[egypturnash]

I'm fifty years old - surely a fellow oldster by now - and mouse+keyboard always feels incredibly awkward for any kind of fast action game. It's a matter of what you're used to; I've been doing most of my gaming on consoles since leaving my old Amiga for a Mac.

My husband used to be like you until they got into Nuclear Throne, now they're at home with a controller for games that work better that way. A twin-stick shooter is probably much better to learn a controller with than Elden Ring IMHO. Or a friendlier jumpy-adventurey-fighty game like Spyro or Sonic or Breath of the Wild that's built with the assumption they might be some kid's very first encounter with this style of game, and has appropriate amounts of training.

But really, there's only so much time in a life to play video games, and only so much time in a life for everything you enjoy doing. If don't wanna get used to a controller then, well, that's fine. You'd miss out on a ton of great games even if your day job was nothing but playing them.