Hi Greg, Yes and no. If a person is on a desktop with a full sized keyboard that's no big problem. However, if a person happens to be using a laptop with no built in keypad, like me, then it wouldn't work obviously. I'd have to plug in an extra keypad which is about $20 from Wal-mart, Staples, Best Buy, etc which still wouldn't give me the range of movement and complexity of a mouse. If I'm going to pay that money for a numeric keypad for playing a game why not pay for a really good external optical mouse that is much more flexable?
As I briefly mentioned to Muhammed a moment ago its much more than just moving left, right, up, and down we are talking about here. A device like a mouse can allow you to perform more complex fighting moves like spinning a saber in a circle, then quickly reversing that circle, doing a diagnle slash, and other things like that. You simply can not, will not, and never will be able to get that kind of complex fighting style out of a keyboard. Keyboards are limited in lots of ways, and why most serious gamers prefer alternative devices like mice and joysticks because you can do more with them. Let's take a joystick for example. I happen to have a Philips 2909 game pad sitting here. What's nice about this device is it has a POV hat that allows you to look left, right, up, down etc. It also has two thumb sticks which allows you a wide range of movements. In this case I could program the left thumb stick to turn, walk foward/backward, and use the right thumb stick to move the saber around at the same time. Since a thumb stick can be in any position in a 360 degree angle you can ttheoretically control the/position of the light saber in relation to your body. If you want the blade to be high-left move the thumb stick to -45 degrees. Want it to high-right move it to 45 degrees. You can't do that on a keyboard without asigning extra keys to do essentially what a joystick/mouse already naturally can do by default. Smile. On 12/11/10, Greg Steel <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Tom I thought of a cool idea for swinging the saber around. using the > numpad keys 2 and 8 for up and down and 4 and 6 for left and right. Would > this work? --- Gamers mailing list __ [email protected] If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [email protected]. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to [email protected].
