The humble Joystick

[TheComedown]

Aside from flight simulation games which seemed tailor made for the joystick, I know plenty of people who prefer the joystick for fighting games.

They grew up on arcades you see, so that's how they learned to play those games.

Quite frankly, I know we don't see it this way, but thumbsticks are joysticks. They are just the modernized version of them. We've made them small and added a second one because games now have three dimensions and many more controls than they ever used to. But to me, they are joysticks.

It works pretty much like a joystick, looks like a miniature joystick, even has a "button" on top.

I know it's not a joystick the way you are talking about, but that is what happened to the joystick.

Agree completely thumb sticks evolved from the joysticks of the arcade days. I've been abused in the past for calling a controller a joystick, which is stupid and a little ignorant I think, since that what they are, just smaller and now with two joysticks.

OP: must have been a great deal of years ago since I last played with a joystick. I remember playing Hellbender with one, it has been the only game that has gotten me remotely motion sick.

 

[Audio]

If game companies are insisting we use our bodies a bit more while playing games, would a simulator joystick count? Surely using the wrist, as well as the thumbs, is a plus side?

 

[Matt_LRR]

This seems oddly relevant:
As for my own experience, Battlefield 1942. I had a microsoft Sidewinder Joystick (the one with force feedback, IR sensors to centre the stick, and yaw controls.)

Made me fricking lethal in the air.

it's was awesome.

-m

 

[Pielikey]

Microsoft Combat Flight Simulator when I was 8. Oh the good old days..

 

[Enigmers]

I'd love to try HAWX with a good flight-sim joystick.

 

[Judgement101]

Played Halo with a joystick once. My score: 2 kills/21 deaths -_-

 

[DoctorWhat]

I have a Logitech Force 3D Pro (see picture) that I use for Flight Simulator X and Battlefield 2. It's a great advantage, compared to K/M controls. I'm also downloading the HAWX demo to see if it's good for that too, thoguh I imagine it is. Pity it's a dying control scheme...

Spoiler: Picture

EDIT: Yeah, HAWX? Not so great... the configuration is so sensitive to the joystick's movements, every function got assigned to left or right or up or down at SOME point. Also, though the actual flying works well, there's so much extra that the game has you do that you still need the keyboard, especially since all the instructions are labelled with keyboard keys. In the heat of battle you don't stop to think "Hmmm... What does that key do? Ah yes, now what did I assign that to?" Cos if you did, you'd blow up. Twice.