Sid Meier's Ace Patrol (PC)

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Boggit

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September 14, 2013, 08:12:47 AM
Quote from: Nefaro on September 09, 2013, 10:47:13 PM
Quote from: Boggit on September 09, 2013, 10:10:49 PM
Well glad y'all liked the mini review... ;D ;)

Seriously, if you like Ace Patrol, you really need to lobby Battlefront to redo Achtung Spitfire, Over the Reich and Flight Commander 2 with Ace Patrol style graphics, and upgraded gameplay. Ace Patrol is the arcade little brother to those games, which plays similarly to them, although they have a depth that Ace Patrol doesn't even come near to. Don't get me wrong, I love Ace Patrol, but the gameplay in the others is much, much better, and is much more realistic and detailed, without getting bogged either.

LOL!

I haven't had the impression that Battlefront does anything other than what it wants to, damn the torpedoes.  Wishful thinking.

In the meantime, I do have Over The Reich working on this Win7-64 machine so that's something.  Too bad the others don't.
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If I had the money I'd offer it to get Battlefront to redo AS!, BTR and FC2. I don't know if they work with JD Webster, but both Charles Moylan and Steve Grammont were on the production team. FWIW, IMHO they made some of the best tactical air war games ever with these three. The sad thing is you see these games as "abandon ware" now. Whilst I have got the original games, I've had to use a cracked version to get them to work. Unfortunately, the patches are not compatible with anything over 16bit. Fortunately, a friend has just given me an ancient w98 laptop. I'll install from my original disk, update on the laptop then either back to my win7 machine via USB or disk... sorted!

I still think a remake would be a hit... :'(
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Nefaro

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September 14, 2013, 06:30:32 PM
Quote from: Boggit on September 14, 2013, 08:12:47 AM


I still think a remake would be a hit... :'(

It would, to some extent.  Ace Patrol seems to be doing pretty well, despite the Steam overly bugs.  Of course, it's a ten dollar game on Steam so it will have many impulse buyers due to the traffic.  A premium-priced title from Battlefront, while far more interesting & detailed, would still be stuck in the retail backwater of Battlefront website, with some annoying DRM, because they don't want to sell it through anything but their own storefront.  I don't really blame them, but they're also missing sales opportunities and I think part of the reasoning is so that they can keep the iron fist clamped down with their DRM.  Losing sales.
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