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Offline Wanker

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« Reply #15 on: June 06, 2003, 02:58:10 PM »
Red Baron - 1991 by Dynamix
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« Reply #16 on: June 06, 2003, 03:08:26 PM »
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Airwarrior...

Wasn't the prettiest, or even the best FM, but the community was incredible and the fun was boundless. AH is getting there.


Aces High has more planes, but it still doesn't have the F-86 and MiG-17.

Bring the Korean War jets to Aces High!

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Re: Aces over Europe
« Reply #17 on: June 06, 2003, 03:14:45 PM »
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That's what started the addicition...

Chance


Yeah Maybe Chance, but we had more fun on Air Warrior than I've had before or since in any game. Maybe it was the group we had, but I recall those days with fondness...and...(sniff) sometimes a tear...

Why o why did EA Sports kill Air Warrior???:confused:
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« Reply #18 on: June 06, 2003, 03:15:52 PM »
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That Fighter COmbat game on PLATO. The only MMP flightsim I've seen to feature the YF-16 (yes, it was still in prototype when they wrote the game).


I played that a few times Dinger. Nothing like 1-2 seconds per frame gameplay :) I liked the Star Trek game, I believe it was called Empire, better (not to be confused with the DOS pre Civilization strategy game Empire which got me into PC gaming in the first place). My first online kill was a Romulan Bird of Prey that I hit with three photon torpedoes sometime around 1978/79.

Favorite early on would be Red Baron 1 and Chuck Yeager’s, though Falcon AT and Their Finest Hour were the first PC based games I played. Favorite mmog would be SVGA AW strictly from a gameplay/arena design perspective, slightly over AH which is a better technical product in all other areas.

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« Reply #19 on: June 06, 2003, 03:42:45 PM »
the strat and overall game play was ALOT better than aces high. compaired to air warrior.

really flight model and graphics is all that ht changed for the better.

remember resupply goons, spitfire factory ( how about a la7 factory) ect ect ect ect ect.
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« Reply #20 on: June 06, 2003, 03:49:43 PM »
ok, next to Chuck Yeager comes 1942 PAW...very complex game, awesome graphics, realistic flight model, strategic , task force command elements AND with hsitorical missions.
 EAW didn't impress me that much as a sequel, but I admit it had good graphics and FM.
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« Reply #21 on: June 06, 2003, 04:25:29 PM »
There are alot of good box fs games. Some with awsome graphics and some with great flight model. I would say Falcon 4.0 was the best. Falcon 3.0 was awsome but now theres Falcon 4.0. I finished Falcon 3.0, almost finished Falcon 4.0. Got pulled back into the online FS games like AH.

One favorite thing to do in Falcon 4.0 is instant action fights with multiple migs armed with gun and sidewinders only. Forces a head on merge first.

Plus I like the avionics stuff, missions, realism factor, graphics (DrirectX), with add on patches etc... Most realistic sim.
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« Reply #22 on: June 06, 2003, 04:43:33 PM »
1942 and 43 on commodore64 if not mistaken :D

2nd.. AH :cool:
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« Reply #23 on: June 06, 2003, 05:12:40 PM »
Only bad thing about games like Falcon 4.0 is that its hard. I'll admit it took me average 2 days per section in the tutorial so 14 days. Then it was hard to remember all the fuctions and buttons and procedures like how to do ILS/TACOM stuff 16 days later. All together, it took me about a month and a week before I could play Falcon 4.0 or should I say learned how to play it. It was worth it though. After that, it was very satisfying to play Falcon 4.0

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« Reply #24 on: June 06, 2003, 05:59:43 PM »
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come on...nobody can beat "You bought the farm..."
"your plane condition: augered in"


how many times did ya hear "good thang this is just a simalator" ?
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« Reply #25 on: June 06, 2003, 06:54:07 PM »
lol forgot that one...best line ever :)
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« Reply #26 on: June 06, 2003, 07:05:52 PM »
This one obviously.

I don't know about any others apart from aviator (bbc model b 1983), interceptor (amiga 87) and Falcon 3.0 which I really liked a lot.
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« Reply #27 on: June 06, 2003, 07:55:07 PM »
Tough call....

My first really was BoB...  followed by rb1, and AOP... then came Falcon 3.0..

I likely invested more time in Falcon 3.0 than those that came before it... but!!

Chuck's series spent alotta time on the hdd too....

BTW for Chuck Yeager's Combat fans... try strike fighters, roughly the same era.

decisions decisions...  

Which one was I unbeatable vs the AI.... well BoB so that rates pretty high...  which one had the most variety.. hmm BoB...

damn gotta say BoB (their finest hour) i guess...


Worst Flight Sim EVAR!!... Flight of the Intruder


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« Reply #28 on: June 06, 2003, 07:57:47 PM »
I know it isn't very popular but Battlehawks:1942 did it for me.  It was the first WWII FS that I remember that emmersed you into a WWII flight combat situation and gave you the impression of "actually being there".  I played it on my father's old Compaq portable machine in monochrome colors, green and black to be exact.  Then played it on a friends 286 machine in 16 colors and was blown away.  I still get chills thinking about that game.  But the one that was the shiznitz was Their Finest Hour...talk about addicted!!!!
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« Reply #29 on: June 06, 2003, 09:16:45 PM »
God I miss AW (Hope EA pays dearly for that!). Yeah, there were massive problems with it, but I had more fun flying for A-Land than I can describe. The group of people flying back then was awesome and I made some great friends. Like mT said earlier, AH is getting close.
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