Is Flight Simulator 2020 Worthwhile? A Review 

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

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

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

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

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

Cant imagine a more relaxing pair, LGR and MSFS.

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

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

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

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

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!

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

If only we could get a trucking simulator powered by streetview

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

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

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

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!

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Does anyone know how to disable the NM Compass/Destination icon UI in Drone Mode?

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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!

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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!

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

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.

For some reason, I suddenly want this game.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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!

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

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

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

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.

8:30 - when I saw “Farts” on your plane it reminded me of when you were reviewing the creative DVD player or something along those lines, and as you were playing a game the screensaver popped up... *Penises.* 🤣

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

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.

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

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

Yesssss I’ve been waiting for this one

Hey brother I had no idea you live in NC. I'm in eastern NC in Wayne County. Its awesome that someone who's videos I enjoy and love their content lives in my home state.

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!

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.

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

I'm subbing! Love your vidoes and bonus for being from Winston-Salem!! :)

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!

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

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

Fantastic review. You are the best at this stuff!

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

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!

Out of nowhere, over the comms.... "CLINT!" DAMN YOU, BARBIE!

Awesome video. The physical version of it is on 10 DVD's, just like in the good ol' days. And man, that shot of standing under the wing in the rain, beatiful. That said, something is majorly wrong with your map there Clive. I have seen that in another game, and I had to fiddle with my driver settings. I want to recall it was "Mipmapping" that needed to be set to always render in best quality. This is maybe 5-8 years ago though. But the MSFS map should be crisp, albeit a bit... simplified.

*NC Native* "Oh hey! Asheville! So cool!".... "Wow, Winston looks great!" *LGR Opens Bing maps on Greensboro, *spits out coffee*. "THATS MY ACTUAL HOUSE OKAY LOL"

2:32 I’m having Cities: Skylines flashbacks right now.

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

Best review ever! and succeful at keeping it entertaining

So fun. Great review. Love your voice

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!

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

Best review on RU-vid. You actually do the crazy shit that fans of FS do. Love the registration numbers!

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!

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.

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.

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

Hey new subscriber as of this video! I like the way you present you ideas and working knowledge, too many noobs thinking they are pros complaining about everything. They just show how nooby the are, ha ha ha!!! You won me over showing your westward flight from Logan across Boston Harbaa (Boston thing!) @5:11!!!

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

Still waiting for the remake of Microsoft Train Simulator.

Ok, "Look at me, I am the Captain now" got me.

LGR, love your stuff as usual. Can you add your own buildings to the game/sim?

imagine *GTA 6* with this level of detail

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

Great, thorough review!

i have never had a desire to get one of these sims ... until now you make it look so fun