Soya, the man of FSX HD resolutions
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no offence soya, but what do you get from the game?
i don't mean yourself personally but what do you do? fly around aimlessly or does the game give you missions or task to do in the game?
never played it hope i didn't offend
No offence taken at all and it is indeed a valid question. Devrij added some good comments and his points should be read too (thanks for that Devrij).
I guess the first thing to say that it is not game, or at least I personally would not classify it as a game, it is a flight sim. So if you have no or little interest in flying or anything to do with flying, then this will have no appeal to you. Also, I think flight sims tend to appeal to the older and more mature PC crowd. Like myself for-instance, I have been playing video games since the day of Pong and continued when the PCs first appeared commercially on the market. Nowadays, even though I still play the occasional game, they just don't hold any appeal or my interest for very long. So @3 years ago I discovered Flight Sim X, it was not love at first sight, but I enjoyed messing around with it occasionally. As I learned more about it and got more involved what the FS community has to offer and tried out some freeware/payware 3rd party addon, I got drawn into it more and more.
In the end there is not 1 word or sentence to describe the appeal of flight simming, I guess to each his own in a sorta way. It may appeal to you, it may not, one of the reasons I also got into FSX was due to the many excellent screen shots I have seen in the past. I wanted to see that on my PC and eventually I did and been there every since plus now I do my own shots to perhaps inspire others to see what FSX is all about.
As Devrij said so well, there is many many things you can do in FSX and still more is added as more 3rd party stuff is added every day/week/month/year and many are getting better looking and add more complex things in FSX which you could never do when this product came out many years ago.
Can you drop bombs on practise ranges or shoot drone targets with the military planes? Also, can you have random malfunctions such as bird strike, engine flameout and undercarriage jams?
It is not a combat sim but you can fly very complex made military aircraft. There certain are many aircraft out there that support aircraft malfunctions, there is the basic list of malfunctions that run through FSX options itself which cover all aircraft but certain 3rd party addons go way beyond that. One that spring to mind is Accusim's B-17 (plus some others) addons, its is incredibly indepth and the malfunctions go so indept that one of them is steaming up of the internal cockpit (you can visually see condensation build up on your cockpit windows and instruments) if you do not set the correct ventilation or you start to black out as you gain altitude and do not set proper oxygen levels etc etc.
Like I said, FSX is not for everyone, it does take time and patience to get into plus a small investment to get the basic hardware/software. But once the flight sim bug hits you, it can take years of joy/learning and involvement to be cured from it, sometimes it is for life! (I certainly am looking forward to many years of continued FS use, there is still so much to see and learn!)
