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Deviousness `anmari has been spreading her infectious positivity throughout our community for over 6 years. Throughout this time Ana has been at the core of all things devious, passionately developing an eclectic gallery, helping organise devmeets, participating in chat events and also recently completed dedicating her time as a Community Volunteer. We are absolutely delighted to bestow the Deviousness Award for May 2013 to `anmari, congratulations! Read More
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When Ace Combat 6 came out I thought "Great another plot that consists of a thinly veiled excuse to blow shit up with an airplane, and a flying fortress of doom that is always on the bad guys side, this is starting to get old!"
The Ace Combat francise was starting to get stale and repetative, kind of like every Call of Duty game since Modern Warfare, so instead of repeating the same old sit again and again until we all lose intrest Namco hired Jim DeFelice to write a kickass story, had Keiki Kobayashi work his usual magic, tried out a few new gameplay concepts that we haven't seen in previous Ace Comabt titles.
Now as for dogfight mode I could take it or leave it, I would rather if it didn't cut to the enemy plane everytime you kill something, but one thing that really irked me was the regenerating health and I'm going to quote one of the world's best videogame critics and British people here.
"Before the health regeneration glut in shooters, health was a resource you had to manage carefully. It added a new element to the battlefield - if your health was low all you could do was try to sprint to some kind of restorative before you succumbed. And if there wasn't a source of health nearby, you just had to be extra careful. And weren't those the most exciting parts of a game like Half-Life, when you've scraped through an encounter with several organs missing and your arms hanging off so now every health point counts and your wit must be about you at all times?"
~Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw - Extra Punctuation 'Why Regenerating Health Sucks'
I whole heartedly agree that regenerating health is one of the stupidest ideas in videogames, the whole thing is Halo's fault really, it's a bad idea from shooters that translates even worse into a flying game.
Namco has said that Assault Horizon is not Ace Combat 7 and AC7 will take place in the same world as all of the previous games, but I really wouldn't mind seeing a continuation of the Assault Horizon story either.
And finally someone else who disagrees with that bloody dogfight mode xD
Or the story, if they wanted to have it play IRL they could have taken something like Joint Assault. At least that one had superweapons and airborne fortresses