Originally posted by: Cutthroat
Any modern combat flight sim games I have seen in the past were not very good, and did not sell well. I'd be surprised if we see any more. The problem is dogfighting with modern jet fighters is boring, guns are useless at those speeds, and shooting missiles/dropping bombs is a matter of locking on and pressing a button, no excitement at all. I'd rather take a fighter out in FSX and try to land it on an aircraft carrier, now that's interesting.
Originally posted by: novasatori
Originally posted by: Cutthroat
Any modern combat flight sim games I have seen in the past were not very good, and did not sell well. I'd be surprised if we see any more. The problem is dogfighting with modern jet fighters is boring, guns are useless at those speeds, and shooting missiles/dropping bombs is a matter of locking on and pressing a button, no excitement at all. I'd rather take a fighter out in FSX and try to land it on an aircraft carrier, now that's interesting.
f4 with rv/of or f4:af are excellent
the only modern game with "lock on and launch" is lock-on which is not even a simulation, marginally better than an arcade flight game
Originally posted by: vshah
sims in general have seen serious decline over the past few years not a space sim in sight either since freespace 2
Originally posted by: Cutthroat
Originally posted by: novasatori
Originally posted by: Cutthroat
Any modern combat flight sim games I have seen in the past were not very good, and did not sell well. I'd be surprised if we see any more. The problem is dogfighting with modern jet fighters is boring, guns are useless at those speeds, and shooting missiles/dropping bombs is a matter of locking on and pressing a button, no excitement at all. I'd rather take a fighter out in FSX and try to land it on an aircraft carrier, now that's interesting.
f4 with rv/of or f4:af are excellent
the only modern game with "lock on and launch" is lock-on which is not even a simulation, marginally better than an arcade flight game
I was thinking of Lock On when I wrote that, it's the only one I could think of as there aren't many. I can also remember using add-on jets with the old MS Combat Flight Sim, but it was impossible to dogfight due to the speeds.
Then there was Jane's Combat Flight Sim which was quite god for it's time, but severely outdated now. Same with IL-2 Sturmovik, but I never really liked it.
I am not aware of the other game you mentioned, please give us link to site so we can check it out, I'm interested if it looks good.
Originally posted by: vshah
sims in general have seen serious decline over the past few years not a space sim in sight either since freespace 2
Originally posted by: KillerCharlie
The Il-2 series is awesome (WWII). However, the number of expansion packs you need now is ridiculous. It's also been out for a very long time and the community is getting smaller. They're coming out with a completely new game though - Battle of Britain.
Originally posted by: Oyeve
Last good mordern-day sim, IMO, was F-22 Lightning 3. Nukes man, nukes.