'Ace Combat sucks, it's so uNrEaLiStIc'

There are many flaws you could criticize from the Ace Combat franchise. Yet, people choose to criticize it for the very thing that makes this franchise special! ._.

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[titanium_viper]

"It's not an air combat video game, it's pornographic fantasy about planes."
Never before have I been so offended by something I one hundred percent agree with.

[TheMightyDrake]

People really tell Ace Combat players how unrealistic it is, like we wouldn't figured out after fighting a 1-meter long nuclear submarine that deploys force fields, launches aircraft and fire railguns.

[kaveric_]

>buy arcade dogfighting game
>look inside
>arcade dogfighting mechanics
>wtf

[Fighterpilot]

"Uh this isn't realistic play DCS"

My friend, if I want to be realistic, I'd talk to a USAF recruiter.

[Aw-evmv]

Broke: "Ace Combat 7 sucks because it's unrealistic"

Bespoke: "Ace Combat 7 sucks because there's not enough missions that satisfy my air-to-surface bloodlust"

[astral]

"Ace Combat sucks come play DCS"

My brother in christ, if I wanted to spend 12 hours reading manuals just to learn how to fly an F-15, I'd join the fucking air force.

Edit: Due to popular demand and sake of accuracy, I have relabeled the F-18 as an F-15, y’all can stop reminding me that the former is a Navy plane.

[Zephier]

People who don't realize that Ace Combat 7 is actually an arcade game, not a simulation:

[triplewlf]

It always seemed weird how people can accept that tactical and arcade shooters can both exist and be fun, but when you have a plane pull a 12g turn 100 DCS players have a stroke.

[Bylov]

Like one Ace Combat essayist put it:
"Ace Combat is a simulation, but not of reality."
It's a simulation of our idyllic dreams about flight, about the heroism and "cool-ness" of flying aces and flying machines, but with human hearts inside. We love the machines, the stories we come up with when we see them in the sky, cruising straight through the atmosphere. We were not made for flight, yet we strive for it...

[Ikcatcher]

“Ace Combat is so unrealistic!”

Quiet, I’m fighting a terrorist with a laser nuke plane while Spanish guitar blasts in the background

[vulcan]

“Your game isn’t realistic!!!”

“Well your game isn’t fun.”

[Bahamut]

I remember reading about a real life pilot and aeronautical engineer that got into those fields because ACE COMBAT franchise made him passionate and dream about planes. See that’s the true purpose of video games, to make you dream about something. Something not all games are able to do.

[playermob]

"Missile respawn? This game is unrealistic"

Yeah, because railguns, space elevators and attacking UAVs are okay. But missile respawn? Now THAT'S too far.

[ReservedFiver]

This is a type of people who either tell their 4 year old child to "grow up" denying them any type of fun or who post comments like these and then unironically start playing their favourite and totally super realistic combat sim - call of duty, because 10 mags in the pouch and wolverine healing are apparently not the same as respawning missiles. The "no-3rd person" guy is the best imo.

[joesapiens]

The only sad part of AC being unrealistic is that I can't bang Nagase.

[ssifr]

Every aviation expert : "Flying through tunnel is extremely dangerous"
Ace combat player whenever they see a tunnel : "I see this as a challenge", "Mig-31 full speed it is".

[peterbrown]

people that say "coMe pLaY DcS" yeah so fun looking at the radar, flying for 20 minutes doing nothing, and land after reading manuals all day long just to keep the plane in the air

[timdoyle]

Damn next thing they'll tell me is that Metal Gear isn't an actual stealth simulator.

[ChoCoBenchMarker]

"Why not making it first person ?"
Dude really didn't play the game and just going journalist mode

[walrusdude]

“Ace Combat sucks, it’s so unrealistic.”
“What do you know of beauty?!?!”