Is Flight Simulator 2020 Worthwhile? A Review

Taking a deep dive into the new Microsoft Flight Simulator! FS2020 has been one of my most-anticipated releases in a long time, what an absolute technical achievement. It's got its quirks and limitations, no doubt about it, but this is a flight sim with a bright future!
This review was made using a copy of the game I bought myself. Not sponsored, no payments or codes received, all opinions are my own.
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[@LGR]

First commenter to compile a list of all the custom tail/registration numbers wins 5 internet points 👍

[@gianfavero]

Welp

[@TheGumball3k]

Nukem all

[@starquake1565]

FARTS

[@cheeseball5354]

Ill try Edit: Nifty, ASXGS,, ASXGSA, Welp, Farts,, H8Sand, Ohmy, Jumbo, N320DL, WTF

[@oof5992]

LGR Masketta man. Crashing this plane with. Norsh Urvivors Wreckage Brother

[@vidyajamesu]

"It's a simulation of flight, *PLANE* and simple." clint why

[@LGR]

😊

[@JohnSmith-xq1pz]

Oof

[@ronaldmullins8221]

I heard that too when he said it and came down here to look for the comment

[@Chaos89P]

Puns, why else?

[@iiiiiifggffggffgfgfg]

Aww you beat me to that pun.

[@Porphyrios1]

My downtown is 3D scanned, accurate, & looks great...except for the 40 story tall tree.

[@japzone]

Tried to land on the road in front of my house, but I was foiled by the obelisk-like trees, and the random 30 foot ramp/cliff that's there for some reason. At least I was able to crash land in my neighbor's yard and see my house.

[@Vixen1525]

@@japzone If you hate your neighbours you might be happy after all.^~^

[@westminsterabbey.6916]

japzone I’m glad to live in a world we’re that statement makes sense.

[@aaz1992]

Lol bruh

[@GTXOla]

Hey are you allowed to play new games? And not even a reference to Pacman with the yellow bush plane. Have you been replaced by an alien?

[@ahobimo732]

I feel like computers are finally accomplishing the sort of stuff that people have expectsd from them for the past 4 decades or so.

[@Akamundra34]

and it s only the beginning, transhuman era ...

[@BubbafromSapperton]

Tell me about it, I started with Flight Simulator II about 40 years-ago... 😆

[@AlexanderBogdanow]

@@Akamundra34 So, you heard of ma secret plan to become a Transgender-Cyborg; finally uploading my Mind in a Cloud so my naggy criticism will hunt mankind as some sort of 'Ghost' as long as humanity/Interwebz exists? Damned!

[@jabrockobiden9434]

Nope, new stuff sucks

[@6Xyzzy]

Jesus Christ, this is the stuff of childhood dreams. What an age we live in, no joke.

[@npc4805]

I wish the planes exploded so I could blow up my school lmao

[@bloodshed3523]

Ōetsu Nimaya that’s exactly why they don’t explode lmaooo

[@npc4805]

@@bloodshed3523 your username is fitting

[@npc4805]

@Jerry LeeLewis nah

[@skilldeadly8888]

@@npc4805 welp, you are on a list now.

[@jdthompson8783]

Cant imagine a more relaxing pair, LGR and MSFS.

[@Neojhun]

ASMR for Nerds.

[@melissa6470]

I would totally watch a 24hr stream of LGR just chilling while flying, especially when VR comes and we sit In the copilot seat and see him in the pilot seat.

[@Hotlog69]

"This is your captain LGR speaking. Sit back and relax, you're in for a smooth landing."

[@wolfhawk1999]

I feel like you said "cloud servers" while messing with clouds was intentional

[@LGR]

;)

[@SuperPITSteelers]

@@mikesilva3868 did you really need all those emojis?

[@jayhill2193]

@@SuperPITSteelers It's the people like him, of which exist like a handful in the whole world, all these hundreds of useless emojis are made for. Interesting to see actually

[@Utube2Itube]

LGR: “Look at me, I’m the captain now” Newspapers next day: “Airliner was remotely hijacked by unidentified hackers”

[@doubtful_seer]

“The hacker known as 4chan, uh, I mean LGR”

[@coolcat-nq4mj]

and crashed in to a building

[@Game_x_y_z]

@@coolcat-nq4mj 9/11 wibes intensifies

[@federikus2928]

I’m an amateur pilot and the rig setup is more expensive than flying a real Cessna

[@Steve211Ucdhihifvshi]

Exactly. If you fly a little jabiru too

[@gasmaskguys4965]

@@Steve211Ucdhihifvshi jabirus are amazing little things

[@Derevirn]

The Karman line, i.e. the boundary between earth's atmosphere and space, is typically defined as the altitude of 100 km. Regardless of that convention, Theodore Karman himself calculated that the atmosphere becomes too thin to support flight at an altitude of 83.6 km or about 275000 feet. So that maximum altitude does make sense after all, and isn't some arbitrary number!

[@kiwikiwi2483]

I wanna fly my car there

[@absolutely1337]

Derevirn game looks amazing. Wish my isp wasn’t a potato.

[@noor-rx1ij]

@@absolutely1337 You need to install the Space core in your ISP

[@absolutely1337]

@@noor-rx1ij ?

[@noor-rx1ij]

@@absolutely1337 I thought you made a Portal joke so I tried my best :-(

[@alexdemoya2119]

19:27 Im just imagining sitting in the cockpit of this spinning wildly stalling airplane and clint, the ever calm pilot casually says "speaking of atmospheric conditions, let's talk weather" as a cacophony of alarms wail

[@javaguru7141]

This mental image gave me a great laugh, thank you 😁

[@nslouka90]

CAPTAIN! ARE WE GOING IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION???

[@clickmyprofileforfreenudes6599]

@@nslouka90 Can't be a wrong direction when you are going in all the directions.

[@clickmyprofileforfreenudes6599]

@@nslouka90 Can't be a wrong direction when you are going in all the directions.

[@stentor9640]

I remember being blown away at Flight Simulator 94, I can’t believe how far they’ve come.

[@ebayerr]

They need to make a VR version of Flight Simulator

[@SheridanAndCompany]

They made it, it's built into the game@@ebayerr

[@Bruhmoment42O]

@@ebayerrthey did

[@hungrymoose7627]

If only we could get a trucking simulator powered by streetview

[@Jerrycourtney]

*Alexa, play:* _Desert Bus_

[@PanzerMan332]

SCS about to go out of business if that becomes real, lmao.

[@everyhandletaken]

That would be unreal. Driving anywhere in the world.. 🤤

[@prozac1127]

Lol your trying to simulate the universe

[@ajemajh]

@@PanzerMan332 not if they make their first

[@marv2k214]

My uncle is like 76 and losing his mind for this. Gonna blow his retirement on a new pc. He already has a cockpit build.. it's... a thing

[@regularbloke2117]

Best of luck for your uncle

[@slickstretch6391]

Nice. I wish I had space to build a cockpit.

[@benskyddd]

nice. im sure he’s gonna have a beautiful experience :)

[@overtherenowaitthere]

I wanna be able to do that at my age. The thing I'm scared of most at that age is being almost immobile lol.

[@bilbo1778]

Flight simmers are a strange bunch - probably the highest median age of "gamers" & often the only video games they play are flight sims. I'm sure many would vehemently deny being gamers at all but - yes - if you play flight sims you are objectively a gamer.

[@shadowtheimpure]

"Civilian Aircraft" Give it a couple months and you'll have people in F-16s.

[@BAZFANSHOTHITSClassicTunes]

I want an Afterburner F14 Tomcat. Or Airwolf.

[@Xx_m1k3_0X1onG_xX]

@Baby Goose you got a place you're giving updates on that?

[@snarkymoosesshack8793]

I just want to tour around the globe in a disarmed F-4 Phantom.

[@shadowtheimpure]

@Baby Goose Sweet. Let me know when you've got that whipped up and I'll happily fly that around for shits and giggles.

[@tripodranger7873]

But how long until I can fly an ADFX-02 Morgan?

[@gr8cescale]

You're having fun with the tail numbers. "FART" and "WHEEEEEEEE" were gold.

[@wta1518]

He should have named one “HOW DO YOU FLY THIS THING”

[@ibnufasya6408]

No it's should've been : "HEY NOW YOU'RE AN ALL STARS" or "THE SONG'S DARUDE SANDSTORM"

[@SimonChristensen]

The fact that you called your plane 'HYGGE' at 20:00 is just great

[@raven4k998]

does your city look realistic in the game?

[@MrCrazyjoe259]

@@raven4k998 most cities I've visited look pretty authentic. With updates it just gets better

[@raven4k998]

@@MrCrazyjoe259 lol just wondering if you flown over your home town and checked it out looking for anything that is out of date that's all cause the maps used are not up to the second they are outdated to a point that's all

[@smaakjeks]

Scrolled down to check if anybody else noticed :D

[@akuyume7]

LGR: "Look at me, I am the captain now" Also, nice touch of using hyyge when talking about coziness.

[@DrymouthCWW]

Hygge means cozy in norwegian 😃

[@zbieraj]

@@DrymouthCWW It is a Danish word ;). Which does not mean specifically "cozy" but that word is the closest to what it means, I guess. Cheers from Denmark ;).

[@DrymouthCWW]

@@zbieraj Hyggelig. Ja det er vel kanskje ikke noe direkte oversettelse.

[@JW86SH]

Who votes that LGR make an hour long "complete" retrospective on the "Microsoft" Flight Simulator series?

[@SirFaceFone]

or an hour-long Let's Play series

[@willgilliam9053]

LAX to NYC.... real time

[@geordanlemon]

@@willgilliam9053 like Desert Bus but for planes

[@blaster915]

MEE

[@rollingtroll]

"does that mean you can find your house?", He says, flying only a few miles away from my house. What are the odds?

[@evolicious]

doxxing yourself in 2020, nice.

[@rollingtroll]

@@evolicious You know this thing is owned by Google, right? ;). Also I don't think "Only a few miles from where Clint is flying in flight simulator" is going to narrow it down more than many other things would do :D.

[@rollingtroll]

@Max William Lauf being beer!

[@Kiwing4lyfe]

This is the most detailed review of MsFS I've seen yet, typical LGR

[@NabilTouchie]

Ikr, The L in LGR is supposed to stand for Lazy

[@horusreloaded6387]

I mean he didnt get into the simulation part much but who cares about it

[@veevee306]

Those graphics were so convincing I had a shiver of existential dread when physics were turned back on in the upper atmosphere. Good job, devs!

[@theweddingsinger1970]

Sit in a passenger seat in an airline and do it

[@cxeroannuki2840]

Can't wait to experience that in VR!

[@Dummigame]

Sometimes it takes a few seconds for my brain to realize that its the sim when I watch a clip

[@darkmage07070777]

I'd personally love to see "flight damage/malfunctions" as an add-on. Not even modeling, necessarily (although THAT would be amazing), just if I fly through a freakin' hurricane, I want my instrument panel to light up with warnings and my craft to start flying like it's waterlogged with half a wing torn off. Or if I skip pre-flight checks enough times, an ever increasing chance of my hydraulics or landing gear having issues working. It seems like it'd fit in nicely with FS' vision of "realistic sandbox simulator" and also provide a lot more for pilots to do, especially groups of pilots in multiplayer - just try to tell me you and your friends wouldn't be chasing hurricanes to see who can get closest and/or land safest with the most catastrophic damage, and the mid-air collision would be even more fun if your control panel lit up red and you started flying around like your plane was blind drunk.

[@Poo_Brain_Horse]

Also let's be real, who here wouldn't 9/11 their house at least once.

[@SirFaceFone]

@@Poo_Brain_Horse That's one of the first things most people do lol

[@nthgth]

OMG that would be so damn cool

[@funny_man8779]

That is already partially in game you can enable engine failures duke leaks bird strokes and more.

[@warmachine5835]

"No birdstrikes." Well that's a dealbreaker.

[@alumlovescake]

I had to refund my game

[@voidofspaceandtime4684]

can't crash a passenger jet full of people. sad. suing microsoft right now

[@GTXOla]

I'm pretty sure you can enable birdstrikes in the aircraft failures section. You can also run out of oil pressure and other common problems. But obviously not in the gawdmode LGR was cruising in.

[@feelx92ger]

Sad Sully noises :'(

[@DJEylisium]

You can tell how recent this is by the live weather, just look at Hurricane Laura on the world map at the start!

[@deltabeta5527]

I wonder if anyone flew into it

[@coffin7904]

@@deltabeta5527 many people are flying into it

[@soaringeag1392]

I started seeing the outer bands when flying around PCB/Tyndall

[@matthewblunderbuss4545]

Delta Beta I did was pretty epic I also used slew mode to go above it and look down.

[@Drives31forhalo]

2010: I wish my computer was good enough to play these awesome new games 2020: I wish my internet was good enough to play these awesome new games

[@jothain]

Yeah, I downloaded FS for almost three days on row. And things could've been much worse. Could be nasty surprise for some that have quota on their subscription.

[@VeyronBD]

I feel that, 5Mbps down and 1 up leaves a lot of stuff out of reach

[@Drives31forhalo]

@@VeyronBD yyyyyyyyeppers. I know the feeling. used to have consistent 350Kb/s, then got "upgraded" to a new network that was capable of 24Mbps, was good for a while but now that my ISP moved everyone on it I struggle to get 3Mbps. it's fucking frustrating especially being the only ISP available.

[@kingjohn6519]

@@Drives31forhalo I feel privileged to have gone, rather quickly, from 56k (on a good day) dial up in 2011 to ADSL2 straight to 100/50 in 2015. Only had to deal with data caps for a year until they also became a thing of a past here in New Zealand. It's absolutely crazy to see that 10Gbit is just around the proverbial corner and probably will be available to most residential customers that already have fibre rolled out. I feel for places that are beholden to being stuck to one provider and if they can be bothered to pull fibre across the road

[@CrossoverGameReviews]

2050: I wish my psychokinetic wave transmitter was strong enough to telekinetically connect my brain to these awesome new games.

[@MichaelAhlers]

“Departure, Diamond Foxtrot-Alpha-Romeo-Tango-Sierra, VFR, with request.”

[@Rutherford_Inchworm_III]

8:45 - Nah mate that's the Fair Dinkum Tower of Toowoomba!

[@professordexter3563]

Toowoomba: the only place in the world where you've gotta go up a hill to get to a hole in the ground. 🤣

[@longview2517]

That montage of North Carolina really got me. That was basically my exact reaction to seeing Winston. All those personal landmarks right In front of you.

[@stephenbaber1547]

5-points and R.J. Reynolds H.S. w00t

[@FuglyFatt]

10:55 - "don't go trying to buzz through the flamingos" Proceeds to buzz through flamingos in full purple FARTS livery.

[@rixxy9204]

lmao that's why I love LGR videos.. "He already tried it, and it didn't work"

[@quatz1981]

I remember being quite impressed with Flight Simulator 5 back in the day on my 486. Never would my 13 year old self imagine a day when we would get a Flight Sim looking like this.

[@Dummigame]

And now there‘s 13 year olds like me playing this beauty of a game.

[@littlemikey46]

I'm glad you included the Melbourne Monolith! It's one of my favourite features, and is just the kind of thing that city would build.

[@cinefreak2307]

All this game need is a mod so you can listen to the K-DST while flying...

[@erenv4371]

Bro

[@2lazysouls160]

Bruh...

[@leljdam3189]

young turks while flying over turkey

[@APPEALtoFEAR]

You're on the dust 😇

[@sevenkaylive]

San Andreas vibes...

[@jipillow1]

This is why i love LGR. Clint you can take a game that i have zero interest in owning and make me enjoy watching a review.

[@Badylird]

same

[@emil.soderholm]

@Peter Andrijeczko Wow so you don't have a smartphone?

[@emil.soderholm]

Peter Andrijeczko I don't have a next question, good for you if you don't want companies collecting data about you I'm glad you're preventing that at least a little bit.

[@emil.soderholm]

Peter Andrijeczko great

[@SirFaceFone]

@Peter Andrijeczko What's your job?

[@samuelthehobo4441]

I wish it had a kill cam, so if I crashed into my house it would show an awesome explosion. But I can see why it’s not there.

[@RangerMcFriendly]

😆🤣

[@bartz0rt928]

Finally, a real use case for cloud computing in something like a game.

[@FreakySoup62]

Went to school in Winston-Salem. That whole segment about its in-game representation blew my mind!

[@RtaincCo]

I live in Greensboro, same

[@lumberjack8727]

I lived in a town called galax. It's like a hour and a half away and we use go to Winston a lot

[@kilroywashere9343]

I love how accurately the phallus palace has been rendered

[@willmercier2852]

I feel like the AI world generation is more exciting than the flight models etc.

[@RtaincCo]

Jarred Phillips I’m from Staunton/Charlottesville, so much overlap. Pretty cool

[@Drumada]

In case you weren't aware, this is also one of the only games i've seen that actually makes use of the Pause key for its intended function! Hitting the Pause key freezes the plane in place while letting the simulation continue. Great for using the drone or other camera modes to try and capture photos!

[@maurofoti526]

Older strategic games also used it in 1990s (particularly Age of Empires). Nevers seen it used since then!

[@cdgonepotatoes4219]

imagine being in tailing formation with a pal at full throttle, then all of a sudden whoever's in front hits pause and you both crash with each other

[@HAWXLEADER]

Actually tons of games does, A friend of mine hit Pause|Break on my PC while playing COD and it actually Paused the Game. It didn't pause the software execution though ^^

[@807D14M0ND5]

Can you say more about that being the intended function? I don't understand where it comes from.

[@HAWXLEADER]

@@807D14M0ND5 imagine you are running a command line and you did something that caused it to loop forever. Pause|break breaks out of your code.

[@rixxy9204]

Thanks LGR for the recommendation!! I've been on the fence with this since it came out so now I can happily purchase with knowing you liked it.

[@alexeibradley-malcolm2462]

I like how he showed that 212 storey building, which is in my city (Melbourne, Australia).

[@nthgth]

It would be cool if that were your exact house that was rendered as a skyscraper 😄

[@AdamIsUrqed]

My computer fails at running Flight Simulator 2020 almost as badly as the world fails at running 2020.

[@beakmann]

@M D Or X-Plane 11

[@kirschitz64]

202 is like if someone dropped a bowling ball on your foot, and then smashed a piano on your head.

[@thehighwayman78]

😁😁😁

[@patrickjmoynihan]

This is a great quote!

[@ZombieJesus1987]

Mine runs it at medium settings and honestly it looks gorgeous even then!

[@RadiationHazardYT]

Compare this with the original release that came out in the 80s. The difference in graphics, and how technology evolved in the past 30 years is mind blowing.

[@avalifeinbytes4529]

Hey! I worked on the aircraft cfgs and some other modifications for the livery pack you're using. Great to see the work of the livery team spreading far and wide!

[@Dummigame]

Man, look at how much this sim has changed over 2 and a half years. From getting to know basic controls of a cessna 152, it‘s gone to vfr navigation, bush trips including realistic winds with valleys, ifr navigation, and takeoff and landing for an a320 I probably missed a mode or two for flight training, but wow, it has expanded so much!

[@darkpepsi]

The new standard of “Can it run Crysis?” cause now we gotta say: “Can it run Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020?” 😂😳😆

[@snarkymoosesshack8793]

RIP my garbage tier CPU and GPU😂😂😂

[@aserta]

Specs aren't wild tho. I mean, a new-ish gen upper level laptop can run it with decent trim. The thing that's really killer here is the memory (not ram) and because of how it works, if your MOBO spec is not up to the task of fast reading, you're probably better off buying an SSD just for this game to upset that problem. To be read (not for ultra-conditions, just decent play/views).

[@SNARC15]

Close enough. When in the air my i7 8750/16 GB/RTX 2070 laptop runs decently at 1080p High End (about 40-50 fps) but when on the ground, especially at a huge airport like LAX or when weather effects were turned on and landing at Lafayette, LA during Hurricane Laura, it dipped down to 8fps because of all the data access.

[@Thekinggamelon]

I wonder if Philscomputerlab may consider to put this game in his list of games to test in his future reviews of several video cards and processors.

[@wta1518]

The specs aren’t that high though. That’s what’s really amazing about this, it isn’t the most demanding game on the market.

[@VideosfromNH]

You:"ATC, this is F-A-R-T-S requesting take off." ATC: "FARTS, you are cleared for takeoff."

[@Croz89]

I can almost hear the audible sigh from AirForceProud95 in the tower.

[@nslouka90]

That text to speech is definitely going to get abused by me

[@nirui.o]

@@ungeneer1506 Better to register F-ART so it can be The.

[@danielmarsden4573]

Foxtrot Alpha Romeo Tango Sierra

[@VintageTechFan]

"F-ARTS requesting clearance to use afterburner."

[@zixter4756]

An incredibly well structured video Clint. I appreciate the time you put in to write such a smooth and intuitive script.

[@CreepyChappy]

This was the most comprehensive review I’ve seen yet , I love your videos keep it up 👍

[@IvailoStoychev]

14:39 *Proceeds to change the pilots weight to 1140 pounds*

[@antongrekov7710]

heavy boi

[@vehicleboi5598]

mom, is that you?

[@juanitamorgan6814]

First commenter to compile a list of all the custom tail/registration numbers wins 5 internet points 👍

[@russell4029]

It’s been a good while since I’ve been impressed by a game technically, Flight Simulator has done that in droves

[@aserta]

The map generation/handling alone is an impressive feat.

[@Nonexistanthuman]

My friend Nifty a Cs 1.6 player and long time avid gamer Died in March of 2019. When I had seen his name on the back wing of the airplane. His voice popped in my head. Thanks LGR. Sometimes youtube can brings us close to those we have lost. Makes me smile he is up flying in a video game :') It's only right..

[@megakaren2160]

I hope Microsoft doesn't fix the goofy apartment or the giant sink hole. These structures have become endearing landmarks.

[@userno001]

This comment aged horribly

[@yenee94]

@@userno001 what happened?

[@nekrosis6560]

@@yenee94 I'm interested to know as well

[@bpkolos1974]

8:33 don't you just love the FARTS reg code... XD

[@contapk]

Followed up by a WTF. Well done!

[@ericpschoon3922]

Dang, I live in Winston Salem right now it’s insane how accurate it looks

[@ShadowSumac]

Probably most impressive thing about this game for me is the integration of the real life stuff, like real plane routes and weather.

[@Dummigame]

Really connects it with the actual aviation world, doesn‘t it?

[@blastofo]

I like googling the commercial jets and see where they left from and where they’re going.

[@slavkosky]

That's great hearing about Winston, I went to NCSA (now UNCSA, after my time). Love that area I ended up living there for 5 years!

[@KingKoopa01]

That rainstorm at the 21:07 minute Mark pure ASMR gold... tell me there's a video uploaded somewhere already 😴

[@jothain]

I was really surprised about fidelity as there's been so much talk about how hardware heavy fs is. I've briefly tried it on my age old gtx970 and r5 3600 and it ran vastly better than I was expecting. I guess die-hard fans are these days all using 4k setups.

[@shadowtheimpure]

I'm running 1080p at 144hz. The game tries, it really does, but it maxes out the card and gets to about 90 at best on my GTX1070

[@jothain]

@@shadowtheimpure not bad at all

[@slickstretch6391]

This is good news for me. I have an i5 now with an RX-480 on the way. I'm hoping I can play this, even if I have to run at 720p.

[@D3lor34n]

Try ultra and watch 10900ks with 2080tis dip below 60 in 1080p. On medium it's pretty tame tho.

[@HieronymousLex]

its not well optimized yet lol. just look at the actual reviews of the game. most people are having bad issues with crashing and low framerates. it has a two out of five stars right now on the microsoft store. if you're hoping to run this on an old rig i think you're out of luck

[@Sean.Vosler]

21:08 please make a "10 hours of sitting under the wing of my plane during a thunderstorm lofi" video for youtube - I'd keep that on all day long

[@robparker5525]

Seeing the “nukem” plane was a lol moment. Also, wow! Those animal walking animations were excellent!!

[@SkulShurtugalTCG]

For some reason, I suddenly want this game.

[@Badylird]

oh shoot It’s skul

[@coopa2002]

@Nick still playz roblox It's not, it's hard to run with high settings

[@nthgth]

Maybe because it looks amazing

[@glaucorocha1281]

i remember quite vividly the day my father bought to me the sims: livin' large and flight simulator 2000 in a bundle, some 19 to 20 years ago. i ended up playing much more FS2k than anything else, and aeronautics dominated my interests for many years to come.

[@KadekGadget]

imagine *GTA 6* with this level of detail

[@Shakedown1969]

Getting oppressor griefed in 4k

[@cxeroannuki2840]

and all the ways they will ruin it with microtransactions

[@manuell3505]

It probably won't take 10 years anymore before we have a high detail digital parallel world that's constantly being updated with new data from camera's.

[@SirFaceFone]

or SimCity/SimWorld

[@JohnBatman111]

Nah, it looks like shit close to the ground

[@strain42]

I spent a year in China, specifically Beijing, specifically a small neighborhood in Beijing called Wudaokou, and I was VERY surprised and pleased that I could fly through it and even recognize a few places. I guess because like you said, it's based on Bing maps.

[@zeldafreak765]

20:51 Clint mentions Nebraska and I'm just like "senpai noticed me?!" Can recommend the thunderstorms, they're v nice 👌

[@ekam9402]

I remember playing the -I think- 98 version when I was like 3yo in my dad’s computer. I didn’t understand a thing but I remember it being one of my first interactions with a computer as a kid

[@martinda7446]

Was that your first memory?? Mine was standing in my cot and admiring a sunset.

[@casedistorted]

Lol I remember playing games on our Commodore 64 as a 3 or 4 year old back in Chicago in maybe 87 or 89.. I would wake up turn on the TV monitor with white snow static that would blind me so bright I couldn’t open my eyes, then wait 5-10 minutes for a game to load up in the C64’s memory using large floppy disks or something. Ahhh good times.

[@DaveF.]

@@casedistorted I owned a copy of Flight Simulator (technically, i suppose, the same product) - written by subLogic before MS brought it for the c64. It came with fight charts listing the com and nav frequencies and a manual that told you how to use them, A vast improvement over this version.

[@frysco5927]

Lol one of my first computer games was Microsoft Flight Simulator 2002 so I relate

[@basti4655]

Best review ever... The amount of information and work you put in your videos is just pure gold.👍👍👍

[@joeyallen1609]

So cool to see you fly the Citation Longitude. I have been a design engineer on that project since its infancy.

[@k3v1nr3nd0n]

Listening to LGR talk about our hometown makes me feel great, and nice to see we can do flybys of the Wacovia building

[@papagunit]

I love how FS is finally getting mainstream recognition. I've been playing since version 95 and all the others since. Glad they brought it back!

[@HyperHunt621]

Before your lookback video on FS4.0, I knew absolutely nothing about MFS as a whole and especially no idea that in just a few days later this absolutely breathtaking new version would be coming out. Your video clips on Twitter and your absolute excitement over the level of detail in even the smallest suburban cities (not to mention the promise of more vehicles and VR support down the line and just...ALL the other smaller experience enhancers!) have made me so excited to get this and give it a go, especially since I just recently built a pretty powerful PC for the first time!

[@agactual2]

LGR is like if the early 1990’s came to life and made a KZbin channel. Very soothing.

[@crossmr]

Games like this and Train Simulator would be great as APIs that modders could build entire actual games on top of. That would make them so fantastic

[@onedeadsaint]

I'm leaving Asheville soon, and I'll definitely miss this lush mountainous area.

[@ryanrudel7118]

Just left Ashville, 2 weeks ago, its where my grandparents live and where my mom grew up, wonderful place. Don't hear about people from there often.

[@fdvnnxcjalt]

Ryan Rudel i live there

[@CrashCarson14]

Hometown and grew up there

[@Fazeshyft]

I keep coming back to this wonderfully relaxing video, and to the sim soon after. I haven't gotten a good chance to dive into the Game of the Year Edition yet.

[@DK640OBrianYT]

Next level Microsoft Flightsimulator would be adding a /1910's/1940's world, warbirds and having groups going on missions.

[@majorborngusfluunduch8694]

I wanna see 1946-2000. I gotta get my 707 fix.

[@bluehatguy4279]

A part of me wishes I could afford to spend money and space on a pod for running simulators. Dedicating it to various flight sims, space flight games, driving games, and mechwarrior 1,2,3.

[@Krasniye]

Clint I must say. I've been a fan for probably a decade now, I love your content. And I squealed like a little kid when I saw you using my Savage cub skins. I'm glad you're enjoying them! You even left the KRAS registration on the red one and it feels like a weird childhood fan nerd dream come true!

[@LGR]

Thanks for making awesome skins for one of my favorite planes!

[@DustinPlatt]

2000: Will it run Crysis? 2020: Will it run Microsoft Flight Simulator on low settings?

[@alumlovescake]

Linus Tech Tips in 2026 Microsoft Flight Simulator MAX settings 16K resolution on the worlds first 16K ultrawide monitor.

[@krazysk]

you mean 2008 for crysis?

[@aaz1992]

2007*

[@doctorvox3267]

But does it run DOOM?

[@alumlovescake]

@@doctorvox3267 Oddly both The new doom and doom ethereal run better then most games I get more fps in Doom ethereal 1440p MAX then I do in any other game that's some next level optimisation

[@Sheza58]

As i was watching this, i loaded up MSFS in the background. The music in the software perfectly beds your vid!

[@JamesSarkarX]

Been waiting for 14 years for this review. I can die in peace now ❤️😊

[@kenbee1957]

Lol R.I.P

[@xxfodxelementxx]

Wooo!!! New video. They closed the Goodwill by me and I was all upset, but it turns out they were just moving to a bigger location. I was sad that goodwills wouldn't make it through the pandemic.

[@scottinbristol]

Goodwills and charity shops have never had more donations because of people having clearouts during lockdown.

[@MattacksRC]

Great review. I just got this and you pointed out a lot of helpful stuff. I noticed you didnt mention the landing challenge mode which i really liked. It reminded me a lot of the mobile game extreme landings.

[@lostspacecraft48]

Great video, first game I haven't picked up on sale in like 6 years

[@dohertyaaron]

I kept thinking Clint was splicing in real-world recorded aerial footage when talking about the authenticity of well rendered locals. But then I'd see a car on the road kinda stutter in a game-like fashion and realize it was actually game footage, lol. Just wowzers at the fidelity.

[@Tsquare22ESQ]

Thanks for the tip about the windows 10 maps app. It's great to know which cities have full photogrametry.

[@bjornroesbeke]

I'm going to park my plane in front of my house and use the street as a runway. That's something i'd never be able to do irl!

[@juicejumper]

I've watched this review like 10 times by now. I find your voice really soothing.

[@everettwold]

Yesssss I’ve been waiting for this one

[@Mastermind12358]

I want to play as Tom Cruise in that movie when he moved drugs from South America.

[@Memnoch4711]

The Aerostar 600 will be available in a few months by 3rd party.

[@aqua7222]

Barry Seal joined the chat... 😂

[@simondutil9452]

@@aqua7222 mcpickle has joined too

[@dimitri2132]

ME TOO

[@aaz1992]

Lmao

[@ashleystassen8595]

5:24 I can see my house so I can technically crash into my own house?! *goes to buy the game straight away*

[@FyberOptic]

There was a time many years ago when I could fly a Cessna with just VOR for navigation in this game, to where I think I would have been comfortable figuring it all out in a real plane. Makes you wonder how many people go on to fly a real plane after getting comfortable with a simulation.

[@XzTS-Roostro]

Crytek: "Crysis is the standard benchmark for gaming!" Microsoft: "hold my beer"

[@symol30872]

"hold my flightstick"

[@vamwolf]

Unzips.... 2 petabyte world's bitches

[@jh5kl]

i mean, this microsoft tech pales in comparison to the new voxel space engines, and a planet is not a gameplay mechanic by itself. Earth simulators were already a thing years ago, and yeah, even more detailed than the microsoft one, they re generally licensed by military sim companies, but some of the companies that make them, originally made them for games

[@mikester1290]

@@jh5kl But they didnt cost 50 pounds, is the flip side of that coin.

[@zOMGREI]

@@mikester1290 They also don't run on consumer hardware either. I've seen some of these sims and they're not running on threadripper/2080Ti systems.

[@OriginalPiMan]

I'm glad you mentioned The Spire in Melbourne's suburbs. Now to get the government to allow it built.

[@matthewhaywood3115]

10:54 reminded me of every sci-fi film ever... "Sir, we can't escape, there's no where we ca-" "We're going through the flamingos" "But sir" "WE'RE GOING THROUGH THE FLAMINGOS"

[@Lasagnaisprettycool]

I got to play this at release and oh my god it blew me away with the cars driving down actual roads, building placement and clouds and lighting. Fast forward a few years and there's still nothing like it. absolutely incredible.

[@MineMiguel40]

I really wish this game had a demo or something. This game looks intriguing to me, but 80 dollars is a lot of money to pay for a game that you don't know you'll like.

[@DanJLeh]

Game pass is 1 dollar right now.

[@MineMiguel40]

@@DanJLeh oh damn you right.

[@wta1518]

It’s only $60

[@MineMiguel40]

@@wta1518 80 CAD

[@yosyp5905]

if you think about it, almost every game has a "demo"...

[@Craigmaul099]

Wait, you are saying that if my dad is flying NOW I can take control of his flight???? WITCHCRAFT!!!!

[@PaulFisher]

feel like there’s a word for “taking control of a plane that is in the sky”

[@Versuffe]

Paul Fisher hijacking

[@Versuffe]

Hijacking is controlling a vehicle. In this situation a plane

[@zestydude87]

Hey, im in Asheville NC.... well, a little outside of it in Maggie Valley, but i wanted to give a shout out nonetheless. Love your channel and all the retro computer stuff!

[@tuka8422]

love how your plane names go from "Hygge" (aw cozy) - "Welp" (aw whimsy) to "Farts" (aw clint.)