"game" or "sim"

What is the difference between "gun" game and sim?

Gun game - you run around with AK-47 and shoot some other person to the head, you take RPG and shoot it at running person, you feel like you are able to shoot with real guns...


Gun sim - not possible...


Same in "flight" world... In flight world you think you can fly with 6-8Gs couple of hours per day. You can make crazy maneuvers without vommiting your guts out. You never black out and you never feel smell of *hit when someone starts to shoot at you in 5+km from behing with 20mm cannons.. So almost everyone "starts" to fight back and turn like crazy... Some people here think they "play" simulator.



And I am not talking about a fact that here most of hardcore "pilots" are over 30. Many of them over 40... How many such old pilots was/are flying with real warplanes?

[carguy_]

From a sim I`d expect as few compromises as possible.

[SEE]

I and probably most fellow flight enthusiasts call it a 'SIM'.

My Wife, kids, friends, etc call it a 'game'!

I described CloD to a WW2 BOB vet Spitfire pilot....he said it sounded like a 'good game' (but had never heard of it or seen it).

[ParaB]

Why can't they be both? Computer games and simulations? I've been playing flightsims since the mid-'80s and I never had a problem calling them games.