Formula to make good games? Please post your ideas here.

Eminutia · Post by **Eminutia** » Mon Dec 01, 2008 10:36 am

KAN wrote:I'll try it; is Faithless a chillout/ambient performer?

More like British Techno..look them up! Faithless:Insomnia!

KAN wrote:Both TFH and SWOTL are good, although the latter has VGA graphics and bigger assortment of planes.

TFH? Whats that?
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Post by **dosraider** » Mon Dec 01, 2008 11:00 am

Eminutia wrote:TFH? Whats that?

I think he meant TFX
http://www.mobygames.com/game/dos/tfx/screenshots

BTW, graphically dated but still good is:
1942: The Pacific air war.
http://www.mobygames.com/game/dos/1942- ... ic-air-war
Certainly if you want also a 'campaign' in the game.

KAN · Post by **KAN** » Mon Dec 01, 2008 9:09 pm

dosraider wrote:
Eminutia wrote:TFH? Whats that?
I think he meant TFX
http://www.mobygames.com/game/dos/tfx/screenshots

Only when TFX stands for Their Finest Xhour.

dosraider wrote:BTW, graphically dated but still good is:
1942: The Pacific air war.
http://www.mobygames.com/game/dos/1942- ... ic-air-war
Certainly if you want also a 'campaign' in the game.

Yup. Too bad they didn't make European Air War that way.

Post by **dosraider** » Tue Dec 02, 2008 1:08 am

KAN wrote: Only when TFX stands for Their Finest Xhour.

Didn't like 'Their finest hour'.
It misses... something.

KAN wrote:Yup. Too bad they didn't make European Air War that way.

EAW on the other hand was pretty good, not a strategy game, more a 'you fly the missions in a row' kind of game, but the flying was outstanding.

Whilst we're on the subject of good flight sim, a completely other genre:
Corncob3D, ever tried that? I spend months on that one. If you didn't were careful with the available planes you would end up with only totally degraded planes who hardly could get in the air ....

Post by **wardrich** » Tue Dec 02, 2008 1:52 am

I had Corncob3D on one of my old dos CDs. I could never get it to run, though

. I had a pretty sweet WWI/WWII flight sim back in the day, I can't remember what it was called, though. Dogfight maybe? I don't remember.

Post by **dosraider** » Tue Dec 02, 2008 6:28 am

CC3D runs fine in dosbox, get on it Wardrich, it's pretty good.
Has some weird gameplay sometimes, alien structures that twist your mind as if you were on LSD.... you could land your plane and plant bombs ... etcetera.

Post by **wardrich** » Tue Dec 02, 2008 6:52 am

Alas, I have no idea where that CD went.