Waaaaayyyyyy off topic. (other video games)

[arizonachris]

So does anyone still play Nascar Racing 2003 Season (NR2003)?

Last NASCAR stuff I ran was that Jeff Gordon thing years ago. But I do have a lot of NFS stuff and a MOMO wheel and pedals.

[Shortliner]

Last NASCAR stuff I ran was that Jeff Gordon thing years ago. But I do have a lot of NFS stuff and a MOMO wheel and pedals.

I think I still have a momo wheel at my parent's house. I haven't used it in awhile though because my cat chewed one of the wires for the wheel.

[dejoh]

Just checked out this demo on Steam. Take On Helicoptor

Not bad if ya like choppa's. If you have Arma2, there's gunships and Chinooks.
Plus ya get to blow up stuff

[Ozma]

My other games include Left 4 Dead(2), Game Room (legal emulation of arcade machines and pre-NES 8-bit consoles), StarCraft, and a smattering of games on consoles no-one remembers, mainly my mate's NES (MegaMan ftw).

Also, a part of me died the other day at the local swap meet, when I was actually asked what a GameBoy was because the guy did not recognize the cartridges.

[Trainguy76]

Does anyone know of any descent modern military-jet games that also have multiplayer? My old flying games from the Windows 98 era certainly do not work on Windows 7 now.

[Chessie8638]

Tom Clancy's HAWX 2 looks good: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hwro6y09uTk&hd=1

Steam Store Page: http://store.steampowered.com/app/48160/

Flew the jets in BF3 on a friends PC, this is what I feel like when I got locked on: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKsreHMX3xE&hd=1


Last game I owned was Blazing Angels. Thought it was pretty good.

[Trainguy76]

Thanks for the suggestion. I suppose I'm looking for something more complex than that. Does anyone know if there are still multiplayer sessions for Falcon 4.0?

[dejoh]

Ya want complex, try this one.
Not sure if its multiplayer
http://store.steampowered.com/app/61010/
Good luck getting off the ground..

[Trainguy76]

Ya want complex, try this one.
Not sure if its multiplayer
http://store.steampowered.com/app/61010/
Good luck getting off the ground..

Oh man, it looks beautiful, and is ridiculously complex.

[Chessie8638]

Oh man, it looks beautiful, and is ridiculously complex.

Just a little bit!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSIGzDMJ-ik

[arizonachris]

Try out Hawx before you dive into #2. I love Hawx but the physics are all wrong. Better have a joystick for that one! I guess if you can put up with a little WWII stuff, then IL Sturmovick 1946 is top notch stuff.

[_o_OOOO_oo-Kanawha]

I like to play with heavy machinery. so I am fond of other simulators: Agricultural Simulater, Farming Simulator (lots of excellent DLC for this), Ship Simulator, all purchased through Steam.
These sims also have an elemement of economics, animal care, environmental control besides operating vehicles and machinery. Most are quite leisurely paced but can get quite complicated in controlling your vehicle/vessel.

I have other simulators as well, Bus and Cablecar, Demolition, Street Cleaning, Garbage Collection and some others. It seems Germans are fond of these "games", as almost all are of German origin. Ship sim is Dutch, of which I am proud, being a Dutchman myself.

Not all have the same level of gameplay, but most have excellent 3D graphics that make my graphic card fans spin up, something that TS12 still doesn't.

[Chacal]

Demolition company is an excellent machinery simulator, but the gameplay sucks.
Good use of the Physx engine too.

[arizonachris]

Red Faction: Gorilla will let you play with heavy machinery and smash buildings. I've never had so much fun destroying stuff with just a sledge hammer, let alone a bulldozer or earthmover. Yeeeeeee Hawwwwwwww!

[_o_OOOO_oo-Kanawha]

Yes, those Astragon games have excellent 3D and you are right, game play is not of the most exciting kind. Driving complicated farm machinery where you need a full keyboard for all of its functions or bringing a merchant navy vessel into harbour with a couple of tugs in a raging storm is however quite a challenge.

Then imagine yourself with walking through a neighborhood with a motorized backpack sucking up dog turts for points? Or throwing garbage bags with precision into the right bin for recycling?

I agree, destroying/demolishing things is great fun and strangely soothing/relieving.

I am a little scared of derailing trains on purpose, since I travel daily on them to and from work. I have had a few pile ups in TS12, which produced some spectacular wreckage as far as RSC allows. I don't want to think about uncontrollable chemical fires, poisonous chlorine clouds or people trapped in crushed cars.

There is one segment I forgot, railway dispatching simulators, virtual switching towers, etc.

Check these out:
http://shop2.signalsoft.nl/product_info.php?products_id=225&language=en The largest NX/CTC installation in the Netherlands.
Or what about this one:
http://shop2.signalsoft.nl/product_info.php?products_id=255&language=en The huge Amsterdam CS central dispatching panel.

Both these installations use US technology, General Railway Signalling all relay interlocking so are of great interest to virtual US railroaders as well.

These systems, now defunct because computerized and "glassified" (i.e. coverted to CRT/LCD and keyboard) once controlled all mainlines and terminals in the Netherlands.

Free Demo versions are available. I have tried them but found then very complicated as there are several levels of control needed, track and switches, catenary, drawbridges, personnel and rolling stock disposition, platform indicators for the passengers, and all to a strict time table and with zero tolerance for safety breaching errors.

The Post T Hengelo installation controlled a complete 80 km mainline. It would be great to have such a CTC installation hooked up to the same actual RW12 route. Now that Dutch trains are emerging, who knows?

For starters, there are small and simple installations available as well. Plus installations from Germany, the UK and other countries from this and similar sites.