I concur!

But the spice must flow!

Thank you both for your help! I've picked up a copy of ClearView RC Sim and will be picking up a TX to USB cable tomorrow for my transmitter.

Scottish Martial Arts, are/were you in the military as a pilot? That field manual will be beneficial to my studies. Thanks!

What other Heli sim would you recommend that has a more robust flight model then?

I'm just starting to fly RC Helicopters and a little "real simulation" on the front of actual helicopters would help my understanding a little.

zirik wrote on Oct 10, 2011, 16:08:

yuastnav wrote on Oct 10, 2011, 14:34:
Haha, yeah right.
Somehow everyone says that.
Well, I grant you that Jobs was a clever businessman and had some nifty ideas.
Was he an inventor? Doubtful.

yeah some 300+ patents under his name which resulted in actual products is not considered inventions.

But were they his ideas? He was the big cheese, but it doesn't mean they were his big ideas.

CJ_Parker wrote on Sep 13, 2011, 19:02:

Alpha Geist wrote on Sep 13, 2011, 16:14:
Oh boy do I remember the Matrox Millenium. Mine came with Destruction Derby, which I loved...but the box in which the video card came in had this freaky looking clown face on it.

If the box had a clown face then you had a Matrox Mystique and not a Millennium, you n00b!
The Millennium came out first and it was always the "professional" 2D card with basic 3D functionality while the Mystique was the gamer variant.
A couple years after WC3, a lot of people in the mid 90s had a Millennium for 2D (Windows/Office) plus a 3Dfx Voodoo for gaming. The Mystique became completely useless once the Voodoo and other better 3D cards came out because Voodoo > TNT > ATI Rage 3D Pro > Mystique.

Ahh yes! You're right, it was a Matrox Mystique. Sheesh, much time has passed since then. The Mystique was an upgrade to an old Diamond video card with 512k vram. I can't recall at the moment the exact Diamond model that card was though. I do recall replacing that Mystique for a Diamond v770 AGP TNT 2 just to play SHOGO: MAD.

*reminisces*

You are right about the Millennium proliferating our school office computers. Twas a nice card when it came out!

I enjoyed WC: Privateer more so than WC3. Never tried WC4 though. Maybe after it hits GOG I'll pick that one up.

Don't ever mention My Buddy (and me)...what's with clowns and dolls.

Oh boy do I remember the Matrox Millenium. Mine came with Destruction Derby, which I loved...but the box in which the video card came in had this freaky looking clown face on it.

Please stop the nightmares...they never go away...ever.

I, like many are truly disappointed (and rightly so) over the direction this new Syndicate is going, I ask you all this.

Regardless of the fact that it is and will be a FPS, would you:

Rather have the new Syndicate sell well (being a decent game or not) and possibly spawn more FPS sequels, and have the IP live on (with a bleak possibility of another official Syndicate title in the vein of the classics)?

Or have the new Syndicate sell poorly (decent game or not) with neigh a possibility of any Syndicate sequels, be it FPS or another perspective? Since I'd imagine poor sales would equate to never seeing anything "Syndicate" ever again.

WyldKat wrote on Sep 12, 2011, 23:20:

Alpha Geist wrote on Sep 12, 2011, 20:55:
The standalone four-player campaign features levels based on those of the original and its sequel Syndicate Wars. Designer Rickard Johansson talked this up - "hopefully co-op is a great nod towards the old gang" - but argued that the old Syndicate formula had had its day. "I don't want people to stop playing the old games, but time has moved on."

So at best, all they can do is HOPE that the co-op is a nod towards the old gang?

Ugh...don't even get me started on the whole "time has moved on" quote.

If EA/Starbreeze's reinvention of Syndicate mixed in qualities of Battlezone (or Battlezone II), then I wouldn't be so disappointed. That was one FP RTS game I really got a kick out of.

Heck, are there any other games similar to that of BZ/BZII, past or present?

Now where did I put my BZ CD at...

Wait... they actually said "Time has moved on?"

Tell that to the Madden and NFS franchise or any other host of EA games.

No it's more like... "Well those games were made by talented developers whose company we bought out, we're unable/unwilling to match their creativity so have a Deus Ex clone and be happy about it."

Yup, apparently time has moved on and we should forget about what made the classic a classic in the first place.

+1 on the Madden and NFS EA franchise milked every year.

Like someone already mentioned, I too hate it when developers say "We're big fans of the original [insert game here]..." Usually what follows is an excuse to affirm what they're doing now is "paying homage to it as we can..."

Bullocks!

"We're big fans of the original Syndicate, and we're definitely paying as much homage to it as we can - bringing across the essence of the world, the core essence of what it is to be an Agent. That sounds wanky but it's true - we're taking the Persuadatron and evolving it in different ways, the weapons and brutality."

/sarcasm on
We all know that paying homage to Syndicate has nothing to do with (as per jdreyer's post) "...totally destructible environments, strategic gameplay, weapon and augmentation economy, and multiple paths to mission victory."
/sarcasm off

Well, it's EA who most likey has Starbreeze by the berries. Damn asshats!

The standalone four-player campaign features levels based on those of the original and its sequel Syndicate Wars. Designer Rickard Johansson talked this up - "hopefully co-op is a great nod towards the old gang" - but argued that the old Syndicate formula had had its day. "I don't want people to stop playing the old games, but time has moved on."

So at best, all they can do is HOPE that the co-op is a nod towards the old gang?

Ugh...don't even get me started on the whole "time has moved on" quote.

If EA/Starbreeze's reinvention of Syndicate mixed in qualities of Battlezone (or Battlezone II), then I wouldn't be so disappointed. That was one FP RTS game I really got a kick out of.

Heck, are there any other games similar to that of BZ/BZII, past or present?

Now where did I put my BZ CD at...

WTF does "a unique action shooter" have to do with the beloved Syndicate (plus American Revolt)& Syndicate Wars IP?

My gut tells me this new reignite is not going to contain the tactics, strategy, overlord squad based shenanigans, R&D and depth of the true classic that Syndicate was (and is) ... all packed into a "Visceral FPS Experience."

WTF mate? Just another Bastardization of a once beloved classic churned out for "the masses."

Oh, and before someone mentions Fallout 3 (and/or NV), that was an exception to the rule. I don't see all the CORE elements that made Syndicate what it was under the guise of "a unique action shooter."

I don't see how it was ripped from star trek NCC 1701.

Their first game in the series was Anno 1503, followed by Anno 1602 and now Anno 1701. See the pattern? They just added 99 years to each game (1503 + 99 = 1602, 1602 + 99 = 1701).

Mere coincidence