Black Shark: Voodoo Extreme 2009 Reader's Choice Awards

[Boberro]

Not that many. But I'm working on it :D

 

I am proud of you :D

[isoul]

Today I visited media superstore to buy World of Goo - far better game than DCS Black Shark :tomato: Then I deliberately asked if DCS Black Shark, a helicopter simulation, is available. One of the staff members queried the store's system and said it's not available because the game has not been officially published in Poland and that he has never heard of it. In the mean time the other one looked it up on the internet and in a second he was like "Wow! It looks good!" I wonder if he still watches YouTube videos on DCS Black Shark... :D

 

In Greece it was somewhat hard to find it in the beginning but almost a month after its release we could easily find it.

[Vitesse2l]

I wonder how the poll will look once all the cheating votes are sorted out...

 

Obviously the mature, level headed and intelligent DCS pilots would never stoop to such a thing!

 

Cheers!

[EtherealN]

I really don't think suspicions about cheating are worth the time. They've accused us of cheating, we've accused them of cheating, and a fun poll event has turned into two groups of people jealously surveilling the other's forums to see what nasty things is being said.

 

Bit of a spectacle and in a way amusing, but it's not quite how it should be, is it? :/

 

It's still fun to be one of the "russians" though. :)

Edited January 6, 2010 by EtherealN

[Boberro]

Anyway.... vote for DCS, why are you sleeping, who hasn't voted yet? :P

[sobek]

Anyway.... vote for DCS, why are you sleeping, who hasn't voted yet? :P

 

*sing* It ain't me, it ain't me .... *sing* :D Uh nevermind it's just the one line that fits.

[joey45]

This person is clearly not a flight simmer

 

It might offend some people on here

[sobek]

This person is clearly not a flight simmer

 

It might offend some people on here

 

[joke]

Let's go DoS on his email :D

[/joke]

[Grimes]

This person is clearly not a flight simmer

 

It might offend some people on here

 

Maybe Gabe might take notice and give Eagle "an offer they can't refuse" with better copy protection service/sales platform. :music_whistling:

[Bucic]

Have you noticed that on occasion of this voting it appears that many people thinks DCS Black Shark actually installs starforce drivers? I'm not an expert on DCS copy protection but if it doesn't install anything it might be worth highlighting this information a bit more. In official DCS Black Shark features list or sys req-s maybe.

[Boulund]

This person is clearly not a flight simmer

 

It might offend some people on here

 

 

:music_whistling: I bet he'd love to play this game but found out he couldn't download it illegally off the internet :music_whistling:

 

Sorry about the bad behind-his-back-talk but I couldn't let this one pass.... =D

[Bucic]

AFAIK not a single bad thing was said about KF blokes. And I'd like it to stay it this way. The mentioned "bustards" was not offensive. It was like when your buddy marry to a fine woman and you say "You lucky bastard!". It's nothing like the medieval cursing. You can quote me on that :)

[Lucas_From_Hell]

I was the one who posted it, so I'm laughting really loud on these guys:megalol:

 

Yes, it was on the joking way of it, obviously.

 

If any of the Killing Floor spies/scouts see this post, get the message to reach the Killing Floor forums, will you?

 

"It was a joke, folks. I know that we "Russians"* are the sickest people in the world for some of you in the U.S.A., I know we're "Russians"* are only some crazy people who want to dominate the world; ask any Iraqi! Oops, said too much. Anyway, you're getting too picky about this thing, and, well, it's been quite a while since "bastard" became just an informal joke, rather than the medieval offense. Now, chill out and go play your zombie-killing game with Unreal 2 engine and weak graphics, and let us "Russians"* stick with our ultra-realistic Ka-50 with some of the best graphics there are (in terms of realism) in the flight sim world.

 

*"Russian", in this case, can also mean Brazillian, American, Portuguese, Norwegian, Austrian, Spanish, Australian, British, French, Italian, Belgian and other nationalities.

 

Now please, make this message reach them, otherwise we "Russians" will get the FSB to track you down and, believe me, you don't want the "Russian" secret service on your tail :smilewink:."

 

...:megalol:

[Huckle]

Grow up.

[Total]

In the end, I think it was great community effort here getting the votes in. Considering that DCS Blackshark is sim in a very niche genre, having that many votes and carrying the lead for as long as it did is quite a statement.

 

As far as the whole "cheating votes" thing - Most people who play Blackshark are older and generally operate from one computer. Sure they may have one at work, but think of how many are firwalled from gaming sites at work. God knows I am. I'm lucky to be able to see these forums.

 

And that's not saying that the Killing Floor votes were massivley overstated either. Each game got less than 3000 votes. That's not alot of votes in the grand scheme of gamers. Killing Floor got exposed to many more people based upon it's engine alone and it's advertising via Steam. Not my kind of game and didn't download it. Kind of got tired of the twitch-reaction based shooters in my late 20's. Now, as I reach 40, I prefer more tactical games. But props to Killing Floor and it's players. Diversity is what keeps the gaming industry from going completely under.

 

This has nothing to do with any nationality or geographic location. It was a reader's poll for games. For the "Russian vs _______" aspect to become a debate in the first place was out of place by the members of both communities who participated in that debacle.

 

I say congrats to both games and each other game in the polls. It gave them some publicity that they may not have gotten otherwise.

 

To the people from the Killing Floor (and Steam Forums in general), if you ever feel like something different. Hop into the cockpit of the Blackshark. The learning curve is vertical. The manual is over 500 pages. It's a heckuva change from the shoebox shooter genre and could be fun in a different aspect of gaming. Of course, what is enjoyable and good is perceptive to each individual gamer. If you need advice or help, just ask. Novices are always welcome :)

 

No need to bash Killing Floor the game, nor it's players. It was a PC game in a world of console ports. At least the top two were strictly PC and one of those top two was DCS :)

Edited January 7, 2010 by Total

[GGTharos]

Just a few statistics:

 

KF has accounted for 44.1% of the votes.

Black Shark has accounted for 32.5% of the votes.

 

Together, these games accounted for 76.5% of the votes, or a full 3/4's of the votes.

 

The next game down accounted for 11% of the votes, which leaves another 12% or so to all the remaining games.

 

DCS has done staggeringly well in this poll.

[Total]

(joke anyone who took statistics in college will get a laugh out of)

 

Ya know 50% of all statistics are wrong

[GGTharos]

Yes, yes ;)

[EtherealN]

10 out of 9 are fooled by statistics. :P

(Actual headline of swedish popular science magazine Illustrerad Vetenskap a couple years ago.)

[Voltali]

Hello I'm from the Killing Floor forums. I was like "What the hell, a simulation game beating a zombie shooter? (when the sim was winning)" at first. I posted a few comments on the forums and some people posted a few videos of the game. It's now on my list on what I should buy next :P I've come here to say that I am...frustrated with the KF community right now with how they've been acting. And I'm sorry about the idiots who left racist and hateful posts. I'm truly sorry that you have to deal with these idiots. And on top of that, I must say thanks for not attacking the KF forums yourself. You've shown great sportsmanship about this and makes me sigh at some of the bigots making a fool of themselves. On another note, good luck in the polls! -Voltali

Edited January 7, 2010 by Voltali

[element1108]

^^^ welcome, you should check out the next DCS module screen shots, A10c :)

[159th_Viper]

Hello I'm from the Killing Floor forums...... It's now on my list on what I should buy next :P.....

 

For Kindling the Interest of even One Prospective New Flight Simmer I Dare Say that the Poll has been a Success for DCS :thumbup:

 

Welcome Voltali :)

[joey45]

^^ indeed it has. Coming second is a great achivment [with bad spelling included].

 

EDIT: and welcome to the otherside...

Edited January 7, 2010 by joey45

[Voltali]

Thanks everyone! I'm planning to buy it once I get the money (and find out where I can buy it!) A bit broke at the moment, so I will have to wait a month or two before I can get the game :( And yeah, you guys did have a very good run for a Sim. Also from what I can see, the community on these forums are very friendly, even towards someone who sided with Killing Floor ^^

[GGTharos]

It was just a competition for a spot on a poll ... while valuable, it's no reason for animosity :)

 

Everyone made jokes like 'The great zombie horde is coming! Come on Comrades, get in your Ka-50's!' ... ok admittedly that was me ;)

 

But I don't think there's more than a few people who scoff at other's way of having fun.

 

Also, welcome :)