I think the Devs should take a trip to the 90's.

[KG26_Alpha]

Originally Posted by 5./JG27.Farber

You should load some of those up (if its possible) and see if the past really was that rose tinted. I think you will find with the games and sims you have experienced latley that they are miles ahead of those old relics.

You missed the point by a mile.

CoD looks great but its souless, difficult to setup and has an impossible FMB for the average user (scripting wise).

Some of the "old relics" had immersion and a sense of you actually being part of something, also a manual that made sense



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Good grief, has the world ended...an KG26_Alpha post on here I can agree 100% with....right, now back to the canines and felines falling from the sky....

[d.burnette]

Originally Posted by KG26_Alpha

You missed the point by a mile.

Some of the "old relics" had immersion and a sense of you actually being part of something, also a manual that made sense



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I do miss some the age of getting the awesome manuals, like what came with Falcon 3, Falcon 4, the Janes Combat Sims, etc.
Of course now we get these big digital manuals , but just somehow not the same...

[SlipBall]

I still read through the paper IL-2 manual on occasion...I hate reading from a PC file too

[VMF214_Jupp]

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[5./JG27.Farber]

Originally Posted by KG26_Alpha

You missed the point by a mile.

CoD looks great but its souless, difficult to setup and has an impossible FMB for the average user (scripting wise).

Some of the "old relics" had immersion and a sense of you actually being part of something, also a manual that made sense



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Hence you SHOULD replay them...

GO! Do it! Tell us how it went...

[Meusli]

Originally Posted by 5./JG27.Farber

You should load some of those up (if its possible) and see if the past really was that rose tinted. I think you will find with the games and sims you have experienced latley that they are miles ahead of those old relics.

B17 The Mighty 8th is still an awesome game that has not been matched since. I used to love changing the crews names to my friends names and seeing who bought the farm, plays like an older version of FTL. Also it was one bombsight that I could work without charts or 20+ attempts to learn it. Watching the bombs hit their targets was a pretty spectacular sight as well.

I wonder how much previous news from the devs can be described as worthwhile?

It generally tends to be leading statements, fire-fighting, wishful thinking, or announcements-about-an-announcement.

Very, very little of it has been adult, or rational. Much of it has been reactionary, positional, or tactical. That is, when it has not been wrong, or actively misleading, or patronising.

One of the nice things about the games form the 80s and 90s was a sense of innocence, and genuine trying. I remember being involved with the printed manual of a major game back then, and the attitude back then was of serving the community, or trying to expand it. But primarily it was about accuracy, describing the software warts and all, and bugbears.

The main difference between now and then was focus. The priority was on a game, a sense of fun, atmosphere, immersion, a world. Everything that is missing from this rolling debacle.