OK i am a heavy flight sim player. i dont own any flight sims right now. i have sold all that i have bought. i am still waiting for a flight sim i can actually play and feel like I am in an airplane. after all halflife and doom seem to think graphics matter and I cant wait to get my hands on them, but i look at this flight sim from microsoft and i think, well the flight engine looks the same. the gound looks fake. the planes look like they are done right but who would want to play a game where the plane looks real but the world you are flying in looks like a cartoon? this is my opinion so please understand. i know it looks ok, but not real. i want a real flight sim world and everything. not just the planes. i am still going to have to wait awhile....hey!! maybe ID software will do a flight sim???? mmmmmmmmmm????
Shivers..

I see your point, nothing beats the real thing ..

you can fly over the entire world with flight simulator, right? (correct me if I'm wrong). Do you have any idea how much space high-resolution textures of the ENTIRE world would take? they're gonna have to invent a new storage medium just to be able to put it on a reasonably low number of cd/dvd/whatever's.

I think they're taking the right approach: the textures look good enough when you're in flight, they're only blurry when you take off/land (because you're so close to them).

If they have high-resolution textures in flight simulator 2010, I'd be surprised :)

HEHE i understand that, and thats exactly what i ment. I will have to wait awhile......for a real flight expieriance. but i would rather fly around a few states or even the united states in a simulater that actually made me feel like i was in a real world. rather than a flat world that dont look so real anyway was just my opinion i am impressed as to what they have done. but i never stay with the game very long becouse it just feels like a game...know what i mean? i mean when i get to play doom3. i think i will jump outta my chair! now would i or did i ever jump outta my chair playing doom 1 or 2? i dont think so ,but i did play the shit outta them and had some fun. i just want that same thing playing a flight sim. thank you. realizm!! hehe

Shivers