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General Forums => Aces High General Discussion => Topic started by: atlau on August 26, 2020, 04:52:56 PM
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It annoys me when I see posts like this and they omit my favorite game! AH3.
https://screenrant.com/flight-simulator-ace-combat-shooting-flying-bomber-crew/
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If it was my restaurant, id invite them in for a free meal. But when your menu offers a dried up yak3 patty, with a burnt spit16 bun, and 2 vs 1 country gangbang sauce, you will get the same publicity as you did in Steam.
Maybe the CAF project ive heard about is a better piece of bait. Couldnt tell ya, never seen it.
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Bandai must of paid for that, Ace Combat 7 was bad and not in the neighborhood of sim. Very arcade and sci-fi.
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Bandai must of paid for that, Ace Combat 7 was bad and not in the neighborhood of sim. Very arcade and sci-fi.
Obviously lazer liked it.
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They also recommended this one - "Bomber Crew". :bhead
(https://i.imgur.com/HQHEmtS.jpg)
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it's not really a review but more of a commercial for those who pay.
semp
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Bandai must of paid for that, Ace Combat 7 was bad and not in the neighborhood of sim. Very arcade and sci-fi.
The whole series has been like that, though. Sometimes it works, but it's been a while.
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The whole series has been like that, though. Sometimes it works, but it's been a while.
I agree, I played them all and only recently sold all them. The story lines in the older ones were at least interesting and had missions I’d reply over and over with different aircraft and strategies. 7’s story wasn’t interesting, dialogue was painful to listen to and replay ability was zero.
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Gaming journalists suck. Perhaps even more than beggars.
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When Gamespot sacked Gerstmann for accurately reviewing Kane and Lynch 2, I very much stopped trusting/visiting those sites.
Pay to sell... Pay for ratings... Pay for good reviews... However it goes, if there is no player reviews or beta play on the YouTubes, it's not getting my money.
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Are there still any games out there like AH where you pay a flat/low monthly and the entire game is opened to play?
I find the "free" but pay if you want something more than the crappiest planes games very annoying
Eagler
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When Gamespot sacked Gerstmann for accurately reviewing Kane and Lynch 2, I very much stopped trusting/visiting those sites.
Pay to sell... Pay for ratings... Pay for good reviews... However it goes, if there is no player reviews or beta play on the YouTubes, it's not getting my money.
Couldn't agree more better. Websites like IGN and Gamespot would rather care about their share of the funds from reviewing and praising than rather putting any effort into it.
This kind of reminds me of that one World Of Tanks commercial about the Christmas Present which was junk and would sell for a free garage slot and they tried to say some of the tanks were good. Ha more like use the 5% of gold usage for that Wargaming. But back to the point most websites don't want to lose favor in game developers. That pisses me off as well.
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When Gamespot sacked Gerstmann for accurately reviewing Kane and Lynch 2, I very much stopped trusting/visiting those sites.
I remember that. It was the first game - Kane and Lynch: Dead Men (2007). The publishers were convinced it was going to be a major franchise. They kept talking about a Hollywood film with Will Smith or Jamie Foxx, even though the game was already a direct copy of Collateral and Heat, e.g. Lynch is obviously modelled on Waingro from Heat and Kane is a mixture of Val Kilmer's character and Tom Cruise's Vincent.
The odd thing is that Gerstmann's review was entirely reasonable. He enjoyed the multiplayer aspect, loved the soundtrack, correctly pointed out that it was short and derivative, and gave it 3/5, which is mediocre but not awful. If the review was two thousand words of gonzo journalism I can understand the editor getting rid of him but if anything it's flat, bland, and inoffensive. The review is still up:
https://www.gamespot.com/reviews/kane-and-lynch-dead-men-review/1900-6182836/
The game was on offer recently as part of a giant Eidos sale along with the sequel. I tried it out; it has its moments, I can see what they were going for, but it's very short and two-thirds of the way through it turns into a generic cover-based military shooter. Visually it hasn't aged well.
The sequel, Dog Days, has a really good trailer and the music is great, but it's only four hours long and had almost universally negative reviews (Gamespot again gave it 3/5).
Games review websites have the same problem as the mainstream media in general. A long time ago games journalists were drawn from a pool of games fans who could write, because professional writers wouldn't be seen dead writing about computer games. Some parts of the specialist press still hire enthusiasts - and there are people like Steve1989, the MRE guy on Youtube, who obviously loves his subject.
The problem is that there are far more English graduates than there were in the early 1980s, because everybody now goes to university, but there are far fewer paid writing jobs, so English graduates are now prepared to lower their sights and write about computer games even though they only play them casually and know very little about the history. The end result is professional, bland, uninteresting writing that has no spark, because the writers don't know anything about computer games. They're "blagging it", but they just don't care, and it stands out.
Furthermore they tend to revert back to the essays they had to write at university, so the end result is endless essays about fashionable political issues masquerading as games journalism. The sad thing is that Youtube is dominated by WOW THAT WAS AWESOME! NO WAY! streamers who aren't interested in games either.
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Are there still any games out there like AH where you pay a flat/low monthly and the entire game is opened to play?
That kind of stuff certainly still exists. For example Elite:Dangerous Flat fee for the base game and buy DLC addons (there has been only one in the past 5 years, and another one is upcoming next year, both substantially expanding the game). You can spend money in game, but only for cosmetics). Or Eve: Online with its monthly fee.
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Gaming journalists suck. Perhaps even more than beggars.
Modern day gaming journalist is a neckbeard living in their parents basement that reek of mountain dew and sweat :old:
And allergic to the J word (job)
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Modern day gaming journalist is a neckbeard living in their parents basement that reek of mountain dew and sweat :old:
And allergic to the J word (job)
+1
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Are there still any games out there like AH where you pay a flat/low monthly and the entire game is opened to play?
https://www.wwiionline.com/
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Obviously lazer liked it.
LOL
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Obviously lazer liked it.
:rofl :rofl