GamePad or Joystick

[kryton9]

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]

Gamepad, as it is more universal. I find it odd to play racing sims with a joystick.

[Petr Schreiber]

Mike,

controlling racing sim with joystick is quite fun, I practised this for a long time
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]

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.

[kryton9]

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]

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.

[kryton9]

Some of the flight sim setups people have are incredible.

http://images.google.com/images?hl=e...=1&sa=N&tab=wi