I don't "get" simulation
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I used to love flight sims.
It's like really flying the plane, but without the risk of death/horrible injuries and you don't have to buy the plane or pay for the fuel or pay to keep the plane in working order.
That and you can have fun crashing the plane. _>
It's like really flying the plane, but without the risk of death/horrible injuries and you don't have to buy the plane or pay for the fuel or pay to keep the plane in working order.
That and you can have fun crashing the plane. _>
I play flight sims because they help me understand flight techniques and theory in practice, without the risk of me plummeting thousands of feet to my death if I happen the screw up.
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I'm not a big fan either. I remember there was a submarine sim a while ago and the manual was over 500 pages long ><
Flight Simulators offer decent tutorial and practice to aspiring pilots, and "armateurs"(as in Plane Lovers/freaks), so I really don't see what's wrong with that. Flying a F-22 is certainly not as flashy or easy as Ace Combat makes it out to be, but, it's certainly in the line of wonderful games that I probably won't bother to master like Lock On which is fantastic in it's own ways.
Simulators are not my cup of tea, with the exception of Sci-fi ones, Mechwarriors or Space Sims (X Series), and Operation Flashpoint.
Simulators are not my cup of tea, with the exception of Sci-fi ones, Mechwarriors or Space Sims (X Series), and Operation Flashpoint.
I love Microsoft Flight Simulator. It's incredibly realistic (I fly planes often, mostly Cessnas, and they captured the feel PERFECTLY).
The other sim I loved was Silent Hunter. Nothing beats hearing your crewmen saying "Firing tube one, sir" and then watching the torpedo hit that merchant you've been tailiing for hours (of course, you can compress time to up to 1024 times faster, although you're limited to 8 in the vicinity of a boat, and 2 if you're being attacked)
The other sim I loved was Silent Hunter. Nothing beats hearing your crewmen saying "Firing tube one, sir" and then watching the torpedo hit that merchant you've been tailiing for hours (of course, you can compress time to up to 1024 times faster, although you're limited to 8 in the vicinity of a boat, and 2 if you're being attacked)
Good simulation games allow you to be in a highly realistic scenario that you probably wouldn't get to experience. Real sims put off most gamers because they are initially very frustrating and choose realism over flashy graphics and accessible game mechanics. If you're ever looking for a sim that will kick your ass check out the Point of Attack series. It says right on the cover that it takes no shortcuts and 90% of gamers will hate it.
I played a JFK assassination simulation once. That was pretty interesting just to see how possible it was to actually fire off 3 rounds from the book depository.
I've been a "sim" fan since I played Gato on the Apple IIc. Why do I play them? It depends on the game. I like flight sims because I'm something of an airplane buff; flying a YB-70 from Offut to Arkhangelsk appeals to me in a way that sports games appeal to the people who follow that sort of stuff. (I assume.) I'm also a big fan of tank sims, and military sims in general; partly because- like most guys- I enjoy blowing things up, and sending a 120mm APFSDS round through a T-80U at 2km feeds that appetite wonderfully, as does splashing a flight of Mig-23s with a single F-15C or sending a cruiser to the bottom. But military sims usually allow a second kind of fun that others don't: the sandbox. I'm able to play out scenarios. How would a company of Bradleys hold up against a battalion of BMPs? Can a Tu-160 punch through a Patriot belt, or does it need SEAD support? And so forth.
If that sounds weird to you, consider those sport fans again, endlessly arguing over whether the '68 Dodgers could defeat the '77 Yankees or how much of a difference the home field advantage meant in the finals last year.
If that sounds weird to you, consider those sport fans again, endlessly arguing over whether the '68 Dodgers could defeat the '77 Yankees or how much of a difference the home field advantage meant in the finals last year.
I could've shaved the last half of my comment off by saying "Yeah, what this guys said."Scolar Visari said:
I think I like sim games because they really tend not to be brain dead like the shooters I play.
It's a glimpse into something i'm not going to take the time to do irl. I like documentries too. Neither sim games or documentries take up a significant portion of my gaming/viewing but they show you things, make you think and educate you in new areas which don't frequent my life often.
It's a glimpse into something i'm not going to take the time to do irl. I like documentries too. Neither sim games or documentries take up a significant portion of my gaming/viewing but they show you things, make you think and educate you in new areas which don't frequent my life often.
Hmm...*looks at own username*
I love games that simulate things that due to lack of money, skills, or time I don't get to do in real life. Besides the obvious MS Flight Sim (which I play, but not nearly on the enthusiast level of some virtual pilots), I'm a particularly big fan of business/tycoon-type sims and city builders. I love anything that I myself create when it comes to video games, and the more of a sense I have that I built/tweaked/recruited whatever's on the screen, the more personally involved and immersed I become.
I buy a new sports game only after I've beaten the last one absolutely to death and run up against the limits of its franchise mode (most football and basketball games seem to cap at 30 seasons). By the time I'm into Year 5 or 6 (in a pro game) or Year 3 (in a college game), just about everyone in the lineup has no real-life counterpart because they were generated by the game's rookie draft.
I find pre-manufactured characters and settings dull. I think Grand Theft Auto 3 is the series' best game mostly because your character is what you make of him; it's the most wide-open game of them all and leaves the most to the player's imagination. Morrowind and Oblivion fall into this category as well; that character I'm controlling isn't some story writer's (or worse, marketing executive's) idea of what I should be (which is one reason I really don't like JRPGs), but rather it is a character whose motives and desires are mine and mine alone.
I love games that simulate things that due to lack of money, skills, or time I don't get to do in real life. Besides the obvious MS Flight Sim (which I play, but not nearly on the enthusiast level of some virtual pilots), I'm a particularly big fan of business/tycoon-type sims and city builders. I love anything that I myself create when it comes to video games, and the more of a sense I have that I built/tweaked/recruited whatever's on the screen, the more personally involved and immersed I become.
I buy a new sports game only after I've beaten the last one absolutely to death and run up against the limits of its franchise mode (most football and basketball games seem to cap at 30 seasons). By the time I'm into Year 5 or 6 (in a pro game) or Year 3 (in a college game), just about everyone in the lineup has no real-life counterpart because they were generated by the game's rookie draft.
I find pre-manufactured characters and settings dull. I think Grand Theft Auto 3 is the series' best game mostly because your character is what you make of him; it's the most wide-open game of them all and leaves the most to the player's imagination. Morrowind and Oblivion fall into this category as well; that character I'm controlling isn't some story writer's (or worse, marketing executive's) idea of what I should be (which is one reason I really don't like JRPGs), but rather it is a character whose motives and desires are mine and mine alone.
Playing simulations make meel feel like a man. Deleting all of my sims toilets and making a maze of fridges and setting the house on fire with no doors is pure fun. But I love simulations because Im too lazy to do have the crap i do in these games.