Post by dominique on Nov 7, 2006 14:38:11 GMT -5
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Don't I hate this alternative you want to impose on me
The various sims I played with over the last 25 years have always been games for me for at the end of the day it's all about pretending, right ? Not training to be a pilot. Just pretending. Like when we were kids. It's a game because it's a sim. No shame. I play FS9. It's a toy. I am a warGAMER too. I love games. Game is not a bad word.
What might upset me is when a great game for AR adults gets trimmed, dumbed down and geared towards people just out from the early morning cartoon session with the attention span capacity of a pizza commercial.
Is it the case ? I don't know. I've no intention to buy FSX anytime soon because it doesn't start from FS9 to build up (landclasses etc.) and I'm fed up with that philosophy of releasing a sim for a computer three years down the line. Dont tell me its always been the case. I don't care. I've enough of that. And then again, the guys in Redmont may have made a little mistake this time. FS9 generated as never before addons which are on par or better than the sim components themselves. First time in history that a earlier version fully loaded seems overall better (look,+complexity +smoothness with today computer+variety of quality aircraft) that the new bare sim. Paradigm shift.
But not everything ist bad in what I see in FSX and, Tom, there are new features which show that the design was not a conspiracy of marketeers groomed in a certain company headquartered in Atlanta Ga selling colored sparkling water .The resolution for instance is really (do I dare ? Yes I do) breaking ground and has a strong potential. I love my geography when simming.The mission engine has also great possibilities if we get out of winning stinkin' badges. And so on. A little bit like Aesop's tongue. FSX has a great potential of growth. I will wait.
Don't I hate this alternative you want to impose on me
The various sims I played with over the last 25 years have always been games for me for at the end of the day it's all about pretending, right ? Not training to be a pilot. Just pretending. Like when we were kids. It's a game because it's a sim. No shame. I play FS9. It's a toy. I am a warGAMER too. I love games. Game is not a bad word.
What might upset me is when a great game for AR adults gets trimmed, dumbed down and geared towards people just out from the early morning cartoon session with the attention span capacity of a pizza commercial.
Is it the case ? I don't know. I've no intention to buy FSX anytime soon because it doesn't start from FS9 to build up (landclasses etc.) and I'm fed up with that philosophy of releasing a sim for a computer three years down the line. Dont tell me its always been the case. I don't care. I've enough of that. And then again, the guys in Redmont may have made a little mistake this time. FS9 generated as never before addons which are on par or better than the sim components themselves. First time in history that a earlier version fully loaded seems overall better (look,+complexity +smoothness with today computer+variety of quality aircraft) that the new bare sim. Paradigm shift.
But not everything ist bad in what I see in FSX and, Tom, there are new features which show that the design was not a conspiracy of marketeers groomed in a certain company headquartered in Atlanta Ga selling colored sparkling water .The resolution for instance is really (do I dare ? Yes I do) breaking ground and has a strong potential. I love my geography when simming.The mission engine has also great possibilities if we get out of winning stinkin' badges. And so on. A little bit like Aesop's tongue. FSX has a great potential of growth. I will wait.
