Does anyone on this board play flight sims / space sims? Combat-centric specifically, traders/managers/explorers gtfo.
>>12715453Only one i ever played was Tie Fighter if that counts. Amazing game. One day in need to try it w a flight stick, don’t know how my mouse survived because I beat the shit out of it trying to swivel around all the time w it.
>>12715560Why not just play it with keyboard only? Or, as I've taken to more recently, mostly keyboard only but also with mouse set to very low sensitivity for when you need very precise aiming.
>>12715453wish there were more flight sim/rts hybrids like starfox 2
>>12715453colony wars is a masterpiece
>>12715453I still play through Wing Commander 3 and 4 every couple years. Still fun to play after all these years.>Luke Skywalker and Biff in the same game? Way.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZiRicVf23a4
>>12715601I also forgot to mention Privateer, love that game.
>>12715601Are the first two worth playing? I've tried, but the original DOS versions are notoriously speed sensitive, though I recently learned there's a Windows 95 version that fixes that.
>>12715593Star Fox is a rail shooter, not a flight sim like Wing Commander >>12715601Wing Commander is still the top for me as well. I also played the fuck out of Descent Freespace>>12715609I wouldn't play them first, but if you like the later games they're worth playing if you can get a working version. I was introduced to Wing Commander on Sega CD and it's far from a perfect port but it's still very fun and plays surprisingly well.
>>12715598Based
>>12715609I'd say if you're curious to check them out go for it! At this point in time, there are a multitude of tutorials online on how to get them running on modern PCs with DOSbox so you'll be fine. >>12715690>Wing Commander is still the top for me as well. I also played the fuck out of Descent FreespaceFreespace, hell yeah. I remember playing a really cool Babylon 5 mod for the sequel.Have any of you anons ever played Tachyon: The Fringe? fun little quirky space sim, very short but decent AND has Bruce Campbell in it so you know it's good.
>>12715690Star Fox 2 is NOT a rail shooter you fucking tard
The Terran-v*sudan alliance was a mistake!
>>12715453Most of them seem to be linear flight combat games so it's not a genre that really does anything for me until you get to non-retro games which take the concepts of elite and make something playable out of them.
>>12715453https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ukeH2Mw3xM
>>12715453space combat sims all turning into economy slop is why the genre died, they were never meant to be anything more than a series of missions with explicit objectives
The greatest space combat game ever made and it's not even close.
>>12718567I blame the EVE online faggots.
>>12718576wtf I thought I was the only person who ever played this
>>12718583Why. It's where space games have been trying to go ever since the original Elite.
