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Old 07-13-2010, 03:08 AM
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Originally Posted by AdMan View Post
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this is a flight simulator used to train pilots to fly specific aircraft
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This is a videogame used to entertain geeks with too much free time and grumpy old pilots trying to recapture their glory years
Wow, you have a really appalling appreciation of the amount of work that goes into producing a simulator like Il-2 compared to a run of the mill game. To call it "not a simulator" because it's not as high-fidelity as an industry example is really quite bizarre. Guess what? In the 1980s and 90s the system in the first picture would have had a similar degree of fidelity in flight modelling to that Il-2 manages on home computers. Does that make it a game?
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