Best video game kill Ever: The Final Story

[Slash27]

The issue is not AH. The issue is some folks do not care about anything else but pretty. For them there are the "Pretty" games.

Aces high is coming along nicely IMHO. Cooking up a great game with a mix of ingredients instead of just throwing icing over the whole thing.

Pretty much.

[Golfer]

I got more enjoyment playing Air Warrior for a decade than I have any "pretty" game.

[PR3D4TOR]

Was the fact that it wasn't "pretty" that which gave you enjoyment, or would you have enjoyed it even more if it was more "pretty"?

[Golfer]

The aesthetics of the game itself had little to do with the enjoyment. Mountains were pyramids, CVs didn't move and the B-17s held room for 6 gunners.

Mountains are mountains and CVs move but we haven't mastered in AH the creation of a Death Star mission as of yet.

How a game looks doesn't make me tick. I don't spend my precious leisure time looking for the shiniest toy, I spend it with getting the most value for enjoyment.  This summer and fall I spent it and a lot of money at the race track. Same for next year. It's not because of how pretty they are, it's what I get out of it.

[PR3D4TOR]

So you'd still be fine with "pyramid" mountains and all the effort put into updating models is wasted in your opinion?

[titanic3]

It's all about the middle road. You can't expect a game to do well if it's story line lasted 10 minutes and its multiplayer have one map and one gun, even if it does have greatest graphics ever seen. You also can't expect a good game if if the graphics looks like a 2 year old drew it with crayons, regardless of whether or not the story/game play works perfectly.

I think AH2 is fine where it is, the graphics are a solid 7/10 for me, and it's continuing to improve.
The gameplay gets a 9/10.

[MK-84]

So you'd still be fine with "pyramid" mountains and all the effort put into updating models is wasted in your opinion?

No one said that at all.  You're completely missing the point.

[Golfer]

So you'd still be fine with "pyramid" mountains and all the effort put into updating models is wasted in your opinion?

You're not getting what I'm saying. Let me ask you two questions:

Why do you play a game?  Why don't you play a game?

[eagl]

What skuzzy is saying is that they want to hire an xbox developer to port the game to xbox 360, but they don't have enuf cash flow for his salary and don't want to offer up a big enough ownership share in lieu of a nice salary in order to make it worth a talented xbox programmer's time.  And a sucky xbox programmer would just make everything worse, even if the xbox players are segregated on their own server.

That's what I heard him say anyhow. ymmv because I don't hear so good out of my left ear anymore so I do a lot of interpretation from context

edit:  This.

If you look into the beta we have out now, it is a graphics improvement which will still run on that 5 year old Intel video chip.

[DREDIOCK]

http://youtu.be/B_LplAoJwdY

long version of the epic kill

The force is strong with this one, and quite fun to watch.  

The interesting part is how he dies. in true video game style, the exposion of his opponents auger ended the fighterpilots epic run.

Personally I dont see whats so great about that kill. All he did was exploit a very poorly modeled portion of the game.

If modeled correctly. if your in a vertical climb and eject. You should eject sideways. Not up. If correctly modeled. the entire shot and sequence could never have happened.

Then again we're talking about a game where the plane goes from a dead stop to full speed airborne in about 10 feet

[Sonicblu]

Personally I dont see whats so great about that kill. All he did was exploit a very poorly modeled portion of the game.

Ya what he said. 

Jump out of aircraft in stall then get back in cockpit. Do I really have to say it.

They traded some looks for a very poorly modeled game IMO 

[kilo2]

This has been part of Battlefield games since at least BF1942. A guy named Zook made a film of him doing a bunch of times and since then people have made videos of the same. Usually they will have Zook in the description or title.

[Hoffman]

Why can't Aces High look that good?

Because I'd rather spend my money on a developer who builds a fun game that actually has a smidgeon of realism under the hood. As opposed to pretty pictures that look like something real but act completely different.  About the only thing realistic in any of the Battlefield series is that there a human beings, they can hold guns, and the guns(usually, ingame mileage may vary) shoot projectiles where the human points them.  The best I can say for Battlefield's tanks and planes... A wizard did it.

[PR3D4TOR]

It's all about the middle road. You can't expect a game to do well if it's story line lasted 10 minutes and its multiplayer have one map and one gun, even if it does have greatest graphics ever seen. You also can't expect a good game if if the graphics looks like a 2 year old drew it with crayons, regardless of whether or not the story/game play works perfectly.

I think AH2 is fine where it is, the graphics are a solid 7/10 for me, and it's continuing to improve.
The gameplay gets a 9/10.

I guess we just differ on where the middle road should be.

[GScholz]

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