#3151956 - 10/02/10 01:03 PM
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#3151959 - 10/06/10 11:20 PM
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Question concerning the second 'story' page. It is mildly confusing.
You make it sound like the bomb dropped by the level Kate was on the Oklahoma. This was the Arizona if I know my history and the 'picture' you have of course shows the bomb site on the Arizona (with the Vestal next to her). The Arizona isn't mentioned.
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#3151961 - 10/07/10 03:48 AM
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I guess that is where the confusion arises. It sounds a lot like the death of the Arizona, which of course was from a magazine explosion. The Oklahoma took several bomb hits but none was bad enough to make the ship a total writeoff. She of course could have been put back in service if they really wanted to but there was no reason to put a horribly damaged WW1 vintage Nevada class warship back into service so the OK ended up as scrap metal.
She did get the last laugh though, going down while under tow.
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#3151962 - 10/08/10 11:57 PM
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The list. The #$#%%^&!!! List. It's at ZERO items to go. Final mission tweaks. Finish Burma storyboards tonight. Almost ready to go. Here's a few shots from the mission Sandy Sandell. We almost skipped this. What a mistake that would have been. First the mission. Then a quote I love from Ed Rector taken from Dan Ford's book. Our sincere recommendation. We cannot do any story justice in writing. These men have already done it. Then, the First Pursuit swarming on the Lily bombers. You knocking one down. If you don't fly like Chennault said, you will get popped. Our new B5N2 pit which will be modified to go into the Ki-30 and Ki-51. Our redo of Geo's F6F pit for the F4F-3. Some shots of Davide Kliewer's submarine attack at Wake Island. And last, a shot from Phase Two. We are lining up Hinch's carriers at the dock for paint finally. They promise to be works of art. Back to work. No more 16-hour days after today. Banzai!
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#3151967 - 10/18/10 02:21 PM
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So is it still only for XP users or will Win7 owners get a shot at this game?
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#3151968 - 10/18/10 04:35 PM
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So is it still only for XP users or will Win7 owners get a shot at this game?
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#3151969 - 10/18/10 07:12 PM
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Am I the only one? I am not too impressed with the graphics. I am sure the gameply is great but I guess I am spoiled by BOP and Flaming Cliffs.
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#3151971 - 10/19/10 01:59 AM
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I played EAW long after it was considered a graphic beauty (was it ever a graphic beauty?) so gameplay has always been the biggest thing for me. As long as the game delivers good flight models, excellent game design and an all around fun experience and the graphics are secondary.
The graphics have to be good enough to help suspend the natural disbelief that we all have when we fire up a game.
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#3151972 - 10/20/10 02:01 AM
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We tell stories and this engine allows us to do that. If someone is looking to buy the best make-believe airplane, we can recommend a lot of choices. Our demographic has been from the beginning, people interested in history, military history and aviation history. In that venue, we will bump heads with any program written for normal-range computers.
I like your mindset. I think if more development houses would stick to this, we would have more "keeper" simulations and less need to rush out and buy the newest graphics card. There will always be the next greatest and latest graphics / physics engine. Those people are too busy making eye candy for the masses to care about the nuts and bolts that make make it a simulation. The graphics have to be good enough to help suspend the natural disbelief that we all have when we fire up a game. This is true, but at what point does your fun filter the disbelief. I still enjoy C ombat M ission B eyound O verlord. I am sure if I reloaded Falcon 3.0 onto the computer I keep for DOS games I would enjoy the campaign mode as much as I did back then. I bought my second mother board because 16Mhz was not enough for the best Falcon 3.0 could give. I learned my lesson of eye candy and Mhz after trying F3 on a 100 pentium.I hope they continue to develop there sims with minimal dependancy on eye candy.
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