10.07.2011, 04:18
What you all say makes a lot of sense; yet IMO the future of FS isn't totally dark.
First of all, marketing reasons relegate "realistic" sims to a niche, true, but other marketing reasons suggest that they will somehow survive. As long as there are customers asking for a specific product, few as they might be, someone will be selling it (ask sexy shop owners! :mrgreen: )
Then, if developers are currently focused on eye-candy stuff, that can be ok, IF flight models, even not evolving, keep up to current standards without backwards steps. I mean, I haven't tried SOW:BOB yet but, should I find it's nothing more than a IL-2 in brand new clothes, I wouldn't be disappointed. Should it be something LESS than that, I WOULD be disappointed! :evil: (of course, SOW is too "young" to allow for a real comparison with IL-2).
Last (but not least), rather than playing 100 mediocre flight sims, or 10 good flight sims, I prefer to play just one GREAT flight sim (as long as there's no "perfect" flight sim), and stick with it.
I'm having great fun with IL-2 since 10 years and I'm not done yet. If it takes a decade to have a game that can actually be on the same level or better, That's ok for me.
First of all, marketing reasons relegate "realistic" sims to a niche, true, but other marketing reasons suggest that they will somehow survive. As long as there are customers asking for a specific product, few as they might be, someone will be selling it (ask sexy shop owners! :mrgreen: )
Then, if developers are currently focused on eye-candy stuff, that can be ok, IF flight models, even not evolving, keep up to current standards without backwards steps. I mean, I haven't tried SOW:BOB yet but, should I find it's nothing more than a IL-2 in brand new clothes, I wouldn't be disappointed. Should it be something LESS than that, I WOULD be disappointed! :evil: (of course, SOW is too "young" to allow for a real comparison with IL-2).
Last (but not least), rather than playing 100 mediocre flight sims, or 10 good flight sims, I prefer to play just one GREAT flight sim (as long as there's no "perfect" flight sim), and stick with it.
I'm having great fun with IL-2 since 10 years and I'm not done yet. If it takes a decade to have a game that can actually be on the same level or better, That's ok for me.