/vr/ - Retro Games

[Anonymous No.9250742]

Can you recommend me games I can play with a flight stick?
Sim or arcade flight games are both fine, space or mecha games that control well with are welcome too.

[Anonymous No.9250743]

>>9250742
Donkey Kong.

[Anonymous No.9250754]

Arcade rail shooters.

[Anonymous No.9250759]

After Burner 2, it doesn't quite feel right playing it with a controller.

[Anonymous No.9250767]

>>9250742
Damn, I just bought that stick HOTA combination a few weeks ago. It's the cheapest entry model in the "serious" joystick business.
Everything that involves dosbox emulation is hit and miss. Joystick emulation/passthrough is still buggy.

[Anonymous No.9250786]

>>9250742
If you are even remotely interested in the genre Freespace 2 is the undisputed masterpiece. Get Freespace Open and play 1 and 2 back to back.
Other good space games are:
Wing Commander 3 to 5
X-Wing Alliance (play Tie Fighter with the remake in that engine)
Starlancer
For mech games:
MechWarrior 2 to 4
Heavy Gear 1 and 2
Starsiege
G-Nome

[Anonymous No.9250798]

>>9250742
kek I forgot normal planes. There's a lot there, just some out the top of my head:
Light sims:
Jetfighter series
Jane's ATF et similia
Novalogic stuff: F-22 Lightening (2 and 3), Mig, F-16, Comanche
Real sims
Other Jane's stuff like F-15, F-18, AH-64
Falcon
Longbow
Apache and Hind (kind of in-between)
Enemy Engaged

[Anonymous No.9250918]

>>9250742
I say only flight games / space combat sims.

for the mechwarrior series you're actually making to many small fine inputs for a joystick to feel efficient. joysticks are great for steadily pulling back on - like for turning an aircraft / spacecraft. what they are not good for is constantly making many small adjustments.
the only advantage a joystick offers to a mech game is weapon groups all being on the stick itself...otherwise they are utterly inferior to just using the mouse for torso, keyboard for legs.

I say this all because I used to play Mechwarrior 4 almost exclusively with a logitech wingman because i was stuck in this "durrr imma real mechwarrior" mindset then one day I switched back to the mouse like I had did with 3 and never looked back. another good example are the trad. 6DOF games (descent series) might seem like a perfect match for joystick control but there you're making even more small and large adjustments in literally all directions...unless you have like an actual like aircraft grade stick down at your right ala the F-16 for maximum comfort it starts to fucking suck.

that all said, get IL2:1946 and you could probably never have to buy another sim game in your entire life. it's one of those unironic 10/10 masterpieces.

[Anonymous No.9251031]

Can anyone tell me what game this is?

[Anonymous No.9251069]

>>9251031
G-Police.

[Anonymous No.9251081]

>>9251069
Thank you anon.

[Anonymous No.9251131]

Guys I'm looking for a game I played in my childhood on my stepdads PC.
Must've been released around 1999 +/- 2years at most.

It looks similar to F-22 Lightening 3 which >>9250798 mentioned, the release year kinda fits as well.
I only remember having trouble starting the jet at first on a level where you start from a aircraft carrier, does that game have such a level?

Any other games that released around that time and look like F-22 Lightning 3?

[Anonymous No.9251163]

>>9251131
Hm Mig-29 also looks similar.

[Anonymous No.9252443]

Thank you everyone for the recommendations!

[Anonymous No.9252458]

>>9250742
Il-2 Sturmovik 1946

[Anonymous No.9252472]

>>9250918
>they are utterly inferior
Performance-wise sure, but if you play to have fun pretending to pilot a giant robot in single player the joystick is much better.
>>9251131
Probably Jetfighter 3 or 4.

[Anonymous No.9252492]

>>9252472
>Probably Jetfighter 3 or 4
Yes! Pretty sure it's Jetfighter 3, thank you.

[Anonymous No.9252536]

Crimson Skies is also an extremely enjoyable game.
I remember someone made a patch to run it on modern systems.

[Anonymous No.9252546]

I love this game

[Anonymous No.9252740]

Digital Image Design made some very good flight sims back in the 90s, especially their EF2000 and F-22 series.

[Anonymous No.9252748]

>>9250742
Descent/Forsaken. If you have two joysticks, even better.

[Anonymous No.9253560]

Su-27 Flanker, Flanker 2.5, Mig-29 Fulcrum, Hind

[Anonymous No.9253752]

just dug this thing out im excited to play some games with it, wish i still had my sidewinder though

[Anonymous No.9253993]

>>9252472
There's also Jetfighter: Full Burn.

[Anonymous No.9253997]

>>9250742
Tachyon: The Fringe. Enjoy Space Bruce Campbell banter.

[Anonymous No.9255034]

>>9250742
Duke