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    Death of flight simulators?

    I read this comment on IGN's Top 25 PC Games of all time with regards to Falcon 4.0:

    This incredibly ambitious flight sim represents the last effort by a major publisher to develop a huge budget, high fidelity, realistic combat flight simulator... It's also safe to say that the odds that we'll ever see its like again are slim to none.
    It seems that Microsoft has ended the Flight Simulator line of games and I don't recall any realistic flight simulators to come out in nearly a decade.

    Why is this? Why is the genre dead? I always thought that all the improvements in graphics over the years would only make flight simulators more attractive.
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    • #3
      they are boring.
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      • #4
        Also they teach terrists to fly planes into buildings.
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          True, and that's a pretty desperate way to make a game not boring.
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          • #6
            I actually played a ton of microsoft's flight simulator when I was younger. Dunno why, I enjoyed it. I didn't just crash the planes either , I actually got pretty good at flying them.
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            • #7
              What about the combat flight simulators? Red Baron, Falcon, European Air War, etc. were all very popular but there doesn't seem to be any recent realistic combat flight simulators (so not counting HAWX, etc.). Il-2 is almost 9 years old already, for example.
              "Flutie was better than Kelly, Elway, Esiason and Cunningham." - Ben Kenobi
              "I have nothing against Wilson, but he's nowhere near the same calibre of QB as Flutie. Flutie threw for 5k+ yards in the CFL." -Ben Kenobi

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              • #8
                Let's not forget Wing Commander.
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                • #9
                  Flight Simulator games sucks.
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                  • #10
                    Heretic! Red Baron and European Air War were cool
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