FS2 was also my favorite space sim overall, though thinking back to it a couple of funny things stick out:
1. oh hurray, another nebula mission...I just can't get enough of these scrambled sensors and the "surprise" of Shivans jumping in to curb stomp our capital ships
2. son of a crap, failed the mission, guess I have to restart...oh wait I was supposed to fail?? why the hell do I even have objectives?
as for X-Wing, does anyone remember that stupid mission where you have to take down a star destroyer? you get sent in with like 2 waves of Y-Wings that get obliterated within seconds (because Y-Wings are garbage) so you're left to take the thing down by yourself, which means painstakingly killing its turbolasers one by one. and then once you've destroyed the shield generators and it has no weapons/escort left, then you just sit there and fire at the hull for like an hour. I'm pretty sure I ended this mission by putting a rubber band on the joystick so I could do something more productive in the meantime.
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