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"Lite" and "Arcade" are completely different. Apache Air Assault is a console title, so pretty difficult to even categorize it under "lite". It's arcade. Lite is just that it doesn't implement full or close to full avionics and flight model. Arcade is pretty much just that, just turn and burn and away you go. Hawx is arcade too. There's things called "study" sims which are like DCS Black Shark, A-10, Falcon 4, Longbow 2, F-15, F/A-18 where they try to realize the true experience of the cockpit and flight model to its fullest. Limited ammo and somewhat realistic combat (although exaggerated to make for fun gaming). Then there's "survey" sims like IL-2, USAF, etc that implement flight models and cockpits but just not as detailed nor require a detailed knowledge of the aircraft to fly. Typically limited ammo but a little more unrealistic combat battles (i.e against all odds types of scenarios) These are "Lite" sims. Then there's "arcade" which are really jets in the sense they look like them. Some may implement fake "stalls" or require a little effort to manage speed in turns, etc, like in BF3. But it's nothing like managing control surfaces properly. Not to mention typically have unlimited or regenerating ammo and unlimited fuel.
The Saitek X-52 is an excellent budget HOTAS (well lack of rudder, but twist stick to make up for it) that doesn't require hundreds of dollars and works great with study and survey sims.
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I would donate 50 dollars to microsoft (in addition to the game itself) just to see a Freelancer 2 project at hand...
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a little bit off topic but the beauty of emulators today is you can now have a savepoint
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During the stone ages it was possible to dump memory on a Sinclair/ZX80 with a "magic button". It saved memory into a file on a floppy and then you'd load it and continue playing from the moment you dumped it.
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i dont think u can compare music to gaming
its like comparing this, its a crime Time - Pink Floyd - YouTube
to this CJ Fam - Ordinary Pop Star (Official Video) - YouTube
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I have to add in my 2 cents here. The 2 biggest things that annoy my about newer games:
1) the "value-added" crap. Buy from here and you get this! Buy from there and you get that! This goes hand in hand with forcing always on connections, and having to use their servers to host multiplayer games. It's all about marketing more crap to you, not improving the gameplay exprience.
2) The abandonment of GOOD writing and storylines for FPS games that provide hours of gameplay. I understand most people get it for the multi-player, but you couldn't come up with ANYTHING better for single player? It's like single player campaigns are just to practice now, and you're only really getting half a game.
That's all
Does afterburner count as a flight sim? I don't think so.
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I agree...sort of. Comparing a WWI survey sim to a WWII survey sim, there's a LOT more variety in the latter. You use machine guns, cannons, rockets, and bombs. You attack level bombers, fighters, dive-bombers, torpedo-bombers, tanks, bunkers, and ships. You dive bomb, you level bomb, you torpedo, you fire rockets. You take off from aircraft carriers as well as runways. Whereas in a WWI flight sim, you do reconnaissance interception, reconnaissance defense, balloon busting, balloon defense, bomber interception, bomber defense, supply truck attack, and zeppelin interception. Everything is handled with either one or two 30 caliber machine guns. You always take off from and land in a grass field. The scenery--the muddy moonscape known as the front--never changes. So I think playing a WWII study sim requires a much broader skill set than playing a WWI study sim.
But comparing the career of an individual WWI pilot to an individual WWII pilot, there's often a similarly-narrow focus. If you're a Buffalo pilot for the Finnish Air Force, you probably did nothing but IL-2 and PE-2 interception. If you were a P-51 pilot in the late war, you probably did just level bomber escort. If you were an SBD Dauntless pilot, you probably never did anything but dive-bomb ships and coastal targets. If you were a Hawker Hurricane pilot during the Battle of Britain, you probably just did bomber interception (and fighting off the fighter escorts). There were some pilots who did a lot of multi-role stuff--P-47, Corsair, FW-190--but there were a lot who only did two or three sorts of missions, just like WWI pilots, who did nothing but attack fighters, bombers, and dirigibles.
Not nearly as crazy as kamikazes But yeah, not having a parachute brings a real sense of desperation to dogfights. And one of the challenges of a WWI flight sim is that the envelope you operate in is so small. There's only about 100 mph that separates "stalling and falling out of the sky" and "wings tearing off from going too fast." Airframe failure is an ever-present risk, not something that only an idiot brings upon themselves (like in a WWII sim). It gives a very different feel to energy management in a dogfight.
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damn it I had those guts, but I had eyeglasses at the same time my family also had a lot of pilots!
old VS new games why new games suck
Discussion in 'Gaming (Software and Graphics Cards)' started by MSIfanboy, Jan 1, 2012.
