What Do you Like the Most?

[Tratorix]

Console. Like Craterus, I find it easier when since I know where all the controls are located. I'm terrible at controlling things with a keyboard and mouse. It's gonna be a bad day for me if consoles ever switch to keyboard controls.

[TevashSzat]

Pc.

I'd like to stop here now, because if I don't, a huge rant about consoles will begin...

[Zenicetus]

Console. Like Craterus, I find it easier when since I know where all the controls are located. I'm terrible at controlling things with a keyboard and mouse. It's gonna be a bad day for me if consoles ever switch to keyboard controls.

Yeah, but that's where the relatively open-ended, customizable side of PC's come in. I use one of these for PC gaming...

http://catalog.belkin.com/IWCatProdu...duct_Id=157024

That sits under my left hand, the mouse under my right. It's fully programmable so *I* get to decide what I want my left hand fingers to be doing in a game. I'm not locked into what a console developer or even a PC game programmer thinks is an ideal setup. Right now, I have custom profiles set up for M2TW, Silent Hunter 4, Bioshock, WoW, and GalCiv2. Any new game that comes out on a PC, I can customize for the hand controller.

For flight sims and space combat games that support full joystick controls, I have this:

http://www.chproducts.com/retail/pedals.html

http://www.chproducts.com/retail/t_pro_throttle.html

http://www.chproducts.com/retail/j_fighter_usb.html

Sadly, I haven't used that stuff in about a year, since my main interest is combat flight sims (helicopters especially), and cockpit-level space games. That's a moribund market right now. But at least I have the gear if this side of PC gaming picks up again. Meanwhile, the Nostromo controller is getting a ton of use in almost every game I buy.

[Phatose]

PC, in general. Consoles tend to make me feel separate from the game with iffy, minimalist control schemes. Wii-mote is considerably better then pads at that, but only when they aren't shoehorning games designed with a gamepad in mind into the wiimote mold, which, unfortunately, is almost never.