Sat Feb 22, 2003 10:29 pm
Innovative Control Scheme...or not? (Not a joystick thread,
I've read several previews now that speak of FL's mouse based control scheme as new and innovative, but...
Does anyone remember Interplay's old TOS based Star Trek games? (25th Anniversary, Judgment Rites, and The Secret of Vulcan Fury, had it been released)
Well, when you we're "flying" the Enterprise in those games, there was a crosshair up on the viewscreen which you moved with your mouse. The farther the crosshair was from the center of the screen, the faster the Enterprise turned in that direction. Also, when you fired your weapons, they would go wherever the crosshairs pointed...and you used the mouse buttons to fire. (left button for phasers, right for photon torpedoes)
It may be me, but from what I've read about FL's control scheme, it sounds *very* similar to that. I'm not knocking it, because it's very intuitive and "natural", but the previews that speak of how "innovative" it is may just be a little off in their choice of words. Unless they're including the Nerual Net in that, of course. That's something I haven't seen before.
Does anyone remember Interplay's old TOS based Star Trek games? (25th Anniversary, Judgment Rites, and The Secret of Vulcan Fury, had it been released)
Well, when you we're "flying" the Enterprise in those games, there was a crosshair up on the viewscreen which you moved with your mouse. The farther the crosshair was from the center of the screen, the faster the Enterprise turned in that direction. Also, when you fired your weapons, they would go wherever the crosshairs pointed...and you used the mouse buttons to fire. (left button for phasers, right for photon torpedoes)
It may be me, but from what I've read about FL's control scheme, it sounds *very* similar to that. I'm not knocking it, because it's very intuitive and "natural", but the previews that speak of how "innovative" it is may just be a little off in their choice of words. Unless they're including the Nerual Net in that, of course. That's something I haven't seen before.
