except the fire button mapped to your left hand. How would you turn/run/strafe?


You would have to have everything except fire mapped to the keyboard.
 
Originally posted by: SnowyEnigma
Hmmm, I would think it would be very accurate since you'd be using your finger or stylus as the input. Plus your fingers would be the crosshair so you could point at your enemy's head and shoot! How would it be stupid and limited? Is the technology not yet fully developed? Is the crosshair too slow to follow your fingers? Finger to screen latency too high?
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Moving your finger 6 inches is harder than moving your mouse 1.

Your hand will be in the way.

Your hand will get tired.

You will never be able to lift your finger unless you feel like reorienting your finger as the exact same place everytime.

Your finger is bigger than a pixel.

You need 3 fingers to work the wasd keys (or whatever else you use) plus one to jump and one to crouch. How will you fire? You can't fire and move at the same time if you are using a touchscreen for both.

If you want a 1:1 movement ratio for the touchscreen to screen, then turning will be very difficult.


-Steve
 
On the other had, games made for touch screens are pretty cool. Try out some PocketPC/ Palm games, they can be quite fun.
 
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