Remaster of older Ace Combat or a Collection on Steam?

[FehuLaguz4]

I think it would be nice to play the older Games again remastered or just with compatibility for windows 10 would anyone agree with me?

[628]

Everybody always wants that.
Since no further new game releases on PC will satisfy anybody.

[deathspeed]

Besides Assault Horizon, the closest I have come to that is streaming AC6 to PC from Xbox One.

[KingJ]

+1

my first ace combat is 7 and i wish i could play all other ace combat games aswell :)

[Kenopsia]

Well yea, if they released all the old games on steam I'd buy them but it's extremely unlikely. For now you're stuck with emulating and even with a lot of progress made on the emulator there's a lot of problems.

[Fuel]

Publicado originalmente por FehuLaguz4:

I think it would be nice to play the older Games again remastered or just with compatibility for windows 10 would anyone agree with me?

I'm new to the series and I would like to play the older ones.

[Z3r0_]

Don't think it'll happen due to exclusivity deals. You're better off getting a...well, it rhymes with "schmemulator" and then "sailing the high seas" for a BIOS and ISO file...or try your luck on buying used hardware online and hope that it works.

[FehuLaguz4]

Publicado originalmente por Z3r0_:

Don't think it'll happen due to exclusivity deals. You're better off getting a...well, it rhymes with "schmemulator" and then "sailing the high seas" for a BIOS and ISO file...or try your luck on buying used hardware online and hope that it works.

that s so sad

[Profile_Name]

Though the chances of a PC port, or a remaster, of the classic AC games are slim, your best bet would be either to buy a PS2; they're pretty cheap, like $50 to $100, then find copies, either order them online or go hunting through flea-markets, garage sales, or independent game-stores.
Other alternative would be emulator. PCSX2 is your best bet, how you get the games is up to you.

[Z3r0_]

Publicado originalmente por FehuLaguz4:

Publicado originalmente por Z3r0_:

Don't think it'll happen due to exclusivity deals. You're better off getting a...well, it rhymes with "schmemulator" and then "sailing the high seas" for a BIOS and ISO file...or try your luck on buying used hardware online and hope that it works.

that s so sad

Publicado originalmente por Profile Name:

Though the chances of a PC port, or a remaster, of the classic AC games are slim, your best bet would be either to buy a PS2; they're pretty cheap, like $50 to $100, then find copies, either order them online or go hunting through flea-markets, garage sales, or independent game-stores.
Other alternative would be emulator. PCSX2 is your best bet, how you get the games is up to you.

Alas it is (as much as I'd like to see a remastered and PROPERLY localized, uncut release of Ace Combat 3, that's unlikely to happen any time soon). I may work in game development myself, but even I'll admit that dubiously legal means of playing a game might be justifiable if it's the only feasible way to do so. I'd gone through three different PS2s before I finally threw up my hands, downloaded PCSX2, extracted a BIOS from the only one that still kinda worked, and went from there. If you decide to do this though, I recommend playing around with the emulation settings a bit, or else you may get some issues with textures or framerate.

[Profile_Name]

Publicado originalmente por Z3r0_:

Publicado originalmente por FehuLaguz4:

that s so sad

Publicado originalmente por Profile Name:

Though the chances of a PC port, or a remaster, of the classic AC games are slim, your best bet would be either to buy a PS2; they're pretty cheap, like $50 to $100, then find copies, either order them online or go hunting through flea-markets, garage sales, or independent game-stores.
Other alternative would be emulator. PCSX2 is your best bet, how you get the games is up to you.

Alas it is (as much as I'd like to see a remastered and PROPERLY localized, uncut release of Ace Combat 3, that's unlikely to happen any time soon). I may work in game development myself, but even I'll admit that dubiously legal means of playing a game might be justifiable if it's the only feasible way to do so. I'd gone through three different PS2s before I finally threw up my hands, downloaded PCSX2, extracted a BIOS from the only one that still kinda worked, and went from there. If you decide to do this though, I recommend playing around with the emulation settings a bit, or else you may get some issues with textures or framerate.

Ah yes, AC3's weird english port. I heard they basically gutted the story.

[Z3r0_]

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Publicado originalmente por Z3r0_:

Alas it is (as much as I'd like to see a remastered and PROPERLY localized, uncut release of Ace Combat 3, that's unlikely to happen any time soon). I may work in game development myself, but even I'll admit that dubiously legal means of playing a game might be justifiable if it's the only feasible way to do so. I'd gone through three different PS2s before I finally threw up my hands, downloaded PCSX2, extracted a BIOS from the only one that still kinda worked, and went from there. If you decide to do this though, I recommend playing around with the emulation settings a bit, or else you may get some issues with textures or framerate.

Ah yes, AC3's weird english port. I heard they basically gutted the story.

They did. They got rid of all but one of the story arcs AND the animated cutscenes for the international releases...because of JAPANESE gamers ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ that the game wasn't linear enough for them!

This is why all Ace Combat games since then have all been almost or completely linear with, at most, a branch or two that rejoins the main plot shortly thereafter (Ace Combat Zero notwithstanding, but the different "branches" are just the same missions with different enemies).

[Profile_Name]

Publicado originalmente por Z3r0_:

Publicado originalmente por Profile Name:

Ah yes, AC3's weird english port. I heard they basically gutted the story.

They did. They got rid of all but one of the story arcs AND the animated cutscenes for the international releases...because of JAPANESE gamers ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ that the game wasn't linear enough for them!

This is why all Ace Combat games since then have all been almost or completely linear with, at most, a branch or two that rejoins the main plot shortly thereafter (Ace Combat Zero notwithstanding, but the different "branches" are just the same missions with different enemies).

Wait, I thought the whole reason it was gutted was because namco believed that western audiences would be put off by the anime-ish story line?

[Z3r0_]

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Publicado originalmente por Z3r0_:

They did. They got rid of all but one of the story arcs AND the animated cutscenes for the international releases...because of JAPANESE gamers ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ that the game wasn't linear enough for them!

This is why all Ace Combat games since then have all been almost or completely linear with, at most, a branch or two that rejoins the main plot shortly thereafter (Ace Combat Zero notwithstanding, but the different "branches" are just the same missions with different enemies).

Wait, I thought the whole reason it was gutted was because namco believed that western audiences would be put off by the anime-ish story line?

That was a small part of it, but it was mostly the complaints from Japanese players.

[Useless Bunny]

Literally never read anything about "japanese players complaining AC3 is not linear enough, therefore the western market should get a butchered version". Where did you get that from?

[Z3r0_]

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Literally never read anything about "japanese players complaining AC3 is not linear enough, therefore the western market should get a butchered version". Where did you get that from?

Talking to people who worked over at Namco at the time. They basically described it as "what you might call 'focus group ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥'". It wasn't the players per se, it was a group of testers. The non-linear nature of the game is what they said would be confusing (particularly how your story path changes depending on actions you take during missions, something we haven't seen again in the series other than in the "face of the coin"/"back of the coin" prompts in Ace Combat 5, some of the branching missions in Zero, and X's missions), not the storyline itself.