[jr2]

No... the other side is all dead or converted.    Although there are a few of us newbs, most of us know better than to bring it up.

[Asuko]

Sounds good to me then. I won't think of it again.

[AlphaOne]

You better not! man you can so close to beeing boiled chopped into small pieces then deep fried in a rusty old pan with onions and garlic and served as an apetiser to a banquet for the shivan gods in order to get them to leave the GTVA alone .................wow........that was close.....!

[Stealth]

bahahaha lol

[Flipside]

FS3 threads don't annoy me, they merely keep cropping up about once every 6 months, and always end the same way, to cut a long story short, yes, it'd be nice if done by Volition, but the chances are it would be console based, and regardless of how the story ends, it's going to disappoint someone.

[AlphaOne]

well then the same can be said about 90% of the sequals to other games! However i beleive everione should stop beeing so selfish and just accept whichever ending would happen to be decided to another FS installement! Oh and please god not for consoles please i rather not have it made then be made for consoles! (

[Flipside]

Volition have pretty much specialised in consoles for the recent past, and I believe their own manager stated that this was the direction they were firmly headed in.

[AlphaOne]

So the answear to the question is one and the same ! Not gooing to happen any time soon and if it is gooing to happen then its most likely its gooing to be for consoles!

[Asuko]

Yay? Oh wait . . damn. 

[jr2]

IDK what the heck they have against PCs... considering that you can take any standard XBOX360 controller, plug it into Windows XP SP2, and it will auto-install for you.

[Asuko]

I'd have to agree but I run a Vista machine... Vista doesn't do drivers.

[Snail]

I'd have to agree but I run a Vista machine... Vista doesn't do drivers.

Poor, poor Asuko...

[Marcus Vesper]

Just because you can use a console controller on a PC, doesn't mean we should WANT to, especially for a Space Sim.  I cringe when I think of trying to play FS2 on one of those, so what does that tell you about designing a title to be played exclusively via a console controller?  Multi-platform development tends to kill sequels to excellent titles, because they keep getting dumbed down for the console crowd.

There are precious few titles exclusively for consoles that I'd even want on the PC, and just about every single multi-platform release would have been better had it been developed for the PC and ported to consoles, rather then the other way around.

Volition can develop for whatever they want, but if they made FS3 as a console title, I'd never play it.  Better no FS3 then FS3 with a consolectomy.

[Asuko]

Thinking realistically, using a console controller on a console (the obvious, yes) to play FS3 wouldn't be as immersive. We could always petition for to make it for the PC.

I really don't want to say "Let's Wii up!"

[Bob-san]

I'm going home to play with my Wii! No you pervert!! A Nintendo Wii with the Wii-mote! Again, get your mind out of the gutter!

Anyways--Joysticks should always be used for space sims and flight sims. No doubt in my mind about that.

[Asuko]

Exactly what I meant. Joysticks are the best for FS.

..Oh God *cringes* Why'd you have to put my mind in the gutter?

[Marcus Vesper]

Ha ha, you just reminded me of an IRC conversation somebody posted on bash.org, where (in the interests of science of course) they replaced the word "wand" with "wang" in selected passages from the first Harry Potter Novel.  It was highly disturbing.

[jaedub51]

Thinking realistically, using a console controller on a console (the obvious, yes) to play FS3 wouldn't be as immersive. We could always petition for to make it for the PC.

I really don't want to say "Let's Wii up!"

If FS3 were created for a console, Wii would be the best one. Yeah, still worse than a computer, but better than PS3 or Xbox.

[jr2]

Doesn't the XBOX360 run a modified version of Windows?  So, wouldn't it be possible to hack together a Joystick driver for it?  I know you can hook a USB keyboard up to it, and probably a mouse, too...

[colecampbell666]

I'd have to agree but I run a Vista machine... Vista doesn't do drivers.

If you have an old copy of XP you can dual boot.

Ha ha, you just reminded me of an IRC conversation somebody posted on bash.org, where (in the interests of science of course) they replaced the word "wand" with "wang" in selected passages from the first Harry Potter Novel.  It was highly disturbing.

Any chance you could find that? It sounds funny.

And what happens in 2011? IP is forced to put up the license for sale?