This or Ace combat 7 ?

[Itchy_Scrotbag]

Not sure which offers best replayability. Thank you

[Troll Norris]

Depends what do you want. Ace Combat is Quite good arcade game.

DCS: world is the most realistic combat flight simulator in market.

Both are different genres.

[Itchy_Scrotbag]

Originally posted by Troll Norris:

Depends what do you want. Ace Combat is Quite good arcade game.

DCS: world is the most realistic combat flight simulator in market.

Both are different genres.

Not too concerned of the setting to be honest but 1 question I need to know is whether any of these games support my Hotas X stick ? Many Thanks for your help

[I_N_G]

Originally posted by Itchy_Scrotbag™:

Originally posted by Troll Norris:

Depends what do you want. Ace Combat is Quite good arcade game.

DCS: world is the most realistic combat flight simulator in market.

Both are different genres.

Not too concerned of the setting to be honest but 1 question I need to know is whether any of these games support my Hotas X stick ? Many Thanks for your help

Yes, atleast DCS supports Hotas X. I had that joystick at first.

[SSerponi76]

DCS supports Hotas X.
Not 100% sure but even AC7 should support it.

[Troll Norris]

To understand the difference:
https://youtu.be/DH7eH98iutc

[startrekmike]

DCS World and Ace Combat are VASTLY different experiences for entirely different audiences. Ace Combat is (at its heart) a fairly accessible and largely story driven air combat game. It does go out of its way to make the planes look fairly detailed but the controls are biased heavily towards a gamepad and it doesn't really have much of a learning curve since it pretty much makes use of common gaming skills. Since it is not really trying to be a flight sim on any real level, it is very easy for just about anyone to pick up and have fun.

DCS World is a different beast entirely. It is not story driven (at least not in the way that Ace Combat is). The primary focus of DCS is accurately replicating the systems, weapons, sensors, and flight characteristics of various aircraft and that can include quite a lot of learning on the part of the player. You cannot just jump into DCS and expect conventional, common gaming skills to carry over. It requires that you develop a whole different set of skills and some amount of knowledge about how the various weapons, navigation systems, sensors, fuel, hydraulic, and electrical systems work for the various planes.

I cannot overstate just how different DCS and Ace Combat are from one another. The only thing they really have in common is that they are both about aircraft. Everything beyond that is extremely different.

[van Leeuwenhoek's mustache]

If you're looking for an arcade game, DCS isn't for you.

[Seclusion]

Yes you can play AC7 with a Hotas. I have AC7 on my Xbox and it's a fantastic story based fighter pilot game. I'd honestly give it a 10/10.

I also play DCS but it's entirely different. DCS is more about simulating flying a fighter jet. No story with cutscenes etc.

[prometh]

Is there a mission in DCS World that's similar to the beginning of this?: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwK4oKIKrts

[startrekmike]

Originally posted by prometh:

Is there a mission in DCS World that's similar to the beginning of this?: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwK4oKIKrts

Yes. There are modules for both the F/A-18C Hornet and the Nimitz class supercarrier. You can do far, far more realistic carrier take-offs and landings than the game shown in your video.

[Zero]

Originally posted by prometh:

Is there a mission in DCS World that's similar to the beginning of this?: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwK4oKIKrts

threads almost a year old... but

basically any is gonna be better than that that's Battlefield 3. and you don't even fly the plane..

[prometh]

Yeah, I just like the immersion and graphics of that video.

[startrekmike]

Originally posted by prometh:

Yeah, I just like the immersion and graphics of that video.

Well, as you can see when you look at DCS's screenshots, it isn't going for the heavily stylized, cinematic visual style that BF3 did. It will technically look better in the sense that the textures, level of detail, and model quality will be much higher quality but it won't look as stylized.

[prometh]

Is that styling more realistic?

[startrekmike]

Originally posted by prometh:

Is that styling more realistic?

The effects and general visual style of BF4 is generally less realistic in the strictest sense. It is very heavily stylized and meant to be more cinematic rather than realistic.