Keeping Space Combat Alive

[Char Ell]

I read this article on TwitchGuru and thought I would post it to see what the hard-core flight sim LF members thought about this guy's take on why we're not seeing much in the way of space flight sims anymore.

[edlib]

Yeah... it all comes down to sales in the end. Sad, but true.

 

The reality is flight sims take a lot of time and effort to learn and master. The twitchy crowd just obviously never had the patience... so compared to FPS games, sales were obviously disappointing.

 

When I have a more modern PC tho, I'll have to look into those Wing Commander and Galactica Freespace mods he described. Those look sweet!

 

Maybe someone in the SW mod community will pick up the Freespace engine to do a new XW campaign.

 

Actually,.. I think Wildstar told me once that something like that might already be in the works...

[phaolo]

Space flight simulator it's another game genre that is slowly going to die (like Point&Click adventure). Just see how many shops still sell good joysticks.. (at least in Italy)

 

Too bad because I love it!

 

 

Here's a little free Star Wars simulator game for those who want some more space fights: http://www.bruneras.com