I've always liked the genre, but never had the games myself.
I always liked Microsoft Flight Simulator, but I suck at it hard. I like it tho, I like the mood of it, I love getting a big jetliner, and just take my time, and pretend I'm a raeael pilot :I!
Since I cannot land for shit, I decided to do that tutorial they got.
It started well - "accellerate now!" "okay
" "now move your joystick gently to lift the plane!" "Eeeeh... what fuckin joystick :I you JUST pointed out that this tutorial will cover keyboard as well!" "please, move your joystick gently, or crash in a fiery hell." "D:"
I figured it out tho, and moved on to stage 2 of the tutorial. I am allready in the air now, and supposed to fly through hoops. Litterally. Is this normal? Is this how pilots are trained?
Obviously, I merely touched the controls, and plummeted to my death.
My successor, after mourning my passing, managed to complete stage 2 of the training, but only barely, haphazardly flying sideways through angles, and going into a nosedive just in time to complete the mission, and recieve a "Well done!" compliment. Americans, they really should learn to give more constructive criticism, so that I could work with those death-plummets a bit.
Course 3 consisted of chasing 3 hot air balloons. Same as above. I manage to almost accidentally fly by them all, microtapping the controls like a frenetic. This still resulted in several moments of loss of control, sideways spinning, and whatnot.
"Now land on the airstrip" OH GOODIE! "If you want a more challenging - " NO, I DON'T! "you can try landing on the little grass-lawns next to the airport. Those are grassy airstrips!" ARE THEY? NIFTY! FOR THOSE WHO LIKE GRASS!
I crashed. I managed to even close in to the airport, but my angle was all wrong, in order to land I woulda had to take a whole circle around and move in again. Besides, the guide kept misguiding me "You are probably doing fine, and coming in for landing, as per schedule. Now is the time to throttle down. Are you listening? Throttle down I said!"
*throttles down from sky high. plummets to death*
*ragequit*
Then I got Euro Truck Simulator 2, I recently added a mod that lets me drive past 90 kmph, plus I keep expanding my music folder there, and for a half-mindless exercise, this is a fun game. However, mindless only in the sense that you don't have to do or think much, but you cannot blink for even a second, with motorways, high speeds, near-impossibility to stop a truck within 200 metres, it is easy to be taken by surprise by a rapidly incoming road-crossing or something. I started panickedly breaking far away, parking break slammed, but it was rainy, so I slid like a figurescater, plowed two cars out of my way.
Then I tried to look for Microsoft Space Simulator, I read the name, and got stars in my eyes, but apparently its quite old, and very outdated graphics wise. This is a huge pity, because it seems like an awesome simulator to play with!
Afaik, this is the most recent space simulator that tries to be realistic, and does not include sci-fi stuff.
I also want to try the bus simulator, but I'm not quite ready yet. I'm peculiar like that. But it does look interesting.
I have also watched a friend play that crab-fishing game, based on the Discovery Channel series. As much as we giggled at his fishing-game, it did look kindov relaxing, and I often wanted to give it a shot myself.
Any good simulators I'm missing out on? Any own experiences with the genre?
I always liked Microsoft Flight Simulator, but I suck at it hard. I like it tho, I like the mood of it, I love getting a big jetliner, and just take my time, and pretend I'm a raeael pilot :I!
Since I cannot land for shit, I decided to do that tutorial they got.
It started well - "accellerate now!" "okay
" "now move your joystick gently to lift the plane!" "Eeeeh... what fuckin joystick :I you JUST pointed out that this tutorial will cover keyboard as well!" "please, move your joystick gently, or crash in a fiery hell." "D:"I figured it out tho, and moved on to stage 2 of the tutorial. I am allready in the air now, and supposed to fly through hoops. Litterally. Is this normal? Is this how pilots are trained?
Obviously, I merely touched the controls, and plummeted to my death.
My successor, after mourning my passing, managed to complete stage 2 of the training, but only barely, haphazardly flying sideways through angles, and going into a nosedive just in time to complete the mission, and recieve a "Well done!" compliment. Americans, they really should learn to give more constructive criticism, so that I could work with those death-plummets a bit.
Course 3 consisted of chasing 3 hot air balloons. Same as above. I manage to almost accidentally fly by them all, microtapping the controls like a frenetic. This still resulted in several moments of loss of control, sideways spinning, and whatnot.
"Now land on the airstrip" OH GOODIE! "If you want a more challenging - " NO, I DON'T! "you can try landing on the little grass-lawns next to the airport. Those are grassy airstrips!" ARE THEY? NIFTY! FOR THOSE WHO LIKE GRASS!
I crashed. I managed to even close in to the airport, but my angle was all wrong, in order to land I woulda had to take a whole circle around and move in again. Besides, the guide kept misguiding me "You are probably doing fine, and coming in for landing, as per schedule. Now is the time to throttle down. Are you listening? Throttle down I said!"
*throttles down from sky high. plummets to death*
*ragequit*
Then I got Euro Truck Simulator 2, I recently added a mod that lets me drive past 90 kmph, plus I keep expanding my music folder there, and for a half-mindless exercise, this is a fun game. However, mindless only in the sense that you don't have to do or think much, but you cannot blink for even a second, with motorways, high speeds, near-impossibility to stop a truck within 200 metres, it is easy to be taken by surprise by a rapidly incoming road-crossing or something. I started panickedly breaking far away, parking break slammed, but it was rainy, so I slid like a figurescater, plowed two cars out of my way.
Then I tried to look for Microsoft Space Simulator, I read the name, and got stars in my eyes, but apparently its quite old, and very outdated graphics wise. This is a huge pity, because it seems like an awesome simulator to play with!
Afaik, this is the most recent space simulator that tries to be realistic, and does not include sci-fi stuff.
I also want to try the bus simulator, but I'm not quite ready yet. I'm peculiar like that. But it does look interesting.
I have also watched a friend play that crab-fishing game, based on the Discovery Channel series. As much as we giggled at his fishing-game, it did look kindov relaxing, and I often wanted to give it a shot myself.
Any good simulators I'm missing out on? Any own experiences with the genre?
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