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Flying By 'Ace Combat 3' PlayStation

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[omineptune]

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[psxui]

Ace Combat 3: Electrosphere (1999) - Difficulty Settings

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[y2klostandfound]

Ace Combat 3 Electrosphere: Direct Audio (Video Game Soundtrack) (Japan, 1999)

Source:https://downloads.khinsider.com/game-soundtracks/album/ace-combat-3-electrosphere

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[sheepy765]

Just finished Ace Combat 3: Electrosphere and I gotta say, I really enjoyed it. I went down the UPEO/Neucom missions route and took down Ouroboros, severely hampered Neucom and General Resource, and killed the guy in charge of UPEO twice. The graphics are great for the ps1 and I like the plane designs, they're [mostly] grounded yet slightly futuristic, my favorites are the Su-43 Berkut and the R-211 Orcinus.

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[devileaterjaek]

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[olyatheplaywright]

An old meme of mine from the days of actively fangirling over Ace Combat games. I really gotta come back to those...

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[apsupmix]

Surfing the Electrosphere

I started the year 2024 by flying planes in the year 2040. In other words I played Ace Combat 3: Electrosphere, Japanese version with fan translation. I went in the game knowing it would be more futuristic sci-fi story, I knew about multiple story paths and endings, I knew it had anime cut scenes, and lots of voice acting. I knew, but I wasn’t ready.

Ace Combat 4 is in my brain a baseline Ace Combat game. Not in bad way, but it’s story is quite straightforward, simple in it’s execution. Missions in AC4, from what I remember, are mostly basic stuff, not many “gimmick missions” that usually spice up things story wise in Ace Combat games. I knew that Ace Combat 4 wasn’t the first game in the series, I can count, but I felt that surely things that came before would be at most on that level of complexity. I was wrong.

Though I should acknowledge that Ace Combat 3 wasn’t ahead of it’s time in all aspects. Gameplay wise, sure it’s Ace Combat game, the controls are familiar it feels like an AC game, but not quite as good as I’m used to. I can’t put in words were the issues were, but the core feel of gameplay definitely improved with later games, with hardware generation’s change, with experience of the developers.

Not that it mattered too much that the control wasn’t at it’s best. Most of the missions were too short and simple for that to matter, few targets, often just stationary ground targets even, and done. And to be honest the times when there were actual dogfights, I was happy that they were a rarity. Also back on those gimmick missions I mentioned, AC3 had quite a lot of those; following a plane on canyon, destroying chimnies from the path of bio weapon filled blimp, going to space. And space was one mission and it felt physically different than flying normally, another moment where I had to stop and just be impressed by the game.

Speaking of being impressed by the game. The story is the big thing of AC 3, of Japanese version of AC3. Story with multiple paths, five endings, low resolution anime cut scenes and lots of voice acted dialogue when people sent voice mails and news clips at main character between missions. Story set in the future where corporations have surpassed nations, future where peace keeping force of Neo United Nations (NUN) is ether inefficient or just tool and lackey to the corporate power. Future where Internet is called Electrosphere and wikipedia is Peek-A-Boom! (not all parts of the future are bad).

Player character starts the story in before mentioned inefficient peacekeeping force, trying to find solutions when two corporations go to war with each other. Player can join different factions, but instead of findings solutions or answers, they find people who are or get hurt and betrayed and who lash out in anger, with fighter planes. I didn’t think about it too much when I was playing, but when I started to think about the game for this text, I realized how much of that there is. Looking at the list of characters in the game, especially pilots, they all are or will at some point of story be angry, because of hurt, of betrayal. And in the secret final ending, it’s revealed that behind everything was the world’s most pettiest man, making a petty act of revenge.

Ace Combat 3: Electrosphere is a good game. One reason I started to write these things was to decompress my brain, to help that feeling of finishing a game and having it be stuck in my head. And after writing all this, the amount of Ace Combat 3 thoughts in my head hasn’t gone down at all, none of the pressure has been released. In my head, instead of brain, there is Electrosphere.

#apsup rambling #videogames #ace combat #ace combat 3

[annelidist]

man, playing ac7 and ac3 back to back (and thus in chronological order) puts the former's ending in such a cold light. the lighthouse war WAS the last great international conflict, it WAS the death knell for nationalism, and it didn't *matter*. a new world has been built, and because capital was permitted to build it, there's nothing here worth fighting for. heroism, pride, hatred, all have given way to a lonely unreality in which people with nowhere to go kill one another for reasons they'll never fully understand. it isn't that ace combat 3 presents a world where there's nothing left to live for, but there's nothing here worth dying for; in a game about battle, that's a horribly sad thing.

#bones.txt #ace combat #ace combat 3 #it is unreal how much more ambitious and compelling ac3 is narratively than 7 dude

[frogblast-the-ventcore]

Meme by u/Adrian23138

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[priviie]

Ace Combat 3 was an incredibly ambitious game, especially for the time period. Fully voice acted, animated cutscenes done by production I.G., 5 different endings (plus 1 true ending), it’s clear that without Ace Combat 3 we would not have classics like AC 5.

I think it’s slightly held back by some of the missions in various routes being repeats, and ultimately you don’t get as much time to develop individual pilots due to the big differences in routes. Plus the enemy pilot AI in this one feels a little cheap compared to future titles.

It is interesting how this game is the primordial soup from which we get future titles. Narrative being a big focus did ultimately pay off in this game, and I’m glad they run with that in later games.

Overall it was a fun time and a satisfying conclusion. Well worth a play through. There’s multiple translations of JP copies floating around and patching it is relatively easy.

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[natvoltaic]

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Ace Combat 3: Electrosphere (1999) - Loading

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[officialtokyosan]

the fighter pilot transhumanists are being creepy again

#i should probablut make it its own post #medraww #ace combat 3 #abyssal dision #rena hirose #ace combat posting #she should cannabalize him

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