JediMaster

I don't think I've seen anyone who started simming in the 21st century complain about how few flight sims there are now. It's only those who started in the late 90s or earlier who ever knew a different market.

I also don't understand how a game can't be made for less than a few million dollars. Other than art assets, the rest of game coding isn't that much different from the way it used to be. Maybe the fact that most games have a credit list longer than a 1970s film should be a clue. It should not cost $10 million to make a pretty game that you can learn to play in 5 minutes and finish playing in 5 hours.

I didn't know Malaysia had a MiG-29 display flight.

You'll target the ship the same way you target everything else now. The instant you get in the cockpit you hit "E" and it says "enemy carrier". Or "runway". Or "goddamnevilcommsbuildingdottir."

Ugh...I'd rather buy you an actual F-14 than have THAT prediction be right.

It's not religious. We're all celebrating the multiple deaths of the St Valentine's Day Massacre, aren't we?

That's why I gave my wife a Tommy gun.

Of course, for online music there is no supply limitation. Every person on the planet could DL a copy of the songs and they'd still be there tomorrow, no delay to "manufacture" another digital copy.

Uh...ok, so why did you bother with all this? If in the end all you're doing is agreeing with my initial point, which is exactly what you just did (you just spent all that time saying the best food is not a hamburger but a hamburger WITH PICKLES!), why the big rebuttal?

"The hamburger is the best food."

"Not at all, in fact... *30 paragraphs later* ...that's why nothing beats a hamburger with pickles."

It helps me lose weight, lowers my cholesterol, increases my savings' rate of return, lowers my taxes, and on occasion takes out the trash!

Just a year or so back they found that a local school was built on a WWII arms proving ground here in central Florida. It had passed thru a couple of owners inbetween and they didn't realize. I believe at least one if not more unexploded bombs were found.

I suppose you should also specify "in the US" because we have international members and some might be on the other side of the dateline, making the release actually occur on 2 consecutive days simultaneously.

I'll guess Feb 30th!

another one...

 

no, not shocked, remind me any of her songs except that song from that movie... after Winehouse I stopped bothering about OD-ing hall of famous. Next please

Winehouse?? I stopped caring after Jimi Hendrix. The fact it still happens is amazing, frankly. You hear the refrain about history repeating itself, but these drug users take the cake because it repeats itself every day, all over the world.

I've heard mixed "she was cleaning up" and "she relapsed" rumors (just like Winehouse actually) and I'm sure we'll get a better idea at some point, but frankly these rich people ruining their lives with drugs makes no sense to me. At least with the poverty-ridden you can comprehend on some level their desire to escape their lives for a little while. But these people already live better than 99% of the planet and THEY need an escape?

Your counter to my argument would only hold if the developers making sims in the late 90s were still making them now.

The only one is ED, that's it. All the others making them now started after the market crash. All the big ones from before that?

EA/Origin?

SpecHolo/MPS?

DID?

DI?

Whoever it was that made Jetfighter (I played 1-3)?

Dynamix/Sierra?

Razorworks?

Microsoft?

I know I'm forgetting some others, there were just so many back then.

I don't count Ubi because they only published Russian-made sims from what I recall, they never had any in-house developers of sims or even any Western ones.

All of them either just quit making them/folded, or first released lame attempts to "broaden" the appeal that sold worse and resulted in them quitting/folding. In fact other than EA (but not Origin), none of those others lasted past the middle of the last decade even making OTHER things. They knew how to make sims, and their attempts to do more only killed off their existing customer base and got few or no new ones.

Take MPS. Both it and SH made tons of sims in the early/mid 90s, then merged. Then came the Hasbro buyout, and after Falcon 4 we got Gunship! (with a ! yet) and B-17 II which had its MP stripped out. While both of those sims got modded in later years, they were mega flops at release because they alienated the core while failing to appeal to a larger, different crowd. Larry Holland of SWOTL fame made the craptastic Secret Weapons Over Normandy and then blamed the simmers for not buying it because it wasn't "accurate enough" for them (totally avoiding the fact that the genre it was meant to compete with, Ace Combat and the like, blew it away in quality).

MS is of course making their return but in an as-yet unproven direction. I don't care about it (as I never cared for MSFS), but I'm interested to see how it sells compared to FSX. Will a total revamp garner them more sales? Or will it still fail to interest the non-simmers while alienating the simmers? That's the historical pattern.

Yeah, I don't really buy it.

The problem is the developers found they could live without flight sims.

They started making crappier sims in an attempt to "broaden the appeal" but instead merely alienated the core community while the rest of the gamers continued to ignore it.

They then blamed the worse performance on the community for being "too picky"...you know, "we started dipping steaks into chocolate to make it appeal to more people, but the steaklovers stopped buying them and it failed to appeal to others, so we're going to quit making steaks altogether and just make chocolate bars."

I gots me a lot o'North Korean ho's...Cause I don't just have rice, I even have Cheerios...

One even killed one of my laptops...yep the GPU caused the laptop to die.

Tell me you caught the SOB and brought him to justice! Don't say it got away!!!!

Trees? In Iceland?

No, that's a mic in his other hand...he's about to bust out with some hip comradely rhymes, yo...commie-style...

My lone 24" monitor takes pretty much 99.5% of my available desk space. I suppose if there were 25" monitors one might fit, but that's it.

Nothing bigger than that screen @1920x1080 will I be running for at least the next several years.

Of course, the funny thing is to get decent triple view performance with AMD you need to spend about $300 on the card anyway.

Maybe he didn't mean a sound guy, just a guy who in his opinion was sound.

Eh...I doubt it.

I just hope it doesn't take 2-3 patches to fix what NA's release will likely break.

Judging by the sheen, I'd say this is metallic paint meant to help reduce RCS.

I think the software just doesn't know how to add on to the current one, so it just starts anew when you sign up for whichever term.

No big deal, just do like you're planning and wait till it expires to re-up.

You have to laugh at the transparently political shenanigans.