Before the loyal disciples jump in with all guns blazing, I am a fellow gamer that has grown tired of the pc community, having to shell out constantly for upgrades etc in order to stay at the cutting edge of gaming & like many other gamers, I now want to enjoy a great experience on a great console, from the comfort of the sofa in front of a nice big LCD HD TV.
I've stuck to my word so far; I've started posts here, airing my views re: this title & I am far from a fan but I have done the right thing & left the game, left the community & its forum so as not to want to ruin it for the guys that do enjoy this game ... When you give ur view & realise you have bought something it's not, what's the point in staying around moaning about it.
It's just that 2 things have since come to my attention & as a customer of console software & products, I just want to know if it's just me that feels so underwhelmed, let down & cheated?
I won't dwell on my many disappointments in this title & will not compare it to its PC counterpart (although why I feel I shouldn't is perhaps strange as for one, it is a title that shares the esteemed name to an untouchable pc combat sim & so why shouldn't it be compared, & another; its pre-build up was to always maintain its realism & immersion that I personally believe, falls way short of even Over G Fighters).
Firstly there's OPERATION FLASHPOINT: DRAGON RISING. The original was a masterpiece & even the last gen xbox saw a great port over that treated the console gamers with respect, in keeping every aspect of the game intact, which included the powerful mission editor; it was great fun.
Along comes the much waited Dragon Rising & the console community are now told that although the game will be some 15 to 20 quid dearer than the PC offering, it will ship WITHOUT any form of mission editor & therefore any form of replayability whilst the PC gets the works as per usual. (Shopto.net are pre ordering it on pc for something like £1
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This is mirrored a treat in IL-2 also. Wanna take off & land in PC IL-2; fine. Don't wanna bother but instead set up a quick training type battle in just a few clicks that gives you the choice of multiple wingmen, fellow bombers & such against a multitude of enemies in mixed aircraft, fine also. How about a more detailed tool to create an entire mission? ...go for it, it's all there & the best thing. You only ever needed around 4 or 5 keyboard inputs to create all of this. You telling me that todays consoles cannot harbour this ability to give a console gamer this option when say the original xbox proved otherwise with op flashpoint 1 & even Far Cry?
Imagine the replayabilty you would be having if you could
choose to simply start your training mission from the ground & return there, to fly with a few more wingmen. Just that would do wonders. I'm not even asking for the flyby cam anymore or even any form of visual replay theatre (although how a game of this calibur ever thought it could do without it is way beyond me).
Secondly, & the final insult is the absolute JOKE re: this DLC & NOT FREE AT THAT!!!!!
I was so looking forward to this title for such a long time that I stupidly ordered it for both my xbox & PS3 as I just knew that it would be a different experience with each consoles. Nobody forced me to buy them, that's true but I did right enough. It's a shell of a flight game as it is & an extremely broken one at that but to charge gamers what could arguabley have been in the title in the 1st place is an absolute joke. £40 for a console title that is worlds apart from the IL-2 Sturmovik Series isn't enough then.
OK I am from a community that makes skins for IL-2 online for ppl to share & vice versa. IL-2 1946 that came out only a few years ago was the complete series in one & cost in the region of £25 with the addons that were boxed with a dvd & instruction booklet were around a tenner online & not to mention the replayablity still today in new aircraft being made, all free ofcourse etc (just check out youtube).
I want desperately to not feel cheated or patronised as a console gamer. We're not all MarioKart, Blazing Angels, COD arcade heads. Most ppl probably on this forum would wish for something more for what they're paying in comparison to the PC populous.
Who here, took a little comfort from the campaign missions in having the option to try to make it back to base & land? And even that was taken away from you after the 1ST THEATRE!!!!
Devs. Want my money? Simple! I have paid for a great, very powerful, all singing, all dancing console machine here & pay far more for a console game to a PC equivelent. Just give me what the PC boys have got or somewhere close. All I want is the full game. I WANT IL-2 STURMOVIK!!!
Prob. no point in replying to this as I know from old, it's a waste of forum space, only used by the fanboys that copy & paste reactions like "stop crying" or "goodbye then" & for the latter it's prob. true as I'll take my whining posts away & let you continue to enjoy ur game in peace!!!