With just a few add-ons you can create your very own Flight Simulator 11 a year or so before the real sim comes along. Boomtown.net has posted a feature looking at some of the best expansions currently available for the Microsoft sim.
From the article: "Active Sky Advanced ensures that the weather where you fly matches the real world weather conditions there as much as possible. It does much more than that though, it enables you to fly in weather conditions from past dates, simulates hurricanes, allows you to drag and drop weather conditions onto the map and check flight plans against weather conditions."
Microsoft Flight Simulator is a game that you have to play to understand just how incredible of an experience it is.
Fantastic in game detail! I am having a blast with this. Can't wait for the Top Gun DLC.
It’s a really refreshing change from the normal games I play , quite therapeutic, set a flight line, power down the engine and fly over parts of the world at 300 foot ..
there are a few places that are lacking a lot of detail for obvious reasons like Area 51 , some of the German beach fortifications on Normandy beach are showing up as houses , and there was also a van parked outside my house on the day the photography was done and it’s also showing up as a house in the middle of the road , but it’s all good, I’m loving it …
Yeah paid reviews by MS. Who would want to play this dumb game right? MS haz no gaem.
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LOL.
Sony releases something different like Dreams.... Wow, what innovation!
Microsoft releases something different with Flight Simulator.... MS haz no gaem.
Seriously. This may not be a game subject area you are interested in, so the big question I would have is why bother commenting? Personally, I spent a few hours on PC with it, and it was kind of cool. Not something I will play hundreds of hours, but definitely something I will come back to from time to time for something different then action-adventures, shooters, twin stick shooters, and RPGs.
Neo, "I spent a few hours on PC with it, and it was kind of cool." is exactly why giving this kind-of-game-like-software a 10/10 is silly. It's pretty much how I feel about it. I was super hyped, bought it, played for a few hours, got incredibly bored. I loaded it up sporadically a few more times, each time having a little less fun. I eventually removed it from my computer because it wasn't worth it. "10/10"? No. THAT is LOL.
I got this game day 0 on PC. Its not THAT great. It's OK, but the building generation is often hilarious/bad. It's also hugely inconsistent graphically, which is sort of jarring at times. I appreciate what they did, but its not somehow a perfect game, in fact it legitimately feels like 90% tech demo and 10% game at best. (im fine with that, i upgraded to 32gb of ram just for this game). Also, after you fly around all of the places you know, the fun sort of ends. I still come back occasionally, but meh.
A case of love it or hate it. In my case when I tried it on pc it takes a bit too much consentration and learning to actually have quick fun. Also can't really keep over 100 gig game in a hard drive to just fly couple times a week somewhere for a moment. Not for me.
Replies(3)To me, this is a diversity game. There aren't necessarily millions that want to play it, but there is a crowd, and on consoles you can only play it on one console.
Returnal is much the same. It isn't a massive crowd, but if you wanna play a rogue-like game, you can't get that on XB Series as next gen title yet.
The World In Even More Hands.
There are so many flying accessories made for the MFS X that you can probably find a counterpart for every instrument on a real cockpit.
The authors of this piece does that, showing all the equipment you can buy for MFS X to recreate a real plane cockpit in front of your PC.
