#3517031 - 02/12/12 05:32 PM
Re: Microsoft Flight boss on "rebooting franchise"
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"realistic start up procedures" makes a simulator about as much as sitting in a puddle makes you a duck. If you really want to be the target demographic for this stinking pile of digital fail, I strongly suggest you dig out your frontal lobe with a melon baller. (That part is especially helpful if you want to get an MBA too!) Some derp-tastic manager type got his claws into the ACES studio and destroyed it. Period. The result is "Flight", a game that caters to the "smack the big red button and get a food pellet" crowd and not the "can make squiggles on an EEG" crowd. If you want a really good payware flight simulator, I'd recommend you take a peek at Ilan Papini's Vehicle Simulator - you can download a demo at http://www.hangsim.com. It covers sea, land and air. The water dynamics is just astonishing. It's a bargain at $30, especially considering what it does. If you want free, check out FlightGear ( http://www.flightgear.org). Version 2.6.0 is going to be released very soon. g.
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#3517078 - 02/12/12 06:33 PM
Re: Microsoft Flight boss on "rebooting franchise"
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"realistic start up procedures" makes a simulator about as much as sitting in a puddle makes you a duck. Then DCS A-10 and DCS Blackshark are not simulators I must assume?. If you really want to be the target demographic for this stinking pile of digital fail, I strongly suggest you dig out your frontal lobe with a melon baller. (That part is especially helpful if you want to get an MBA too!)
I guess you are beta tester and have already tried it?. Which aspects of MS Flight do you think are a failure?. Flight procedures, Weather, no AI, no ATC, Flight model, small maps?. If you want a really good payware flight simulator, I'd recommend you take a peek at Ilan Papini's Vehicle Simulator - you can download a demo at http://www.hangsim.com. It covers sea, land and air. The water dynamics is just astonishing. It's a bargain at $30, especially considering what it does. If you want free, check out FlightGear ( http://www.flightgear.org). Version 2.6.0 is going to be released very soon. g. I tried them both, and it's nothing to do compared to MS Flight. Flight Gear is way inferior to MS Flight and Papini's product is nice and cheap but nothing compared to MS Flight. Again, MS Flight is completely based on FSX with an improved multicore graphic engine and physics. So stop whining about what you don't know. Before you start biasing about MS Flight, you should first install it, try it for a while and then use your frontal lobe to try to analyze it objectively and not with anger and bias. Have a nice day.
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#3517188 - 02/12/12 09:17 PM
Re: Microsoft Flight boss on "rebooting franchise"
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None of the MS Flight fanboys can point to a single CIVILIAN flight game that was a hit with the casual crowd. Where is the evidence such a market exists?
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#3517197 - 02/12/12 09:30 PM
Re: Microsoft Flight boss on "rebooting franchise"
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I suspect there isn't one. They're so steeped in their little Jobsian Reality Distortion Field that they can't see the forest for the trees. FlightGear wipes the floor with MS Flight. Maybe not from an eye-candy standpoint, but certainly everywhere else. You're of course welcome to call NASA and let them know how bad FG is though. I'm sure they'll be horrified to find out they're using such an inferior product in some of their research programs. Might want to contact the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, they'll be sure to want to dump all their research tools in favor of MS Flight. The DCS products are indeed true flight (and systems) simulators. They _require_ the "can make squiggles on an EEG" type. At best MS Flight is a *game* that simulates being a flight simulator (and screws that up badly. "Hey let's go zoom through some light loops so we can get teh achieeeeevments!") g.
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#3517226 - 02/12/12 10:21 PM
Re: Microsoft Flight boss on "rebooting franchise"
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None of the MS Flight fanboys can point to a single CIVILIAN flight game that was a hit with the casual crowd. Where is the evidence such a market exists? Oh that's new. Now we are fanboys.
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#3517241 - 02/12/12 10:34 PM
Re: Microsoft Flight boss on "rebooting franchise"
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Looking in my crystal ball my view is that MS Flight will be too limited to attract simmers, but, more importantly, that it will be too "boring" to attract gamers in any significant numbers. Why fly through hoops when you can buzz skyscrapers and blow stuff up in an airplane or helicopter in GTA5?
The flightsimmer audience they may still be able to recuperate somewhat if they deliver a good amount of high quality DLC (not just aircraft and scenery!), but the gamers they will never catch.
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#3517242 - 02/12/12 10:36 PM
Re: Microsoft Flight boss on "rebooting franchise"
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I suspect there isn't one. They're so steeped in their little Jobsian Reality Distortion Field that they can't see the forest for the trees. g. There is one, but you are not in it. Oh!! and I never liked Steve Jobs. At best MS Flight is a *game* that simulates being a flight simulator (and screws that up badly. "Hey let's go zoom through some light loops so we can get teh achieeeeevments!")
g. SO, have you already tried it?. What do you think about flight model while landing with crosswind. Can you tell me why flight procedures look arcadish to you?. You have NO CLUE. FlightGear wipes the floor with MS Flight. Maybe not from an eye-candy standpoint, but certainly everywhere else. You're of course welcome to call NASA and let them know how bad FG is though. I'm sure they'll be horrified to find out they're using such an inferior product in some of their research programs. Might want to contact the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, they'll be sure to want to dump all their research tools in favor of MS Flight. g. And Who do you think is developing MS Flight, 3rd grade kids?. They are highly qualified programmers who have a passion and also have to pay bills and a mortgage. Feel glad they are still willing to make a flight simulator and not a call of duty.
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#3517257 - 02/12/12 10:50 PM
Re: Microsoft Flight boss on "rebooting franchise"
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Besides, Strike Fighters is not a hardcore simulator and there it is people buy it and having fun. I'll bet that a large majority of SF players are flightsimmers, not gamers, who appreciate the game in spite of rather than because of its simplicity. Where else can you fly a Phantom or Mirage in the Vietnam or 6 Days War? And SF has another major thing going for it: its large modding community. It seems that if MS has its way, we won't be seeing this for Flight. Looking in my crystal ball my view is that MS Flight will be too limited to attract simmers, but, more importantly, that it will be too "boring" to attract gamers in any significant numbers. Why fly through hoops when you can buzz skyscrapers and blow stuff up in an airplane or helicopter in GTA5? For example: the missions in FSX. I liked the idea, and some of them were interesting. The concept of having goals, a storyline, dialogue and scripted events opened up possibilities in the civ flightsim genre. But compared to what you see in the average FPS or action game, they were often clumsy and bland. The flightsimmer audience they may still be able to recuperate somewhat if they deliver a good amount of high quality DLC (not just aircraft and scenery!), but the gamers they will never catch.
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#3517273 - 02/12/12 11:08 PM
Re: Microsoft Flight boss on "rebooting franchise"
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Besides, Strike Fighters is not a hardcore simulator and there it is people buy it and having fun. I'll bet that a large majority of SF players are flightsimmers, not gamers, who appreciate the game in spite of rather than because of its simplicity. Where else can you fly a Phantom or Mirage in the Vietnam or 6 Days War? And SF has another major thing going for it: its large modding community. It seems that if MS has its way, we won't be seeing this for Flight. Looking in my crystal ball my view is that MS Flight will be too limited to attract simmers, but, more importantly, that it will be too "boring" to attract gamers in any significant numbers. Why fly through hoops when you can buzz skyscrapers and blow stuff up in an airplane or helicopter in GTA5? For example: the missions in FSX. I liked the idea, and some of them were interesting. The concept of having goals, a storyline, dialogue and scripted events opened up possibilities in the civ flightsim genre. But compared to what you see in the average FPS or action game, they were often clumsy and bland. The flightsimmer audience they may still be able to recuperate somewhat if they deliver a good amount of high quality DLC (not just aircraft and scenery!), but the gamers they will never catch. Agree SF is a great game/sim no doubt about that. Agree too there is a large modding community behind. But You have to understand MS Flight can be the same. The main difference is MS developers will be making money from the addons they'd sell. I believe the success of MS Flight will be determined by the support they receive from the simmers community and the quality of their addons. I partially agree with you in that some gamers will get bored of MS Flight very soon, but I think MS Flight can be a new alternative for those who want to try something new and different and more focused on multiplayer. I see MS Flight like a general aviation sim, something similar to what we can see on Aerofly FS. Selling planes and maps separately.
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#3517282 - 02/12/12 11:26 PM
Re: Microsoft Flight boss on "rebooting franchise"
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I think MS Flight will have an audience. I think it will be sucessful. If MS markets it right, there is an audience of people out there who want to fly and not deal with the more mondane things of Flying.
I have the Beta, and I think the flight modeling is quite good in Flight. Graphics also look on par with Orbx type of scenery and frame rate is very good even at higest settings. I think most who try it will be impressed. Having said that, I got bored with it rather quickly, But then again, Im not part of the target audience. I dont know what type of missions the DLC will have. The ones that came with the beta need a little more imagination to keep people interested.
Right now, I have FSX (with tons of addons), Xplane 10 with a few addons and the flight Beta (not to mention IL2 COD & ROF), and they all offer a different experience. All good in their own way. If you love flight sims (like I do), get em all!!
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#3517523 - 02/13/12 09:31 AM
Re: Microsoft Flight boss on "rebooting franchise"
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Ah, screw the casual gamers. The only group who can save Flight is us, flightsimmers. It's good that FM is no problem. It realistic enough. And, of couse, graphics is more than good. I think I have to give up the world wide map, though. Even if there is addon scenery for every other airport, the cost won't justify the purchase. What important now is good, interesting missions. Like flying police chopper to help units on the ground. Or fly as an aerial tour pilot. No, it won't make Flight a worthy successor of MSFS, but it will be just another good flightsim we fly every now and then.
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#3517547 - 02/13/12 11:41 AM
Re: Microsoft Flight boss on "rebooting franchise"
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I think they fall for two huge miscalculations.
1st, having the choice between X-plane and FS, most flight simmers preferred FS due to the easiness by which to change and add content. The argument is the great modular structure that allows users to replace everything: local sceneries and airports, weather textures and clouds, whole continental design, 3D exterior models, flightdeck modules. Not only seems flight not to offer the technical ability to allow that, it would also violate their business model. And for quite some users, FS was more about experimenting and creating new planes and sceneries, than flying themselves. For them, it was what the small miniature railway in the cellar has been for our fathers - a work constantly going on,l never finished. The travel is the goal.
2nd, there have been occasional small little flight games focussing on for example rescue helicopters or traffic monitoring - and they all remained to stay as that: small little flight games, they were not any noticably successful, nor were taken note of by a wide public. They popped up, disappeared relatively quickly, and the speed by which they usually enter the smile price stage of their shelf lives, tells something on how popular they were - not very.
Flight's argument seems to be exclusively the eye fodder provided the landscape. But even that argument already is being rivalled by - Google. What Flight seems to offer in principle is the flight "simulator" included in Google Earth. Maybe a bit more polished and with better flight dynamics, weather engine, day-night-cycle, but in principle that's what Flight seems to be: a polished Google Earth/Flight. Just that Google Earth offers you the whole globe. How often do you use Google Earth-Flight Simulator? Where was the challenge in flying it? Right - there was none.
The challenge provided by a civilian flight simulator is to operate the cockpit. That'S what it is about. Not to start at point A and get to point B. It either is successful in providing that challenge - or it is not.
Personally, I never made use of the missions in FSX. It'S not my taste and not my way of operating FS. I am with the PMDG flight deck stuff. People like me - and we are not few, Flight1 and Aerosoft still make a good living by our buys - are at a total loss with Flight.
The whole concept of Fight to me is just a business stunt, or better, an advertising campaign for the pushed concept of cloud computing. Users are hesitent about cloud computing, and rightly so, while Microsoft wants to almost impose it on everybody. I have big issues with such concepts, like I already am critical of data online storage and security and DRM regading Steam, needs to stay online all the time, Facebook and other (anti)social networks. There may be a bright, social future laying ahead, although I somewhat doubt that, but well, I could be wrong. However, these schemes above are it CERTAINLY NOT. Their success come at a massive human price. But i stray off here, so: full stop.
It has already been said that Flight seems to copy game models for consoles and handhelds. If that is the sim model young players get used to, there is good reason to worry about the future of quality simulations on PC. Even if quality sims would get provided by some enthusiastic developer, people and customers less and lesser would even be able to appreciate it - they have been trained to embrace concepot more simplicstic. That way, the economic failure of such software projects already gets preprogrammed today.
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#3517798 - 02/13/12 05:52 PM
Re: Microsoft Flight boss on "rebooting franchise"
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I still don't think Flight is such a big "miss" like a lot of people think. I still see a lot of misinformed posts (anything that calls flight a console/arcade game). Anyone who says that obviously hasn't spent much/any time with the beta.
Flight is FSX with the following differences:
*edit* - probably shouldn't/can't say what they are. Bottom line - Flight isn't all flying through rings using the mouse like the trailers show.
So, if you like flying 747's from one continent to another, Flight isn't for you. If you like GA flying in smaller, more detailed areas, then I think you will like Flight. And, based on the success of ORBX (and similar companies/sceneries that speicialize in highly detailed smaller areas), I think there's a market there. Obviously, Microsoft (who probably has a lot of people that get paid a lot to do market research) think there's a mareket there as well.
I have spent the last week or so looking for any and all Hawaii scenery addons for FSX (pay-ware and free-ware) and trying to compare the best FSX Hawaii experience possible to the Flight Hawaii experience. I am eagerly awaiting Feb 29th.*
* - Actually (and ironically), I will be in Maui on Feb 29th! So, I eagerly await March 5th.
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#3517812 - 02/13/12 06:12 PM
Re: Microsoft Flight boss on "rebooting franchise"
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The challenge provided by a civilian flight simulator is to operate the cockpit. That'S what it is about.
... That is one of the challenges provided; not the only challenge provided. I think it would be a huge mistake to assume that that's the only reason someone fires up a flight simulator on their PC. I would even question the assumption that it is the reason the majority of folks fire up a flight simulator. As a real life pilot*, I never use flight simulators for the challenge of cockpit systems management. I enjoy things like nailing a challenging landing, exploring, completing a mission or a task (whether it's combat or civillian oriented), or just pretending that I'm flying and enjoying myself. Often I like to try stuff that would be dangerous or illegal in real life. I think I am part of Flights targat market, and I would guess there a lots of people like me out there. Keep in mind they may not be the most vocal members at SimHQ or AVSIM. * - The only reason I threw the pilot thing in there was to demonstrate that I appreciate the challenge (and fun) of cockpit systems management and the more tedious tasks associated with flying. I'm not just some "noob" who's idea of flying is launching a thousand missiles at a time while inverted pulling -25 g's in HAWX. I don't think that me being a pilot makes my opinion on Flight worth more than the opinion of any other flight sim veteran.
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#3517824 - 02/13/12 06:30 PM
Re: Microsoft Flight boss on "rebooting franchise"
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The thing that worries me most about MS Flight is the lack of a world wide map. That's the most disappointing thing of all. Yeah. That's the one thing that will keep FSX on my hard drive for a while. But, after having the ORBX PNW Demo, PW Carribean Sceneries, and BlueSkyScenery stuff installed recently, I've found that the default FSX scenery in a lot of areas just doesn't look good enough. The defaul landclass and autogen can look really weird in places that didn't get some special attention. So, I'm only flying right now in areas I have addon scenery installed for. Therefore, the lack the entire world in Flight doesn't really bother me.
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