Passionate devs

Yeah I played through the campaign on xbox game pass and I fell in love with the game. AAA games and most games in general don't pull me anymore but this was able to sway my heart. So now I'm gonna stream the entire series. ttv RamenRider if you guys want to join.

I've never played 3 but I heard the localization was fucking terrible. However I found that they translated the Japanese version with all the animu. Fuck yeahh. projectnemo.net/download.shtml

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thing with ac games is that they have really fun gameloop they will always be fun to play years from now. It also helps that even at arcade level its the best flying simulator around
thank you asshole now i have to play this.

>tfw will never be as passionate about anything as Kono is about planes and borders
feels bad man

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Early days âge might count, the director has to mortgage his car and house to fund the final part threshold of the development. They're shit nowadays though.
Lots of hentai game developers are passionate bunch really.

Everyone needs to play the true version.

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Itsuno is insanely passionate about the games he works on. The entire reason why he spearheaded DMC3 was because he didn't want to be remembered as the guy who put out DMC2, even though he was brought onto that project late in its development, but the only complete asset made was the animation for Stinger.
Kamiya is also passionate: when he has an idea of what he wants to make he will work to make it happen, even if the game isn't the most easy thing to approach.
That said, it's important not to attribute the passion for games to only those individuals at the head of them, but in these two cases they're literally the reasons why most of their games exist, conceptually. A great deal of blood, sweat, and tears goes into making almost every game nowadays. Stories like AC7's development are inspiring though, just because of how many hurdles they overcame to make it happen and how things ultimately came together to make a fantastic game.

IMO Itsuno bows too easily to producers/publishers. It's criminal how DMC5 has microtransactions when DMC3 was all about git gud or git fucked. Maybe he's just not as passionate about DMC anymore and Dragon's Dogma is what he really cares about. Now, THAT was a passion project.

>One song, I really need a masterpiece. I want you to create one right now.
>I understand.

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This fucking song

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>never played the DLC though
DOWNLOAD THE DLC MISSIONS AND BE PART OF OUR SALVATION, THE DEATH OF A MILLION IS A NECESSITY
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I've played 4 and 5, and I have 0, but haven't finished it yet.
I really want to play 7, but I also want to play 6 before that, but 6 is kind of expensive and hard to find.
I also got the PSX games on emulation.

>It was insane.
>A risk taker, song title: "Daredevil"
I'm biased as fuck, but why do we never hear western devs be this based when it comes to vidya?

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Finish 0, make sure you also complete the other two ace style paths after your first playthrough for the whole story

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I wish 7 was as good as its predecessors.

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It is better than 5 and 6

7 is better than 4
With the DLC it's better than most games in the series

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Tbf, the game was pretty janky before Iron Galaxy came in. But I'll give them credit.

currently at mission 3, this song has been stuck to my head
youtu.be/lQEFDGsGD2A
it gives me goosebumps, feels like im a kid again, glad some anons shill this series to me

but 4 is better than 5 and 6 too.
So that means 7 is better than 4, 5 and 6. And it's also better than Air Combat at least.

>6
No.

Because Western work culture is different and AAA Western games are rarely the result of passionate visionaries as opposed to board room decisions.
See ActiBlizz and EA. M$ too.

Playing through Ace now.. how many more times do I have to beat this game to get 50000000 mrp?

It's probably harder for western devs to express themselves as publishers are less willing to give passion projects the go ahead. Also Japanese companies tend to keep the workforce they hire so you got these people with ton of experience at the same place with considerable clout. The western employment and risk/reward system doesn't really allow passionate teams to form around a subject they love. Instead you end up as #8 of Ubisoft's 12 studios dedicated to creating assets for Ass Creeds.

>currently at mission 3,
Oh boy you have no idea what you're in for. The game just shifts gears upwards up to the very finale.

It's become like that with anime and jap vidya too.

Why do you think 90% of it has become Moeshit since 2006?

ACE Combat is one of of those rare exceptions that never gave into the moeshit.

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because JP Electrosphere is the best near-future game ever fucking made
and that says a lot when Armored Core (all the way to Last Raven) exist

And the experience of working for Ubisoft doesn't amount to anything because you'e essentially been one of an organ grinder's menagerie of monkeys.

While I still like 4 over 6, 6 is better than 4 in many important regards, like mission design.
4 had really bad mission design, so many fucking score attack missions with 7-10 minute timers. 6's operation system should've replaced score attack missions for all games after it, but somehow PA forgot about that for Infinity and 7. At least 7 has only a handful of annihilation missions.

No, what killed anime is digital. Not "moeshit". Look at the top anime. All hand-drawn. So all have distinctive styles inherent to the person drawing. Digital came and killed the anime medium for good with its homogenous, sterile presentation.

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just play MP, shit prints money

If this is giving you goosebumps, just you fucking wait. There are so many kino music tracks ahead.

I think they rode the leit motif way too hard before it was time to really bring it out, mild dampener to the whole thing. The direction of the scene was fantastic though.

Yes. It's a low effort job where autonomy is pretty low. But hey in Ubishit's case maybe that's a good thing. It seems the creative heads of Ass Creed were more interested in forcing female leads in everything rather than unfuck the series with some interesting gameplay and stories. Maybe the people with passion and talent left long ago.

Digital isn't great but it's not as bad as full on CG, like with the berserk stuff

>Dragon's Dogma is what he really cares about. Now, THAT was a passion project.
Dragon's Dogma literally has microtransactions.

yo buddy
still alive?

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Weird that you single out Ubisoft. They're one of the few game publishers who don't claim ownership over anything you develop in your free time. Dan works there and he gets to noodle around with making a VN.
Child of Light was a similar project that they published anyway when it turned out to be half decent.
Hell they're still letting Ancel work on Beyond Good and Evil 2, for better or worse.

It's astonishingly well presented.

always Larry
always

Desu I always thought they were going to merge Trigger's and Mihaly's leit motifs together by the end, they fit perfectly over one another

It's a shame because I really hate Daredevil. They tried way too hard and were rushed on time and it shows, it's extremely derivative. Faceless Soldier, Homeward and Sol Squadron are much better

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Digital anime leads to moeshit.

Poor economy using digital usually ends up as moeshit.

Poor economy forcing studios to cater to otakus is moeshit.

Having forced to follow trends leads to moeshit.

SOUL is rare to find nowadays and is constantly being replaced with SJW pandering.

Stop protecting it faggot and stop using those shitty moeshit anime avatars.

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I disagree

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