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Flight Simulators

#1 Post by Ghost_Rider » Thu May 05, 2005 2:05 am

Just wanted to know if anyone has played a good flight simulator recently.  I'm looking for suggestions on PC game flight simulators, I'd like to get a fairly new one.  The last one I bought is ancient now.

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#2 Post by Klytos » Thu May 05, 2005 2:16 am

Last one I bought was Microsoft's Flight Simulator, that was last year so it's probably been superceeded by now. I enjoy it, though I don't get much of a chance to play it.

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#3 Post by Boogeyman » Thu May 05, 2005 4:13 am

Same here.

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#4 Post by Jafar » Thu May 05, 2005 6:57 am

X-wing.
Tie Fighter.
X-wing VS Tie Fighter.
X-wing Alliance.

Need I say more? :p

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#5 Post by RealRelight » Thu May 05, 2005 11:13 pm

Hah! Sweet! Jafar, I was thinking exactly the same thing!

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#6 Post by Jafar » Fri May 06, 2005 12:37 am

Great minds think alike, ya know. ;)

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#7 Post by Ghost_Rider » Fri May 06, 2005 3:10 am

I thought X-Wing was a pretty old game, from the early 90's?  Or maybe I'm confusing it with Wing Commander.

The flight simulators I have are all from the early to mid 90's and so are not really "up-to-speed" with the hardware of today.  I think the maximum recommended processor on them is a 486 25MHz PC.   8o

I'm looking for something that's just come out in the past couple of years.  I'll check out those X-Wing games.

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#8 Post by Kloreep » Fri May 06, 2005 4:51 am

There were later remakes of X-Wing and TIE Fighter for Win95, with updated graphics. I have those versions; TIE Fighter is probably one of the best space combat sims I've played. :)

X-Wing Alliance was made in the early 2000s IIRC. It's pretty good too. Make sure to get the X-Wing Alliance Upgrade packs with new, more detailed models (assuming your bandwidth and hardware is up to it)

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#9 Post by Ghost_Rider » Sun May 08, 2005 4:05 am

Cool, I'll check those out.  Thanks for the info guys!

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