Originally posted by Grits
The last box sim I bought was Tornado, I only saw Falcon 4 at a friends house, and I've never seen LockOn. But, yes, you understood where I was going. Even with the more complex modern plane some new games, and IL-2 if you ask me, add far too much tedious busywork managing the systems of the plane instead of what I want to do, fly a WWII fighter. For a while the systems realism race was OK like with Strike Eagle II, Falcon 3, Apache or Tornado where each one added more systems but still kept it from being distracting from the flying. It got to the point that only uber techno-geeks would take the time to learn the manual, and if you look that was exactly when flight sims started dropping in sales. It wasnt the genre it was the product being produced IMO.
Yep. This is why today I mostly play WWII sims... the planes at the time were easier to manage and you can learn to fly them fast enough, without spending hours on the manuals... and, when you can fly one of them, basically you can fly all of them, transition time is all spent learning how the plane behaves, not what button you have to push to have radar microwave your meal!
Don't get me wrong. I think I am one of those techno-geeks you're referring to, I have Falcon 4 and I like it... but I have no time to learn it! Maybe this is the real matter, we're grown up men, now, we can't dedicate to hobbies the same amount of time we used to... who knows... (did I just say I'm a grown man????
first step to old age!!!
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Btw, I don't think IL2 is too complicated... I'd like to see a more complex engine management in AH, too.
