Petition to have Microsoft keep the FSX going.

[Quick_Nick]

After taking several years to do it. From what I've heard, there were some absolutely fantastic things on-deck for FS11--the one that comes to mind is voice recognition for ATC. X-plane has been in development for at least 8 years now, and their audible ATC is just a recorded loop (or maybe random) in the background. It was annoying. FSX already has an excellent ATC simulator, which really takes the "single" out of single-player, since if you have traffic turned on you can hear ATC really interacting with other traffic (in addition to you). It really makes the world feel alive, unlike X-plane: which doesn't even have traffic!

I think a major game-maker can produce something somewhat 'quickly'. If MS had today's technology when they started, they wouldn't have taken anywhere near 20 years to get to FSX.

Consoles blow. Console games blow. The bleeding-edge of computer gaming is light-years ahead of the bleeding-edge of console gaming. At the same price point you can play better-looking games on a console than a PC, but also remember that console controls suck (if they make a console where I can use a mouse and keyboard for FPSes and a joystick for flight sims, I'll switch to a console. None of that stupid dinky controller crap.)

I didn't intend to promote consoles, or a console FS. I just used it as an example for graphics. I love the ability to use a full-sized keyboard.

The wrong kinds of physics simulations. The physics equations that make a bullet ricochet off a wall (or make the wall crater when it gets it by that bullet) are not the physics equations that make airplanes fly.

There are often much more advanced physics than those examples. 'Particularly' with certain game engines. (game engine in this case meaning a framework able to be used with multiple games)

Um...okay?

Just trying to hit all the main parts of making a game.

"Within a couple of years," possibly. "Far better than FSX," possibly. But not both "far better than FSX" AND "within a couple of years." If you think that's possible, then you're severely underestimating software development time.

I think you're comparing major game companies to smaller groups a little too much. But true, I shouldn't have said 'far better' with a short time. They can definitely make something comparable to FSX within that time-frame. And given maybe five more years, can at least reach the level of FSX, possibly exceed the graphics (that may depend on other things like DirectX development), and implement features that FSX doesn't have. However, unless 'this organization' is trying to make a replica of FSX, some features of FSX that don't come directly from real life are likely to be left out.

 

[Moonwalker]

Even console games (XBOX 360 for sure) can have addons now.

Within the MSFS community, flight simming is much more than just plain console gaming. Complex flight simulators on consoles won't work anyway, less then ever complex aircraft addons and all the hardware for flight simming. Even if it would work, most FS users really hate the idea of using flight simulators on consoles.

Why are we all freaking out? As far as I am concerned, it will be another few years before affordable computers can run FSX with all graphics up. By then, either Microsoft will have decided that they were stupid and go back to making FS, or another company will have come out with a better one. Besides, judging by pictures on the internet with really good computers and DX10, FSX looks just fine to me.

You are right on that. FSX easily will be still alive until mid of the next decade. FS9 still is not less famous, although it is more than 5 years old

 

[Quick_Nick]

Within the MSFS community, flight simming is much more than just plain console gaming. Complex flight simulators on consoles won't work anyway, less then ever complex aircraft addons and all the hardware for flight simming. Even if it would work, most FS users really hate the idea of using flight simulators on consoles.

Err... read above?
I honestly didn't expect anyone to pay much attention to the use of the word 'console'.:rofl:Again, I am not suggesting a console FS and I don't want one.