Recent reviews by orangebird

I will admit I was a little slow to warm up to this new version of Microsoft Flight Simulator, but I am really starting to enjoy it now. I prefer study-level jet and prop airliners, and there have not been many of those available until recently. The PMDG 737 and Fenix A320 are really starting to make this sim pop now, and I am blown away by the realism. There is still some room for improvement - for example, many of the autogen airports have no night lighting and can be very difficult to see at night. Also, weather data is not exposed to third-party add-ons yet, so weather radar in add-ons in not yet working. I think these things will continue to improve in time. If you can live with things still being a little rough around the edges in some places, it's fine. I expect I will be simming a lot with MSFS, going forward.

This is the latest version of the classic Hoyle Card Games that came out about 15 years ago. I loved the original - particularly certain characters - and it is great that I can now install and play it under Steam. Thanks for doing this!

I only have a couple of minor critiques/suggestions:

- The card art in the current version is a bit distracting. I liked the more subdued version of the original a bit better. Perhaps you could provide different card sets, and let the user choose to switch them out to the one they prefer?

- I loved the game "Tarot" (actually French Tarot) in the original, and it is not available in this version. Would you please bring back Tarot again?

Otherwise, this is great!

I love playing card games on the computer to pass the time, but I was disappointed by this edition of Hoyle. The faces look really strange to me. Gone are the old players and side banter that made playing previous versions of Hoyle fun - I miss Roswell, Rhett, Marvin, and others. There do not seem to be a lot of new games over the previous version, either. I used to enjoy playing French Tarot in the 2005 edition of Hoyle, which they removed several versions ago and never added back. I like that Hoyle is on Steam now, but they really need to go back and try again with this one.