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General Forums => Aces High General Discussion => Topic started by: QWEASY on June 06, 2013, 11:30:00 PM
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I was wondering if hi-tech has ever in put ads in magazines? I was trying to remember how I found aces high. It seems like I saw an ad in a national geographic magazine, but that would have been 5+ years ago. Y'all share how u found this game:)
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Word of mouth. 12 years ago.
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google
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Friend told me to download it 2 years ago when we were bored
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=KFzTsJtRUx4
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I found it online, 6 years ago, on some website, that were listing massive online mutiplayer games, and me i was really intrested in airplanes, so i downloaded it, tried to fly in offline pracctce, it took me 4 days to learn how to fly...i was so stressed not knowing what key to use, or anything, after i was good, and knew how to fly, Didnt know how to land....i went to online i made a free trial account, and played online..and died..every single time, so i bombed random towns thinking i was smart..,but every time my trial account was up, I made a new one( you cant do it anymore) i was always the number guy, with random numbers as a name, after that, I stopped playing for 4 years, then came back, learned eveything,Used my real name but with numbers as a Game ID, Talin555, and im alright at AH now,.....thats my story, haha
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I saw the commercial on the Military channel a couple dozen times late at night. Being a huge fan of the Ace Combat series, and a nut for WWII related things, I finally decided to try it out. Heck, it has a 2 week free trial. If I didn't like it I could just not pay for a subscription. Oh boy, did I like it though! I remember my first few sorties very well. My very very first sortie ever I grabbed a spit 16, launched on the runway, and instantly got vulched by an La-7. :lol The next few sorties there were people flying around with orange icons (I was on channel 101 I think) and stupidly thought they were enemies. I spent the next few sorties killshooting myself on friendlies :rofl .
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One of their TV commercials snagged me back in '04.
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Back in Warbirds 2.7 I heard about this new thing the ex warbirds devs were doing. It was called Aces High and it was supposed to be much more realistic.
You even had pilots walking and climbing to the planes on startup and when you started to fly you felt like flying lead weights instead of planes!
And so it was. Now that I look at AH - no walkups to the plane, no lead weights.. where's the realism? :devil
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=KFzTsJtRUx4
This on the History Channel. Only I remember it being slightly different. I think the music was. :headscratch:
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Blame PEZ for my existence in AcesHigh.. :old:
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Dolby told me about AH when i was visiting him in Wales while on parole :)
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Dolby told me about AH when i was visiting him in Wales while on parole :)
I was living in Harlech Castle at the time, zack was there for an interview... Court Jester.
The shenanigans began and I had ask him to leave.
I never did get my goose back :old:
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When my neighbor kid went in the Army in 06 I took over his game. He was my daughters friend and they had in on my computer. I don't even know what R-105 means he had it already along with some strange Metal Rock pass word I Don't understand. The best thing about Aces High for me was it was great therapy after my stroke. This game did more to help me recover some on my motor skills in my hand than the therapy I had to go to three days a week for over a year. Besides where else you going to have this much fun for $14.95 and not leave the house.
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I came to Aces High back when we had to chisel it on the cave walls. The frame rates really sucked back then.
(Actually I think my first tour was Feb, 2003 at the end of the mass AW migration but I don't remember History Channel commercials until `07.)
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The Damned migrated over back in '01 when AW went tits up.
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The Damned migrated over back in '01 when AW went tits up.
But when do you remember the first commercials? If you do. :)
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My CO in AW told us about it. Came over in the mass exodus back in '01. I remember seeing the first commercial for AH on the History Channel, it was probably '05 or somewhere around that time.
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Commercial on Military channel 2012. :D
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Back in Warbirds 2.7 I heard about this new thing the ex warbirds devs were doing. It was called Aces High and it was supposed to be much more realistic.
You even had pilots walking and climbing to the planes on startup and when you started to fly you felt like flying lead weights instead of planes!
And so it was. Now that I look at AH - no walkups to the plane, no lead weights.. where's the realism? :devil
I remember those days, and when you pulled back on the stick you sank into the seat, or if you rolled left your head moved right. Seemed very disjointed at the time. Lol.
I wonder if I still have some the early versions an a hard drive some where, I know I have many of the early Warbirds versions.
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The military channel. was watching dog fights.
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I'd heard about Aces High from other members of my squad at the time (The Krait Squadron) in AW. For a while I played both but finally came here when the plug was pulled on AW.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4SVS3QOQzY Here is an Aces high 2 Commercial
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The commercial on History got me. Spent a year and a half offline. Finally got online, :x Thats where I learned I had a lot to learn about fighting!
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It's all Brooke's fault! :D
When He came down to see the family he told me about Aces High. Going on my 7th year of playing.
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Was up late one night4 years ago watching dogfights or something like that on the history channle, when they use to have good shows on, have yet to see another advertisement for aceshigh
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I was hooked by the video they did back in 1987 on MTV...
http://youtu.be/s_45YMjnIIk (http://youtu.be/s_45YMjnIIk)
although, I could be mistaken...those were some pretty messed up years...
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On a car forum I frequent saw some guys talking about it and said what the hell give it a go then after a while I started seeing it on the military channel
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Stumbled upon the free download on a free games archive back in 2003 and that was that
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Me and dad discovered this in 01 I was 6 and we've been here since. I think a commercial aired on the Wings Channel back then.
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I pretty much know the whole soundtrack, Coach used to do it on squad vox all the time :lol
shamus
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Started in 2006 for a few months after seeing a commercial and time to kill with a broken foot. Joined the military in 07 stopped playing and time passed. A few months ago was cruising YouTube and randomly came across vudu15 vids. Watched a few downloaded the game and wam. Im hooked after a 7 year break.
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I found AH on the Military Channel in 2008. Because of financial problems (Countrywide - remember them?) I practiced offline until Dec 2010. I came online 14 Jan 2011.
Been here since, its the only game I play. :old:
LtngRydr
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I joined in Jan of '08 after seeing the advert on either the History or Military channel. Been here ever since. So that make it... ... 5 years and 5 mos = $595 spent on AH and a few hundred more on PC upgrades. :D
It has been a good run and I hope it continues to prosper and grow as it has. :aok
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I wonder if HTC has looked into getting AH up on Steam.
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Doesn't matter which format (video,magazine,tv) AH would be a tough sell, very small market and any screenshots or visuals from the game look terribly dated when AH2 was first released let alone 10 years later.
Cost of advertising would exceed any potential audiance with the current graphics etc. Plus new console released and games up the visual level expected by players once again.
Steam. I'd expect AH would have to completely change it's pricing model for them to be interested.
<S>...-Gixer
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I think I first downloaded AH back in... 2002 or 2003. Can't remember specifically, but I know it's been ten years or a little more. If I recall correctly, I wanted to download WBII again after I reformatted my hard drive, but it no longer existed; I began searching for a similar game, and found Aces High.
I tried WB3 (offline, of course; I wasn't going to pay $25 a month to try it out, especially when the most people on the server was always less than 130) and was thoroughly not impressed. Very thoroughly.
Love AHII.