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The best flight-sim pcgame is??
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| tigerblow 2005-07-14, 12:32 am |
| F4 or Su-27??
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"tigerblow" <mr.h0n9@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> F4 or Su-27??
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IL2 FB
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| Remco Moedt 2005-07-14, 8:35 pm |
| On Thu, 14 Jul 2005 07:46:41 +0000 (UTC), "Carl"
<me@theworld.universe> wrote:
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>Lock On Flaming Cliffs
Snoopy and the Red Baron
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| Adamski 2005-07-14, 8:35 pm |
| Let me be the first to say it ... and induce the inevitable heart
attacks in the more elderly posters here ...
T-O-R-N-A-D-O !!
Aaaaarrrrrgggghhh ... [thump] ... cardiac massage NOW!!
Adamski.
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| EF2000
"Lawsy" <vedder@transfieldservices.com> wrote in message
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> Flanker...
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| bioderm 2005-07-14, 8:35 pm |
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"Carl" <me@theworld.universe> wrote in message
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> Lock On Flaming Cliffs
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No he said flightsim, not Stunt Island 2004.
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| Eric The Viking 2005-07-14, 8:35 pm |
| Yeah, EF2000
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| FatKat 2005-07-14, 8:35 pm |
| Based on what? Different games excel in different ways. Also, what
about the different genres? Survey sim, stand-a,lone; rotary,
fixed-wing; historical, modern?
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| James Calivar 2005-07-15, 12:31 am |
| tigerblow wrote:
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> F4 or Su-27??
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definitely it is battlefield 1943, it is l33t
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| Phil \Surfer\ Worthen 2005-07-15, 12:31 am |
| Niether.
Tornado.
What might have been had DI been coding today.
*sigh*
PacFighters for now with TrackIR.
-Surfer
tigerblow wrote:
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> F4 or Su-27??
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| James A. Cathcart 2005-07-15, 3:36 am |
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"tigerblow" <mr.h0n9@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> F4 or Su-27??
Of those two, F4 Allied Force is far more immersive for me than LOMAC
Flaming Cliffs (a brilliant game by any standard, but too sterile for my
tastes).
However, my favorites of ALL TIME are SWOTL (the original) and Chuck
Yeager's Air Combat ( the only sim that I actually finished, i.e. flew every
single mission of every plane multiple times)...ah, college days.
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| FatKat 2005-07-15, 8:43 pm |
| Weren't the Jane's Fighters games ancestors of CYAC? You could fly
"Fighters Anthology" and get your fix, right? I never really got into
SWOTL - my PC was just powerful enough to make BoB an enjoyable game.
By the time I replaced my 286, it was 1997, and I had a PentiumMMX.
BoB was my college-era nostalgia game. It was the first game I ran in
VGA; the colors virtually dripped off the screen (though the effect was
probably enhanced by slow-clock speed of the 286). It was just hard
enough to feel challenging, yet not too hard to keep me from beating it
(at least when playing RAF). Even when I broke the game's secrets
(like knowing which wave of He-111's to hit first, or where the next
wave of Ju-87's would come from) it was still addictive. One thing I
hated when I played the game was the AI - even when I manned spits with
clones of my own user-created pilot (with all of his kills and
completed missions) they still few around cluelessly while Stukas and
Dorniers I didn't get just sailed to their targets.
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| Heiko Thomas 2005-07-15, 8:43 pm |
| Birds of Prey,
although only few of you will remember since it was released 1991. Sort of
dynamic campaign, loads of different aircraft to fly, even more different
missions to fly, inluding recon, close air support, and cargo missions. No
flight sim has ever come close to it.
It was published by Electronic Arts and is a free download today. I guess
nobody will be happy to do so, because the graphics where state of the art
onl in 1991 and with a modern computer this game is impossible to play.
....sigh...
Heiko
"tigerblow" <mr.h0n9@gmail.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
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> F4 or Su-27??
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| In article <db96iq$smb$1@newsreader3.netcologne.de>, "Heiko Thomas" <heikothomas@netcologne.de> wrote:
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>Birds of Prey,
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>although only few of you will remember since it was released 1991.
Didn't think I'd ever hear that name again! Oh my gawd, what a
buggy program that was! Great promise, but I don't think it came
close to delivering. If I recall, it was fun ... in a masochistic
way.
For oldtimers, I'd have to second the vote for CYAC.
"It's the man, not the machine" - Chuck Yaeger
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| dm@nospam.com (Dave) wrote in news:GnWBe.31909$e%5.10512
@twister.nyroc.rr.com:
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> For oldtimers, I'd have to second the vote for CYAC.
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F19 Steath Fighter for me. 'Course, free time was much more plentiful
then.
Chuck
--
Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.
Benjamin Franklin
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| PAPADOC 2005-07-16, 12:33 am |
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Only pussies fly Falcon 3...errr..4.
Su-27 is the most realistic flight simulation ever designed. The flight model is
without compare and the AI is brilliant.
PAPADOC
PS Where is bad boy? XXXXing EF2000 blows chunks....hehe...
<VBG>
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>F4 or Su-27??
My Blog all about politics and the terror war.
www.papadoc.net/PinkFlamingoBar.html
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"Mark Lee" <markwlee@bigpond.net.au> wrote in message
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> "Knights of the Sky"
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Wings Of Glory
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| Andrew MacPherson 2005-07-16, 3:31 am |
| In article <Xns9694BC4BFBA2Anonyabizallcom@216.196.97.131>,
Nonyabiz@all.com (Chuck) wrote:
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> F19 Steath Fighter
I really should be adding my name to the TORNADO! score, or maybe
sticking up for EECH, which shares a lot of Tornado pedigree and
potential. But it was playing F19 Stealth Fighter on a friend's
computer which made me start to take notice of PCs. And because of
that I noticed a PC gaming mag on my bosses desk, saw a preview of
Tornado, and... the rest is history.
Of course what I *really* ought to be doing is avoiding yet another
thread like this. Makes us look like a load of sad old gits
perpetually revisiting our lost semi-youth.
But then the truth is always difficult to face :-)
Andrew McP
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| tigerblow wrote:
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> F4 or Su-27??
Ummm... TORNADO. GR4 pretty please with sugar on top????
I see a future of consoles, "Mortal Kombat" (version XXI) and "Bad Mutha
Fockers in da Hood" games. Sheesh, they can't even spell the titles
correctly. You know, Hillary Clinton is right... These games *do* set a
bad examples for kids. At least get the spelling right on some of these
titles :-)
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| andrew.mcp@DELETETHISdsl.pipex.com (Andrew MacPherson) wrote in
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> Of course what I *really* ought to be doing is avoiding yet another
> thread like this. Makes us look like a load of sad old gits
> perpetually revisiting our lost semi-youth.
I find the "rose colored glasses" phenomena very interesting (in all area's
of life, not just games). What makes us look back so favorably??? I
really do think games had fewer bugs on release then, both from being so
much more simple (hell, many games had just 1 or a few programers) but also
because there was no ready method for fixing them. Access to compuserve or
prodigy was much more rare then. Also, we didn't expect much, so it was
much easier to suspend disbelief. But, EVERY generation remembers the
"good old days"
Still, I fondly remember HOURS at low altitude, going slow, sneaking around
radar sites, and desperately trying to get the Congressional Medal of
Honor!
Chuck
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Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.
Benjamin Franklin
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| Heiko Thomas 2005-07-16, 8:35 pm |
| Buggy? Any game at that was buggy back in 1991. FS2 was, Aces of er Pacific
was, TORNADO was, F117A was, ...
Birds of Prey had carrier landings, you could drop supplies from C130, you
could destroy infrastucture or airports and win a campaign, there were all
kinds of missiles, the game was balanced, you could even ride the X15 to the
atmosphere and try to land it on an airport...
....sob...
Heiko
"Dave" <dm@nospam.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
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> In article <db96iq$smb$1@newsreader3.netcologne.de>, "Heiko Thomas"
> <heikothomas@netcologne.de> wrote:
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> Didn't think I'd ever hear that name again! Oh my gawd, what a
> buggy program that was! Great promise, but I don't think it came
> close to delivering. If I recall, it was fun ... in a masochistic
> way.
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> For oldtimers, I'd have to second the vote for CYAC.
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> "It's the man, not the machine" - Chuck Yaeger
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| In article <dbav7r$mrj$1@newsreader3.netcologne.de>, "Heiko Thomas" <heikothomas@netcologne.de> wrote:
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>Buggy? Any game at that was buggy back in 1991. FS2 was, Aces of er Pacific
>was, TORNADO was, F117A was, ...
Hey, didn't mean to pick on your fave. Anyway, king of the bugs
back then had to be Falcon3. Boy, did I wait a long time for that
one to finally come out. Bugs and all, I logged a lot of hours.
I don't recall AOTP or Tornado being all that buggy. Great games
all. Yeah, I'm sure a bit of it is just the "back in the old
days". But some of us are getting to the point where that's a
considerable length of time :-)
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| Eric The Viking 2005-07-16, 8:35 pm |
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Chuck wrote:
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> dm@nospam.com (Dave) wrote in news:GnWBe.31909$e%5.10512
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> F19 Steath Fighter for me. 'Course, free time was much more plentiful
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> Chuck
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> --
> Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.
> Benjamin Franklin
F19 wasn't without its bugs though - remember flying a mission out over
the sea, was flying around 200ft above sea level and blew up for no
reason. The debrief told me that I'd crashed into a hill!
Ahhh, they don't make bugs that make you chuckle any more ;-)
ETV
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"Dave" <dm@nospam.com> wrote in message
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> In article <dbav7r$mrj$1@newsreader3.netcologne.de>, "Heiko Thomas"
> <heikothomas@netcologne.de> wrote:
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> I don't recall AOTP or Tornado being all that buggy. Great games
> all. Yeah, I'm sure a bit of it is just the "back in the old
> days". But some of us are getting to the point where that's a
> considerable length of time :-)
I dont remember tornado being buggy either in fact it seemed remarkably
stable to me.
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| Andrew MacPherson 2005-07-16, 8:35 pm |
| Nonyabiz@all.com (Chuck) wrote:
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> What makes us look back so favorably???
I think it's a combination of things. For a start I think the fact
that most of us grew up from Pong on our TV sets to the amazing
games/sims we have now has given us a great depth of pleasure and
experience. The journey to get here has -- despite all the money and
the problems -- been great, with many stages where the boundaries
really had been pushed back.
These days the boundaries are just being redrawn rather than pushed
back.
Andrew McP
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| Phil \Surfer\ Worthen 2005-07-18, 12:31 am |
| Ubetcha Andrew.
-Surfer
Andrew MacPherson wrote:
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> In article <Xns9694BC4BFBA2Anonyabizallcom@216.196.97.131>,
> Nonyabiz@all.com (Chuck) wrote:
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> I really should be adding my name to the TORNADO
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| Mr. Sylvestre 2005-07-27, 8:35 pm |
| tigerblow wrote:
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> F4 or Su-27??
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I am late in this thread, but... T-O-R-N-A-D-O.
If the question is restricted to F4/Flanker 1.x, my vote goes to the
Su-27 (the pink one barrel rolling around power lines is probably
responsible for that peculiar addiction).
Regards,
Mr. S.
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