Sarcasm…it’s what I do. 
Welcome.
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Ahh I see you too attended my approach and landing school!
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Good old days are gone… that’s why I’m waiting for the new MicroProse titles 
Get the immersive effects back and they’ll be halfway there. Don’t need an ultra-realistic simulation, just good enough.
Don’t care about MMO. Don’t care about PvP. Give me 4-8 player coop, maybe 16 if you push it, and bring back the aesthetic shells we used to have.
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Call of the shadows, man i played that a lot.
I don’t know if its still available but Rise of Flight was to me a great game that hit that sweet spot. To me it felt/feels a lot like the old Red Baron titles. Part of it is the subject matter is inherently not that complex (as far as needing to manage systems in a WW1 fighter), while they did an excellent job of making the world feel a bit less dry.
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Proof’s in the pudding, but that’s quite the nice cockpit!
That time Howard Stark and Apollo Creed flew Apache missions together…
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Looks more like Rhodey from Iron Man 1 (unpopular opinion, but I liked Terrence Howard better in that role).
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Nono I agree!
You mean Cobra and Black Hawk missions together.
Delayed to February 2020
I have very fond memories of the good old simming days, including multicrewed LAN gaming in Longbow 2 and M1 Tank Platoon with my 3 brothers, flying with a huge squad in both WW2 Online and Forgotten Battles, and 10 years of sim racing.
But comparing 2 eras is fun but somewhat unfair and often a fruitless exercise, as is comparing Fangio to Senna, Ruth to J Rod, Roberts to Rossi, or Richthofen to Marsalis. They were simply the best of their time IMO. If you were there when it happened, you naturally carry biases.
I think that the best sign of how far sims have come is how well they are embraced by professionals, as in current or former fighter pilots, commercial pilots, and racing teams. When you have the Fighter Pilot Podcast interviewing Matt Wagner or that Red Bull F1 is using a modified version of R Factor, we have moved in from being labeled as video gamers.
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Very true…
I think your memories are colored by what stage of life you were in.
I have such fond gaming and flightsimming memories from 20 years ago. No kids. Single. I could drink as much beer and coca cola and eat potatochips for dinner, without getting fat…
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Same here. I logged tons of time in both those sims. I loved the landing system in EF2000. Made it easy to grease those landings consistently.
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I bought my first PC after seeing Tornado on a friend’s 386. I just had to have it. It was a big purchase at the time. To put it in perspective, the PC cost more than my car did at that time. Lol.
I did it all over again when EF2000 came out.
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I noticed the refueling bubble was relatively large and automated. Still, it was a fun process as I’m sure you experienced. In fact, TFX was the predecessor to EF2000 and It prepared my for inflight refueling.
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Did someone say TFX? I think someone said TFX.
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The hardest thing in the world was refuelling DI’s Tornado (on the Speccy). I forget how many hours/days/weeks it took me, but what a feeling of accomplishment.
Of course, that was the second to last mission, so it also meant some disappointment.