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[bf-110]

It´s just me or console games are getting worse every year?
I remember the golden age...I played the same game for 5 years.Newest games are made to last 1 month.

[AKA_Tenn]

Originally Posted by bf-110

It´s just me or console games are getting worse every year?
I remember the golden age...I played the same game for 5 years.Newest games are made to last 1 month.

20 years ago, hardly anyone had a computer, it cost a few thousand dollars for a crappy one... there were also fewer games to choose from...today you can get a machine for 500$ that'll play most games out there, and in a family of 4, there could be at least 4 computers around the house... also a highschool student could make a game like doom or wolfenstein in his spare time today... even though in the "golden age" of games they were marvels of technology... and consoles today are just motorolla and intel processors, standard mac/pc's with custom bios's and operating systems, but still standardized hardware that we use in our home pc's/mac's

[WTE_Galway]

Originally Posted by AKA_Tenn

20 years ago, hardly anyone had a computer, it cost a few thousand dollars for a crappy one... there were also fewer games to choose from..

20 years ago I was still playing Activision's River Raid

[lobosrul]

Originally Posted by WTE_Galway

20 years ago I was still playing Activision's River Raid

20 years ago I was playing Battlehawks 1942. The game that started my love for combat flight sims.

http://www.mobygames.com/game/battlehawks-1942

[KG26_Alpha]

The main reason IL2 has survived is purely due to the fact that Oleg and 1C Team actually looked after their customers with free aircraft, maps and updates over the past 10 years,
and kept supporting their product unlike a lot of software houses that abandon their customers and leggit with the cash.

Not counting the IL2 series "essential" upgrades for example FB AEP PF Pe2 etc, etc
Now condensed into IL2 1946

Everything else has been free and constantly "improved/corrected"

And with TD taking over from 1C Team for free who know how long it will keep going

[swiss]

Originally Posted by KG26_Alpha

The main reason IL2 has survived is purely due to the fact that Oleg and 1C Team actually looked after their customers with free aircraft, maps and updates over the past 10 years,
and kept supporting their product unlike a lot of software houses that abandon their customers and leggit with the cash.

Not counting the IL2 series "essential" upgrades for example FB AEP PF Pe2 etc, etc
Now condensed into IL2 1946

Everything else has been free and constantly "improved/corrected"

And with TD taking over from 1C Team for free who know how long it will keep going

It's not the "free" thing, but the fact those upgrades exist at all.

Look, most of us spend several hundred $ for IL2 related hardware.

>ATI sux with il2? - ok, let's buy a nvidia card

>You suck at flying? Well, the you need at least a X52, plus eventually pedals.

> SOW needs needs new GPU? No problem, but let me now how many gigs of RAM it needs, so I can upgrade to DDR3 as well if i have to.

> Lack of SA? You go and order a TIR.(Or build a FT, if you can)

So, yes, I think most of us are[would be] willing to actually spend a few bucks on add-ons.

just my $.02

[KG26_Alpha]

Originally Posted by KG26_Alpha

The main reason IL2 has survived is purely due to the fact that Oleg and 1C Team actually looked after their customers with free aircraft, maps and updates over the past 10 years,
and kept supporting their product unlike a lot of software houses that abandon their customers and leggit with the cash.

Not counting the IL2 series "essential" upgrades for example FB AEP PF Pe2 etc, etc
Now condensed into IL2 1946

Everything else has been free and constantly "improved/corrected"

And with TD taking over from 1C Team for free who know how long it will keep going

Originally Posted by swiss

It's not the "free" thing, but the fact those upgrades exist at all.

Look, most of us spend several hundred $ for IL2 related hardware.

>ATI sux with il2? - ok, let's buy a nvidia card

>You suck at flying? Well, the you need at least a X52, plus eventually pedals.

> SOW needs needs new GPU? No problem, but let me now how many gigs of RAM it needs, so I can upgrade to DDR3 as well if i have to.

> Lack of SA? You go and order a TIR.(Or build a FT, if you can)

So, yes, I think most of us are[would be] willing to actually spend a few bucks on add-ons.

just my $.02

You missed the point by a whole solar system.

[zauii]

Originally Posted by bf-110

It´s just me or console games are getting worse every year?
I remember the golden age...I played the same game for 5 years.Newest games are made to last 1 month.

Dude, it's not like Pacman had more content...

[Icewolf]

at least two weeks