Recent content by srm79

Long time fan of the series here. I'm around 40 hours in (no spoilers, I promise), and I haven't played one this good since FF VII. From the very start it's obvious that you're in one of the most incredible game worlds you've ever seen. It's been painstakingly put together with the same...

If you're going to go to the effort of learning the Sim mode in War Thunder, you might enjoy IL2: 1946. The former is basically a much easier, much leaner and stripped down derivative of the latter. It's by the same original developers, but whereas War Thunder is a grind-fest to get new planes...

The best flight sims out there are actually a fair age now. If World War 2 is your bag, try the excellent IL2: 1946. It's essentially the entire IL2-Sturmovik series plus all the expansions in one handy pack. The difficulty is massively customisable, especially with the latest patches...

Unless you're Indiana Jones, obviously.

The first time I loaded up 3D Stunt Rider on the brand new Amstrad CPC464 my granddad had just brought home. Jumping a motorbike over London buses? Epic! (I was 5.) Playing Operation: Wolf in two player with my friend, sharing a keyboard. Discovering 3.5" floppy disks for the first time...

If it didn't load, the culprit was usually a kink in the tape where the "Play" button had been left pressed when the tape stopped. It would basically bugger the last line of code and you'd get a variation on the dreaded Read Error A message (That was on the Amstrad CPC464, although the Sinclair...

Combat Mission 2: Barbarossa To Berlin and Combat Mission: Afrika Korps[i/] are a pair of fairly ancient but utterly brilliant WW2 turn based tactical games. Insanely complicated but utterly brilliant and between them and the [i]European Theatre of Operations mod for CM:AK they cover almost...

When I were a lad, all we had were cassette tapes. You waited almost as long for some games to load then as you do waiting for them to download now. Unless you're the OP. Even tapes didn't take that long. Unless you had a C64 which was slow as fuck. It was also the only computer in history...

Still one of my all time favourite games. I still dust off my old Saitek joystick once in a blue moon and fire up the X-Wing/TIE Fighter games!

I love Codemasters' Formula 1 20xx series, and loved their spiritual predecessor (Psygnosis' excellent Formula 1 series) so much that the reason I bought my first PlayStation in 1996 was mainly to play the original Formula 1. Sure there had been F1 games before, but usually pure arcade efforts...

I thought it was pretty good, but then I hadn't followed its development much and hadn't paid any attention to the hype. I bought it more or less on a whim because there were hardly any games for the PS4 and I wanted a new game to play. (NB: This approach works every time and has never let me...

But it was on the internet, and therefore must be true. Now where's my tinfoil hat?

This. Because fuck you, tank! [http://s19.photobucket.com/user/baw0981/media/rpg-7-launcher.gif.html] Oh, wait... OT: Fallout, although I can never quite pick between 3 and New Vegas.

I did that in a Heinkel He-111 once. Without the rudder control! Fun times...

Nope. Battlefield 4 is streets ahead of its PS3 counterpart, and I play it pretty much daily. Wolfentstein was one of the best games I've played in a long time, KillZone: Shadow Fall was fantastic, I highly enjoyed Tomb Raider, having never played it on the PS3 and I'm getting a lot of mileage...