>>2015036 It's an anime thing. That said, they did say in the trailer that the carrier's crew is undermanned, which is why you see so many people in civilian clothes. They're likely conscripting people. And if he's a WSO, they don't need uncorrected 20/20 vision anyway.

>>2014891 Red is that you? Where the fuck have you been >>2014958 Are you using novice controls on 2? Also I've played the Japanese version of ace combat 3, its boring as shit outside the story.

>>2015094 >Usea again >it's whacky underdogs mixed with civilians having to make-do with literal scrap story >right after 444 and Spare squadron I see PA was brimming with originality with this one.

>>2015220 Oh you know, losing track of time due to you know what, can't really tell if it's been a day or two weeks, dealing with the other problems due to that and there's lots of them, speaking of your package still hasn't shipped so that's shit. Also this game's color palette is totally screwed, pretty sure it's due to copyright reasons

>>2015288 Its been about 3 or 4 days I think, also I think that color pallete was picked in order to standout and it ultimately ruins the jets with the paintjobs. Ace Combat 2 luckily fixed that.

>>2015296 What was your reaction upon hearing 8 announced then

>>2015312 Don't know why but I felt extremely empty, probably because I have no faith in it being good, as It will probably use UE5 and the the title seems to just be forced from modern politics. 7s story was already dogshit, but at least it had gameplay and I just hope that the politics don't end up affecting the gameplay.

>>2015337 I was VERY confused at the title, it feels forced as hell Considering how boring 7 was it would be a gigantic triumph in bad writing if they make it even worse, every time that one "sassy" girl came on screen i fucking rolled my eyes and looking for something else to do to pass the time. At least AC7 was optimized but that was at the relative tail end of UE4? i think? i don't quite know what UE4's lifespan was but it was long enough it didn't have the growing pains that other UE4 unoptimized games had as you personally know in your testing.

>>2015379 Yeah, it was at the tail end of UE4s lifetime and its extremely unlikely they will use it again, unless they have some plan to release it on the Switch 2 day 1. Also never underestimate the power of bad writing, someone can always make something worse, and I have a feeling this is going to be some really bad fanfiction merging the Russian/Ukraine war with tranny shit. Not that it was much better with 7s shitshow with the strong independent cripple woman

>>2015423 Unless they do something like make an all female squadron that only hunts white males to defeat the gender gap in pilots (i pulled this out of my ass as the most stereotypical liberal bullshit i could think of) i think the bar is safely in the dirt Now here's what i want to see in 8 COOP PVE missions DRM free release on GOG (lol! you wish nigga!) NO console exclusive content (looking at you project shitman) give me a proper first person view that lets me look around during missions Skippable cutscenes (you might think this is petty but consider what we were talking about) Unlockable super jet like AC2 Flyable SR71 (hasn't been since since 3 and 3 is a clusterfuck) No niggers and no women and no pajeets or other minorities No microtransactions no retarded skins for the jets (you know the ones) And no multiplayer exclusive content (jets you can only unlock after defeating 50 people online etc) I already know it's going to run like shit so i'm basically just fucking daydreaming until someone properly decompiles 7 or one of the earlier games and we can do whatever.

>>2015247 >>2015423 7's story went through five radically different iterations, until those drafts were crammed into a linear plot that never focuses on a core group of characters until the second half. The narrative cast also shift as the story progresses, instead of being consistent like 4's narrated letter to Mobius 1 (You), 5, 0's, and X's documentary. 6 also has the problem of multiple narrative perspective which muddies up the moral thread the writing tries to spin. The concepts of the war 7 is telling constantly shift out of phase with those characters. It can't decide if the IUN-PF and LRSSG are the underdogs in a comeback offensive the way Mobius 1, ISAF, and Gryphus Squadron are, or it's a grim commentary on the disposability of every combatant at every level of rank, or if it's a remark on "AI bad," before the current bullshit "AI bad" propaganda cesspool we're currently living in. The only cohesive thread that 7 maintains is the single line "Stick with Trigger (you), and you'll make it," echoing the messianic presence the other player pilots in the series maintain since 4.

AC2 is my favorite game in the series because it's just pure gameplay But honestly i should give 4 a proper beating considering what i've heard it's supposed to be an allegory for

>>2015452 Technically 7 had exclusive content on PS4VR which was nigger aids, 3 missions that involved the protag from 4, and 5s Arcade Mode, Mobius 1. Also sadly I don't know of any bamco games on GOG, correct me if I'm wrong though. And you can skip cutscenes already, just not the in engine dialogue (Project Wingman fixed this), and there is an unlockable super jet in 7, the X-02 which required unlocking every other jet in the game.

>>2015589 Man i wish there was a proper remake of 2 that wasn't terrible

>>2015614 One day we will have a decomp of Ace Combat Zero and we can make Ace Combat 2 part of the PS2 games

>>2015698 We will eventually get AI that lets us decomp the games automatically Speaking of i wonder if 8 is going to have any AI bad plotlines or if they'll just go full throttle balls to the wall and have AI voiced people and ai generated textures etc etc

>>2015704 Considering their history of refusing to add any of the English voice actors to the credits, they probably will use AI voices

>>2015789 Didn't 8 literally get leaked though by a VA credit like a year ago?

>>2015793 Oh yeah that's right, he had it listed in his resume. Don't remember which actor though.

>>2015798 Doesn't mean they won't do the smart (insidious) move of making the main people be real actors and then the lesser people be AI with "suspiciously real sounding name credits that can't be found to be connected to real people" (this is how they'll normalize AI)

>>2015800 This is an Ace Combat game, they won't credit anyone period

>>2015809 There's no credits in 7?

>>2015821 Nothing for the English VAs at least

>>2015832 Plot twist ,it's all ex military/airforce and giving credits would get all the ace combat devs mysteriously deaded No probably not, but that'd be pretty fun if they ever did get actual airforce input

>>2015835 I know Ace Combat 5 used a mix of professional VAs and their own in house VAs for their anime dub divisions. People tracked those down due to autism and same happened for Zero and 7

>>2015850 Anime dub divisions? what? also just think about it, imagine they talk to some airforce pilot and he describes a theroetical jet (that the airforce actually has under wraps) and it gets revealed in the game before it does to the public

>>2015862 Bamco owns a lot of animes like Big O, Gundam, Cowboy Bebop, and handled the US release of Love Hina. Anyways you need to get on matrix cause we're fucking up this thread

>>2015525 >AC2 is my favorite game in the series because it's just pure gameplay So you like AC3 US as well I would guess?

>>2014377 I played Sky Crawlers. Its decidedly mid. Which is too bad because I really liked the concept. Not just the setting with prop planes but also the AC7 style upgrade system. Also I decided to torture myself with motion controls but, its a little better if you don't do that. Still I can't recommend it unless you're kinda desperate for more Aces content because it's just not their best work.

So I'm back to an old idea I've floated around in those threads on 8prime / 8moe, testing every AC and AC like I can get to run on a PC, had kinda dropped the idea since AC6 wasn't emulatable. Thing is I've discovered that it's really hard to actually find those games so I'm gonna post my current list and if you know anything else feel free to chime in. Needs to be an actual full 3D thing none of those shmups / top down things / Afterburner clones, needs to be jet planes or at-least feature in-atmosphere combat with modern jet planes in a major way (I'd extend to WW2 planes but that's a whole lot more games, I'd still include futuristic shit), also needs to be arcade so no Energy Airforce / DCS / whatever, no MP mostly / only games, no VR only games, doesn't matter if it's bad either (gonna regret this I'm sure) Obviously starting with the AC franchise Air Combat (arcade) Air Combat 22 Air Combat Ace Combat 2 Ace Combat 3 (international) Ace Combat 3 (JP) Ace Combat 4 Ace Combat 5 Ace Combat 6 Ace Combat 7 Ace Combat X Ace Combat X² Ace Combat 3D Cross Rumble Ace Combat: Assault Horizon Legacy Ace Combat: Assault Horizon (yes, I know it's shit but I have to go through it once) Then the rest I found digging around. Aero Fighters Assault / Sonic Wings Assault AFTERBURN Agile Warrior F-111X Aggressor (early access) Air Aces (PS4) Air Combat MF (no relations) Air Combat XF (no relations) Air Conflicts: Vietnam (not all plane but close enough) Air Fight: Sky Fighters (If I can find it and emulate it, PS4 PSN) Air Guardians Air Gun Fighter Air Jet Fighter Combat - Europe Fly Plane Attack (Switch eShop, only if I can find and emulate it) Air Offensive : The Art of Flying Air Strike AirAssault / Warhawk Airforce Delta Airforce Delta Storm Airforce Delta Strike AIRHOUNDS (unreleased) AirJet Fighter Sky Dominators: Aerial Assault (If I can find and emulate it, PS4 PSN game) Airplane Flight Simulator : Combat Zone (If I can find and emulate it, PS4 PSN game) Art Of Air War (abandoned early access) AX:EL - Air XenoDawn AZURE DOMAIN (unreleased) Battle Supremacy - Evolution (Switch eShop, only if I can find and emulate it)

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Best Gun (shitpost game, but the meat is an AC like game so have to include it) Bogey: Dead 6 / Raging Skies / Sidewinder Carrier Wing Ypsilon (unreleased as of right now) Celestial Breach Choro Q Jet: Rainbow Wings (If I can manage my way through an untranslated JP game) Deadly Skies (JP only on menus so should be fine for me) DELIVERY MUST COMPLETE (unreleased) Differentiate (only if I can pirate, I'm not paying 42 bucks for some chinese asset flip game that looks like ass) Directive: Intercept (unreleased) DogFight (If I can find and emulate it, PS4 PSN game) Dropship: United Peace Force Eagle One: Harrier Attack EFFY one of unreasonable "if" (If I can find it and if I feel like going through a completely untranslated JP game) Fatal Employee Training (If I can find it and if I feel like going through a completely untranslated JP game) Fighter Aces: Sky Dominance (Switch eShop, only if I can find and emulate it) Frontiers Reach HAWX HAWX 2 Heat Seekers (unreleased) Heatseeker Hyper Fighters I Feel The Need (unreleased) Independence Day Iron Eagle Max / Sidewinder Max (if I can find it, cancelled game and the only .iso I can source is on a sketchy .ru site with mandatory registration) Jane's Advanced Strike Fighters JEFF-16 Jet Impulse Julai Lethal Skies Elite Pilot: Team SW / SideWinder F Lethal Skies II Los Cuervos Mach Storm (maybe since it's not made for regular screens and looks terrible on regular ones, not if the emulator is still paywalled either) Massive Air Combat Metalstorm (unreleased, to be released in early access) Midnight Ohota N-Gen Racing (has jets, has combat, is arcade, stretching definitions a bit but we're gonna call that one fair) Nano Fighter Anti Disease Nano.wars Noah's Cradle Nova Squadron (unreleased) Outrange Strike (unreleased) Paper Planes Paper Wars Project Red Sun Project Wingman (Duh) Raiders Sphere 3rd Raiders Sphere F Raiders Sphere Second (If I can manage my way through an untranslated JP game) Raiders Sphere (if I can find it at all and manage my way through an untranslated game) Rebel Raiders: Operation Nighthawk Sentou Yousei Yuki Kaze (If I can emulate it, it should be possible, also JP only so might not be able to play through it) ScrapWings (unreleased) Sidewinder 2 / SideWinder V Sky Gamblers series (quite a few games, some on iOs which is not gonna happen, some on Switch or PS4 which I might find and potentially emulate) SkyGameChanger -AirCombat II- Sky Rogue SkyDrift Infinity (has jets, has combat, is arcade, stretching definitions a bit but we're gonna call that one fair) Skyguard 0: Air arcade (unreleased) Splash One (unreleased) StarRider (unreleased) Supersonic Fight (unreleased) They Came from the Skies Time Ace (Half of the game is modern or futuristic planes so I'll give it a pass) Tiny Combat Arena TOP DOG Top Gun Air Combat (no relations, If I can find and emulate it, PS4 PSN game) Top Gun (NDS) Top Gun (PC 2010) Top Gun: Combat Zones (PS2 / NGC / PC) Top Gun: Fire at Will! (PS1) Top Gun: Hard Lock (PC) Vector Thrust Vertical Strike Endless Challenge Warhammer 40,000: Dakka Squadron WarJetz / WarJetz Witch of triplecanopy (If I can find it and if I feel like going through a completely untranslated JP game) Xtreme Aces Racing (has jets, has combat, is arcade, stretching definitions a bit but we're gonna call that one fair)

>>2017984 Ace Combat Cross Rumble 3D is the same game as Assault Horizon Legacy. They just changed the title when bringing it to the US, and there is a game you missed but I have never heard of a way to emulate it, Ace Combat Xi which was a prequel to X

>>2018110 >and there is a game you missed but I have never heard of a way to emulate it, Ace Combat Xi which was a prequel to X Omitted it because not only can you not emulate it you also need an iDevice running iOS 3-6 to run it at all, I might eventually get one such device but likely not anytime soon

>>2017984 https://store.steampowered.com/app/340860/RaidersSphere4th/ There's a 4th too! conveniently translated and on steam, I'm curious about their other games since it was pretty good

>>2019128 > I'm curious about their other games since it was pretty good I am too but apparently no one's dumped the first one, I can find a demo but not the full thing, 2/3 are on DLsite so worst case I can drop some money on it, but 1 I'll probably have to buy a physical copy if I can even find one at all.

>>2016292 very nice