Originally Posted by wolfing
Wasn't Freespace from the same people that made Wing Commander? If so, I played all the Wing Commanders with keyboard+mouse and didn't miss a joystick at all.

No, the games were made by different people. Freespace is kind of a part of the descent series, but not really. The games have very little in common, other than being made by some of the same people and having the Descent name (in the US, here in Europe it was known as Conflict Freespace).