I recently bought the entire series of 'X' games for PC thanks to the Steam Christmas sales.
X: Beyond the Frontier all the way to X3: Albion Prelude.
Now unfortunately these games don't come with instruction manuals so that's difficult as is, but I'm finding the first game really hard to play. It seems to me like the game has been designed around use of a joystick, and I'm finding inverse tilt with a mouse very confusing after having played Freelancer for such a long time (plus many other games without tilt/look inverted). The sensitivity is really weird, too - it seems non-linear.
Not to mention, there is no numpad on a laptop keyboard, and I think some commands are mapped only to a numpad.
The game seems to have rather non-intuitive gameplay... I struggled getting through the rings in the tutorial, and finally after I finished that awfully long first dialogue, I tried to dock with a trading station nearby, and thought I had done it correctly when I crashed with the docking bay door and exploded... Q_Q
So... halp? Does everyone clumsily make their way into the game before they figure it out?
Also, have the controls improved / become re-mappable by X3: Reunion or later?
