Real Sign of DOOM!

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Originally Posted by PapaBoon

Game developers keep trying to convert the popular PC games to a watered down versions for consoles.
You can't expect such a game as IL-2 to be compared in any way to BoP. Hardware limitations will not allow it to happen.

The original IL-2 series community has had a long and hardcore following for many years. The mission builders and skinners are some of the most dedicated modders in the flight sim genre.

For modding obviously consoles can't compete, or even get onto the playing field, with PCs, but I disagree that consoles are limited by hardware in making good sims. BoP plays fine and the original IL-2 or 1946 could easily be run on a 360 or PS3, the problem seems to me to be more with the imaginations of publishers. It seems like most publishers are PC snobs because they think console players can't understand and won't play complex games made for adults. I think the spectacular success of Fallout 3 gives the lie to that notion. If the publishers had given the BoP team the time and capital they needed this game could have been a knockout, or at least the start of a knockout series and a fully resourced MP component is what would have done it. I blame the publishers.