When I said people weren't bored of flight sims, I meant to say that they aren't leaving to go to other games due to the boredom as you were equating boredom in other games to people leaving them.
I think you missed the point of the whole gamer thing. You were saying that my generation only cares about beating games ASAP and plays a ton of games. I was stating and giving examples of the opposite. Not only that, but you contradict yourself because your son is trying to speed run games and has tons of consoles and games to play, yet you call him a "true gamer." I would call that a console gamer, not a "true gamer." Immersion is important up to a certain point. The planes have to feel real, they have to look real, and they have to fly realistically. You don't see yourself having to sharpen your sword after every fight in assassin's creed or final fantasy. You don't have to wait 8+ hours every time you rest in a video game. You don't have to spend 30+ minutes eating food to replenish your health. Now this might seem blatantly obvious and stupid to say, but you can equate things like that to flight sims. Most people don't want to spend hours in a bomber before they reach their target, nor do they want to drive their tanks for hours before they see any enemies. It's a game, sacrifices need to be made so that it is fun. If people really want to spend all that time and fly realistically, they can. The game doesn't keep people from doing that, but it doesn't force it either.
As for my personal skill level, I'd bet I could give even the top players a good fight. I probably wouldn't win 9 times out of 10, but I'd still give them a good fight. This goes back to our definition of good though. I consider myself good at this game now, but you might only consider good meaning I can kill anyone at any time. I would consider that elite. Your definition of good in a FPS might be my definition of below average. It's all relative. I consider myself good because of the fact that I can give the best players a good fight and can constantly land 2-5 kill missions.
OK Mr nitpick, a gamer is a gamer whether its a console gamer or a "true gamer". On the other hand a "Flight simmer" is a whole different animal. A flight simmer WILL fly for hours to make a buff run AND fly hours BACK to land it. Why do you think drop tanks are available? Because simmers fly for hours.
Gamers grab the fastest plane with the biggest guns get 2-3k in alt come screaming in and lawndart trying to take out the radar tower. Then they will do it 5 more times....or how ever many trips it takes to take out the radar. A simmer will KNOW what it takes, get a reasonable altitude, plan his attack run so he is over the base and in ack range the least amount of time, plan his exit vector to avoid ack and regain his alt. In most cases he will take out the radar in one pass. That's the difference between a gamer and a simmer.
