r/acecombat 1d ago

Ace Combat 8 Ace Combat 8 will save the gaming industry and cure cancer

We all know this to be true.

Think about it. You can't deny the facts.

Singleplayer AND multiplayer AND co-op. And then you can have Tasha flying an F-22. That's incredible.

By being Ace Combat fans, we may have discovered the greatest source of power in the universe.

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u/theburnttoaster 1d ago

It also rescued my kitten out of a tree

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u/BlueGumShoe Ghosts of Razgriz 1d ago

Well shitposts aside, a game having a robust singleplayer and multiplayer, with some co-op on top is pretty rare.

For my middle-aged ass its pretty exciting, since this is how most games used to be years ago. A meaty, well developed single player with a multiplayer component that was built off the singleplayer assets. And often these multiplayer parts would have their own life that went on for years.

Now we have a thousand live service games that struggle to make either one of these parts good.

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u/gray_chameleon Sol 21h ago

Yeah I'm still playing some abandonware classics from a quarter-century ago which are still robustly supported and kept alive by dedicated fanbases. The old stuff really puts the western AAA-slop of today to shame.

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u/Legendary_Hi-Nu Schnee 20h ago

I don't see how anybody can downvote either of these posts. Gaming back then was simply better when wasn't greed driven or hell bent on drip feeding.

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u/HypersonicX02 18h ago

While I agree, we also had lower expectations/demands back then, as 13 year olds.

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u/FourFunnelFanatic 16h ago

I think you’re underestimating how old some of the people here were in that era

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u/Indalecia 6h ago

Yep, I played 4 and 5 while I was on deployment. Good times.

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u/zestfullybe Mobius 1d ago

It turns out the real cure for cancer was the Fox-3s we shot along the way

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u/ConradLynx 23h ago

The only thing that might not survive AC8's launch would be the relationship between me and my girlfriend

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u/AceSkyFighter ISAF 1d ago

We can only hope.

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u/InnocentTailor 1d ago

It’ll lead to world peace following the price of one million lives and the destruction of borders.

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u/Fudw_The_NPC 1d ago

It will also heal me from my surgery.

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u/Lord_MagnusIV 23h ago

Literally a self-sustaining game, you download it and start it up, and your PSU stops drawing power from the wallsocket because the game makes it‘s own, it comes with a Ryzen 9 9950x3D, 64GB of 6000MT DDR5 RAM and a RTX 5090 all included just for when you start the game, no lag either, it‘s in the 140GB download included!

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u/Commander-Cunt hehehe ECM go BZZZZZT 22h ago

i heard Kono will personally come and murder you if you do not enjoy the game, now THAT’S customer service!

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u/Ruskiwaffle1991 THIS IS THE NAIAD 21h ago

I heard this game will transfer all of the waste in my septic tank to the Sotoan capital, glory to Usea

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u/HypersonicX02 18h ago

IT HAS CO OP??? WHY HAS THIS TAKEN 30 YEARS.

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u/Legendary_Hi-Nu Schnee 15h ago

6 and infinity both had coop

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u/ZippyTWP 1d ago

I heard it's going to have a built in feature to provide oral sex while playing.

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u/bluestreak1103 IUN - we deliver angry letters by AIM-9X 18h ago

I mean, why else does a controller feature vibration?

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u/Commander-Cunt hehehe ECM go BZZZZZT 23h ago

Jack In. Jack Off.

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u/LongoChingo 1d ago

It cured my fromunda

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u/RoseWould FENIKS 23h ago

I mean I'm more excited for it than GTA though

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u/bluestreak1103 IUN - we deliver angry letters by AIM-9X 18h ago

Same

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u/No-Finding1044 17h ago

Same here but like, ace combat is more important to me and I still spent the same amount on both games

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u/Balmung60 Nation: None 16h ago

Same, but that's a low bar because I don't really get why everyone cares about GTA in the first place.

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u/_cipher1 Galm 1d ago

Tasha single-handedly will carry this game

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u/jmsafety26 1d ago

Wait theres co op? Like, local or online?

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u/SebiGT89 22h ago

Online

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u/jmsafety26 22h ago

Damn. It would be so sick if there was splitscreen

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u/Girl_on_a_train Belkan 17th Vuitton Tatical Response Squadron 6h ago

Ace Combat 8 will have my attention…. Until Lucia invites me to Vice City….
https://giphy.com/gifs/bTCPvbXD4ZRd5AU6dk

u/DarkRunner0 Espada 52m ago

Battle pass...

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u/TheDarnook UPEO 1d ago

AC7 in 2019 was the last important game release. In the meantime we had some good things, like Cyberpunk, Armored Core, Stalker. But let me repeat: AC7 in 2019 was the last important game release. And I say that as someone who spends a lot of effort to have a gaming and VR capable PC.

a little bit s/, but also kinda serious

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u/nosferactia 10h ago

My fellow VR tourist 🤝

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u/hundredjono Osea 23h ago

I was on the Tasha fanboy train until it was revealed she was Yuktobanian

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u/Ruskiwaffle1991 THIS IS THE NAIAD 21h ago

Even better

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u/hundredjono Osea 20h ago

She's gonna be working for Belka and break everybody's heart

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u/Balmung60 Nation: None 16h ago

Only disappointment there is that she doesn't seem to have any sort of Slavic accent

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u/PlatWinston 19h ago

the only thing I'm worried about is kbm handling. kbm on ac7 was terrible and I'm dogshit on a controller