>>718439970 (OP)
this is one of those games where everyone always says it's mid but i'm 95% sure that if I played it I would consider it kino. and i haven't played the other games
>>718439970 (OP)
i was new to the series and was just impressed by the fact it has a whole ass armored core esque weirdo anime plot maybe. but i liked it, a lot
>>718440184 >and i haven't played the other games
Yes you would but it is comparatively the worst game in the series when considering the release date. It is highly zoomerized.
>no co-op mode or PVE >ACES only on free missions >cant change skins on first playthrough >crappy story that goes from a random penal squad to a prelude for ACE COMBAT 3 >crappy end level cashing on AC3 nostalgia
>>718440184
Its a mediocre Ace Combat but okay-ish arcade flight sim, it was designed for newcomers "muh development hell" shit was a silly excuse to shut veterans up.
>>718440642
Also I used creamAPI because the base game already has all DLC, the 1st & 2nd extra missions are cool, the relief one I dropped out of boredom.
>>718440395 >can't change skins on first playthrough
This has been true for every Ace Combat game. I guess it's more egregious in 7 though because there are far more skins available.
>>718440156 >one of the first missions is literally a fancy Pac-Man where you fly looking exclusively at the radar to "dodge radars"
That was the moment I knew it was going to be shit.
I kind of wish the Spare plotline was the whole game. That was far more interesting than the boring-ass drone conspiracy shit, but I guess they needed their unique superplane and lead-in to AC3 even though that will never get a remake.
>>718441443
You could change them as long as you killed a ACE for example and AC7 gives you 5 skins BUT 3 are the same fucking skin with a different tail logo..
Seriously even Assault Horizon gave more skins, its one of those casualizations for new players
>literally required to play the multiplayer to unlock 50% of the planes >it's literally just a bunch of retards flying in circles with the overpowered DLC planes spamming missiles
Jesus Christ I've never played anything this shitty in years. It reminded me of that horrible era during the PS3 years when every game had a shitty half-assed multiplayer mode to justify having SecuRom.
>>718441537 >They don't have a based multiplayer mode.
Hacked into oblivion slop mode with 6 maps and 2 modes, and your typical X-02 retarded chinese hacker on each lobby>>718441867
this
>>718441634
The game restarted development 2 or 3 times I think. At one point Spare probably was the whole game, or they came up with it in the last dev cycle and everything else was cobbled together from past builds.
>>718440156
That mission where you have to fly through a sandstorm and find a bunch of tiny trucks with radar on the fritz was absolute cancer. And here I thought AC5 had some bad missions.
There's only 2 or maybe 3 mission that allow you to fly the A-10, without being fucked because *mission update* *its drone time*
Let that sink in this game came in 2019 when retards were flooding war thunder asking for "muh brrrrrpppp" plane, these dumb fuck japs still managed to miss a chance to steal a slice of war thunder/DCS players lol
>>718442315
I kept missing the trucks in the trench no matter what angle I went in at. A shame because the first part of that mission pleases my inner Bomber Harris.
>>718442398
That holds true for any ground attack-focused plane, really. Every mission with a lot of ground targets either has just as many air targets you have to deal with or turns into a dogfight after a mission update, leaving you at a massive disadvantage.
>>718442279 >The game restarted development 2 or 3 times
They began in what ? 2015 ? I believe the game would been slop anyway because judging by the assets and the 2017 demo it wasn't a RE2 like situation at all.
The crap story was just as intended.
>>718442710
You can but compare that to AC6 that made so fun to strafe estovakians into oblivion, while going full air-to-air would almost force you to restart back to the briefing.
>>718442647
I went of a F-35 for that oil refinery attack and was till shit anyway.
The game as a poor mission design that wants to force retries to increase length, but if you were skilled enough and done first try, kiss a bye to the S rank because some bs score system
Imagine being that dev who was there since at least ac4. And he sits down and drafts mission plan. Maybe 3 ground missions with barely any fighters. 4 score attacks. 8 normal plot missions. 2 gimmick missions with superweapons. 1 tunnel vision. And 10 elite squad / comona dogfights cause we have budget now so lets make a lot of those because that is what is the core of the game.
Then a soulless scumbag exec walks in with a drone flying behind him and tells him 15 gimmick missions please and maybe 5 boring ones but those have to have drones still.
>>718444175 >Then a soulless scumbag exec walks in with a drone
kek who knows but if AC7 was being pitched in 2014/2015 then probably not, drones weren't a thing at the time not until 2018 or so.
To me they sacrificed the gameplay for the sake of having 1080 60fps on the base PS4, while using UE4 that wasn't truly meant for that
>>718441302
It is genuinely a game equal in standing to AC7 and it was only made by a handful of people.
Really, it begs the question of what exactly Project Aces is doing. They are an actual gamedev team with a real budget. Do they waste all the money on licensing for the fucking plane names?
