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Anonymous12/03/25, 15:45No.727431775
Why did Ace Combat 3 bomb so hard in Japan that we got a gimped release? Would it have been a success if the west first got the Japanese version but translated?
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Anon12/03/25, 15:48No.727431964
would've at least done better than it did.
The one we got was barely a game
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Anon12/03/25, 15:50No.727432032
It bombed in Japan?
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Anon12/03/25, 16:04No.727432861
That's really odd. It's a great game. Maybe people just really hungered for jets that actually exist rather than freaky scifi ones. I know you have to be careful with that sort of stuff or the audience can just disappear without a trace grumbling "it doesn't even have the superhawkfighter fdsfg 14...."
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Anon12/03/25, 16:12No.727433336
never played 3, but UI is eyesore
>inb4 its soul
no fuck you, its ass
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Anon12/03/25, 16:29No.727434459
I think it was due to the fact that Namco didn't have the budget or didn't think it was worth it to translate a whole RPG-length arcade flight game with 5 routes to English. Air Combat started as an arcade series and they assumed that most players didn't care for the story. Plus the game would've been delayed, translations weren't as good back in 1999, and the best translators at the time were all working at Square.
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Anon12/03/25, 16:39No.727435119
3 is really overrated. it's decent but the missions are ass because they're chopped into 5 minute segments and the actual good missions are split between 5 routes.
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Anon12/03/25, 17:35No.727439115
finished Unsung war like 2 days ago
shit was kino
too kino for my body to handle
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Anon12/03/25, 17:49No.727440060
These games are very niche sadly even with the popularity of 0 and 7
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Anon12/03/25, 17:50No.727440174
I think they made it too anime