Freelancer!!

[A Black Falcon]

How do spaceships strafe? Rockets on the sides of them! Who cares? It makes for great gameplay. Once you learn how to slide it gets even better.

But it makes them so much like FPS controls... and spaceships circle-strafeing isn't exactly something I like to see...

And do you actually think those games you play are realistic? If they were realistic it would take months to figure out how to control the ships. And then there would be no lasers, no sound effects (no sound in space), and it would be extremely boring.

Of course they aren't realistic... but they are a lot more realistic (in their own laws of physics) than Freelancer...

On one end of realism, you've got Freelancer. Then comes the very similar (physics/style of battles excluding controls) Wing Commander. Then I'd say the Star Wars ones and Freespace... followed on the realistic end with Star Trek Bridge Commander, I-War, X, and Battlecruiser in increasing levels of depth and complexity...

If you like that cheap way of making games tough by making the controls unintiuitive, by all means have your fun. I'd much rather have more complex dog fights than crappy controls.

I happen to love classic-style controls... they're great! They are NOT unintuitive... they are complex, sure, but not unintuitive... you calling them bad is your opinion. Mine is that they're great.

Oh really? So what, you're the authority of the universe now? Just about every single PC game reviewer would disagree with you right there.

But it's ok, ABF. You made up your mind about hating the controls before you even played it so now you can't go back and change your mind because that would be admitting you're wrong. God forbid.

Its called an "opinion", OB1. You really need to learn to accept that other opinions can be as correct for other people as yours is for you... the way you seem to always assume that yours is the only remotely possible correct opinion on everything is infuriating!

I never said "This Is Fact". I said "This is what I think". There's a pretty big difference there that you never seem to be able to see...