BBC today

[calypso]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/7902468.stm

[TobyV]

I suppose that doesnt come as a total surprise, but I thought, at least a few years ago, that MSFS was still the best selling "game" around? I think theres too many people who prefer to sit behind their PC's firing virtual guns, stealing virtual cars or pretending they're a goblin of some description FS is a far more sophisticated PC base entertainment by my standards!

I suppose it could be revived in a few years... hopefully?

[airboatr]

interesting article at PC World http://www.pcworld.com/article/158850/t ... _ever.html
The 10 greatest PC games of all time,... past 30 years, Flight Sim is not even mentioned, :roll: although Sims in in the list |-)
how they add that up?

[Chris Trott]

Umm... nice op-ed, but nothing new.

[Quixoticish]

interesting article at PC World http://www.pcworld.com/article/158850/t ... _ever.html
The 10 greatest PC games of all time,... past 30 years, Flight Sim is not even mentioned, :roll: although Sims in in the list |-)
how they add that up?

It's the nature of the beast. To make some kind of "top ten games of all time" you either have to be exceptionally good at what you do and execute it in such a way that it blows all of your competitors away or do something genuinely new and innovative. Microsoft Flight Sim has and always will be a jack-of-all-trades simulator so will never win on the first count and will never win on the second count for obvious reasons, it's just doing what it's always done only slightly better each time.

I'd probably put the original Microsoft Flight Simulator somewhere at the tail end of a top 100 greatest games of all time simply because it has spawned so many successful updates (one hesitates to call them sequels). Obviously many people on here are biased because all they really play is MS Flight Sim but I'm afraid that it doesn't even enter anywhere close to getting a spot on a "top 10" of the best games ever.

[airboatr]

Well … I was being a bit facetious. ;-)

[Rick Piper]

Hi Guys

I still see 10 years plus in the FSX modelling/hobby etc.

look at Grand Prix Legends !

still has mods being made and it still works fine and looks top banana and it's 11 years old.

the bonus is that the goalposts are now fixed into position which makes my life easier.

Regards
Rick