Is Flight Simulator X Worth It DECADES later? | How does FSX hold up NOW?

Welcome to first (and probably last) FSX video on the channel, over the last 3 days I've gone back onto the sim that introduced me into flight simming. Delving into many features and how it fares against simulators of the modern day. Please do enjoy!

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[javianjohnson]

FSX was my absolute childhood when I was young. I would hop on my desktop computer and play this for so many hours man. This video is bringing back so much nostalgia, especially the main menu and 747 cockpit

[markdebruyne]

My entry into simulation was FS5... That was really old. I made thetransition to
MSFS2020 coming from FS2004 (FS9). That difference in graphics was a shock! 🙂

[david-cf]

I started on fsx.. went to xplane 11 afterwards, then went to msfs.. Best decision ever made.. and fsx was just absoluteley amazing

[SK_FTBL]

I've been playing FSX since 2018 and have not upgraded to MSFS2020 because of my PC specs. And I say that it is a good FS because it have many sceneries and addons still available and new ones coming too

[rmd]

Hi there, I started to get into aircraft simulations back in 2015 and to this day, I still believe FSX is still an amazing option for people getting into this hobby or experience sim pilots playing this game to go back down memory lane and enjoy it. It has many options including the missions and the like. One thing I love about this one, compared to other simulators is that it offers a learning centre were you can go from 0 to hero and you get rewards for it. Also, you can enjoy flying many aircraft types. I used to have lots of fun with it and I came back for it. Highly recommended in 2024. 😍

[jater]

This was a fun flight sim to play hours where I went around the virtual world with. Never really bought add ons, though did enjoy the Posky 777 and the Project Airbus freeware planes lol.

It set the standard for future sims.

[Bellthorian]

I remember buying satellite imagery for FSX from Mega Scenery Earth and how blown away I was back in 2007.

[Ryu]

If I can have any flight simulator for my PC, I would 100% choose this one. It can handle low-end computers, many add-ons, AND VERY NOSTALGIC!!!

[Warwolf_]

next how fs2004 hold up (no joke do it studd plz)

[mta]

Ah good times!

Microsoft Flight Simulator has been mainstream for far longer than FSX or FS10 as some called it. I first encountered it around FS3 back in the 1980s though its origins go back to the 1970s with Bruce Artwick and Sublogic. It was always popular and back then, it was the benchmark you used to measure your PC. Before "Can it run Crysis", it was "Can it run Microsoft Flight Simulator". It was a system crusher as it is now and, hilariously, often just as buggy. But it was worth it cause when it was right, there was nothing else like it!

It's funny how, nowadays, the hardcore people who use MSFS or X-plane don't like it when you call it a "game." Throughout its first 30 years, though, Flight Simulator had the reverse problem as it was sold in video game stores when it had almost no game elements. "Is it even a game?" people would ask. The missions that you get in Flight Simulator were its attempt at adding some "gameplay".

For $6.86 US on Steam, I hope that people who haven't played FSX might check it out, not only to appreciate just how far we've come with MSFS 2020, but also how much is fundamentally the same. It's still a great way to experience flight and aircraft on your home computer. I still use the FSX music as the default MSFS music.

Still, as someone who played it for almost it's entire run, I won't be going back to FSX. I got everything I wanted from it. FSX is dead. Long live MSFS!

[tonyf]

Still my go to for some VR, started off there with the old DK1 from Oculus then moved onto the DK2, was and still is great fun.

[ograin]

The problem with MSFS is that every version is beyond the current PC performance. By the time you have a rig that can run the damned thing above 30 FPS at high quality graphics (with complex addons) then the next version of MSFS is out and your version is "old".
So I'd rather stick with FSX with 3rd party aircraft and scenery and enjoy ultra high graphics at 60 FPS than watch my brand new mid-range gaming rig creep along at 20 FPS on FS 2020.

[ConcordeError]

There's a great chance that a good deal started it all (including me) with Microsoft Flight Simulator X
While yes, the physics aren't like X Plane, or the Graphics of MSFS, we can't disagree that no other sim had the customization unlike FSX. The multiplayer was actually multiplayer, uneducated shenanigans that make the true "pilot" turn into comedian, it was a flight sim that actually made Home Flight Simulation a global theme, one could inculcate the love of flight instead of something restricted for hardcore aviation fans. Heck, Flight Sim on YT existed because of FS2004, but skyrocketed cuz of FSX. There's no arguing that FSX was the most important Flight Sim, if some aren't willing to rate it the best

[jnln]

I was looking through my fsx screenshots the other day was very nostalgic

[ohwell]

I will never get rid of FSX on my old computer win 7. There are things they should have kept in MSFS like the Map that can be expanded and sized and moving the plane over it. The wave action, The placement of the aircraft in the various country all with the airports, no guessing where you are. Lets not forget the hundreds of aircraft available.

[MattMcIrvin]

Microsoft Flight Simulator was very popular going all the way back to version 1 for IBM PC compatibles/MS-DOS in 1981. That was derived from a sim written by Bruce Artwick for other computer platforms of the era, subLogic Flight Simulator, and he continued developing that with the features he'd written for MSFS as Flight Simulator II. So I'd probably identify those as the first mainstream flight simulators. Of course, they make the rendering and features here look futuristic.

[Pilot-]

Before I was able to get a computer compatible with msfs I tried to get fsx, so I went to a flea market and found an fsx dvd version in perfect shape for just 5€, and I still have it today

[danzydan]

For me FSX just kept crashing due to 4GB limit. Happy memories though if l did get thru a flight. Really enjoyed the iFly 737-800.

[lt.lasereyez]

Fs5.1 for me, then skipped one version and went into FSX where I realized that all the VRO/DME stuff and using maps was surplus because now GPS exists!

[flightsimdeskuk]

I swear that this was a more positive review than you gave XP12 beta lol. That said, thanks for the tip on the sale. My DVD copy of FSX no longer works. I didnt want to pay full price for the steam version, but at £4 what's not to like! I still have a book "Flight Simulator X For Pilots" and I never did get around to doing the exercises.