SAVE ACES HIGH!!!!!!!!!!!!

[The Fugitive]

Can we stop with the "younger generation" crap. Just cause some people like xbox doesn't mean you have to generalize the entire group. There are plenty of 50 year olds who play xbox easy mode games too

 

Nope!

It's not so much an "age" thing its a style thing. Us old timers for the most part play the game as a bunch of guys trying to relive...... what we where lead to believe in all those black and white movies we watched.... the glory days of WWII!

The younger generation.... those brought up with Nintendo and Xbox... are gamers. They play the game to beat the game. That is how they were brought up and how they play games. My son is 26 years old and has a list of games he has "beaten" and its a pretty impressive list.

Thats the difference, us old timers pretend we are pilots, and the younger generation are just playing a game.  

[guncrasher]

Nope!

It's not so much an "age" thing its a style thing. Us old timers for the most part play the game as a bunch of guys trying to relive...... what we where lead to believe in all those black and white movies we watched.... the glory days of WWII!

The younger generation.... those brought up with Nintendo and Xbox... are gamers. They play the game to beat the game. That is how they were brought up and how they play games. My son is 26 years old and has a list of games he has "beaten" and its a pretty impressive list.

Thats the difference, us old timers pretend we are pilots, and the younger generation are just playing a game.  

you mean all those guys jumping on live grenades to save their friends or doing anything to die first instead of their friends.

or where everybody complains about the mission for the first 45 minutes of the movie and how it's a waste of time then they go in and complete the mission with only 2 or 3 guys left alive.  then they all limp away with arms and legs bandages but singing patriotic songs so all the new soldiers coming in feel inspired.

Oh yeah and everybody whines about getting promoted or being recommended for a medal.

semp

[The Fugitive]

you mean all those guys jumping on live grenades to save their friends or doing anything to die first instead of their friends.

or where everybody complains about the mission for the first 45 minutes of the movie and how it's a waste of time then they go in and complete the mission with only 2 or 3 guys left alive.  then they all limp away with arms and legs bandages but singing patriotic songs so all the new soldiers coming in feel inspired.

Oh yeah and everybody whines about getting promoted or being recommended for a medal.

semp

No that is recent hollywood where the hero always dies....of just about.

Im talking about black and white movies where the hero carried 6 extras on his back back to safety after wiping out the machine gun nest with nothing but his bayonet.... long before your time.

[xPoisonx]

Hush up, youngster......AND GET OFF MY LAWN!!

You'll have to come and get me

[danny76]

Fugi is correct, my 10 year old stepson is so much better than me at military games on the Playstation, I have years of military training, firearms training, military history research, not insignificant combat experience, and he kicks my bellybutton all over the place on Playstation military games.

Saying that he is developing a keen interest in AH so won't be long before he can whup me at that too!

I get the impression that the younger players are able to play to the electronic "rules" of games much better than the older generation. When I was 10 I spent my time making dens and having catapult fights with other local kids

[The Fugitive]

Fugi is correct, my 10 year old stepson is so much better than me at military games on the Playstation, I have years of military training, firearms training, military history research, not insignificant combat experience, and he kicks my bellybutton all over the place on Playstation military games.

Saying that he is developing a keen interest in AH so won't be long before he can whup me at that too!

I get the impression that the younger players are able to play to the electronic "rules" of games much better than the older generation. When I was 10 I spent my time making dens and having catapult fights with other local kids

LOL!!! same here but we used slings! What were we thinking!  LOL!!!

[danny76]

LOL!!! same here but we used slings! What were we thinking!  LOL!!!

Absolutely, we should have been breaking off saplings and vandalising cars

I remember nice round stones zipping past my head and no thoughts of losing any eye

[Kodiak]

My son is 26 years old and has a list of games he has "beaten" and its a pretty impressive list.

Yep, my son is 33 and has the same kind of list.  He goes through games like eating a bag of potato chips

[Coalcat1]

Nope!

It's not so much an "age" thing its a style thing. Us old timers for the most part play the game as a bunch of guys trying to relive...... what we where lead to believe in all those black and white movies we watched.... the glory days of WWII!

The younger generation.... those brought up with Nintendo and Xbox... are gamers. They play the game to beat the game. That is how they were brought up and how they play games. My son is 26 years old and has a list of games he has "beaten" and its a pretty impressive list.

Thats the difference, us old timers pretend we are pilots, and the younger generation are just playing a game.  

    I ain't out to "beat the game", far from it  and I sure as hell ain't an old timer...

[guncrasher]

No that is recent hollywood where the hero always dies....of just about.

Im talking about black and white movies where the hero carried 6 extras on his back back to safety after wiping out the machine gun nest with nothing but his bayonet.... long before your time.

that's what I am talking about.  that's all I saw growing up back in the 60's and early 70's.  the only new movie that I saw growing up was Rocky and starcrash.  didnt even see star wars till the 80's.


semp

[danny76]

that's what I am talking about.  that's all I saw growing up back in the 60's and early 70's.  the only new movie that I saw growing up was Rocky and starcrash.  didnt even see star wars till the 80's.


semp

My family queued for 2 hours in the rain to watch Rocky for my big brothers birthday.

When we go in sight of the doors he decided he didn't want to see it any more.... so we went home

[Rich46yo]

For X-mas I think I'll buy my kid a flight rig for his gaming computer and get him going on flight. He's USAF now and I want him to get a sense of his History.

[BnZs]

Thats the difference, us old timers pretend we are pilots, and the younger generation are just playing a game.  

ACM is a game. One that WILL appeal to the part of the male mind (of any age or generation) that loves strategy and tactics, whether chess, jujitsu, Risk, dogfighting, whatever. IF it is presented properly.

[PJ_Godzilla]

ACM is a game. One that WILL appeal to the part of the male mind (of any age or generation) that loves strategy and tactics, whether chess, jujitsu, Risk, dogfighting, whatever. IF it is presented properly.

Indeed, and air combat will always have some appeal, even to those not interested in historical immersion.

If I had my wish, the game would be expanded to cover all historical phases of all types of air/land/sea combat... A never ending timeless virtual war that runs from WWi to present...

I note, at this time, the significance of what is often called bandwagon effect" to this, or any other, MMO.

[BnZs]

If I had my wish, the game would be expanded to cover all historical phases of all types of air/land/sea combat... A never ending timeless virtual war that runs from WWi to present...

Interesting, though probably not practical. It has always been assumed that WWII air combat would be the niche with the largest market.