Thursday, August 26, 2010

A Gamer Lacking

For as long as I have been playing games (yes all the way back to Atari) I have loved the Flight Genre.  More so the Sims than the Arcades, but they each have their benefits and their drawbacks.  I remember buying Microsoft Flight Simulator back on DOS 5.0 and I sat there and flew that little Cessna for days and days.  Then I found the Jane's series of fighter pilot sims, again I sat and played for days and days.

All this stems from my love of flying, I always wanted to be a pilot, still do, and when I have a more stable life I will get my license.  My Gamertag/Nickname/Handle of "Shadow" came from playing Fighter Pilot games over LAN, and 14.4 modem, I was apparently my target's shadow, it stuck.

Fast forward to modern times and the modern generation of consoles.  Since the 360 is my primary platform let me list the flight games I currently own for it.

H.A.W.X.
Over G Fighters
Ace Combat 6 (Bought the big kit with the Flight Stick on this one)


I have owned Blazing Angels, and I think, Blazing Angels 2

The reason I still own the games above is simply because they are Good, Over G is the closest to a modern sim, HAWX is a great very arcadey game, and Ace Combat sits somewhere in between the 2.

All of these titles are good, but where is my GREAT title?  I see the new Ace Combat previews, and I see the next HAWX previews, but I wont hold my breath.

My biggest complaint with the current flight games, it has to be that no one plays these online...I would love to be up in the skies dogfighting again!

That is it for now.  Thank you for reading!

CVL

Redux

Wow, may 9th was my last post. Sheesh

Well it is time to start the blog anew.

First, why the reboot?

So much has changed... oh so much

But most importantly, I am now a podcaster and/or a games journalist

so here are some links to the cast/site. I will be posting here and there, I also am leaving old posts up, who knows someone might want an insight into my past sometime?

Twitter:
http://www.twitter.com/ShadowCVL

TheDeadRoomSite

TheDeadRoom Podcast:
iTunes
Zune
RSS