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My son built me a gaming computer recently. I used to be a hardcore gamer in the 90s but haven't played for well over 20 years until very recently. I am having so much fun as an older guy getting back into gaming and I have an endless library of good games to play. Its a really great way to spend an hour or two.

Well for fathers day my son bought me a used headset to try out, we just hooked it up today and holy #$@* its amazing. I cannot believe it, it is so neat. I have never had so much fun gaming before and better yet many of the games are really good exercise. Boxing games, musical rhythm games, spots games and golf. There is a military shooter game call Pavlo and it made me feel like I was back in combat. It felt so exciting and I'm pretty good at it. My son was amazed at how quickly I excelled at Pavlo.

The only thing I'm not enjoying is the loud mouths on some of these players. Little kids saying all kinds of terrible language. If you have a computer that can run games buy yourself one of these headsets. You will be transported to another world. I can put this thing on and jump into so many different worlds right in my living room. So amazing. Have any of you experienced this?

My son built me a gaming computer recently. I used to be a hardcore gamer in the 90s but haven't played for well over 20 years until very recently. I am having so much fun as an older guy getting back into gaming and I have an endless library of good games to play. Its a really great way to spend an hour or two. Well for fathers day my son bought me a used headset to try out, we just hooked it up today and holy #$@* its amazing. I cannot believe it, it is so neat. I have never had so much fun gaming before and better yet many of the games are really good exercise. Boxing games, musical rhythm games, spots games and golf. There is a military shooter game call Pavlo and it made me feel like I was back in combat. It felt so exciting and I'm pretty good at it. My son was amazed at how quickly I excelled at Pavlo. The only thing I'm not enjoying is the loud mouths on some of these players. Little kids saying all kinds of terrible language. If you have a computer that can run games buy yourself one of these headsets. You will be transported to another world. I can put this thing on and jump into so many different worlds right in my living room. So amazing. Have any of you experienced this?

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The fact that DCS is at the bottom of your post and is basically like an afterthought is appalling. How have you not tried it yet?

Its the closest you can get to the actual real experience of flying military aircraft. It even has helicopters now. [Apache, Huey, and Russian Hind]

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The reason I haven’t messed with it is that I don’t have the time or likely the mental space to legit learn how to fly an actual fighter jet.

VR, for me, is a quick and dirty escape that I will spend 20-mins to an hour on in a given week. Even learning how to play Elite Dangerous was too big of a time suck and it’s a mere fraction as complicated as DCS.

If I had to learn Elite from ground up right now at this moment in time, I probably wouldn’t even do it simply because I don’t have the kind of time required. Much less something like DCS.

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DCS is as complex as you make it really. You don't need to be 100% familiar with all of the systems in the cockpit to fly. There are multiplayer servers where you can spawn in a jet mid-air if you don't want to bother with startup and take-off.

You are right though if you really want to master a jet, it can take a lot of time.