OBIO
March 4th, 2012, 13:53
I have about 30 minutes of run time in MS Flight. My views/opinions so far:
1: Runs very smooth....but then again I have a system that will handle FSX like it is nothing more than a warm, half-eaten jelly bean.
2. The Icon A5 is NICE......wish we had one of equal quality for FS9/FSX.
3. The Stearman is nice.....but I prefer Dave Eckart's Stearman better....maybe it's all the available skins,'
4. Hawaii, at least the ONE island I have seen in MS Flight, looks pretty nice....really nice.
5. The autogen trees are amazing....individually that is. The detail and sharpness of the individual trees is a huge improvement over anything in FS9/FSX......but the way they are placed in the scenery looks nothing like real world forests. The trees are too uniform in shape and size and placed in long straight rows, like a tree farm.
6. The water....it's pretty darn good.
7. The clouds I have seen thus far....SUCK worse than stock CFS2 clouds....and I never thought that that would be possible.
8. Ground textures....in places are very much improved over FS9/FSX and look amazing. In other places, standard MS quality ground textures.
9. Flight Dyanamics, to me, feel arcade like. I don't like the way the planes handle, respond....but this is based on just the Icon A5 and the Stearman.....the only two planes that I have for Flight....the only two planes that I will ever have for Flight.
Overall, my impressions of MS Flight are that it is a pretty GAME that will be a huge FAILURE for Microsoft. Flight sim enthusiasts will find Flight to be far inferior to FS9 and FSX and will soon dump Flight to save space for more FS9/FSX files. Gamer will find Flight to be boring and lacking in challenge and will dump it and return to Zombie Bashers 3, Battlefield 3, or whatever the current shooter/war game is at the moment. The price points for the add-ons/expansions for Flight is just too high to be a real attraction to the game. $20 to get the rest of Hawaii and one plane? $20 to get the Maule. Way too pricey. For $20, a real flight simmer can buy a Carenado package such as the Cessna 185F Bush Plane or the Aerosoft Super Cub (which is actually only $8.51....making it one heck of a deal) and fly those planes all over the world with a far greater selection of variants and paint schemes. Gamers see $20 as a pizza or bag of pot and will be very unlikely to spend that kind of money on a Flight plane that can't kill zombies or bring the Kardalopian empire to its knees.
I downloaded Flight, tried it, found it lacking in many many areas...and will now erase it from my hard drive and my memory (as in my brain memory, not just my system memory).
OBIO
1: Runs very smooth....but then again I have a system that will handle FSX like it is nothing more than a warm, half-eaten jelly bean.
2. The Icon A5 is NICE......wish we had one of equal quality for FS9/FSX.
3. The Stearman is nice.....but I prefer Dave Eckart's Stearman better....maybe it's all the available skins,'
4. Hawaii, at least the ONE island I have seen in MS Flight, looks pretty nice....really nice.
5. The autogen trees are amazing....individually that is. The detail and sharpness of the individual trees is a huge improvement over anything in FS9/FSX......but the way they are placed in the scenery looks nothing like real world forests. The trees are too uniform in shape and size and placed in long straight rows, like a tree farm.
6. The water....it's pretty darn good.
7. The clouds I have seen thus far....SUCK worse than stock CFS2 clouds....and I never thought that that would be possible.
8. Ground textures....in places are very much improved over FS9/FSX and look amazing. In other places, standard MS quality ground textures.
9. Flight Dyanamics, to me, feel arcade like. I don't like the way the planes handle, respond....but this is based on just the Icon A5 and the Stearman.....the only two planes that I have for Flight....the only two planes that I will ever have for Flight.
Overall, my impressions of MS Flight are that it is a pretty GAME that will be a huge FAILURE for Microsoft. Flight sim enthusiasts will find Flight to be far inferior to FS9 and FSX and will soon dump Flight to save space for more FS9/FSX files. Gamer will find Flight to be boring and lacking in challenge and will dump it and return to Zombie Bashers 3, Battlefield 3, or whatever the current shooter/war game is at the moment. The price points for the add-ons/expansions for Flight is just too high to be a real attraction to the game. $20 to get the rest of Hawaii and one plane? $20 to get the Maule. Way too pricey. For $20, a real flight simmer can buy a Carenado package such as the Cessna 185F Bush Plane or the Aerosoft Super Cub (which is actually only $8.51....making it one heck of a deal) and fly those planes all over the world with a far greater selection of variants and paint schemes. Gamers see $20 as a pizza or bag of pot and will be very unlikely to spend that kind of money on a Flight plane that can't kill zombies or bring the Kardalopian empire to its knees.
I downloaded Flight, tried it, found it lacking in many many areas...and will now erase it from my hard drive and my memory (as in my brain memory, not just my system memory).
OBIO