Which you can do with a controller as well, since it’s a mouse emulator with more and different use buttons combined with a joystick.
Again, every platform and input device is just an interface for a 2-D pixel representation of a train on tracks. All of them make trade offs to help manipulate coded commands. They are different, that’s all.
I’m all for as faithful a simulation experience as anyone. But I don’t get the self-righteousness and dismissiveness toward other's preferred platforms or input devices.
I sold my rail driver long ago. Wasn’t worth the trouble and desk space and added nothing to realism in my experience. Sometimes I drive with keyboard and mouse, sometimes with a controller. I’m happy I have both, and like the vibration feedback of the controller (for added “realism”).
Mostly I drive in the cab, but sometimes I drive in third person, or use the railfan camera. None of those options is somehow superior to the others. Sitting on my couch sounds like a nice option as well.
The best of these sims are still video games. I’ve never driven a train. But I’ve been a pilot for almost 50 years and have owned and flown every flight and air combat sim ever made, and have tons of hardware for those sims that try to provide “realism.” And I can tell you for a fact that not a single one of them is “realistic” in any meaningful way. I’ve had a ton of fun in them. They aren’t much like really flying, even when the sight picture has gotten pretty darned close. I just let them be fun. That’s all I want from a train sim as well.
So, great, TSW on XBox. Good for XBox owners, and no skin off my nose.
Posted: Fri Mar 02, 2018 12:25 pm
What a thought!