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General Forums => Aces High General Discussion => Topic started by: titanic3 on July 30, 2008, 08:22:50 PM
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Do you get those chills down your spine while playing? Those moments when you're playing and get a random chill about the fact that you're basically seeing what a World War 2 pilot is seeing? Or do you realize that you're playing a game... where killing people is something you do EVERYDAY? I just had one of those moments after landing my 109 (sitting there on the runway, if anyone saw me).
For those who's skeptical and say "It's just a game, who cares?", don't post... that will just start a flame war.
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For those who's skeptical and say "It's just a game, who cares?", don't post... that will just start a flame war.
Wow. :noid
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:huh
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I used to get those in FSO's,
Flying forever with no action you kinda get your senses numbed and finally when cons are spotted and DT's are away it feels like an overdose on Redbull.
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I used to get those in FSO's,
Flying forever with no action you kinda get your senses numbed and finally when cons are spotted and DT's are away it feels like an overdose on Redbull.
I think I did once during the Coral Sea scenario flying TBM's.. Flying forever to different waypoints with no action, then all of a sudden... "Carrier Spotted! 11:00!"
Peeling off one by one, diving full speed towards the enemy carrier with zekes swarming all over, puffy ack and ship ack firing like hell, and constant radio chatter it gave me a short glimpse of what it must have really been like to do an actual torpedo run..
While I realize it's just a game, that gave me a much bigger rush than just furballing in the MA..
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It's just a game, who cares?
:aok
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It's just a game, who cares?
:aok
*waits for flame war*
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I used to get those feelings in FSO quite often, especially when we flew formation.
Lambo
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I get those feelings now when I'm in a good FSO. (The first 2 frames of The Green Hell, first one, 5 kills, 2nd one, 3 kills w00t!)
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I used to get those feelings till the game evolved into a lamo land grab who's got the numbers game.
Now its send in the buffs kill VH, ords, and FH and roll GV's to take the town rinse and repeat.
It appears that unless something is done the game as a fighter vs fighter simulator is rapidly dying, of course the fan boyz will jump and flame me but thats how I feel about it and their flames don't mean much after all these years.
I just logged off in disgust when I looked for a darbar to go fight and all the FH's were dead to the Knits who at the time were enjoying a 40 man advantage in numbers.
Whats the point??? roll the map reset the map roll the map again?? seems pointless to me.
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I used to get those feelings till the game evolved into a lamo land grab who's got the numbers game.
Now its send in the buffs kill VH, ords, and FH and roll GV's to take the town rinse and repeat.
It appears that unless something is done the game as a fighter vs fighter simulator is rapidly dying, of course the fan boyz will jump and flame me but thats how I feel about it and their flames don't mean much after all these years.
I just logged off in disgust when I looked for a darbar to go fight and all the FH's were dead to the Knits who at the time were enjoying a 40 man advantage in numbers.
Whats the point??? roll the map reset the map roll the map again?? seems pointless to me.
25 perkies... ;) :lol
to go with the 25 thousand or so fighter perks I have that I never use.
I agree with you. I don't play alot this time of year. Outside activity keeps me busy. I did fly some last week tho...and rinse and repeat is sure it.
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Do you get those chills down your spine while playing? Those moments when you're playing and get a random chill about the fact that you're basically seeing what a World War 2 pilot is seeing? Or do you realize that you're playing a game... where killing people is something you do EVERYDAY? I just had one of those moments after landing my 109 (sitting there on the runway, if anyone saw me).
For those who's skeptical and say "It's just a game, who cares?", don't post... that will just start a flame war.
i view it much like i remember reading about real pilots viewing it.
when i shoot down a plane, that's all i'm shooting down. a machine. nothign more.
i get that good ole butterfly in the stomach feeling when i'm trying to stalk a bogie, be it a bomber, or a fighter i'm trying to figure out how to get an angle on.....but once the fight starts, its my plane against whatever i attacked......
<<S>>
interesting question BTW :aok
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I think narcotics had something to do with the start of this thread :noid :huh :huh
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After a few years, they stoped.
only feeling i get now is a full bladder.
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Do you get those chills down your spine while playing? Those moments when you're playing and get a random chill about the fact that you're basically seeing what a World War 2 pilot is seeing? Or do you realize that you're playing a game... where killing people is something you do EVERYDAY? I just had one of those moments after landing my 109 (sitting there on the runway, if anyone saw me).
For those who's skeptical and say "It's just a game, who cares?", don't post... that will just start a flame war.
I'm one of those, it's just a game folks
That doesn't mean I'm not aware of the history etc. There have been moments in scenarios in particular where I've been sucked into the cockpit and it feels as real as my imagination will allow it to be.
I can still describe it from individual frames in old Airwarrior Scenarios. It happens now and then when I'm flying with squaddies in the 80th 38s, and it happened in every frame of the DGS scenario.
I'd like to think that anyone playing a WW2 flight sim would look for something like that when they 'fly'.
An image from DGS. Probably my favorite screenshot ever. formed up and heading for the rendevous with the bombers. 25K or so, other flights of 38s in the distance. I remember the conversation going at the time and everyone could feel it a little bit. The markings are accurate, the 'pilots' are on the job and if you can feel like you were there, even just a little bit, it becomes a 'chills down your spine' moment. This was one of em. I still have the films of all 4 frames, and if you listen to the radio chatter, it's really something, in particular when in 'combat'. very cool stuff
(http://i152.photobucket.com/albums/s199/guppy35/474thOutbound.jpg)
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Nope nope and yes
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wow.... :noid
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:huh have you or will u b going to a mental institution anytime soon?
-BigBOBCH
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Scenarios are the only time i actually feel part of something and feel that i am flying as a ww2 pilot would, I absolutely love them but unfortunately it is rare that I could ever take part in them. The Ruhr scenario a few years ago was my absolute favourite time i have had in AH.
It is almost like the scenarios are the war sim aspect of this game, whereas MA is the arcade version.
My AAR's from Ruhr and Rangoon: http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/index.php/topic,156517.0.html
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sure we can hustle you a spit for this saturday furball. wink wink nudge nudge.
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I get that feeling every time my former wife calls while I am playing. Because for what ever reason she is calling me it usually it involves money.
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I know what hies talking about, getting into the heat of the battle and getting the jitteres knowing its not man vs AI game but person vs person in a game, i still get those jitters and I LIKE IT, makes the game fun, :aok if i ever get to the point that i dont ill stop playing this game.
knowing the other tank or plane out there IS A PERSON and not a computer ai is a thrill to me.
LTARsmkr
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Yup. On special events, or FSO, when the call 'Tally Ho' goes out I always get a shudder.
This is it boys!
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(http://i279.photobucket.com/albums/kk121/TheAmish/Nutso.gif)
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I got them once during DGS.
Now, I just feel gas.
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I agree. It is just a game.
However whenever I fly FSO (and this is my first scenario) i get a bit of an excitement rush. There was a time once in the MA i was flying with a squaddie and he reversed to try and clear my 6 of an La-7 just near base. He killed him and I crashed but the heart beat i had was through the roof with excitement. The reason I play this GAME is because it's now the closest thing die hard ww2 wannabe pilots have to the real thing.
Regards FBClaw
oh btw corky could you pm me? I'm interested in your DGS films :) cheers
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yeah furby, if you have time you can fly with us in rangoon on sat. We are flying spitsies. I've not really had the opportunity to fly in a scenario for about 3 years, i think i've flown as a walk-on twice in that period. Scenarios are the only things i get me excited, i enjoy the build up of tension before we engage the enemy..
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I can usually get into scenarios but the MA is just a game to me. I get pissed off and log well before my spine does any shaking about.
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Long time ago I used to get really inti it, and feel like an awesome air armada was heading to target. I havent felt that way for a long while though. Pretty much a time burner hobby for me.
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sure we can hustle you a spit for this saturday furball. wink wink nudge nudge.
yeah furby, if you have time you can fly with us in rangoon on sat. We are flying spitsies. I've not really had the opportunity to fly in a scenario for about 3 years, i think i've flown as a walk-on twice in that period. Scenarios are the only things i get me excited, i enjoy the build up of tension before we engage the enemy..
Thanks, would love to but i can't on Saturday - going out :(
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Do you get those chills down your spine while playing? ............
Only when I've left the window open in mid winter.
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Yup. On special events, or FSO, when the call 'Tally Ho' goes out I always get a shudder.
This is it boys!
Same here... I love flying FSOs. Always gives me that chill when, after flying for an hour and seeing nothing, then all of a sudden...."Bandits!!! 3 o'clock high!!!".
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For those who's skeptical and say "It's just a game, who cares?", don't post... that will just start a flame war.
Do you get those chills down your spine while playing? Those moments when you're playing and get a random chill about the fact that you're basically seeing what a World War 2 pilot is seeing?
Not even close. I'm sure every "world War 2 pilot" had many physical sensations..doubt chills up/down the Spine was one of them. :)
Or do you realize that you're playing a game... where killing people is something you do EVERYDAY?
I never forget it's just a game, nor do I look at it as "killing people"...it's simply my skill (or lack thereof in most instances) against someone else.
I just had one of those moments after landing my 109 (sitting there on the runway, if anyone saw me).
Hmm, what `cha got stashed under your seat boy . :rofl
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When I was flying with my squad in one of the recent FSO's (the one before Der Zweite Blitz) It was just routine cruising, gaining altitude, not much activity on vox, then all of a sudden, "Enemy dive bombers and fighters closing in on the carrier! Alt is 1k! All planes break off your climbs and get to C22 ASAP!" I got this weird feeling of, "Here we go!" I crashed my F4F while trying to rearm at an airfield on Guadacanal. Oh well, it was still fun.
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I get a headache now and then.
Maybe a little gas.
No Chill.
-SR- :aok
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I think narcotics had something to do with the start of this thread :noid :huh :huh
I didnt start this thread and I'm in no way involved with it.... :rofl
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I was flying alone, where the muppets were buzzing around in 262s with training wheels on tonight, but I noticed the dar-bar up north shift east to west (we were south). hmm, buff raid.. start flying NW to see whats going on. Sure enough, 6 solo B24s hauling tail with a Nik and 110 escorting all at about 16k, me in my pony at 19k..
Their target was a field 1 sector south so they had a trip with me there, I spent the next 15 mins flaming each of them one at a time with that escort nik always 800 - 1.5 off trying to catch me... the 110 finally dove on the city but I stayed on the last 2 24s
after the last liberator burned up the nik got entangled with someone else and I finally engaged also & got him too with my last 42 peanuts outta my P-51D
no sweating hands or super tension, no chills, but it felt like job well done to land em all and clock out.
So after 17 years of playing online multi player flight sim games, I can still get a bit of pleasure from it.
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Personally for me its like others have said, during events like FSO where you are searching for enemies forever and you finally here over the radio "cons 12 0 clk co alt, DT's away" I get really excited and think to myself I wonder if this is what it was like for the real pilots of ww2.
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Stodd said it best... and I am sure that he will remind me that I said that, everytime he sees me in FSO. pause to check the FSO objectives that just came to my email. Ahhh Stodd is Allied and I am Axis. He will have to wait for at least 4 weeks!
Speaking of FSO, minor hijack-sorry. The optional mission sounds like fun. A rotten fighter stick like myself won't be chosen for it though.