Chud 08/09/25 (Sat) 03:14:12 № 36155 [Quote]
the series peaked story wise at Zero (or you could debate that it was 3) otherwise the core gameplay has remained the same and only improved with time.
Chud 08/09/25 (Sat) 14:47:30 № 36180 [Quote]
>>36155 It improved until 6, then regressed, then got better but still not as good as 6.
Chud 08/10/25 (Sun) 01:23:18 № 36203 [Quote]
>>36180 Ace Combat 7 did alright with introducing the PSM and cobra maneuvers but the problem is they made the PSM too realistic as far as executing it goes. The way Project Wingman did PSMs is how Ace Combat should have done it.
Chud 08/10/25 (Sun) 03:00:59 № 36204 [Quote]
>>36203 7 did some cool stuff, but 6 is peak. If I had to chose one over the other, I'd pick 6 every single time without hesitation. Even the flight model is more fluid.
Chud 08/10/25 (Sun) 20:58:44 № 36236 [Quote]
>>36204 Most people think 6 was one of the weakest in the series
Chud 08/10/25 (Sun) 21:39:08 № 36239 [Quote]
>>36236 They're just mad that it was Xbox exclusive and are focusing on the story instead of the gameplay. 5 had 3 times the cringe.
Chud 08/11/25 (Mon) 16:22:37 № 36263 [Quote]
>>36239 Probably, yes. 7 had a decent story but the Alicorn DLC is arguably some of the best writing in the series.
Chud 08/11/25 (Mon) 18:14:52 № 36272 [Quote]
>>36263 >writing Not arguing there.
Chud 09/11/25 (Thu) 02:31:31 № 38167 [Quote]
>The Ace Combat YouTube channel is releasing short videos celebrating a past game once a month
Chud 09/12/25 (Fri) 06:01:25 № 38251 [Quote]
>>38167 Hopefully the game will make a comeback, 7 was somewhat lackluster, most certainly could have been a lot worse but it could have been a lot better too.
Chud 09/12/25 (Fri) 07:01:01 № 38256 [Quote]
>>38251 They went too hard on nostalgia pandering and went back to the PS2 games instead of 6, complete with super linear and highly scripted missions that don't have as much replay value with lower enemy counts most of the time, at least until the game spams 100 boring, but obnoxious drones at you. 6 plays so much better than the rest of the games in the series it isn't even funny.
Chud 09/12/25 (Fri) 10:52:33 № 38273 [Quote]
>>38256 The fight with Mihaly had to be one of the most boring and rushed bossfights of any game I have ever played. For such a hyped up character he really sucked. I think on a broad scale the story was good as far as the war but everything following trigger was boring. The players squadron is about as forgettable as it is useless minus a few characters.
Chud 09/12/25 (Fri) 16:01:31 № 38314 [Quote]
>>38273 He does feel more like a smaller ace fight like from Zero, than a final boss. And the drone final bosses straight up cheat to the point you may as well cheese them with pulse lasers instead of playing around with anything else (Pasternak in 6 is like this as well, but at least you can give Shamrock SAAMs in an SU-47 to help shoot him down). A lot of people mistake characters, a handful of one liners and conversations, and story, for good gameplay. Which is the biggest problem with the Ace Combat fanbase, if you ask me. I think a lot of the fans would make a pretty unfun game if they got their hands on it because the game would play super linear/gimmicky like 5 and would try to be Zero every single time. Although it does have pretty good gameplay due to being a sidegrade from 6 in practice, even Project Wingman falls for the Zero-esque hype.
Chud 09/14/25 (Sun) 15:41:14 № 38454 [Quote]
>>36236 That would be Assault Horizon, then Air Combat and then 5
Chud 09/14/25 (Sun) 20:09:04 № 38468 [Quote]
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>>38454 >muh heckin game for teh cock of doody audience assault horizon is literally halo 4 geg
Chud 09/14/25 (Sun) 22:41:20 № 38476 [Quote]
It's incredibly disappointing as a game, but at least ASSHOR had a killer soundtrack.
Chud 09/15/25 (Mon) 16:22:47 № 38520 [Quote]
Project wingman is better
Chud 09/15/25 (Mon) 16:36:39 № 38526 [Quote]
>>38520 7's problems don't end with 4-5 jank and incomplete storylines in one game. The super limited time and poor ammo count relative to enemy count on 75% of the aircraft really shows how much of a mess development of 7 was. Fanboys still won't be convinced 7's gameplay is inherently flawed, so I'll just remind them that if you retry from a checkpoint, you get full ammo and health replenishment. 7 went too deep into nostalgia pandering and tried to be too ambitious for the size of the dev team.
Chud 09/19/25 (Fri) 00:04:12 № 38775 [Quote]
>>38476 even though hawx is teh best
Chud 09/21/25 (Sun) 11:28:26 № 38980 [Quote]
>>38520 Project Wingman would be better if you could shut the fucking WSO up. Whenever I fly a 2 seater I have the dialogue volume off.
>>38526 Ace Combat 7 is just an all around mess. The story needed more time in the oven and as you stated, the ammo counts suck. For some reason one of the most important countries in Strangereal has a like 19 year old girl calling the shots (regardless of if she was being influenced by the military, she was ultimately calling the shots). Mihaly Dumitru Margareta Corneliu Leopold Blanca Karol Aeon Ignatious Raphael Maria Niketas Archange Shilage was a joke of a boss fight and needed more development as a character, Sol Squadron was pretty neat though. The narrator woman is irrelevant enough I can't even remember her name and ultimately was a useless character. Spare squadron is the only memorable squadron and they killed all of them off minus Count. The DLC missions are arguably some of the best writing in the series and Torres is just a cool character in general.
Chud 09/21/25 (Sun) 15:16:48 № 39003 [Quote]
>>>38520 (You) >Project Wingman would be better if you could shut the fucking WSO up. Whenever I fly a 2 seater I have the dialogue volume off. >>>38526 >Ace Combat 7 is just an all around mess. The story needed more time in the oven and as you stated, the ammo counts suck. For some reason one of the most important countries in Strangereal has a like 19 year old girl calling the shots (regardless of if she was being influenced by the military, she was ultimately calling the shots). Mihaly Dumitru Margareta Corneliu Leopold Blanca Karol Aeon Ignatious Raphael Maria Niketas Archange Shilage was a joke of a boss fight and needed more development as a character, Sol Squadron was pretty neat though. The narrator woman is irrelevant enough I can't even remember her name and ultimately was a useless character. Spare squadron is the only memorable squadron and they killed all of them off minus Count. The DLC missions are arguably some of the best writing in the series and Torres is just a cool character in general.
Chud 09/22/25 (Mon) 00:24:16 № 39069 [Quote]
>>39003 Cascadia IS in ruins, between 2 calamities in in a few months and well as a whole war Cascadia as it stands is probably doomed. Chances are it will end up like Oceania and become a merc state. The Pacific Federation is implied to now be crumbling as well so most of the world is going to turn into a shithole extremely fast. Chances are it will look like Usea after Ulysses if not much worse.
Chud 09/22/25 (Mon) 13:05:35 № 39121 [Quote]
>>>39003 (You) >Cascadia IS in ruins, between 2 calamities in in a few months and well as a whole war Cascadia as it stands is probably doomed. Chances are it will end up like Oceania and become a merc state. The Pacific Federation is implied to now be crumbling as well so most of the world is going to turn into a shithole extremely fast. Chances are it will look like Usea after Ulysses if not much worse.
Chud 09/23/25 (Tue) 10:01:54 № 39174 [Quote]
Any takes on what Ace Combat 8 will be?
Chud 09/23/25 (Tue) 17:57:34 № 39191 [Quote]
>Any takes on what Ace Combat 8 will be?
Chud 09/23/25 (Tue) 22:34:36 № 39241 [Quote]
>>39191 It'd be far better than going to war with Erusea for the thrembillionth time. At this point I want to play as Erusea fighting Osea.
Chud 09/25/25 (Thu) 06:44:24 № 39352 [Quote]
>>>39191 (You) >It'd be far better than going to war with Erusea for the thrembillionth time. At this point I want to play as Erusea fighting Osea.
Chud 09/26/25 (Fri) 02:48:24 № 39405 [Quote]
>>39352 I think Belka is practically the same way Erusea is at the end of AC7. Their way of making shit happen is by influencing people because their military is practically nonexistent. If its going to be a sequel it has to further set itself up for the events of Ace Combat 3, which is a lot of what 7 was trying to do. The best thing to do is make a game set any time before the 1990s.
Chud 09/27/25 (Sat) 14:49:02 № 39538 [Quote]
Mister X and Schroeder we're subpar antagonists and the DLC missions should have been expanded to be the main campaign for Ace Combat 7
Chud 09/27/25 (Sat) 19:20:35 № 39563 [Quote]
>>39538 As much as I would have like 7 to have more content, I think the better choice was to keep DLC to a minimum once they knew they were getting a bigger team. Switching to Unoptimized Engine 5 is sure to be a miserable experience for Project Aces, because they want to keep visuals and performance at a pretty high level relative to other games that release around the same time. The games need to run really smoothly and UE5 is NOT cooperative for games out of the box because it's set up for movie creation. I Imagine they really want co-op this time around as well, seeing as how that was the single biggest request from fans, but UE4 had a weird issue where co-op just wasn't very good unless you had your tech team create a custom solution to make it work well, but Project Aces was a very small team with a tiny budget during 7's development. Now they have a bigger team, but a bigger pain in the ass engine (in most ways) in UE5.
Chud 09/28/25 (Sun) 13:12:44 № 39628 [Quote]
>>39563 PA is going to be stuck in between a rock and a hard place. Ace Combat with lag will be far more punishing than any FPS game. If they really do go through with switching up to UE5 the game could very possibly flop. The plot is also stuck in between filling the small gap between AC7 and AC3 with more buildup to AC3 which could be interesting if they execute it right but that will be hard to pull off. Otherwise they will be forced to go pre-1990s which would be awesome but the planes will mostly just copy and paste and not fill any kind of niche. I think their best bet is to make a game set in the 1960s which has practically no lore.
Chud 10/02/25 (Thu) 16:27:02 № 40035 [Quote]
up
Chud 10/25/25 (Sat) 18:36:34 № 41689 [Quote]
Bvmpo
Chud 10/25/25 (Sat) 18:49:59 № 41692 [Quote]
>>39628 It's too bad they ate up the Nvidia/Epic lie. UE5 requires a lot of work if you actually want it to perform well.
Ghost 10/31/25 (Fri) 23:03:44 № 42526 [Quote]
>>36155 >electrosphere honestly 3 is has a lackluster story in retrospect (only really impactful routes were Fiona's route and the UPEO route imo), namco had a cool ass concept but you can tell they were hard pressed already trying to fit FMVs on 2 cds, ac3 needed more meat on its bones. it was way too ambitious for its time. eing railroaded into betraying dision is a bummer too. the missions are also style over substance, half of them only last five minutes
shame because it's my fav game in the series
Toblerone 10/31/25 (Fri) 23:04:37 № 42528 [Quote]
>>42526 self 'gating supersage award
Twix 10/31/25 (Fri) 23:58:46 № 42541 [Quote]
>>42526 the superplanes are just the best though
Chud 11/01/25 (Sat) 08:25:38 № 42574 [Quote]
>>42526 From what I have read on it AC3 is more of a movie with a game than a game with a movie.
Chud 11/02/25 (Sun) 11:29:11 № 42661 [Quote]
bump
Chud 11/03/25 (Mon) 23:25:46 № 42806 [Quote]
>>42541 TRVKE
geopelia = SEEEXOOOOOOOOOOOOO
>>42574 the cutscene to gameplay ratio in AC3JP is insane. you'll watch 10 mins of cutscenes and conversations to get only 2 minutes of gameplay.
Chud 11/03/25 (Mon) 23:49:38 № 42807 [Quote]
>>42806 >you'll watch 10 mins of cutscenes and conversations to get only 2 minutes of gameplay No wonder reddit and 4chan try to hype it up all the time. It's a glorified anime.
Chud 11/04/25 (Tue) 06:08:17 № 42836 [Quote]
>>42806 AC3 players must hate their movie being interrupted by gameplay
>>42807 All of them are glorified animes. The difference is they're done in a photorealistic style. Almost every Ace Combat game has a token tomboy that's shoved into the plot
Chud 11/04/25 (Tue) 12:22:57 № 42850 [Quote]
>>42806 the geopelia is a beauty and iirc it destroys an entire city with a tls laser
and i think you have to fight an entire squadron of them at the end?
Chud 11/04/25 (Tue) 19:20:08 № 42877 [Quote]
AC3 is SNCA outside of nip land. The western release of AC3 sucked apparently and is one of the worst installments in the series.
Chud 11/06/25 (Thu) 08:50:53 № 42949 [Quote]
flying this to the top of the page
Chud 11/27/25 (Thu) 23:48:36 № 44669 [Quote]
up
Chud 11/28/25 (Fri) 00:19:09 № 44670 [Quote]
>>42836 The thing is that 3 is an anime with some gameplay interruptions and the others are games with anime-esque cutscenes.
Chud 11/28/25 (Fri) 16:06:54 № 44701 [Quote]
>>44670 If they sold AC3 in western countries with just subtitles I'm sure there'd be a huge market for weebs.
Chud 11/29/25 (Sat) 04:24:03 № 44759 [Quote]
ace GODbat won war cucker lost