Ace Combat

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Come to think of it....there wasn't a big tunnel run. Unless there's an optional one I missed. Did the island tunnel, geothermal plant tunnel, and of course the mandatory megafloat one but nothing nearly on the scale of other AC games. Bummer, those made the noobs cry.
 
Plastic Paddy said:
I don't think Baxter is good as my buddy Pixy, however I like him as much as Shamrock which is pretty high. I'm very thankful Katabuchi for once didn't shit the bed with Wingmen unlike the rest of the shit he's wrote as of mission 21.
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Pixy is a high bar to clear and I don't think any cast will capture Zero's heights for me.

I think overall the wingmen here are better than 7's at least. But that's partly due to the fact that the cast shifted three times in the story.

Unrelated, but I'm really impressed at how picking different targets in some stages changes the dialogue so much. The one where you destroy the power plants, bunkers and and the airport has a ton of dialogue that shifts slightly depending on how you prioritize.

Very easy to make the dialogue bug out a little though if you smash the munitions stockpiles too quickly though lol
 
So how's the Zero port? Gonna play it for the first time after I finish 8.

Snagged Project Wingman on sale too. Would have gotten AC7 but its not currently on sale.
 
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Just got to get some assault records, farm MRP and do the tutorial achievements now.
 
Disdainer of the Plebs said:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=0r5RaNbSC3oThe Roach King tried to play it using journalist controls and mouse & keyboard. It’s like watching DSP lol. Read the YouTube comments for a laugh.
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Impressive, Immediately crashes 3 times once he has control, then fails the tutorial by flying out of the map.

Just Another Rando said:
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Surprised the Tonitrus Spear wasn't a giant lightning bolt.

edit: just got to this part of the game...
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Pixy said:
They absolutely would've been one of the countries that wanted to sign away their sovereignty to the Osean globohomo. The biggest wasted potential of AC8's story being about reuniting the FCU is that there's no connection to the Pre-Ulysses USEA rebellion.
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While I was replaying the mission where you escape Rio Bajo in the A-6 I did notice that the tail emblem on the craft is an ISAF insignia. That's honestly been one of my favorite things about 8's story has been all the callbacks to the ps2 games.

And given how much they love their railguns and stopped right at the thing, I'm shocked the Sotoans didn't jury rig up Stonehenge to be active again, prompting a third battle at it.
 
Wizard 1 said:
And given how much they love their railguns and stopped right at the thing, I'm shocked the Sotoans didn't jury rig up Stonehenge to be active again, prompting a third battle at it.
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When they showed Land Battleship 2 parked next to Stonehenge, I thought they were going to strap the last gun onto it. I was sad when that didn’t happen it would have been cool.
 
I nearly cried when my QVEEN LITTLE BEE returned with the mercs to help defend the base from the 1,000 flying roaches. True kino, game of the fucking decade.
 
Hitman One said:
I nearly cried when my QVEEN LITTLE BEE returned with the mercs to help defend the base from the 1,000 flying roaches. True kino, game of the fucking decade.
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Honestly it was probably the best furball in the series, it felt like a scene out of Kiseki with the friendship shit, but it was fucking K I N O. I can't believe they beat Unexpected Visitor not once but twice in the same game.
 
I never played Ace Combat but my buddy wanted to say
FUCK SATOANS
KILL SATOANS
STRAP ME TO THE V2 I'M READY!!!
That is all (He liked your sponsor banner btw).
 
Seething Bazelgeuse said:
I've come to the conclusion that whether you like M15 or not determines whether you're a tasteless secondary shitter or not.
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Just Another Rando said:
It surprises me how many people don't know how to just chase a plane
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Did people have trouble with this or something? S ranked it on the first go. It was pretty cool. Makes me wonder just how fast I need to be to shoot down the Ladon in 07.
 
A couple of my random thoughts:

Game good.

I wish they had kept the desperate vibe of the first few missions longer. Considering how it seems the FCU was getting rolled both militarily and politically with all the defections, it feels like it switches back to regular war too quick. They tried to keep the "hanging on by a thread" thing a bit, but it gets dispelled when new toys keep showing up. A story with more of the Endurance being a guerilla element building up strength would have been neat.

I fully expected to come in hating danger hair girl, but I think she worked. I also didn't mind Queen 1 who had girl boss vibes. Turns writing characters to be competent is important.

I know somewhat wonky dialogue is a staple, but there are some in-missions lines that just feel way off.

LET ME ZOOM OUT THE AIRCRAFT TREE MORE, FUCK

I'm absolutely not going to bother with any battlepass shit, but I look forward to 2 years from now when I can use DLC planes to FAEB the megafloat

Last mission could have really been punched up a bit

Death to all Satoans
 
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