Gamepads VS K/B+Mouse

Player-X · June 25th, 2004

What controller do you prefer for games you are playing?

**I-Chan** · June 25th, 2004

Depends on the game. Shooters are best played with keyb/mouse, but i would never play a soccer game with that. Strategy games are better played with mouse too. A flight simulator requires a joystick. I use both keyb/mouse and 2 pads (one with six buttons on the front for 2d fighters, a psx pad for pretty much everything else). I can't vote as i wouldn't use only one.

Badaro · June 25th, 2004

Keyboard/Mouse for FPS and RTS, Gamepad for the rest.

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zcal · June 26th, 2004

The only strictly PC games I really play are FPSs and strategy type games, so keyboard and mouse are sort of a given. Otherwise I'd take a gamepad for emulator games over a keyboard and mouse any day. You can't go about emulating console games and playing them with a keyboard and mouse, that just ruins the experience.

Do games with voice control even exist? I suppose they could make a voice controlled Star Trek Bridge Commander game or something. Maybe they did, who knows? I'm not really one to follow Star Trek games...

N1ghtw0lf · June 26th, 2004

keyboard and mouse, no contest...

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Player-X · June 26th, 2004

> Do games with voice control even exist?

Yup, Life Line on the PS2 it's completly voice driven

**Cid Highwind** · June 26th, 2004

I prefer games like platformers, or RPG's, sports or racers to be played with an analog gamepad. But FPS and RTS should be played with keyboard+mouse, cause you need to take action quick and precise.

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Ghale0n · June 26th, 2004

FPS and Strategy games are easier playing with keyboard/mouse, the rest is better with gamepad, but seeing as I prefer playing games on TV with console I like Gamepad best overall

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**n_w95482** · June 27th, 2004

Gamepad for racing games, Flight Simulator 2004, and most of my emulators. Keyboard and mouse for the rest

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Kaotic Soul · June 27th, 2004

Depends on the game.Gamepads for games that don't require alot of looking around, and a mouse and keyboard for FPSs.

Chinoz · June 27th, 2004

FPS, RTS and Sports = Kbd & Mouse
Racing = Gamepad

Player-X · June 27th, 2004

FPS and RTS games are better played with a K/B and Mouse to most of but to these guys at http://www.3dactionplanet.com/halo forums think a gamepad is more "natural" and call other consoles including the PC inferior (Xbox fanboys) (some would claim the Xbox's graphics processor is faster than the RadeonX800XT),I wonder how "naturally" we can take down these gamepad worshipers 2 on 1 one in Halo

Grv · June 27th, 2004

There was an Unreal player using a joystick (pre-UT) that was supposedly unbeatable, called Toadwarrior. Apparantly, no kb/mouse using top-player back then was able to make him kick the bucket.

I find it hard to believe though.

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zcal · June 27th, 2004

Quote:

Originally Posted by Gaurav

There was an Unreal player using a joystick (pre-UT) that was supposedly unbeatable, called Toadwarrior. Apparantly, no kb/mouse using top-player back then was able to make him kick the bucket.

Out of curiosity, how'd you hear about this guy?

Grv · June 27th, 2004

Any of the major UT messageboards, and old topclans that originated during crappy ol' Unreal Multiplayer, when it's netcode sucked badly, and UT was non-existant.

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EddyB43 · June 28th, 2004

I'm usually keyboard/mouse all the way, since I grew up on old 8bit computers (the ZX Spectrum

) and the PC, but for a few games I'll switch to a gamepad. Examples are GTA3 and Vice City, as well as some platformers.

Also, I naturally use an analogue joystick + keyboard setup if I'm playing a serious simulation like X: Beyond the Frontier, I-War 2, Wing Commander or TIE Fighter.

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Myconid · June 28th, 2004

Umm sorry for being ignorant,but what's the difference beetwen gamepad and joystick, isn't it the same?Well at least in my country we call them the same.Explain me the difference.
Mouse and keyboard for me, cause i despize consoles, so iti is odd that I am a member of an emulation site.

AmstradCPC464 · June 28th, 2004

Myconid, a gamepad/joypad is a hand controller with a direction pad (the arrows) and buttons on it. You hold the entire unit in your hands to play. A joystick is a stick which you grip and move, it usually has buttons mounted on the actual stick and on the stick's base. The former is good for platform/sports games and the latter is said to be essential for flight sims.

Player-X · June 29th, 2004

well said,to add to that a steering wheel only works in driving games

Metalmurphy · June 30th, 2004

Nah! I used to play flight simulator with my Sidewinder lol! And FIFA as well!

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Keyboard and Mouse	11	57.89%
Gamepad	8	42.11%
Joystick	0	0%
Voice Controll	0	0%
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June 25th, 2004	#2 (permalink)
I-Chan Ex Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Spain Posts: 3,093	Depends on the game. Shooters are best played with keyb/mouse, but i would never play a soccer game with that. Strategy games are better played with mouse too. A flight simulator requires a joystick. I use both keyb/mouse and 2 pads (one with six buttons on the front for 2d fighters, a psx pad for pretty much everything else). I can't vote as i wouldn't use only one. __________________ "I'm living in a dream I can't wake from" Core 2 Duo 6600 FSB 1066 \| 2048 MB DDR2 PC2 6400 800 MHZ \| NVIDIA 8800 GTS \| Sound Blaster Audigy 4 \| Seagate Barracuda 250GB SATAII+WD Caviar 250GB \| Dell 3007WFP-HC 30" Widescreen

June 25th, 2004	#3 (permalink)
Badaro I'm in despair! Join Date: Apr 2001 Location: Brazil Posts: 3,412	Keyboard/Mouse for FPS and RTS, Gamepad for the rest. []s Badaro __________________ Fanatic for the Super Robot Taisen series

June 26th, 2004	#4 (permalink)
zcal I am that merry wanderer Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: USA Posts: 326	The only strictly PC games I really play are FPSs and strategy type games, so keyboard and mouse are sort of a given. Otherwise I'd take a gamepad for emulator games over a keyboard and mouse any day. You can't go about emulating console games and playing them with a keyboard and mouse, that just ruins the experience. Do games with voice control even exist? I suppose they could make a voice controlled Star Trek Bridge Commander game or something. Maybe they did, who knows? I'm not really one to follow Star Trek games...

June 26th, 2004	#5 (permalink)
N1ghtw0lf Crasher of Castles Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: Missouri Posts: 6,970	keyboard and mouse, no contest... __________________

June 26th, 2004	#6 (permalink)
Player-X Banned Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: From Kuching in Malaysia now stuck in Houston Texas Posts: 9,117	> Do games with voice control even exist? Yup, Life Line on the PS2 it's completly voice driven

June 26th, 2004	#7 (permalink)
Cid Highwind Human Metal Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Holland / Hungary Posts: 13,550	I prefer games like platformers, or RPG's, sports or racers to be played with an analog gamepad. But FPS and RTS should be played with keyboard+mouse, cause you need to take action quick and precise. __________________ PC Specs: CPU: Intel Q8200 @ 2.8GHz GPU: Sapphire ATi HD4870 / 1024MB / Core: 801 / Mem: 1000 Mobo: Gigabyte EP35-DS3 (rev 2.1) SPU: Creative X-Fi Xtreme Music RAM: 2GB Kingston HyperX DDR2 1066 @ 4-4-4-12 ~ 800MHz HDD: 1TB Samsung Spinpoint, 32MB PSU: Hiper Type-R 580W Monitor: Iiyama B2403WS / 19201200 Geometry Wars: 198.400 Lumines: 999.999 Join the NGEmu Folding @ Home community NOW!*

June 26th, 2004	#8 (permalink)
Ghale0n No Prayer For The Dying Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Sweden Posts: 248	FPS and Strategy games are easier playing with keyboard/mouse, the rest is better with gamepad, but seeing as I prefer playing games on TV with console I like Gamepad best overall __________________ *R.I.P Steve Irwin, you were an inspiration to us all*

June 27th, 2004	#9 (permalink)
n_w95482 Totally crazy Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: California Posts: 4,777	Gamepad for racing games, Flight Simulator 2004, and most of my emulators. Keyboard and mouse for the rest . __________________ Main PC: Asus P6T Deluxe, Intel Core i7 920 C0 @ 3.7 GHz (195x19, 1.3v core, 1.84v PLL, 1.3625v uncore) w/Thermalright Ultra 120 Extreme, 3x2 GB G Skill PC3-12800 @ 780 MHz, 7-7-7-21-1T, 1.66v; ATi Radeon HD 4870 1 GB @ 790/1000 w/Zalman VF-1000, 300 GB WD VelociRaptor, 4x500 GB WD RE2 (RAID 10), 3ware 9650SE-4LPML RAID controller, SB X-Fi Titanium, Seasonic M12D 750w, CM Stacker 810, Windows 7 Pro 64-bit, Dell 2007WFP XBL/PSN/WoW: Thordrune

June 27th, 2004	#10 (permalink)
Kaotic Soul Random Madness Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: Pearl,Mississippi,USA Posts: 494	Depends on the game.Gamepads for games that don't require alot of looking around, and a mouse and keyboard for FPSs. __________________ ---------------------------------- \| Intel Pentium 4 3.4 GHz \| Windows Vista \| 1.7 Gig of Ram \| Nvidia 8600 GT OC \| Sound Blaster Audigy2 ZS - Gamer : Limited Edition \| Western Digital 250 Gig HD \| Lite-on DVD-RW/CD-RW \| HP Pavilion 19" LCD" --------------------------------

June 27th, 2004	#11 (permalink)
Chinoz ... Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Desa Park, Key Ell, Malaysia Posts: 2,307	FPS, RTS and Sports = Kbd & Mouse Racing = Gamepad __________________ System specs P4 2.6c \| Abit AI7 \| Radeon 9800pro \| 1024mb kingston ddr400 \| 120gb seagate sata \| 40mb wd \| And all the minor bits and pieces 3dMark2001SE

June 27th, 2004	#12 (permalink)
Player-X Banned Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: From Kuching in Malaysia now stuck in Houston Texas Posts: 9,117	FPS and RTS games are better played with a K/B and Mouse to most of but to these guys at http://www.3dactionplanet.com/halo forums think a gamepad is more "natural" and call other consoles including the PC inferior (Xbox fanboys) (some would claim the Xbox's graphics processor is faster than the RadeonX800XT),I wonder how "naturally" we can take down these gamepad worshipers 2 on 1 one in Halo

June 27th, 2004	#13 (permalink)
Grv Translator Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: Холандија Posts: 1,521	There was an Unreal player using a joystick (pre-UT) that was supposedly unbeatable, called Toadwarrior. Apparantly, no kb/mouse using top-player back then was able to make him kick the bucket. I find it hard to believe though. __________________ Signed, --"Not young enough to know everything."

June 27th, 2004	#15 (permalink)
Grv Translator Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: Холандија Posts: 1,521	Any of the major UT messageboards, and old topclans that originated during crappy ol' Unreal Multiplayer, when it's netcode sucked badly, and UT was non-existant. __________________ Signed, --"Not young enough to know everything."

June 28th, 2004	#16 (permalink)
EddyB43 Old Gaming Guy Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: UK Posts: 93	I'm usually keyboard/mouse all the way, since I grew up on old 8bit computers (the ZX Spectrum ) and the PC, but for a few games I'll switch to a gamepad. Examples are GTA3 and Vice City, as well as some platformers. Also, I naturally use an analogue joystick + keyboard setup if I'm playing a serious simulation like X: Beyond the Frontier, I-War 2, Wing Commander or TIE Fighter. __________________ Athlon Thunderbird 1.4GHz 100FSB 384MB PC100 SDRAM GeForce4 Ti4600 128MB 120GB 7200rpm IBM and 60GB 5400rpm Maxtor IDE hard drives. Creative SB PCI128 LiteON 16x10x40 CD-RW and Samsung SD-616Q 16x DVD-ROM

June 28th, 2004	#17 (permalink)
Myconid fungus with a cause Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Zagreb,Croatia Posts: 295	Umm sorry for being ignorant,but what's the difference beetwen gamepad and joystick, isn't it the same?Well at least in my country we call them the same.Explain me the difference. Mouse and keyboard for me, cause i despize consoles, so iti is odd that I am a member of an emulation site.

June 28th, 2004	#18 (permalink)
AmstradCPC464 Registered User Join Date: Jun 2004 Posts: 1	Myconid, a gamepad/joypad is a hand controller with a direction pad (the arrows) and buttons on it. You hold the entire unit in your hands to play. A joystick is a stick which you grip and move, it usually has buttons mounted on the actual stick and on the stick's base. The former is good for platform/sports games and the latter is said to be essential for flight sims.

June 29th, 2004	#19 (permalink)
Player-X Banned Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: From Kuching in Malaysia now stuck in Houston Texas Posts: 9,117	well said,to add to that a steering wheel only works in driving games

June 30th, 2004	#20 (permalink)
Metalmurphy Translator Join Date: Jun 2001 Location: Portugal, Oporto Posts: 5,774	Nah! I used to play flight simulator with my Sidewinder lol! And FIFA as well! __________________ -------------------------------- Computer Specs ---------------------------------- Intel Pentium IV Prescott 3.0 HT → 4x 512MB DDR-DIMM → ASUS GF 6800 GT Sound Blaster X-Fi → 2x Maxtor 80 GB (RAID 0) Hitachi 19'' Monitor → Cambridge Soundworks Desktop Theater --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------