Imaginary games that you plan on getting (in your mind) this year

[A Black Falcon]

No no, I like the power management as it adds a lot to the game, but what I am saying is that it's really a seperate thing from combat and that the combat itself is very dull.

I don't see how you can possibly seperate the combat from the power management. The combat without it wouldn't just be simpler -- it'd be changed beyond any recognition of what it is. It wouldn't even remotely be like the combat as it is... you can't just take it apart like that!

They're not exactly laugh-out-loud jokes...

I'm not very good at that kind of thing...

Yes, which is why I'm saying that the game themselves aren't nearly that long.

True... but still, they're pretty long as far as linear games go, you can't deny that!

Cheap compared to real flight sticks that are in real planes.

I know... :)

But still, its leaps and bounds better than keyboard and mouse.

Sure using a joystick can be more immersive just like using a racing wheel with Gran Turismo makes it a much better game, but then I definitely would not want to play Mario Kart or F-Zero GX with a racing wheel because they were made with a controller in mind and work very well with them. I do not miss using my racing wheel when I play MK or FZ-GX.

Neither do I, but I'm sure that if I liked more realistic racing games I'd want a wheel... just like how I don't use a joystick for Rogue Squadron, since its made for a gamepad, but I do for X-Wing, since its made for a joystick...

You are fighting the controls more in the X-Wing games then you are fighting the actual enemy ships. Since the controls are so slow you're really battling with that instead of the enemy craft.

I just can't see characterizing the combat in X-Wing like that at all...