#ace combat

[scooge]

Ace Combat jpeg dog is always in my heart

#Ace Combat #jpeg dog

[fireemblembreastrevisionist]

#ace combat #AWACS Skyeye #Mobius one

[feybeasts]

My hot take right now is that Ace Combat isn’t and has never been a 1:1 representation of real-world politics or history (except for Assault Horizon, but it was bad so who cares,) but instead is an exploration of politics and philosophical questions on the nature of war mixed with a deep fascination on machines that often verge on and act in a way that is completely fantastical. It tries to convey its lessons and its themes not through the events of the greater war, but through the interplay of characters swept up in the greater conflict, who are inevitably characters surrounding the principle protagonists and antagonists, all ace pilots.

What I’m saying is, Ace Combat is and always has been deeply political- and antiwar- but also loves the Really Cool Machines that do the war. Ace Combat is a mecha anime.

Ace Combat is Jet Plane Gundam, and is subject to the same misrepresentations as the latter.

#ace combat #gundam #mecha

[quinnydoll]

the sheer number of games shortened to “AC” is staggering

#armored core #assassin's creed #animal crossing #ace combat #astral chain #asheron's call #alfred chicken #age of conan #air conditioning #armor class #age of calamity #assetto corsa

[frogblast-the-ventcore]

#f 14 tomcat #phoenix missile #trans rights #ace combat #project wingman

[hoodiedeer]

#ace combat #ace combat 5

[omineptune]

two sides of the same coin

#ace combat zero #ace combat #tarot #my art

[the-river-is-right-there-chopper]

just some of the similarities

#armored core #ace combat #project wingman

[gamevecanti]

Kousuke Fujishima special "Ace Combat 2" (PS1) illustration made for Game Jin Magazine (2-1998). A lottery was also held to give away 50 telephone cards featuring this artwork.

#video game #playstation #ps1 #Ace Combat #kosuke fujishima #エースコンバット2

[goat13]

Pixy / Ace Combat Zero

#ace combat #pixy

[redteapanda]

YO BUDDY, STILL ALIVE?

My work crunch is over, I’m back and I have ANOTHER MUCHA ACE COMBAT PIECE.

Except I’m sorry Mucha I took multiple artistic liberties.

Anyways, wouldn’t it be great if we were jousting with our planes but then our cockpits kissed, jkjk…UNLESS…👀

Bonus points if you can see the Zero

#ace combat #ace combat zero #f 15 eagle #ADFX-01 Morgan #planes #artists on tumblr #digital art #AC0 fanart #Strong Emotions about jousting planes #and relationships torn apart by ideals #have you found a reason to fight yet? #buddy? #illustration

[bungerc0re]

my dealer: got some straight gas 🔥😛 this strain is called "ADF-01" 😳 you’ll be zonked out of your gourd 💯

me: yeah whatever. i don’t feel shit.

5 minutes later: dude i swear i just saw civilians in Hoffnung

my buddy Pixy pacing: Belka is lying to us

#what's this? a bandwagon? #ace combat #ace combat zero #solo wing pixy

[minimal-effort-name]

Dude ace combat 7 literally warned us about this

#ace combat

[feybeasts]

“Oh, but Ace Combat MUST be a direct, americanistic political analogy, all the Bad Guys fly Flankers! Isn’t it saying the guys who fly Russian jets are evil??”

The first game to prominently feature a Flanker-flying antagonist spent literally its entire story mode exploring how he was, despite being on the wrong side, a deeply caring and kindhearted man who found mutual humanity with the narrator, a young kid whose parents it’s heavily implied he accidentally killed. The entire game builds up how despite the greater conflict going on around them, people share a mutual humanity and that war is a deeply unnatural thing that puts barriers between folks who otherwise would have been wonderful for one another- you kill the love of his life, leave his nation in ruins, and when you finally kill him, you leave the narrator devastated, the whole vehicle of the story being in the form of a letter he’s writing you in the hopes that you’ll understand a man that was, to you, a faceless mook, and that he believes Yellow 13, despite it all, would have forgiven you.

He’s the Char Aznable of the whole goddamned series, and antagonists flying his aircraft- up to including the “antagonist” of 7 (a grandpa and former prince who lost everything but his family and his urge to fly, things he clings to even as his body fails him and the world leaves his generation behind,) has always been a callback to him.

Plus Flankers are fucking cool and are treated as one of the best aircraft in every game, and the “bad guys” fly every other kind of American, European, and Japanese aircraft too.

Because it’s not a simulator of reality. It’s mecha anime, exploring concepts in a setting that is wholly fantastical, yet points to parallels in our own world and goes “makes you think, huh?”

Reducing it to a direct parallel to our own reality minimizes a series that has always has more to say than your empty-headed Call of Duties or your Medal of Honors of the world.

#ace combat

[frogblast-the-ventcore]

#ace combat #f16 #trans rights

[special-support-section]

remember in ace combat 6 when they added a chihaya plane but they gave the plane depression and anxiety

#chihaya kisaragi #ace combat #idolmaster