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| |  "2D 'flight simulators'?" , posted Mon 22 Oct 17:11  
I really enjoyed the flight sequences of Metal Slug, but the player's plane basically hovers as the screen moves, while the enemy's planes fly at you in loops and so on more 'realistically'
I've been wondering if there are any games that are somewhat realistic with flying a plane (you don't turn instantly but turn and loop like you're affected by your velocity, air resistence, gravity, weight, wing flaps, etc.)
Luftrausers is kiiinda like that but that's more like flying a rocket shaped like a plane where you fall like a brick when you stop thrusting, and less like an airplane that is riding the air.
Something like this sequence of Metal Slug 1, but the player flies like the enemy Flying Tara does:
https://youtu.be/InpsJRSMHJs?t=150
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| | "Re(1):2D 'flight simulators'?" , posted Fri 26 Oct 12:35
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I really enjoyed the flight sequences of Metal Slug, but the player's plane basically hovers as the screen moves, while the enemy's planes fly at you in loops and so on more 'realistically'
I've been wondering if there are any games that are somewhat realistic with flying a plane (you don't turn instantly but turn and loop like you're affected by your velocity, air resistence, gravity, weight, wing flaps, etc.)
Luftrausers is kiiinda like that but that's more like flying a rocket shaped like a plane where you fall like a brick when you stop thrusting, and less like an airplane that is riding the air.
Something like this sequence of Metal Slug 1, but the player flies like the enemy Flying Tara does:
https://youtu.be/InpsJRSMHJs?t=150
There are a bunch of these, to varying degrees of arcadey-ness. For instance, the old Choplifter games are such games, where you have mild inertia when trying to shift leftwards or rightwards, and as you direct your helicopter forwards, forwards it slowly shifts downwards and you have to pull it upwards because that's how helicopters actually work when tilted forwards! One of the more recent incarnations of a Choplifter-like game that's actually legit good is Glory Days 2: Brotherhood of Men (no, that's actually what it's called!), and it lets you play both as a helicopter or as a jet, and the jet has the handling characteristics you mention. I HIGHLY RECOMMEND THIS GAME, no joke.
There are two other games which simulate rather different elements of the flying in a combat context: one of them is Steambirds, which is like a top-down version of the board game Canvas Eagles. Steambirds is made by the west coast studio Spry Fox, and the endless Survival mode is available for free online. Steambirds focuses on the fact that turning circles are quite different from one vehicle to another, and it plays in a hybrid real-time/turn-based thing (not the same as real-time with pause, since you don't get to pick when the game pauses).
It's worth pointing out that "it feels like flying a rocket" is an idea that isn't totally wrong about some old airplanes. The amount of drag that was experienced by old bi/tri-planes was such that performing strange midair manoeuvres was possible that we don't associate with "how planes fly". I'll have to dig up the quote later, but basically it was said that the drag experienced by some of these planes was so comically huge that it was possible to perform a manoeuvre where the plane seemed to change which way it was pointing without yet changing course, as well as "flat turning", where it turns without banking.
Skykid on the NES sought to make gameplay that involved the challenges of "you can only shoot at what your plane is literally pointed at, so shooting at things on the ground means your plane is flying towards the ground!" and doing a loop-the-loop was a great and powerful thing. It can definitely be looked at as one of the games that is still very arcade-y, but tries to inject a few angles of realism to the game that radically change how you play the game.
The games you describe about Luftrausers I think of as "like Solar Jetman... wait, why does ANYBODY want games like that?!"
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