Microsoft to cease flight sims and age of empire games
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For your second day here i would advise you to calm down.
It is the general consensus that FS9 > FSX, mainly due to the sheer amount of mods available. Granted FSX is catching up, but FS9 still dominates the flight sim world.
Its the general consensus that those still mucking about in the past, and refuse to move on are FS9 users.
You dont get much traffic on Avsim or such sites any more, aye?
FSX Add Ons now dominate the after market FS Sim world and have for a while.
Just ask Aerosoft, they are the biggest FS add on company, ever.
Deal with it.
(despite my fewer posts than you)
FSX was the best selling series of the franchise according to them, it was the first one in decades they made an official add on for and it gained two Service Patches, why exactly Microsoft chose to cull it and the well developed TS2 is a mystery to all. Many think it was a knee jerk reaction to the Credit Crunch, but this series is older than MS's own Window's OS series and was a favourite of Bill Gates and you can all draw your own conclusions about that.
Meanwhile, here in the now, we have what we have.
I'm lucky enough to be testing some new FS hardware for FSX, and I can tell you, the future looks very good.
The future add-on software side for FSX is still staggeringly good too, with the likes of the Connie and Catalina from certain company's coming soon.
I do still hope MS change their minds soon though, with the likes of Austin Meyer's X-Plane ever chipping at their heels and catching up fast, they may be shooting themselves in the foot with this very unwise decision.
X-Plane 9 is ever looking like a viable option, and this was released before the downfall of ACE's could ever have been known about.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Uv9tpoz5co
I'm growing to like X-Plane 9 very much.
Aoe3 has failed simply because it went from at least a bit historically authentic to fantasy land... Plus the usual 2d>3d transition errors.
FSX I don't know, perhaps fs2k4 was more capable with mods while running nice and smooth rather than grinding your system down to a halt. like FSX did.
How many players actually play AOE3 online ? Because on just IGzones there are more than 800 people usually playing age of empires II.
FSX I don't know, perhaps fs2k4 was more capable with mods while running nice and smooth rather than grinding your system down to a halt. like FSX did.
How many players actually play AOE3 online ? Because on just IGzones there are more than 800 people usually playing age of empires II.
FSX never lost them any money, it was their biggest seller of the series of all time. They made money on it.
I dont know about AO3?
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Re: Judging FSX against others in the series...
Having used all FS releases, going back to the BAO days even, my opinion is FS2000 and FSX were the biggest turkeys out of the lot of them (at release). However, FSX was hindered more on lack of optimisation. I prefer its flight model to FS9, etc. Its only now that hardware is catching up to run FSX at a decent speed with some options maxed. It still runs like a dog with everything maxed and complex addons running however...
Through all this, FSX did sell well though, and its succesor promised to be much better and was in development, although Train Sim 2 was first to be released later this year, and was looking fantasitc....but I guess now we'll never know.
Having used all FS releases, going back to the BAO days even, my opinion is FS2000 and FSX were the biggest turkeys out of the lot of them (at release). However, FSX was hindered more on lack of optimisation. I prefer its flight model to FS9, etc. Its only now that hardware is catching up to run FSX at a decent speed with some options maxed. It still runs like a dog with everything maxed and complex addons running however...
Through all this, FSX did sell well though, and its succesor promised to be much better and was in development, although Train Sim 2 was first to be released later this year, and was looking fantasitc....but I guess now we'll never know.
FSX was a hardware beatch when it came out, no doubt about that, but nowadays, on my E8400 @ 4GHz rig (built from components on OcUK I might add) I can get simply amazing framerates in Vista 64 SP1. Compared to some of the amazing hardware rigs I see users here with, most would have no problem running FSX at very high settings, so long as they are willing to do a little tuning.
I'd highly recomend NickM's tuning guide http://www.simforums.com/forums/forum_posts.asp?TID=29041
He's bang on the money there about pretty much everything to get FSX Flying, dont agree with him on the Nvidea stuff, the newer ATI 48** series cards do not suffer the slow down in clouds he mentions, but I've followed his guide and installation procedure taking in to account my ATI 4870's in Crossfire (Crossfire disabled for FSX) and I've never had a more leaner meaner FSX system in Vista 64 SP1 than I have just now, and I've tried it on Vista 32, XP32 and XP64.
Honestly ... I know many friends who moaned about FS9 when it was released because their FS2002 Add-ons were so prolific and could not go fwd to FS9 (better compatibility than FS2K to 2002, though) we could argue all day about the rights and wrongs and what could have been, but this really is the hear and now, this is what we have, and its very very good.
I've been doing FS since FS2, and followed all the other options as well, like the Flight Unlimited series and so on, we are always going to see users with rose tinted glasses, or those that simply wont or cant upgrade their hardware.
My system is honestly quite modest these days, but it fair plays FSX really well.
I say for those that have been sitting on the FSX fence, now is a good time to jump over.
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Just read the article, and this stood out...
Kinda shows how far we've come since 1982, doesn't it?
not really, it is 27 years ago.
I see your point though.
Its not a contest or point scoring exercise bud, I can see you are an enthusiast too.
I'm new here, but was saddened to see the same old jaded views you see on all general gaming forums, all over the net, RE: FSX vs FS9. 99% are ill informed or go by Chinese Whispers it seems.
Its really getting quite old.
I've stated my views quite clearly I hope, fair play to those that still like FS9, and if they think that's the end game, not a lot we can do to persuade them otherwise, I guess.
But having used FS9 for years and made the graduation from that to FSX, for me there is no going back, FS9 is so sterile in comparison ... but this is probably the wrong site/forum for in depth discussion of this topic anyway
Some people have spent a lot of money on FS9 add - ons and some are bitter they dont work with FSX ... and so on and so forth, the arguments are endless and always fruitless.
People will find a way to take a side, no matter what it is.
Me bad, wont be even looking at this thread again ... promise
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AOE2 was the best game ever created. The online gaming experience was one of the best I've come across. I spent so many hours of my childhood on that game.
I really hope if AOE4 is developed, it's based on similar gameplay to AOE2.
I really hope if AOE4 is developed, it's based on similar gameplay to AOE2.