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Guys, I was wondering which you prefer to use the most, a gamepad or joystick?
I know it depends on the game, but if you had to choose one, which would it be?
Michael Hartlef
25-04-2007, 08:05
Gamepad, as it is more universal. I find it odd to play racing sims with a joystick.
Petr Schreiber
25-04-2007, 13:12
Mike,
controlling racing sim with joystick is quite fun, I practised this for a long time :D
Racing wheel is naturally best solution to me ( althought it behaves like joystick from coding point of view ).
I have used game pad almost only in TopDown 3D :), but could be good especialy console ports.
Bye,
Petr
Michael Hartlef
25-04-2007, 15:33
I did online NASCAR racing for 2 yrs in a kinda professional racing league called ESCORS and without a wheel you would have had no chance at all. I love online racing, but you have to find a nice league where the people follow the rules and are no crash kids like you find them in the public servers.
Wow gamepad 3 - joystick 0, interesting.
The gamepad has 2 axis sticks plus the hat control switch, so it does offer more options :)
Michael Hartlef
25-04-2007, 20:57
Wow gamepad 3 - joystick 0, interesting.
The gamepad has 2 axis sticks plus the hat control switch, so it does offer more options :)
Well, you can get joysticks that have buttons/options like an F16. ;)
Some of the flight sim setups people have are incredible.
http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&q=flight%20sim%20setups&btnG=Google+Search&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&um=1&sa=N&tab=wi