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[doncale]

does anyone on Gaming-Age Forum know what in blazes happened to Falcon 5.0 ? the last I heard, many many moons ago, was that G2 Interactive was working on it, as they acquired all the Falcon 4 IP. now, from doing a little googling, what I learned is: before Falcon 5 was to come about, a new version of F4 was to come out in 2003, called Falcon: Operation Infinite Resolve ...It seems F:OIR made its way to release, though I am uncertain even of that. there are also numerous patches and upgrades that became available to F4 over the years. F4 released way back in 1998, just barely at the dawn of the current console generation, and really in the middle of the last.

so, what the F is up with Falcon 5?


regardless of the situation, which may be non-existant for all I know, here's what I'd like to see happen, to bring the 'Falcon' name back from the grave.


*develop a high fidelity harcore flight simulator 'Falcon 5.0' for nextgeneration PCs, Macs, Cell-workstations, etc.
*develop a console variant of Falcon 5.0 for nextgen consoles, to compete with the Ace Combat series
*develop an arcade variant of the console Falcon 5.0 to get into the arcade market ala F-15 Strike Eagle arcade of 1990. something eleborate like F-ZERO GX.



*shrinks off to go back to playing Ace Combat 5 knowing that hardcore flightsims are probably dead*

 

[doncale]

bump come on

 

[ManaByte]

Well, the whole rise of simulators on the PC came after the big video game crash. People didn't want to play "games", but they had no problem playing "simulators". That was the big flight sim boom on the PC. The genre had a good life, but now that the game industry is solid it appears that the masses are no longer ashamed at playing "games" and are shunning "simulators" now.

 

[Doom_Bringer]

Yeah there no market for it. Ace Combat is the only thing that sells; it's actually the 34th best selling console game (AC4). I have a similar crave as you do for flight sims/AC series. Honestly, wait for AC6 or play older AC games.

 

[Buggy Loop]

4 to 6 years ago there was a boom of flight simulators, in the small span of 3 years or so they pretty much covered the majority of planes, locations and war reenactments or spinoffs of them that it quickly saturated. Just think of how many F22 sims we got back then? If thats not overdoing it i dont know what is, we could just of got DID's F22 TAW and that would of been enough for f22 sims. Then WW2 sims started pouring like rain.

Im in the same group, i started my flight sim dependance with longbow 2, JSF and Jane's F15, then falcon 4.0 and flanker 2.0 like many to get my modern air dominance fighter fix from both western and eastern sides, then it came to F18 sims, F22, then WW2. Ended up beta testing IL2 sturmovik, and somehow thats where it ended, i unplugged all my expensive HOTAS, put them in a box and its collecting dust somewhere, been years since i've taken them out, and it was for Freespace 2.

Its simply an overdose, it was getting stagnant in terms of features or improvements, i dont think i'll bother with a flight sim until a major advancement in graphics, AI and physics.

Longbow 2 is my favorite, such old technology, one of the first flight sims i've ever played seriously, yet is the most immersive and probably the sole series i would really want a sequel, simply because playing longbow 2 on modern PCs sucks because of that goddamn 3dfx API which doesnt exist anymore in modern cards.

I was hyped for LOCKON MAC, but when it was released, i didnt bother to upgrade my pc for it like i was thinking of doing, impression just didnt seem to warrant it

 

[tahrikmili]

Longbow 2 is my favorite, such old technology, one of the first flight sims i've ever played seriously, yet is the most immersive and probably the sole series i would really want a sequel, simply because playing longbow 2 on modern PCs sucks because of that goddamn 3dfx API which doesnt exist anymore in modern cards.

Didn't this game get a D3D patch like F15 did? Not that it matters, both are Win9x games and refuse to run on WinXP.. Worst case scenario, buy a 12mb Voodoo2 on ebay and plug it in, voila, problem saved..

Long live Janes. Longbow 1/2, IAF, F-15 were excellent. And if you never played Lock-On, you are missing something, trust me.. Time to get that HOTAS out of the closet.

 

[Buggy Loop]

My PC wouldnt play Lock-on as it is now, so i'll probably skip, until i buy a better PC in the years to come and snatch the game for cheap.