I love how when Ace Combat Infinity and 7 added the XFA-27 fictional superplane from Ace Combat 2, they added detail to look realistic, but it still kind of has that 1990s PS1 feel somehow. The low-polygon design really synergizes with the faceted shapes of actual stealth fighters, but the general pointiness looks really '90s anime.
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Ace Combat jpeg dog is always in my heart
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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.
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the sheer number of games shortened to “AC” is staggering
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two sides of the same coin
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just some of the similarities
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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.
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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
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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
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Dude ace combat 7 literally warned us about this
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