• Psaldorn@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    The falcon 4.0 manual was quite the bedtime reading. Best forearm muscle builder out there.

    Thing weighed a ton.

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    Air Combat (the og Ace Combat game) was a PS1 launch game in 1995. It’s crazy that it has an F-22 on the cover!

    The Army Men series was my guilty pleasure of games. Most of them weren’t too great but the world was just so cool to kid me. Army Men RTS and Air Attack were pretty damn good but Sarge’s Heroes 2 on PS2 will always give me nostalgic feels

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    Dunno what happened to the military flight sims. They were massive releases back then, but now there only seem to be sim enthusiasts recreating the Airbus A320 shuttle from Schipol to Hamburg.

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      The level of realism increased in some, such as DCS as warbond mentioned, decreased to super casual levels in others, like Ace Combat, and got weird in some, like War Thunder.

      The 80s and (early) 90s were before people who enjoyed flight sims realized that dogfights were essentially over. I remember the manual for F-15 Strike Eagle II having instructions on yo-yo turns, scissor turns, the proper flight angles to dodge missiles fired at you, and almost every time in game you would get into a turning fight. I don’t think that gameplay would fly with today’s players. Most of the interested parties aren’t like your football fans, either. They won’t buy “Pacific theater 1945 (XII Edition!)” from the store when they already have 11 others…

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    For all the F-16 enthusiasts that never played, or haven’t looked at the Falcon 3.0 or 4.0 games in ages, check out Falcon BMS

    Kinda sad that Command and Conquer isn’t in there, Red Alert definitely fits in

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    The Nerf Demolisher was released in 2014.

    The Chainblazer was released in 1994.

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    Oh man. The OG Rainbow Six was the most complex game I ever played as a child! Fun times repeating the first mission multiple times after all my agents or the hostages you’re meant to rescue keep getting killed.