The freaky thing about this game…

[Cybermat47]

… is that I was 14 when I first played the founder’s alpha back in 2013.

 

I’m 22 now, but GBS still feels new thanks to all the updates.
 

Honestly, it’s doing my head in a bit to think that this new game feels new, despite the fact that I was playing it back when I was still just a kid.

[BlitzPig_EL]

You're still just a kid...  

 

Hell, I'm 68 and still think of myself as a kid.  Playing games on the computer to all hours of the night, etc...

 

Never grow old in your mind.

 

Never.

 

And I totally agree with you about the sim.  It's every bit as fresh as the first day, and keeps getting better all the time.

 

 

Edited February 26, 2022 by BlitzPig_EL

[DD_Arthur]

18 minutes ago, BlitzPig_EL said:

Never grow old in your mind.

 

Never.

 

 Exactly this.?

[Avimimus]

 

Yes, it is impressive. I honestly think that, with the current pace of reinvestment into the engine - they could easily keep this going another ten years.

 

That said - it would be dependent on growing the user base enough to support development of Flying Circus Five, and some less common theatres (Battle of France, Italy, 1950s Europe, maybe Suez Crisis)... as they'd run out of planes eventually unless they can manage to move to less common theatres. It'd be pretty cool too (say after '45 East, New Guinea, Leningrad... the remaining theatres would increasingly be ones never modelled before).

 

[Oyster_KAI]

Men are teenagers until they die.

[IckyATLAS]

1 hour ago, BlitzPig_EL said:

 

 

Hell, I'm 68 and still think of myself as a kid.  Playing games on the computer to all hours of the night, etc...

 

 

I am a baby then at 62 ?

[SidtheGit]

2 hours ago, BlitzPig_EL said:

 

Hell, I'm 68 and still think of myself as a kid.  Playing games on the computer to all hours of the night, etc...

 

Never grow old in your mind.

 

Never.

 

 

 

 

Growing old is compulsory....growing up isn't.

[Gambit21]

Noob!!

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[FlyingH]

Hey kids, I just turned 71 and counting!

[oc2209]

2 hours ago, Oyster_KAI said:

Men are teenagers until they die.

 

I agree in most cases.

 

But I had the misfortune of being born with the mindset of a 90 year old man.

 

And no, this isn't like Benjamin Button where I age in reverse.

 

I just keep gettin' crustier.

[CUJO_1970]

I’ve never been this old before.

[pilotpierre]

75 here and still thoroughly enjoy IL2, making 1/35 and 1/16 military models and large Lego technic models. I also enjoyed my model railroad full room set up before I sold it because of a terminal illness. (Mine not the model railroads).

As my first wife of 25 years and my present wife of 28 years (who are best of friends with each other) take delight in telling all and sundry I am still a child who never grew up.

Am I phased by this - nah.

[Irishratticus72]

Turned 50 earlier this week, was asked by my work colleagues what did I get for the big five oh. Told them I got myself a throttle Quadrant and new pedals. Ever see that look a goat gives you when you don't have food for it, but are talking to it? That's the look I got. 

[Pikestance]

52 here and now i feel like the kid in the group. LOL

I tell my wife that men are are only grown boys. We just have more expensive toys. 

I grew up in the Atari 2600/ Pong days. It is either a curse or a blessing that I am absolutely amazed by the graphics. 

[Frequent_Flyer]

As an old wise man said " Nothing wrong with being chilldlike , just don't be  childish ".

[Raptorattacker]

TOTALLY agree with everything here chaps!

I can honestly say that I see the world around me exactly the same as when I was a 5-year-old kid (55 years ago!) and I can certainly say that see no reason to percieve it in any other way.

The only problem is all these grown-ups telling me to act my age!!

[BMA_FlyingShark]

Still haven't gotten over the fact that I turned 40...past 48 in the mean while now.

 

Love the BOX series.

 

Have a nice day.

 

[Guster]

Worrying about age is so last millennium.

[Scent]

Since the first time my father gifted me heroes of the pacific, i fell in love with WW2 and aviation, spent a lot of hours playing only ww2 games. So when i discovered Il2 trought crash compilations?, i wanted it 

 

So here i'm now 17 and playing this great game since 2018

[Irishratticus72]

31 minutes ago, Scent said:

Since the first time my father gifted me heroes of the pacific, i fell in love with WW2 and aviation, spent a lot of hours playing only ww2 games. So when i discovered Il2 trought crash compilations?, i wanted it 

 

So here i'm now 17 and playing this great game since 2018

When I was 17, the highlight of the sim genre was....... Strike Eagle II, Amiga, 1989.

We've come a long, baby. 

Edited February 27, 2022 by Irishratticus72

[pippa101]

I was a late comer to computer games - Amiga 600 was my first- I'm 57 now but Flying Corps, Knights of the Sky, Secret Weapons of the Luftwaffe, Battle of Britain were my introduction to flight sims. The Microsoft Combat FS were fun and original IL2 'complete edition' - aces expansion pack etc opened up a whole new world. But when it comes to longevity check out Grand Prix Legends. Released in 1998 it is stronger today than ever with an enormous on-line world wide community. I still race it occasionally. I'm a rubbish race driver, I'm a rubbish pilot, submarine captain, sniper etc etc but will never stop playing as long as there are those much much cleverer than me keeping them going. Thank you for that.......

[Jaegermeister]

22 hours ago, Cybermat47 said:

… is that I was 14 when I first played the founder’s alpha back in 2013.

 

What's Freaky is that I started playing this game when you were the same size as my tiny son sitting on my lap with a bottle and messing me up by pulling the trigger.

 

He's 21 now.

[Irishratticus72]

20 minutes ago, pippa101 said:

I was a late comer to computer games - Amiga 600 was my first- I'm 57 now but Flying Corps, Knights of the Sky, Secret Weapons of the Luftwaffe, Battle of Britain were my introduction to flight sims. The Microsoft Combat FS were fun and original IL2 'complete edition' - aces expansion pack etc opened up a whole new world. But when it comes to longevity check out Grand Prix Legends. Released in 1998 it is stronger today than ever with an enormous on-line world wide community. I still race it occasionally. I'm a rubbish race driver, I'm a rubbish pilot, submarine captain, sniper etc etc but will never stop playing as long as there are those much much cleverer than me keeping them going. Thank you for that.......

GPL is an animal, the community have done stunning mod work on that game, Kyalami always breaks my balls. 

[Cybermat47]

15 minutes ago, Jaegermeister said:

 

What's Freaky is that I started playing this game when you were the same size as my tiny son sitting on my lap with a bottle and messing me up by pulling the trigger.

 

He's 21 now.

 

Sounds like he got started on flight sims even before I did 

[Irishratticus72]

19 minutes ago, Jaegermeister said:

 

What's Freaky is that I started playing this game when you were the same size as my tiny son sitting on my lap with a bottle and messing me up by pulling the trigger.

 

He's 21 now.

Drunk toddlers shouldn't operate military equipment anyway. 

[Jaegermeister]

16 hours ago, Raptorattacker said:

TOTALLY agree with everything here chaps!

I can honestly say that I see the world around me exactly the same as when I was a 5-year-old kid (55 years ago!) and I can certainly say that see no reason to percieve it in any other way.

The only problem is all these grown-ups telling me to act my age!!

Yeah, that's what reading glasses are for...

[Cybermat47]

11 minutes ago, Irishratticus72 said:

Drunk toddlers shouldn't operate military equipment anyway. 

 

Sounds like someone got shot down by a drunk toddler.

[Irishratticus72]

1 minute ago, Cybermat47 said:

 

Sounds like someone got shot down by a drunk toddler.

Twice. 

[40plus]

23 hours ago, BlitzPig_EL said:

Never grow old in your mind.

 

Never.

 

 

As a 43yo assembling little deamon army men models in my home office, couldn't agree more.

[[CPT]Crunch]

Once in a while you have to remind the woman if she'd rather you go out to the local drinking establishment and hang out with all the looking women and take up drinking and smoking, be a proper adult, and than she'll mull it over and tell you to get a hardware upgrade on your PC.

[Thad]

22 hours ago, IckyATLAS said:

I am a baby then at 62 ?

 

Ah, a youngster.

 

71 here.

[Falcon41]

I smiled at all the posts here as I just celebrated my 80th and I must say I’ve enjoyed IL2 since it began.  I can recall a memory of my father taking me to an aviation display in Cleveland, Ohio when I was very young.  He lifted me up so I could place my hand on the nose of an all white P-80, the center piece of the display, and a life-long love affair with aircraft began.  I intend to keep flying.

 

 

[Giggles]

The freaky thing about the game is that the planes are fun, for the most part. 

 

But it still has meaning, in the style that Patton believed in. screw the wonder weapons when there is no man versus man interaction. 

 

Yeah i swear at the screen when i forget to apply rudder to make my crate turn, but when I  DO  get it right, watching a hurricane crumple when the wing catches a few bursts of 20mm HE is PRICELESS

[Stryker07]

I'm 38 now and have been flight simming since i was 9ish, Falcon AT on our then state of the art 75mhz Pentium chip. I was amazed then, and I am still amazed today.

[Lensman]

I've been using all the IL-2 variants since 2001! Time ... errrrr ... 'flies'.

[SAG]

20 hours ago, Thad said:

 

Ah, a youngster.

 

71 here.

 

'Youngster' is the most elderly word I know ? You are just in your teens though according to this thread  

[Mysticpuma]

On 2/26/2022 at 5:23 PM, Cybermat47 said:

… is that I was 14 when I first played the founder’s alpha back in 2013.

 

I’m 22 now, but GBS still feels new thanks to all the updates.
 

Honestly, it’s doing my head in a bit to think that this new game feels new, despite the fact that I was playing it back when I was still just a kid.

I am 55, started Combat flights aims with either Jane's WW2 Fighters or European. Air War in 1998 (cannot remember which was released first) so I was 'just' 32. A while later IL2 the original came out and I began playing that and since then have followed the IL2 series. 

I get pleasure from it by creating videos and images as well as flying. Visual improvements hook me, I love visuals so when BoX came in with the new weather it just blew me away. 

 

Oh and as Blitzpig said, still a teenager in my head, my body sadly though isn't happy to reciprocate it ?

 

Cheers, MP

[rare_bird]

In from the very beginning of flight simulation and still can't get enough of it

[=FCU=BurnesOldman]

Hi, I originally thought I was old, but as I look, I'm a young man at the age of 46 and the fact that I really can't fly will be that age. But I enjoy it and it's important

[SAG]

6 hours ago, =FCU=BurnesOldman said:

Hi, I originally thought I was old, but as I look, I'm a young man at the age of 46 and the fact that I really can't fly will be that age. But I enjoy it and it's important

 

You're going to have to change your name now.