any recommendations for games for a basic fella like this? Sims are OK, but ideally something a tad more low IQ, but pretty much open to anything

>>11881180 (OP)

Space sims are pretty good for joysticks.

On the more Sim-ish end you have Wing Commander, TIE Fighter etc. The X series.

On the more Arcadey end of things you have Darklight Conflict, and games like Fury3, Hellbender, Terminal Velocity, Descent, Forsaken etc.

Also Incoming! Is pretty good.

Out of curiosity, how does a flightstick feels for racing games?

Afterburner II

>>11881219
eh, fine, but completely redundant if you have a controller imo

>>11881219
It varies from game to game, but overall it works surprisingly well imo.

>>11881205
great recommendations, thank you. Is Descent actually good with a stick though? I've never played it with one, but I did play its spiritual successor, Overload with one and it was kinda brutal...but I could also just be ass since I haven't really touched a joystick since the 90s

>>11881180 (OP)
FPS games are fun if you replace the mouse with a joystick.

>>11881235
To be fair, I don't feel that the average controller have a good range because of its size.

>>11881180 (OP)
Try mechwarrior 4

>>11881180 (OP)
used to play mechwarrior vengeance all the time with mine

>>11881953
>>11881986

yes, been super curious about trying MW games with it!

>>11881180 (OP)
You'll still need the keyboard for other controls, but you can you glovepie to map the joystick to frontier elites control scheme. That sounds cool AF desu senpai.

I used this to play star fox 64 back around like 2012 and it was really fun but I got filtered against star wolf on venom. made the game more challenging. It was really fun however.

>>11881953
>>11881986
I have the stick in OP and it was because of that game, what an amazing experience it was to grow up with that game. The future of videogames seems extremely bright. To already have mechwarrior 4 with joystick controller in the early 2000s I felt like the genre would be around forever and would just get bigger and more popular as graphics improved, yet the entire genre disappeared overnight before the 2000s even ended. Still makes no sense to me.

>>11881219

I really enjoyed playing Motorcross Madness and Dave Mirra's BMX with a joystick, but bike and motorbike games have a bit more around 'nose up and down' motions.

>>11881241

Some people seem to swear that a dual joystick setup is the most fun way to play it - bit much for me. Descent's as playable as all the flying tunnel shooters with a joystick, and in my view it makes the upside down-y nature of things slightly easier to cope with.

>All these posts
>Nobody mentioned Freespace 2
What the fuck anons. Arguably the best space combat game, made better with decades of mods. You can go the OG route and just play the series as is on win 98/win xp, or you can take advantage of the fact that the devs released the source code for Freespace 2 for free. There are mods for better visuals, campaign port from the first game, multiple all new campaigns made by modders etc.

>>11882975

Bumping to keep based joystick threads alive.

Also - weirdly, despite it's popularity and my love of both WC and the X Wing series, I have never played Freespace 2. I need to get on this.

On the subject of games with mods keeping them alive; you need to play X Wing Alliance Upgrade if you haven't already. They have also apparently remade Tie Fighter with the same engine (not tried it yet).

>>11882975
what are the best mods for Freespace 2? for someone new to the game