For a long time I've been addicted to flight simulator and was somewhat distraught by the news that microsoft
was killing the effort. When I get around to building a new-generation computer I'm going to want to
find a flight simulator package to match it. Flight Simulator X was awesome for it's time and I don't
really know what else is out there but I'm going to want a flight simulator with cutting edge graphics
and realism ... and hell, I want the plane to burst into a fireball like it's 9-11 if I land to hard or
fly it into a building. I want missiles, and dogs fights! I want knock over doodlebugs and chase UFOs.
More than anything I just want shocking realism and a top-of-the-line graphics engine. Someone needs to
make the Crysis or the Doom 3 of flight simulators, something that's going to utilize graphics cards that
won't exist for another two years. I'd really like to work on a flight sim myself, maybe not something
as great as the aforementioned but something that challenges me and keeps me busy and entertained. If it
was up to me I'd get microsoft to dumb everything they have on flight simulator in my lap so I could fix
things I don't like and improve on things I do like. Hell, if they're going to kill it they might as well
open-source the whole thing and let the community have their way with it.
