Author Topic: Is AH a game or a sim to you? (Read 589 times)

gofaster · « **Reply #30 on:** July 24, 2002, 01:21:41 PM »

I tried to think of Air Warrior as an air combat simulation, but really it was just a game with additional elements of strategy. Aces High added even more elements and more challenge and more strategy, but its still just a game. As soon as my Aces High score becomes a requirement for flight certification, then it will become a simulation

Maverick · « **Reply #31 on:** July 24, 2002, 01:26:51 PM »

It's a game to while away idle hours that could be used in more fruitfull ways. Any other opinion just indicates that the opinion holder is in serious need of a life.

X2Lee · « **Reply #32 on:** July 24, 2002, 01:46:16 PM »

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Originally posted by BUG_EAF322
Dogfight sim with game element

I would say the exact same thing. Only opposite

X2Lee · « **Reply #33 on:** July 24, 2002, 01:48:03 PM »

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Originally posted by Zippatuh
It’s a game, it’s been a game, it will always be a game. It’s just not an arcade game. It could be a simulation though. I’m fairly confident that if placed in the situation where I had to fly a P51 or an F4U I could, with ease, take off destroy my target and gently land at the same airfield that I took off from.

If you want a simulation, fly a TOD.

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hehe I m fairly certain that with no real stick time you'd come back in a box.

Hangtime · « **Reply #34 on:** July 24, 2002, 01:55:21 PM »

It's a science project.

yer all rats.

AH and the new strat is the maze..

getting a reset is the cheeze.

How yah doin?

easymo · « **Reply #35 on:** July 24, 2002, 01:58:59 PM »

AH is a Game first and a sim 2nd.

-------- HiTech

Its hard to argue with the guy building the game.

dsrtrat · « **Reply #36 on:** July 24, 2002, 02:14:37 PM »

It is a cheap substitute for Cocaine!!!!!!!!

"Hi my name is DsrtRat, I have a problem" (twich twich, looking for AH fix, twich twich! Oh no, cable down. Try neighbours place. Whole neighbourhood out. OK don't panic, busher, manybeers,seabass and escafe only 1 hour away. Yeah thats it, ill drive there. Nooooooooo, too drunk to drive again.)

"DAMN YOU, DAMN YOU ALL TO HELL!!!!! THAT WAS OUR PLANET!"

Arfann · « **Reply #37 on:** July 24, 2002, 02:26:03 PM »

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Originally posted by Blank
Depends in what context you use the word sim.

In the gaming world:
It is a Online PC game that falls within the Flight simulation genre
just as Medal of honour is a PC game that falls within the FPS genre.

In the context of real world flight you have to ask the question:
'does it simulate anything that could help in real flight/air combat?'

if the answer is yes, then that would class it as a sim (a very basic one).
if the answer is a strict no, then it is just a game to pass the time.

I dont fly so I cant say if it is or isn't.

AH is officially recognized by the Air Force Academy. The "Raptor" squadron consists entirely of Cadets. A group of them functioned as command staff for allies during at least one scenario.

TracerX · « **Reply #38 on:** July 24, 2002, 02:27:55 PM »

I'm with Sandman on this one. It is a religion. When my internet connection goes on the fritz, I'm thinking of suicide bombing my provider for depriving me of 15-20 minutes of holy time!

Further, if I am successful, I get to play AH for eternity against 1,000 virgin pilots! Vulch fest time!

Praise Hitech.

CSDMMNT · « **Reply #39 on:** July 24, 2002, 04:06:36 PM »

Leslie · « **Reply #40 on:** July 25, 2002, 01:10:51 AM »

Aces High is a service to humanity.

For some it is a game/sim/religion. For me it is fun because it is a challenge.

Les

Tumor · « **Reply #41 on:** July 25, 2002, 02:52:59 AM »

It's a game that I try to make a simulation... or something like that.

stegor · « **Reply #42 on:** July 25, 2002, 04:00:33 AM »

It could be nearly a simulation, but 85% of us are playing it mostly like a game.