WTF is wrong with this generation?

[Philipp_Thomsen]

Man, I'm getting more and more pissed off and disappointed as the years go bye, waiting that someday SOMETHING will come out and save the day, but I just keep getting disappointed.

I'm talking about simulators vs action-games.

I hate action-games, I love simulators. Action-games are for kids.

I played TopGun - Fire at will in my pc with joystick back when I was 16, that was 1996 if Im not mistaken. That was a true simulator. I played and played for years till my joystick broke, and that was pure satisfaction.

Now, years later, I hear about a new release: TopGun - Hard Lock. I take a look at the trailer and the graphics are fantastic, and I can already feel my hand itching go buy a new joystick. But after watching another video with the preview of the game, I not only feel disappointed, frustrated, but ANGRY!

First off... there's no cockpit view. The plane defies the laws of physics and moves like it's on rails. Then the guy narrating the video says "... and players don't have to worry about running out of missiles, they are infinite. They recharge over-time and..." and that was then I closed the video without watching the rest.

Companies are making games for KIDS, and screw the adults who likes simulators. What a waste of programming.

The worst part came when I was surfing the net looking for people that agreed with my point of view. I found many, MANY, people saying "if it's an action-oriented-game, I'm buying it.... If it's a sim, I'll pass... "

It's utter infuriating!

Seems like I will never again have the pleasure of sweating my hands in miraculous maneuvers to avoid danger, never again having the pleasure of worrying about fuel consumption and missile loadout in a mission, never again go thru the pleasure of the difficulty of landing a F-14 in a aircraft-carrier, never again have the pleasure of the difficulty of flying-school and the hard missions, the pleasure of trying to land a damaged plane...

To read things like "The right analog control makes your plane go up and down, left or right, while the left analog control makes your plane do barrel rolls."

The programmers must be retarded... I'm not being rhetorical... I mean REALLY retarded, drooling on their keyboards while writing the code.

This is preposterous!