Reading up on that game, it sounds brutal!
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Reading up on that game, it sounds brutal!
Triplicates
Member
I remember messing around with these when I was a kid. I couldn't figure out how to take-off during my first few attempts!
Zvonimir Boban
Banned
I'm a bit more old school than most of you.
This, and the sequel/remake F-117, was my favorite PC game of the late 80s. Until UFO: Enemy Unknown came out.
F29 Retaliator!
I loved this and Fighter Bomber on the Amiga.
(not properly "Open World" i'd say. Just "very large maps"... of course.)
XiaNaphryz
LATIN, MATRIPEDICABUS, DO YOU SPEAK IT
I'm a bit more old school than most of you.
This, and the sequel/remake F-117, was my favorite PC game of the late 80s. Until UFO: Enemy Unknown came out.
I preferred the F-15 Strike Eagle games myself.
Played mostly the second one of the three.
A bit too much? D:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=roNw2JzAia4
Yep. Look at this. It looks something out from the future, but it's old stuff.
Man, I used to love Delta Force, Comanche, Mig-29 and F-16 and F-22... I really miss them. =/Yes OP, I miss Novalogic too.. I thought the Hawx games could replace them but they didn't
Hey, I played this game so much on my Mega Drive/Genesis...I preferred the F-15 Strike Eagle games myself.
Played mostly the second one of the three.
Man, I played a ton of F-22 Raptor
That game was a blast. Hilarious when it let you go totally non-stealth and just cover the wing pylons with AMRAAMs... And they wanted you to use your gun on everything.
Ah, being a kid.
Also: A-10 Tank Killer
Was so good! I mean, awful now, but it was awesome back then.
Also played a lot of Red Baron, old WW1 game.
And for the purely silly, F-111X was friggin hilarious. Strafing full on sideways at max speed? Ridiculous. So was bouncing off the ground like a rubber ball.
That game was a blast. Hilarious when it let you go totally non-stealth and just cover the wing pylons with AMRAAMs... And they wanted you to use your gun on everything.
Ah, being a kid.
Also: A-10 Tank Killer
Was so good! I mean, awful now, but it was awesome back then.
Also played a lot of Red Baron, old WW1 game.
And for the purely silly, F-111X was friggin hilarious. Strafing full on sideways at max speed? Ridiculous. So was bouncing off the ground like a rubber ball.
MichaelFassbender
Member
The golden age of flight sims was really cool, in retrospect. You tried for the sake of trying, you busted out the joystick and imagined.
Man, I played a ton of F-22 Raptor
That game was a blast. Hilarious when it let you go totally non-stealth and just cover the wing pylons with AMRAAMs... And they wanted you to use your gun on everything.
Ah, being a kid.
Damn, I remember many kid hours spent playing F-22 Raptor and Jane's Combat Simulator
i played the shit out of this:
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damn submarine carrier....
The GOAT
Starfox and Starfox 64 always had optional cockpit cameras
I'm glad someone said it ^ ^ ^
Generalpsyduck
Banned
I always have found flying around in arma to be a blast.
Stallion Dan
Member
Time for Wing War to finally get a home console port.
It most definitely is not. RO is a twin stick shooter devoid of the strategy and planning that made the strike games awesome.
Sectorseven
Member
I had one of these games and I always ended up spinning in circles.
Here's a few that I haven't seen mentioned.
F-117 Night Storm on the Sega Genesis
Video
And...
Team Apache by Simis and Mindscape for PC
Video
Team Apache I guess wasn't very popular as I couldn't find any decent videos on YouTube. (And there were hardly any videos of it to begin with!) I remember it being a fairly decent Apache sim but in retrospect it probably wasn't all that sophisticated compared to other attack helicopter sims out at the time. But it had a nice blend of sim gameplay with arcadey options going for it I guess. I remember there being an auto-pilot mode if you just wanted to play gunner and blast away with the missiles and gun.
F-117 Night Storm on the Sega Genesis
Video
And...
Team Apache by Simis and Mindscape for PC
Video
Team Apache I guess wasn't very popular as I couldn't find any decent videos on YouTube. (And there were hardly any videos of it to begin with!) I remember it being a fairly decent Apache sim but in retrospect it probably wasn't all that sophisticated compared to other attack helicopter sims out at the time. But it had a nice blend of sim gameplay with arcadey options going for it I guess. I remember there being an auto-pilot mode if you just wanted to play gunner and blast away with the missiles and gun.
joecanada
Member
Man, I played a ton of F-22 Raptor
That game was a blast. Hilarious when it let you go totally non-stealth and just cover the wing pylons with AMRAAMs... And they wanted you to use your gun on everything.
Ah, being a kid.
Damn, I remember many kid hours spent playing F-22 Raptor and Jane's Combat Simulator
I'm pretty sure f-22 was the one where I figured out true stealth mode was rolling along the ground lol...
Anyone ever play that apache gunship sim? These were hard ass games
I played a ton of F22- Lightning / Raptor, loved those games so much.
Hard as fuck but god was it fun with a joystick !
Btw, am I the only one who played nearly all the Flight Simulator's from MS ?
I would just load it up and go straight to Tahiti to check on those rumored Hula girls...
Hard as fuck but god was it fun with a joystick !
Btw, am I the only one who played nearly all the Flight Simulator's from MS ?
I would just load it up and go straight to Tahiti to check on those rumored Hula girls...
ichtyander
Member
I played the shit out of F-22 Lightning II.
But apart from the realistic military flight sims, there were a few games that had a similar balance of light sim controls and arcade gameplay. Admittedly, some of them might be more arcadey, but they're still set in a large map with weapon loadouts, different weapon, targeting, navigation and control systems, mission objectives etc.
Armour-Geddon
Killing Cloud
Darker
Subwar 2050
Embryo
But apart from the realistic military flight sims, there were a few games that had a similar balance of light sim controls and arcade gameplay. Admittedly, some of them might be more arcadey, but they're still set in a large map with weapon loadouts, different weapon, targeting, navigation and control systems, mission objectives etc.
Armour-Geddon
Killing Cloud
Darker
Subwar 2050
Embryo
Souldestroyer Reborn
Banned
They need to bring some of these back. Like seriously.
It would be amazing. I'd buy them all.
It would be amazing. I'd buy them all.
UnwrittenZero
Member
I can see these games coming back with VR. Atleast I hope I want a Freespace 3.
Monado Blade
Member
Too many box covers and too little in-game screens.
Canklestank
Neo Member
Could VR bring a return to this genre? This seems like the kind of game I'd want to play in VR, unless it causes too much motion sickness.
ichtyander
Member
Anything with a cockpit is a natural fit for a seated VR experience, so I'm hoping it will. Having certain details in your surroundings to help you feel anchored apparently helps a lot, like seeing your cockpit or even having a virtual nose. Also experiencing more extreme situations that would require simulating different g-forces apparently can be problematic because your body doesn't feel them yet you've crashed and flipped your car etc.
I think there might be a problem with the controls for some of the more advanced sims (or just games with a lot of controls in general), since you'd either need to get an adequate controller, HOTAS or whatever with lots of buttons, or find a way to see your keyboard with a pass-through or something down the line in future VR gens. I suppose using motion controls (like the Vive controllers or even hand tracking like Leap Motion) might also be used to push the actual 3D buttons and flip switches in VR space, but even with added extreme precision, I thinking that the lack of haptic feedback would probably make it impractical. I mean those would be the same issues that make such sims inadequate for consoles, or rather their controllers, even without VR.