Besides SH what's your all time favorite sim? (air, land or sea)

[Commie]

Secret Weapons of the Luftwaffe, followed by European Air War, Their finest Hour, Hind and Il-2 for air sims.

Operation Flashpoint as an infantry simulator(if it's allowed) followed by M1 Tank Platoon(first one).

Aces of the Deep for sea.

I know more modern sims are better, more realistic blah blah, but SWOTL, EAW, M1, Op Flash, Aces etc. just had a magic at the time of release for me that meant spending countless hours on them that I haven't done with more modern titles.

[sergei]

Really enjoyed IL-2 for a few years.

Real tricky to fly a plane with a beer and a cigarette on the go though.

So I always tend to come back to Subsims.

[Feuer Frei!]

Favourite sims, in no particular order:

• Aces of the Deep
• Silent Hunter 3 with or w/o GWX
• T34 vs Tiger
• Armored Fist 3
• UBM (SH4 add-on)

[Lognoreng]

IL2, Even tho i´m totally crap at it. Its still fun. Back in the days i also played WW2 online, and was mostly flying stuka bombers. Tons of fun.

Flashpoint and ARMA series are the game that covers infantry/armored combat. (Only BIstudios, not the new dragon rising franchise ripoff)

I also enjoy racing sims like GTR / Richard burns rally..

I have a hard time playing arcade style games for some reason. The more "realistic" the game, the better. I guess its because i like games with steep learning curve, It gives alot of satisfaction once you learned to master them =)

I do enjoy to play MW2 online for some reason. Doesn't get more arcade

[sergei]

Originally Posted by Lognoreng

IL2, Even tho i´m totally crap at it.

Same here Lognoreng.
If I didn't get shot down, and managed to actually land rather than crash I considered it a successful mission.

[speedbird]

Originally Posted by Commie

Operation Flashpoint as an infantry simulator(if it's allowed)

Glad to hear somebody appreciates Operation Flashpoint as what it is instead of saying Call of Duty is much better...

[Sammi79]

Air : Wings of Prey (funny title - bad translation I guess) on realistic mode it is really breathtaking + you can fly hurricanes and spitz aswell as me109s+JU87s

Land : Operation Flashpoint Resistance + WWII mods for that realistic infantry experience

Sea : Silent Hunter 4 + Op Monsun and full manual targetting 100% realism, always trying to recreate das boot (succeeding regularly)

anyway, those are my personal favourites

[Commie]

Originally Posted by speedbird

Glad to hear somebody appreciates Operation Flashpoint as what it is instead of saying Call of Duty is much better...

Don't get me started on Op Flash! The times I spent just crawling and hiding in the bushes, peering through binoculars for threats, just to make a dash for the next tree line....or the mad chaos of combat where you just open up in the general direction of the enemy and then run hell for leather with your squad for cover not knowing if the next whizzing bullet you hear will be the one that gets you. Even Arma II didn't have that feeling. It felt too Ghost Recon like. I just wanted to be a grunt(preferably Soviet/Russian ) and not the trend these days where you're always some uber-equipped SpecOps killer.

[BigBANGtheory]

Gunship by Microprose (on the 128k Spectrum)

[EAF274 Johan]

For me it has to be Rowan's Mig Alley (released in 1998 I believe).

It has pretty realistic flight models, good AI, but most of all it puts you "right there". It has some of the best AI radio communications I've ever seen in a sim (next to Falcon 4) and the campaign is simply a gem: it's really a strategy game inside a flight sim. And then there are those little details: if you destroy enough trucks the enemy will be using mule convoys, or if you destroy their depots they will start hiding supplies in the woods.

On the downside it is plagued by some serious bugs that were never fixed, and the software itself is also rather unstable. In fact I've put the game aside many times in frustration because of this, but I always find myself coming back. And still play it today...

[Westbroek]

It's pushing it to say it's actually a sim, but for history buffs who also enjoy gaming and have powerful pc's... I'd say Brothers in Arms: Hell's Highway is a must. The first one was great too, but a little aged now. The game is more of a tactical sim for infantry in WW2. Some moments are better than others and it has more COD influence than it needed, but still worth it. Oh, and some cheesy dialogue too. I give it an
As for true sim: I guess IL2 was the last one I really got into. Never was very good at combat flight sims though...

[meanstreak]

"Arma 2" wins hands down for me.

[tonyw]

Orbiter, And you think learning to drive a sub is hard, try hand flying a shuttle to the ISS and back without running out of fuel.

[Stormfly]

without words...



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[Egan]

Falcon 4 in all of it's guises.
Aces of the deep.
Over Flanders Field ( so what if it's a CFS3 mod? It's still better than many 'proper games I've bought and played.