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Energy Airforce 3 is now known as Over-G Fighters. The back cover incites urban riots:  Taito's third and, so far, last game in their long-suffering series of console flight simulators sees Energy Airforce help the UN build world peace by suppressing resistance to the organization's efforts all over the world... using cluster bombs to keep civilian casualties low. Story aside, the series has always tried to be realistic in terms of flight and, to an extent, weapon modelling, although everything has a laughably short range. You can taxi to the runway though! Mission-wise it's a mix of the original Energy Ariforce's empty arenas (how much can you kill with 4 missiles?) with AimStrike's long-rear end Desert Bus rides to drop a single bomb. It's neither a good nor a sensible mix.        
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In at sea level.  Amazing how only the last two characters actually looked like fighter pilots, the others were just grumpy old men most likely piloting an airliner or maybe a racing plane. I love how they had to cram in a function for exactly every button on the controller. Including landing gear. Also pretty sure they were F-14s but the model looked a bit weird so it took me a second. Cooked Auto fucked around with this message at 18:06 on Dec 9, 2019 |
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Dec 9, 2019 18:03
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Wow, and to think I have to make do with AC7. My loss for only having a PC I guess.
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Dec 9, 2019 18:23
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Mental is a stat? What is this, Hornet Leader: Cthulhu Conflict?
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Dec 9, 2019 18:27
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ah, if only there were some plane game that gives you the other SLAM
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Dec 9, 2019 22:08
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It's nice to see you back, SelenicMartian! I hope one day you'll Let's Play a flight sim you love without reservation.
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Dec 9, 2019 22:39
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This game looks pretty cool, like a weird mix of Ace Combat and something like Falcon 4. Will it be the chocolate peanut butter sandwich of flight games, or a piece of toast between two other pieces of toast?
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Dec 9, 2019 23:39
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This game has great bass.
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Davin Valkri posted:It's nice to see you back, SelenicMartian! I hope one day you'll Let's Play a flight sim you love without reservation. Back? I don't think SelenicMartian has gone more than a few days without having an ongoing LP in five years.
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Dec 10, 2019 00:19
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Are we the baddies
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Dec 10, 2019 00:54
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What an incredibly exciting, action packed, and drama filled game.
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Dec 10, 2019 04:48
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That music will haunt me for quite a while. e: I'm sure it would have sold better if they named it War Crime Air Force. anilEhilated fucked around with this message at 11:33 on Dec 13, 2019 |
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Dec 13, 2019 11:03
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More training!
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Dec 16, 2019 14:40
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That is certainly an inspired choice of music.  Also interesting choice by the world police to deploy supposedly local guerilla forces to deal with the enemy before sending in regular units.
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Dec 16, 2019 17:27
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Well, I was on the fence about following this lp after the first video, but your choice of music for the second one decided me.
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Dec 16, 2019 20:42
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Napalm? Makes sense, the UN force you're flying for is clearly a predecessor to the GDI.
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Dec 16, 2019 20:43
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The red mission reminded me how boring the previous game was. Music fit the plane nicely though.
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Dec 16, 2019 23:48
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check your ball before landing
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Dec 17, 2019 00:13
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I came here for the ridiculously explosive aircraft bloopers, and I’m staying for the tasteful and thoughtful musical choices
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Dec 17, 2019 04:56
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You know for everything you could say about Energy Airforce 2 it did have an identity. It may have wanted to be a weird flight sim with all the tedium of actual flying and using weapons and how complicated it can be to avoid being shot just with the simpler Ace Combat flight model but at least it committed to that. I guess we're still in the early missions still but so far this is just a whole lot of nothing.
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Dec 17, 2019 05:48
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Over G Fighters? I just hope we don't lose Andy, Buddy or Howie.
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Dec 17, 2019 22:09
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Is there an actual plot at some point, or do you just travel the world bombing stuff
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I really don't know what to make of this game. It looks like they're trying to be a flight game following the ace combat flight model but with more "realistic" missions and tone, except... the end result seems to be that all the missions are super short and everything comes across as really flat and kinda boring since it doesn't look like it's simulator-y enough to have sim appeal also the game's music sucks and the font choices for the subtitles/mission objective popups/everything are very bad
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Ferrovanadium posted:I really don't know what to make of this game. It looks like they're trying to be a flight game following the ace combat flight model but with more "realistic" missions and tone, except... the end result seems to be that all the missions are super short and everything comes across as really flat and kinda boring since it doesn't look like it's simulator-y enough to have sim appeal The previous game in the series was pretty enjoyable as a flight sim on a console, but so far with this one I feel they have missed the mark.
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What's the track playing during the first carrier launch in the first video (about 7:15 in or so, I think)? Sounds like they ripped off the opening from the end boss fight music from chrono trigger: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z74e6bFr5EY And to think people had the gall to complain about puddle of mudd lowering the tone of the ace combat games
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radintorov posted:The previous game in the series was pretty enjoyable as a flight sim on a console That's a pretty damning indictment of console flight sims.
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Dec 21, 2019 15:35
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Today, Over G Fighters goes to poo poo.
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Dec 23, 2019 17:28
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Clearly, the chairman is going to betray us down the line. He's probably working for that "armed group", whatever it is. Et tu, chairman?
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Dec 23, 2019 19:22
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So they have Russian, American and Chinese fighters because there's a bunch of J-7s, J-8s and J-10s in that mission. Which makes more sense than the MIGs to have around in that scenario. Also weird choice to call an objective NOTICEBOARD. Especially when you're never going to interact with it in any way shape or form since it's just a furball and not a strike mission.
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Dec 23, 2019 19:45
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TheMcD posted:Clearly, the chairman is going to betray us down the line. He's probably working for that "armed group", whatever it is.
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Dec 24, 2019 12:13
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Today, we find out who the real villains are. After some truly atrocious missions.
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Dec 29, 2019 18:22
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The worst plane gets the most readable description text. Amazing.
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Dec 29, 2019 18:43
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Maybe for each screen they could afford either a stealth plane or stealth text, not both.
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Dec 29, 2019 18:56
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Why does the mission critical VIP escort mission start you on the ground?  Also what happened to the flight that was meant to guard the transport? Edit: I'm starting to believe that this whole plotline was just made up by whoever translated the game as a way to fill the gaps between the various mission locations and the real game simply had some basic WW3 scenario. I fail to come up with any other reasonable explanation for how dumbfuck this "plot" is. Cooked Auto fucked around with this message at 19:15 on Dec 29, 2019 |
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Dec 29, 2019 19:06
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Obviously the UN only uses ethically sourced and fair trade cluster bombs and napalm.
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I'm surprised no one commented on the fact that somehow destroying two american stealth bombers neutralized the enemy SAM batteries. What was every SAM battery positioned next to those two bombers instead of say scattered around the airfield?
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koolkevz666 posted:I'm surprised no one commented on the fact that somehow destroying two american stealth bombers neutralized the enemy SAM batteries. What was every SAM battery positioned next to those two bombers instead of say scattered around the airfield? I think most of us just sorted that under weird translation issues considering how many of those we've seen so far.
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Uh...at they tried something different?
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Dec 30, 2019 04:32
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Oh come on, the F-117 looks cool.
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Wait, so we are a mysterious strike force attacking an enemy that appears to be present wherever we go around the world, fielding weapons and aircraft designed by many different countries, and our weapons of choice include cluster bombs and napalm. Am I the only one wondering if the twist is that we are in fact the terrorists, and the enemies are actually the regular armies of various nations trying to get us to gently caress off and stop bombing them?
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