best flight sim EVER

[Mini D]

When I say falcon 3.0 is the best ever... I mean it.  Its not some kind of fond memory issue.  It took some 7 years for anyone to make a sim that compared to that one.  There were some pretty ones out there, but not any that had as much packed into one package.

Falcon 4 is deffinately more impressive... but they've pretty much still stolen the Falcon 3.0 blueprint.

I suppose Red Baron can fall into that category too.  Much of what we see today is based on those two games.

MiniD

[DiabloTX]

I guess we need to define 'best' as it can be interpreted in 2 different ways as I have interpreted it the same way...twice.  Mine is not because of technical merit but bang for the buck which is the bottom line for me on a FS.  You could have the most realistic ever created but is it FUN??  If it keeps me coming back then it has what I call 'the right stuff'.  If its too technical or very complex I may loose interest but thats only because I don't have the time it takes to learn a game in 5 weeks and take another 3 to become proficient at it.  I put a lot of stock into a game that is intuitive and has an short transition period.  And can you actually catagorize what is 'best' by its realism given its technological restrictions of the time period, i.e. it was the best they could do at that time?

[Revvin]

Boxed Sim: DI's Tornado, Falcon 3.0 or more recently IL-2:FB
Favourite H2H Sim: Falcon 3.0
MMOG: Warbirds II

[Airhead]

Originally posted by hawk220
Massive problems with AW??????


I don't recall any "problems" myself



oh my..don't you remember the dogfighting B-17? A B-17 could out maneuver a Spit.. oh how about early on.. when the tanks were being used as anti-aircraft guns? you'd fly along nice and high and boom, you were toast..no one around but a giggling tank 20k feet below..


gotta give AW its props, tho.. had some of the best sim time ever in AW.

Hey Dogfighting Deathstars were one of the best features of AW. Up in a lite B-17 and you'd attract enemies for hours. My favorite was the Dogfighting Stukas tho- you'd head out to an nme base and stay just out of range on the deck turnfighting with enemy Spits while your squadies B and Zd em.

And I loved kill macros, although I rarely used them, and the shot down by- message caused more gloating, excuses, name calling and hate than anything I've ever seen on AH. I'd like to see that on AH, but then they'd have to mute the entire arena to keep the civility levels up to an acceptable standard.

[hawk220]

hehe I forgot about the Stuka parties!

those mothers were tough and had tons and tons of ammo.  Tho they were 7.92 and you had to pepper someone for a while, but it was easy to out turn a spit when slow.

[Sandman]

This one is best:

[udet]

is that FS2k2? the ATC is not very realistic, it skips clearance delivery on class C airports