@dangerloves: I didn't grow up on 90fov or higher games like some people have, and thus I don't ever feel the need to tweak that aspect of most games. Sometimes a game is especially vomit inducing if I'm sitting a bit too close to my monitor and it's fov is something below 65, but being accustomed to and actually preferring an fov of 75 I tend to not be bothered by the low end as much, and anything higher is fish eye madness to me.
On the controller, the trigger is shoot ;) Big reason why I've played as many games as I can on PC with a 360pad. Not only are the games made for consoles in mind with their visuals, but usually with the way they play as well sometimes going deeper than just having controller controls. I can't imagine having as an enjoyable time with syndicate if the flow of it's movement and first person animations was filtered through 4 directions via wasd. Keyboard/mouse usually makes first person games feel closer to you being a floating camera than if I use a controller, mostly cause your aim can be SO fast but your movement is weird like you're on rails. I find I forget about movement and controls in general if I use a controller, they melt away etc. Once again it DOES help when yes, most recent PC games don't' really feel like they have optimal controls by default, but usually they still adhere to wasd with E being interact and all that good stuff I guess. The keyboard wasn't made for games though and while it's perfectly fine it's sorta weird that we still use a keyboard to video game as a top viable option, like just think about it... it's a type writer layout on this flat ass device made for pushing out words, not anything related to video games. It only works because it's the main input for your PC and you're so used to it that it's very comfortable for straight up interaction with your PC.
Darkness 2 had pretty much the same style as Syndicate? WHAT? One is a comic book/concept art/cell shaded dark gangster romp and the other a clean/dirty/super high lens flared post processed future romp. I guess they are both shooters and can be dark most of the time... you got me there buddy. Syndicate is rad because of it's style, darkness 2 is a good game but I wasn't compelled to even get more than a few hours in it (mostly cause I get detached from games when magic is involved... becoming an old man about that it seems). Syndicate lives together with Spec Ops and Singularity in my head as that type of game that's short, has something relatively interesting to say about something and has a very singular vision and way of approaching things, also their mechanics usually are minimal and feed into that vision most of the time. Short, tight, interesting experiences of games etc. I'm very glad I have been able to get used to playing games how they come, instead of needing games to mold themselves to me every time cause it seems like I'd miss out on more games if I always needed to tweak the same thing over and over in each game, don't get me wrong though I tweak when tweaking is lovely (endless hours of enb time in any/all games that support it, and ini tweaks whenever they exist are great! especially for the often lame unreal engine and it's quarks). It's just... when a game actually wants to do something that I will appreciate I'm not about to let the lack of some toggles in the option menu junk up my time with it, cause that's dumb right? That's like not going out with some new friends cause your jacket isn't fitting perfectly, it keeps kinda riding up a bit. Take the jacket off, and have some fun :)
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