Comments on: The Thursday Papers

By: IvanHoeHo

IvanHoeHo — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 21:58:26 +0000

Maybe it’s just me, but it seems to be flying kinda….. slow, for a jet.

By: Taximan

Taximan — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 18:40:22 +0000

True that. Lawrence Holland & Splash Damage should be working on every lite-sim.

I’m sure there are legions of us who spent their teenage years optimizing their shield-engine-blaster energy-feeds in their sleep and dreaming of that lovely shorn-wing death spin of Y-wings or Tie-Fighters before they explode.

By: Simon

Simon — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 18:14:37 +0000

It’d be better if it was by the Secret Weapons over Normandy people.

By: Taximan

Taximan — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 11:31:53 +0000

Last I heard of HAWX was when it was Tom Clancy’s Air Combat or something of the like, which sounds a lot like Chuck Yeager’s Air Combat (Now there was a nice combat air sim back in the day. Nothing like shooting down B17’s, completely anachronistically, in an F4 Phantom. P-51’s vs. MIG 15 was interesting, though.).

As far as I know it’s being developed by the people who worked on Blazing Angels. Could be a good thing.

By: Philip

Philip — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 10:53:12 +0000

I think you’re thinking about Tony HAWX… :P

By: Simon

Simon — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 10:46:19 +0000

I wonder if in HAWX you’ll be able to get points for doing ‘xtreme’ areal moves which you can then use to ‘pimp out’ your plane.
I mean, it can’t be hard to give a top-gun like game at least the same ammount of juvinile gay as Army of Two has.

By: marilena

marilena — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 10:16:54 +0000

@Högni Þór

I’m pretty sure hat’s a Dassault Rafale pure and simple, not futurized or mixed in with other planes.

By: kalain

kalain — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 09:59:12 +0000

Looks like a nice game, but I have a single fear about it.

it’s being developed for consoles as well, so does that mean that they will do a cop out and do our version with console controls, like most other companies do nowadays? Be sorry if they didn’t tailor it for our lovely range of force-feedback joysticks. And if they did have specific PC controls, it might actually appear on my ‘buy’ list and the old Sidewinder comes out to play again.

By: Sander

Sander — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 07:58:18 +0000

Hey! The failed joke worked, for once! Nice.

By: AbyssUK

AbyssUK — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 07:53:17 +0000

I might have to break out my joystick *gosh*

By: CLLMM

CLLMM — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 04:29:04 +0000

I’m sorry but if they follow with the Tom Clancy idea, you’ll get a sim-lite that will be too complex for arcadey players and too shallow for hardcore simmers. It sounds like a lead ballon, with an AIM-120 coming straight for it. (And to head off any complaints, I enjoy both Ace Combat,IL-2 Sturmovik, and LOMAC)

By: Noc

Noc — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 04:13:04 +0000

“OMG, you totally stole the whole “reborn as a cyborg” thing from my game. ”

“I thought your game was about poop! and david bowie in general midi!”

“Yeah but it also has a cyborg battle with the unicorn.”

I don’t think I have to say anything anymore.