/vr/ - Retro Games

>>8706614
Never played this because I didn’t like how it’s less grounded, no pun intended (flight nor electricity).

>The ending
Which one, from which game?

>>8706661
>less grounded
It literally takes place in a fictional universe in the 2040's and is still correctly predicting upcoming breakthroughs in military technology

>>8706661
it's literally not even real either.

>>8706614
>Did the ending ruin it for you?
No, game endings rarely ruin my enjoyment. I think AC3 is quite memorable.
>What's your favorite Ace Combat game?
Tossup between AC0 and AC3JP. Both are top tier for different reasons. AC04 and ACX are close seconds.
>>8706678
He's probably referring to the true ending where Nemo is revealed to be an AI and that the entire game is a training simulation.

Ace Combat 3 is the best flight game of the 90's, and is also the best Ghost In The Shell game ever made, too. After you play it, every other game from that decade is just inferior in varying degrees, except for AC2.

i think ac4 is a perfect game on the level of precision of gt3
https://youtu.be/we5snYX5oes?list=PLLrug9JZTq61bZgy3nVwaVcuSIShMs9Ef&t=156
it's just literally perfect
it's like an ai god from space delivered the game to project aces

>>8706614
gotta go with Zero. love the return to multiple sub weapons per plane. best variety of jets, coolest story, best way of unlocking every jet. fun and memorable live-action cut-scenes.

>>8706720
Game's too easy. Too many bombing missions where nothing happens. Yellow Squadron has godmode until the final mission.

>>8706614
cover reminds me of R4. really cool and simple

>>8706683
What did it predict?

>>8707217
>Corporations becoming more powerful than countries and effectively making the rules
>Corporate wars
>The (fictional representation of) the UN showing its inneffectiveness as a peacekeeping organization
>Neural technology linking pilots to their planes
>AI-controlled jets
>Machine learning and combat simulations
>Mind uploading
>Megafloats
>Cyberwarfare (first actual death caused by this was in 2019)
>Space warfare (soon)
>Drone wingmen squadrons that follow the orders of one pilot
>Datalink systems that share combat information between pilots in a squadron
>Virtual projection helmets linked to camera arrays mounted around the canopy that lets the pilot see through the plane itself, giving a much larger field of view
>The main villain is a jew
All in 1999.

>the US cover
We've come so far

>>8706614
I started with Air Combat on the PSX. I really liked 3 and 04 as a kid, still haven't tried 3jp but I heard it's way more in-depths.
Ace Combat is nice because of the setting and the scenario, but for the gameplay I much prefer Aero Dancing i/4 or the games from the Energy Airforce series
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zjd4XGDO0uI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c98D_5w-Wq0

>>8708113
They had a localisation budget of 2 cents so they just cut half the game out, made up a story to tie the pieces together, and called it a day.

>>8706661
>no pun intended
>explains the ambiguity of the pun

>>8707974
Thanks for the write up! Sure sounds like a fun story kek. But how the fuck is this all told through dialogue in gameplay? Seriously, when I played Ace Combat 7 I had a great time but the entire story just passed me by. To think that there is actual world building going on in these exchanges between pilots is pretty great.

>>8710937
7 is a mess on multiple fronts, the story in the rest of the games is generally much better. 3 requires you to get half a dozen different endings to see the final ending based on a few decision points you have to save before like choosing which company you want to fly with or if you want to defect and shit, the rest of the games are all mostly linear with maybe a mission or two different if you fail certain objectives or take too long, and it doesn't change the story.

>>8710956
One friend of mine showed me a clip of the PSP game where one of your comrades defects mid mission and comes back in another and you have to fight him as an enemy. Sounded super kino and based on the other anons summary of the story events I think I am going to play through the entire franchise now lol.

>>8711391
>I am going to play through the entire franchise
You still haven't? Ace Combat is one of the best videogame franchises of all time. Every game is a spectacle excepy assault horizon, don't play that one.

>>8711391
Bear in mind 1 and 2 both have a very simple story and are pretty boring in comparison to the later games.

>>8711396
I heard Assault Horizon Legacy for 3DS is amazing. I guess there is no relation then?
>>8711407
I like starting at the beginning anyways so I can see it properly evolve. Thanks for the heads up though!
Any by the way, emulation for the PS1 games should be fine right? I never had any problems with PS1 emulation.

>>8711396
>one of the best videogame franchises of all time
>just some arcady pew pew game with backstories written by 9th graders

>>8711450
Don't throw shade without posting your own favorite vidya franchises, pussy.

>>8711454
Imagine simping for big corporations
what a s o y lent

>>8711450
Were you born a mongrel or was it after the doctor dropped you on your head?

>>8711450
>arcady pew pew game with backstories written by 9th graders
That is all I ask for from a video game.

>>8706703
What about R4?

>>8711496
I mean every other flight game from that decade, should've specified.
But R4 is the best console racer of the decade too, for that matter.

>>8711473
Holy shit, you are moronic. It's ok to be retarded but don't make it that obvious kek. Now stop wasting your own time and get out of this thread, you are on a video game board and can't even list your own favorites.

>>8711483
>>8711492
>>8711509
Thanks for the (You)s and proving me right, colossal manchildren

PEW PEW PEW

>>8711450
but enough about metal gear solid.

>>8711449
>I guess there is no relation then
Absolutely zero relation. AH Legacy is, in fact, a remake of AC2. And it was called Cross Rumble in Japan.

>>8711449
>I guess there is no relation then?
Assault Horizon Legacy (also called Cross Rumble) is a remake of Ace Combat 2. I heard it's a good game, and at some points more coherent than the original AC2. Yeah it has nothing to do with Assault Horizon.