I found Flight to be boring. It works but lacks so many refinements I have no reason to use it. Given the high probability it will slowly mature over the next one to two years will be interesting. FSX for now.

I also agree, I downloaded and got into it for aout 1 hour.My thoughts are that it is a great game but it lost me when I ws limited to one island, although a large island Microsoft haven't even supplied us with an adequate aircraft to get around it in.I really think they should have charged their $100-$120AU and kept the base idea that all of their simulators have had, A full world and bunch of aircaft but applied the live online aspect to it. They could still have charged extra by releasing better detailed scenery, airports, aircafts and other addon's if they wanted the bucks to keep rolling in.After my test flight I have gotten as far as I wish with this game for now until they release something I can actually enjoy using it for, eg Flight from Sydney to Gold Coast otherwise I shall stick with FSX.It is a shame really as I was really happy with the gameplay, tutorials, challenges, scenery and aircraft but for me to have some extra fun each time I have to throw money at them. Stupid concept in my eyes and very sad.:(

It's great you have FSX to go to - for me, I'm truly enjoying Flight. I prefer low and slow, taking in the sights...so (for now) I'm guessing I was one of the "target audiences".Still fire up FS9 to get my rotorhead fix, though...

I agree, once and if A/P, ATC, wide countries etc. etc. will be injected, Flight will eventually take off.

I's all eye-candy with no expense spent on gameplay. Once you have done 2 or 3 Missions, Aerocaches, Challenges and Jobs, it's the same thing over and over courtesy of the computer-generated, random mission system. I expect more for my money thanks very much. I've paid for the Maule and the Hawaiian scenery pack and my opinion is that I've been ripped off. The game was fairly enjoyable for a mere 2 or 3 hours before I exhausted the unique gameplay features and everything turned into a repetative grind that only those with OCD might eke some pleasure from.

 

Although the game visuals look good, there are still major design flaws and creative laziness. The world is FAR too static. No water animation, no boats sailing across water, no traffic on roads, no other aircraft populating the sky or airports, invisible passengers and their disembodied voices accompanying you on missions, We're in a world of fast, multi-core computers and where even entry level graphics cards can churn out amazing visuals and Flight isn't delivering the goods with such a lifeless, static world. Given the low 'n' slow nature of the game and the advantage of not having to model the entire world, it only makes the lifelessness of the world even more glaring.

 

I'm done with Flight until the gameplay content in DLCs improves by orders of magnitude. As such I'm happily going to ignore it for 6 months to spend my cash on games providing more substantive experiences and maybe come back to take a look and see if Microsoft has decided to inject more life and variety and longevity into the Flight experience.

I also agree, I downloaded and got into it for aout 1 hour.My thoughts are that it is a great game but it lost me when I ws limited to one island, although a large island Microsoft haven't even supplied us with an adequate aircraft to get around it in.I really think they should have charged their $100-$120AU and kept the base idea that all of their simulators have had, A full world and bunch of aircaft but applied the live online aspect to it. They could still have charged extra by releasing better detailed scenery, airports, aircafts and other addon's if they wanted the bucks to keep rolling in.After my test flight I have gotten as far as I wish with this game for now until they release something I can actually enjoy using it for, eg Flight from Sydney to Gold Coast otherwise I shall stick with FSX.It is a shame really as I was really happy with the gameplay, tutorials, challenges, scenery and aircraft but for me to have some extra fun each time I have to throw money at them. Stupid concept in my eyes and very sad.

 

Nope, its not fsx at all.

Thread going nowhere good, and outside forum mandate, even if ever so slightly. I am locking it before someone hops in, fires it up and heads south.