1st July 2007, 6:11 PM
I have an old "wingman" joystick, with a grand two buttons and a "throttle" control, and that's it. Did fine for me back when I was playing Wing Commander 4 and a few other games. My 360 controller works well there, but there's something to be said for the cockpit "feel" I suppose. Ironically enough, the cockpit feel in the real world may soon be getting updated to use something resembling a video game controller. "Gesturing" is another possibility, but what terrifies me there is figuring an easy way to immediatly turn off the motion sensing so you don't sneeze and send your plane into a nose dive.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)