why?!?!?!?!
you could argue the movement required to move a mouse is aswell, and that having to lift it up and pull it to other side to pad again is ridiculous aswell.
Its not such a far fetched idea if you think about it
a funcmat and a G7, hardly rubbish are they.
Depends on sensitivity etc? what if say in a game someone appears on my left, then another further left, then another further left, eventually you run out of pad dont you? yes i could get a bigger pad, but what if more people appear. and bigger pads are not always feasable.
On joystick you would be dead after killing the first one it's that slow.
What do you mean, it's "slow"?
It's not "twitchy" like a mouse can be, you can pop sucessive headshots (need the skill mind) in seconds from all over the place. With a joypad it just isn't as responsive. However that could change.
have you ever used a decent joystick?
You're not reading the damn topic. Read read read. He's talking about movement, not aiming. As in, move forward, move sideways.
Ah movement, well yea, I find that joypads are better for slower paced games, but for fast paced ones like UT, Quake, I just feel more at home with WASD :/
However if there is some sort of left handed joypad you can use for movement that might be quite interesting to try out.