Ship Simulator Extremes

[Red October1984]

This game sounds bad. Who wants to sail a merchant ship.

It's like Microsoft Train Simulator. Just no.

[Arclight]

... who wants to fly virtual aircraft? Same deal.

Doesn't get more mindnumbing than a 8 hour trans-atlantic IFR flight. I absolutely love it, but really there's not much apeal there.

[Red October1984]

Originally Posted by Arclight

... who wants to fly virtual aircraft? Same deal.

Doesn't get more mindnumbing than a 8 hour trans-atlantic IFR flight. I absolutely love it, but really there's not much apeal there.

I love flying but I can't do an 8 hour flight. MSFS 2004 I just fly around on.

Don't make fun of me, but I "pretend" with that sim. Like flying my Huey Slick from Hanoi into a nice spot in the jungle to "pick up the troops" and back. Or an A-10 from Bagram to go attack "targets" which are just spots of ground that I maneuver against.

Most of my sims are combat sims though because I gotta blow stuff up.

[Oberon]

Originally Posted by Arclight

... who wants to fly virtual aircraft? Same deal.

Doesn't get more mindnumbing than a 8 hour trans-atlantic IFR flight. I absolutely love it, but really there's not much apeal there.

One day I will do the UK to Leningrad return flight in a Vulcan that I've been promising myself. Dread to think how long it'll take, and I'll have to figure out how to get the bird off the ground without taking the ground with me first, but it's a mission I've been meaning to do.

Of course, in reality I'd have to deal with radars lighting me up, potential local nudets and stray Soviet interceptors, but in the absense of such a cold war gone hot sim it'll have to do.

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[Red October1984]

Originally Posted by Oberon

Of course, in reality I'd have to deal with radars lighting me up, potential local nudets and stray Soviet interceptors, but in the absense of such a cold war gone hot sim it'll have to do.

I think there's a couple. Theres a RSR campaign for DW, theres the old Operation Flashpoint games, there's always the old RSR...

I dont know about flight sims. I wish combat was incorporated into MSFS 2004.

[Oberon]

Originally Posted by Red October1984

I think there's a couple. Theres a RSR campaign for DW, theres the old Operation Flashpoint games, there's always the old RSR...

I dont know about flight sims. I wish combat was incorporated into MSFS 2004.

Oh aye, I know about those, I meant more strategic bomber flight. Heck, even with Flight sims you're pretty much limited to Wings Over Europe/Strike Fighters which is a very loose sim if you want to fight in the skies of West Germany or the North Atlantic in a Cold War gone hot scenario.

I guess it's because in reality the air war would have been a 3 day bloodbath followed by nuclear apocalypse. Not much you can put in there...

[Takeda Shingen]

I fly cross country in FSX all the time. Love it.

[Gargamel]

Originally Posted by Red October1984

This game sounds bad. Who wants to sail a merchant ship.

It's like Microsoft Train Simulator. Just no.

I actually enjoy both of those.

It's the logistics of these games I enjoy.

Same reason you're here. Honestly the SH sims are the most boring of them all, yet we still play them.