Don't buy Elite: Dangerous

[Bereta_Eder]

Sorry it was first encounters so elite 3 (not elite 2) and I played it on the PC.
Hm.. maybe there was a workaround about the autopilot

[Provost Harrison]

Such a game is ideal for teaching a young man the virtue of patience. After all, something eventually happens, if you wait long enough.

Anyway I have lavished a thanks on HC for the warning.

Yes, usually a blue screen of death

[Sprayber]

It's shocking that the space combat genre has been so neglected. The original TIE Fighter has still never been bettered.

I lost a significant amount of sleep because of TIE Fighter. One of the few games that I purchased more than one disc.

[Bugs ****ing Bunny]

It was great. The depth of gameplay was glorious, and it was made with so much love.

[Dinner]

I have extremely fond memories of the X-Wing/TIE Fighter series and would definitely buy it if they came out with a new version.

[Proteus_MST]

In all my hundreds of flight sim hours I'm pretty sure I never actually flew from one city to another, or even one airport to another, unless the airports were in the same city (LaGuardia to JFK for instance). I only ever did landings and takeoffs under different kinds of weather conditions and using different airplanes. You know, the part of flying that isn't just watching time tick by.

For me it´s the contrary ...
in Microsoft Flight Simulator 2000, 2004 and X I always started with a cold & dark cockpit (I should add that I almost always used commercial airliner addons that simulated almost all systems (for example from the MD-83 and the Boeing 777), meaning that it took 10+ minutes to start up the plane) and flew all the way from start to target airport, including taxiing to and from the runway.

On the other hand I never flew all too long distances ... most of the times distances that could be covered within an hour (for example Cologne or Düsseldorf to Zürich (and retour)) ... and thanks to the FMS also being simulated, most of the flight was done by computer, with me only having a busy time during starting/ascent and descent/landing
(the only time ever that I did something longer, i.e. a transatlantic flight with a Concorde (just with the stock one included in FS 2004 however, not an addon) turned into a catastrophe, thanks to the fact that I misjudged the distance I could cover with the fuel on board )


As for Elite: Dangeorus ... I like it ... especially due to the fact that it successfully tries to give us the whole Milky Way as playground ... with many named nebulae, stars and planets being where you would expect them

[Hauldren Collider]

I also did my fair share of 9/11 re-enactments, mostly in Chicago because that's where the default airport was. The Sears Tower bore the brunt of my fury. I think that Flight Sim would sell better if it did more than just stop dead and say "CRASHED!" and instead had horrible explosions and burning buildings and such.

[OneFootInTheGrave]

Right now docking at Asher Gateway

[C0ckney]

oh...suits you, sir.

[Boris Godunov]

It's shocking that the space combat genre has been so neglected. The original TIE Fighter has still never been bettered.

The best non-strategy game I've ever played, hands down.

[kentonio]

The best non-strategy game I've ever played, hands down.

Someone clearly never played Speedball 2 or Dungeon Master.

[Bugs ****ing Bunny]

I've played both of those, and TIE Fighter was better.

[kentonio]

Lies.

[N35t0r]

I also did my fair share of 9/11 re-enactments, mostly in Chicago because that's where the default airport was. The Sears Tower bore the brunt of my fury. I think that Flight Sim would sell better if it did more than just stop dead and say "CRASHED!" and instead had horrible explosions and burning buildings and such.

I can't remember the FS version, but the one i played for a while at a friends' did that for large airliners, but showed you a crash for the smaller planes, so we competed for who could make debris take the langest to fall back (it was mostly a wheel).

[Sava]

HC called it "Sears Tower"