Maybe someone out here knows the game I'm thinking of...

Flight sim type, big spaces, MMORPG style maybe

from JoeUser Forums

I was talking with a friend last night about the game Warhawk (on the Playstation 3 platform) trying to determine if I should buy a copy to play.  My friend has raved about the game a bit and it seems to have done reasonably well in the ratings and reviews that are out there.

Not having done the demo, and not even being sure that the demo supports enough of the multiplayer aspect to figure out if the game is what I'd really want to play (I suppose it does, but I've been incredibly lazy about downloading stuff on the PS3 or playing anything on it at all really as I prefer the Xbox 360 myself),  I was asking for info in advance so I could hopefully make an informed purchasing decision about Warhawk.

Anyway, in talking about the game I asked about how many players the game supports in a single game and my friend answered that he believed it was 24 total.  Not bad, depending on the area you have to work in, but then I was thinking about how cool it would be if the game was more like a World of Warcraft or say a Star Wars Galaxies type MMORPG (Massively Morphing Online Role Playing Game) where you could have hundreds, if not thousands of people playing within incredibly large areas all at the same time.

I seem to recall that at one point in time (back in the mid to late 90's I think) that there was a flight simulation/air combat type game on the PC that might have fit the description that I'm thinking of.  One where you could fly around in your own combat airplane and just blast the crap out of everyone and everything you saw.  Large areas to fly in and around, etc.  My problem is I can't remember the name at all, and it has me wondering what ever became of that game and if it, or something similar is out there now.

Any body got any clues as what I'm thinking of here?

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Reply #1 from JoeUser Forums Top

Ah, now that I'm back from lunch I had a few minutes to do some research and found the title I was thinking about: Air Warrior III (and it's predecessors).  I never played the game but remember reading about it and hearing about it from a few friends that were big fans of flight sims.

I do really wish that either Microsoft or Sony would come out with a big air combat flight sim where there would be a lot of room to fly and take on multiple enemies as well as getting to fly teams and such.

I know that Ace Combat 6 is coming in the distant future, but it'll be limited to something along the lines of 16 - 24 players in a game at the same time.  That will happen to keep the lag down and it will also happen because if the game isn't limited to few players there won't be a way to manage the size of the maps that would be needed and the amount of 'space' that would be needed in order to keep enough room all of the players to fly around in.  If the maps are too small things are too crowded, but then again if they are too big, you have to fly around for too long and you never run into your enemies.

I'd like to think that eventually we'll see the kinds of games I'm thinking of.  It'd be great if the game happened to be something in space (Star Wars style), but that may be asking just a bit too much.

Reply #2 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
In the meantime, you may want to look into "Freelancer," it was (and is) a damned good one. Similarly, I recently saw one called SpaceForce: Rogue Universe, which sounded quite similar to Freelancer (though I haven't played it. Partly because it's a Steam game.)

Also, there's always EVE Online, which is an MMO, but it wasn't astounding enough for me to pay for it simply because it has long been outdated.

For non-space related, look into Aces High. Without paying (last I checked), they have up to 8 per game, but with paying you can have hundreds. It's an EXTREMELY realistic WWII flight sim though, so it may or may not be interesting to you. Not as much stunt flying as you can have in other games. By the same token, for "flying with teams," I know for a fact that Aces High included full-size bombers, and you could have each station manned by a separate person.

Just a few suggestions.
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