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Posted: Tue, 28th Aug 2007 13:11 Post subject: Any good flight sims out there ?	Quick Quote Quote

Been going through my old game collection to play the Lucasarts adventures on SCUMMVM ( having a blast ) and i found my old copy of strike commander / Top gun , i like realism but those sims didnt require a 2 pound handbook to read first like the Falcon series make you and no need to memorize 4875 button combinations . Basicly take off and have fun , with a good story to go along with it . Been googling a bit and havent been able to find anything like that that came out recently or might come out soon , does anyone have some good suggestions or are the flight sim days over ?

third3ye

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Posted: Tue, 28th Aug 2007 13:54 Post subject:	Quick Quote Quote

Blazing Angels? M$ Flight Sim X

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javlar

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Posted: Tue, 28th Aug 2007 23:28 Post subject:	Quick Quote Quote

Sadly combat flight sims are very rare these days. And especially the story-driven sort. The only kind that developers get enough funds to produce are high-realism games since those games have quite a hardcore fanbase. So, sad to disappoint but if you're looking for good sims then Lock On: Modern Air Combat is very good now with patches and community-mods. However that is another one of those games where you need to read a couple of hundred pages to fly properly. If you just want some realistic fun then go for IL-2 1946. Sure it's WW2 so no jet-age dogfights but at least you get to jump straight into the fray Gaming - Intel Quad Q9450 @ 3.2GHZ \| Radeon HD 4870 X2 2GB \| SB X-Fi \| PC6400 8GB \| 300GB Velociraptor HTPC - Antec Fusion Remote \| AMD Athlon 7850 X2 \| PC6400 2GB \| 74GB Raptor Server - Athlon 64 X2 4200+ \| Radeon HD 3450 \| SB X-Fi \| PC5300 2GB \| 4TB+ total space XBOX360 Gamertag: javlarmate

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Posted: Wed, 29th Aug 2007 00:17 Post subject:

javlar wrote:

Sadly combat flight sims are very rare these days. And especially the story-driven sort. The only kind that developers get enough funds to produce are high-realism games since those games have quite a hardcore fanbase.

So, sad to disappoint but if you're looking for good sims then Lock On: Modern Air Combat is very good now with patches and community-mods. However that is another one of those games where you need to read a couple of hundred pages to fly properly.

If you just want some realistic fun then go for IL-2 1946. Sure it's WW2 so no jet-age dogfights but at least you get to jump straight into the fray Smile

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Posted: Wed, 29th Aug 2007 21:57 Post subject:	Quick Quote Quote

follow up on IL2 is comming out supposedly , Storm of War : Battle of Britain , very little info out though ....

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Posted: Wed, 29th Aug 2007 22:25 Post subject:	Quick Quote Quote

I love flying in Battlegrounds Europe. Great plane physics and nice damage effects. I hate you.

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Posted: Wed, 29th Aug 2007 22:40 Post subject:

Stealth88 wrote:

I love flying in Battlegrounds Europe.
Great plane physics and nice damage effects.

You kidding? I just went to the Battlegrounds Europe website and watched the trailer for the game. It looks like a game I would have been playing on my old commodore 64, about a 150 years ago.
I mean sure its a big game world, but still.....I mean so is a game like OFP and Armed Assault and they look 10 times better than Battlegrounds Europe.

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