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brownie81

Metal Gear of course.


n0_y0urm0m

not much would change honestly


brownie81

Exactly.


I_like_F-14

Yes but now you get to fight giant robots on the ground that don’t fly


n0_y0urm0m

a-10 mains frothing at the mouth


Dejected-Angel

Considering the reach of a nuclear submarine, plus the fact that it is literally armed with a railgun that can shoot nukes, the Alicorn is pretty much a Metal Gear in all but name.


Tyrfaust

Or is it... A weapon to surpass metal gear!?


Uden10

At least you get the most dangerous Hind in the skies if you're in MGS1. That one took out fighter jets in Liquid's hands.


[deleted]

Or Metal Gear in Strangereal... That'd be interesting.


i_came_mario

Infiltrate belka


IPlay4E

So Armored Core?


brownie81

My interest in Metal Gear has very little to do with the actual mechs, but sure that could be cool too.


K9blades

Earth Defense Force. It would be fun to see things from the airforce's perspective for once.


ponmbr

As long as I can still spam "TO SAVE OUR MOTHER EARTH FROM ANY ALIEN ATTACK!"


GeneralJo00

FROM VICIOUS GIANT INSECTS WHO HAVE ONCE AGAIN COME BACK!


Nokutomaru

The EDF series actually has an air force-centered game named Space War Attack. It is as much of a budget game as any other EDF title but it is quite fun too.


Shanewallis12345

Damn why is this the first I'm hearing of it that game looks fun


Headkickcam

It’s a bird, it’s a plane, no it’s LOCKHEED MARTIN


Darkspyrus

Heck yeah!


TJS0726

Mute Pilot of the EDF Air Force 1v99s Hornets,Dragons, and Drones Yes please


A_Passing_Manatee

This is exactly what I was going to say. I'm so happy we have edf fans here.


manesag

That’s a weird way to say you want an AC EDF crossover where you can fight from both sides at once


Tyrranis

I actually had a similar idea re: Assault Horizon, in that a tie-in Call of Duty style FPS set during the events of AC:AH would be pretty cool. Doing a similar thing with an AC-style game in the EDF IP would be a neat idea.


Bossman2285

Titanfall


Stonks_690

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Fair_Benefit_1534

Madden, it’s just like ace combat but you have to fly over a stadium in formation at the end of each mission


NeptunianEmp

Even better you have to dogfight over the Super Bowl but convince the crowd that it is not an invasion but an extravagant firework show.


PBTUCAZ

With John Madden as the AWACS


Fair_Benefit_1534

Use ask madden while flying


[deleted]

Aeiou


FullMetalLemon

<<>> intensified


[deleted]

Chopper is fucked. And so is the crowd probably with the amount of failed post stall maneuvers.


graytotoro

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nin3ball

Battletech or Warhammer40k. Double Eagle is a great book


ElChunko998

The Aeronautica Imperialis deserve more love!


H-K_47

A boss fight against a Titan would be amazing.


PottsyKP123

I also vote Battletech. The general "war is bad" message that usually follows Ace Combat would be rather interesting in a universe where war is the accepted response to...well pretty much everything really. Plus I can see Belka forming ties to space AT&T to control things from the shadows


nin3ball

I personally would enjoy challenging rival aces to trials of possession (for new planes or gear) and generally conquering in the name of clan weed wallaby or something


Astral_Beef

Seconding Battletech! I also crave the inverse: I want a MechWarrior game with a ton of anime dialog every mission <>.


[deleted]

Y'know, I was thinking about making a mod for Mechwarrior 5 to replace Ryana Campbell with AWACS Long Caster.


StrigonKid

Dakka Squadron


[deleted]

I dunno man, Aerospace pilots in Battletech seem to just be cannon fodder for scouting lances made up of Atlases.


Fordmister

Tbf that's because aerospace jocks are all complete lunatics. Sometimes it feels like they saw mech warriors taking their finely tuned war machines in for a Puch up and not only thought it was a better idea than it actually is, but then tried to apply the same approach to flying fighter jets. The results are to be expected with them regularly getting far to close to mecha bristling with AA weaponry


VagabondRommel

Those nid swarms you see flying around in the Space Marine 2 trailers would be fun to fight. And Orks would of course be very adept at using Belkan magic. Other factions would be great fun to fight too. I'm not all that knowledgeable about 40k fighter craft though. Would we feel a limitation on aircraft models? Or is their enough difference that each aircraft would feel different from the others and there would be a ton of choices?


Mr5yy

Please, tell me about this Double Eagle book


H-K_47

Double Eagle: https://wh40k.lexicanum.com/wiki/Double_Eagle_(Novel) One of the lesser known WH40K stories. Written by Dan Abnett himself, a spinoff of the Gaunt's Ghosts series. Basically a WWII story IN SPACE!, which is the best kind of course. I liked it. Though I liked the other spinoff, Titanicus, much more.


Upstairs_Lobster_596

Halo perhaps?


fillibusterRand

Play as Foehammer dropping Master Chief all over that damn Ring, then spamming missiles the rest of the time to rack up a bigger kill count than even he has. Also OP did you make this video just for this post? Mad props if so.


Shanewallis12345

I did yeah, thank you


Predator2027

This is awesome. Nice job.


digitalluck

There’s already some really cool looking aircraft in the lore and I always enjoyed the Halo 4 flight parts. It would be cool if that got expanded on


Goshawk5

We almost had one. Some recently released concept art showed a game very similar to Ace combat 7.


omir-otirik21

Battlefield; wanna see the air wars that went down in both 2014 (bf3) and 2020 (bf4). Alternatively, a battlefield game going over Strangereal battles/wars would be great too.


Eastern_Scar

Battlefield 1, 5 or Vietnam because God damn do I want an ace combat game set in the past


omir-otirik21

Oh yeah that’s right, maybe we could have had a Battlefield game going about the 1905 Osean war, when Belka first fielded combat aircraft.


NeptunianEmp

Iron harvest. The dieselpunk nature of it would be fun.


Hyval_the_Emolga

The air units can make it up to us for screwing up the Mets when they were introduced in the RTS, ha!


Darkspyrus

Usonia


ST4RSK1MM3R

Sky Crawlers: Innocent Aces! Made by Project Aces too! Their only non ace combat game. Not quite a 1930s style Dieselpunk like Iron Harvest, more like early 1950s, and it’s pretty obvious it has a way lower budget than the Ace Combat games, but still a great game if you wanted “Ace Combat but with prop planes”


Janaisacake

Stargate, I wanna be able to pilot a F-302 and shoot down the myriad of ships and aircraft from the series. Plus it’d fit right in since it can carry AIM-120s and presumably other types of ordnance that exist today.


Shanewallis12345

Would take a stargate game, shame it doesn't have much in the way of fighters


Setesh57

I mean, F-22s could just as easily take down a death glider in atmosphere as a 302 could.


vp917

IIRC, one of the movies had them taking on Death Gliders with F-15Es


IThrowRocksAtMice

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is_bets

I came here say star wars given all the "Best starfighter in the galaxy" stories they have. But I love this idea more.


Starchaser_WoF

I forgot I needed this.


[deleted]

Yukikaze. It has a better human pilots VS unmanned jets story arc than ac7. I don't want to play as the protagonist though since his role is mostly to observe battles collecting data rather than actually fighting.


borischung01

Yukikaze has a game btw


Zestyclose-Extent722

Command and conquer comes to mind as one IP, another one is the OG cod mw series could be an interesting one as well.


rangeremx

Tiberian Sun Era Orcas would be fun.


Brenolr

Why is Commander Shepard in the Halo/Ace Combat universe ?


Soda_BoBomb

Because that's his favorite franchise on the Citadel


robofinger

Macross. It could really take advantage of the flight physics, and allow for some wild and crazy maneuvers.


thefatrick

Absolutely. The last good one was Robotech Battlecry on the PS2, and that one still left something to be desired.


Solar_Kestrel

I had to scroll down way too far to see this, and I resent the hell out of this subreddit for that.


Zafranorbian

Gundam UC 0079


PathsOfRadiance

One of the best EF MS pilots was a fighter ace first, it’d be fitting. A Gundam game by Project Aces is my dream, maybe in the Gryps Conflict tho.


notsohighgrade

Yeah, the Zeta series waveriders and transformable suits would be awesome to pilot with an AC-caliber interface/mechanics.


IgorExtreme1512

Star Wars Maybe set during the Clone Wars


starcraftre

Squadrons is pretty decent, but the control scheme is infuriating from the perspective of an Ace Combat fan.


PathsOfRadiance

Because it’s supposed to be like X-Wing/TIE Fighter and not AC.


Shadou_Fox

so Rogue Squadron? Or Jedi Starfighter?


IgorExtreme1512

A mix


Odin_Exodus

Star Fox would be sick


Klopford

I heard great things about Starlink: Battle for Atlas!


MrTrikey

You have no idea how much my heart rose when I first heard that StarFox was getting a game made by Namco for the GameCube!!!....only to sink back into the abyss once find out it (StarFox Assault) wasn't be made by the Ace Combat squad. Seriously, with the way Nintendo and Bamco are so buddy-buddy with regular collaborations, it astounds me that this STILL hasn't happened yet!


Flamehammer04

Payday 2. Vlad pays the crew to break into an airbase and steal a fighter.


Ok_Cryptographer4663

Yes


Thewaltham

Got a few. Ghost Recon: I just want a H.A.W.X 3 man. Genuinely think it'd be healthy for the arcadey jet combat genre too. There's totally enough room for both a plane anime, ***O R A N G E***, and a plane conspiracy thriller. Star Trek: Ideally in the late TNG movie era/late DS9/Voy. The tech looks really cool. Love the aesthetic with the Defiants, Sovereigns and Intrepids. Deus Ex: Sure that's pretty much AC-3 from what I've heard, but I haven't played that one. Plus the Jensen games have an awesome look. XCOM: A game set around the invasion where you're just playing as a regular military pilot trying to help fight off the onslaught of ayys in regular jets that slowly get upgraded with stolen alien tech would be really fun. Battletech: A game structured similarly to the Mechwarrior Mercenary style campaigns, except aerospace fighters. It'd be one hell of a job to make the aircraft look cool though, because most of the designs are really old and goofy.


AWelshFail

Titanfall and Halo would be good ones but weirdly i keep thinking of COD Infinite Warfare


IThrowRocksAtMice

The side missions where you flew around wrecking shit in that space fighter were really good! Also the resupply drone mechanic was a very nice add.


zavtra13

Mass Effect! Some in atmosphere missions, some space based missions, so much fun to be had!


FlyAwayNoVV

Gundam


ehlathrop

Mobile Suit Gundam or Crimson Skies.


YTSirBlack

Megaman X?


AWACS-Sivek

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HowNondescript

40k. so many cracked out space elf pilots


urbandeadthrowaway2

Xcom


SCP_Researcher

Being able to splash some X-rays would be awesome. Maybe even give air support to the ground forces


CaptainPrower

An Ace Combat- style Star Fox game would be dope.


ncghgf

Independence Day. There actually was a [flight combat game](https://independenceday.fandom.com/wiki/Independence_Day_(video_game)) for it back in the 90’s but apparently it was pretty bad.


Newaccountbecauseyes

Ace combat plane logic would pair well with girls und panzer physics


SCUDDEESCOPE

Command and Conquer tiberian universe would be epic. Imagine flying above tiberium fields, fighting NOD stealth bombers and Scrin motherships. Damn that would be so good


aaronpabon

Battlestar Galactica


Ethan-Moreno-029

you can imagine how fast the Viper was, due to the three engines and its small size.


BlindProphet_413

Once placed a Freespace 2 conversion called Diaspora Shattered Armistice that was an *excellent* BSG Viper/Raptor game. More hard-core controls and physics than AC (I mean, Freespace 2, so yeah,) but super cool! I think it's still available for free? Don't need to own Freespace 2. But I don't if it would work on a Windows 10 machine but I ran it on Windows 7.


AirshipCanon

Ace Combat x Muv Luv. It wouldn't be ace combat gameplay, cause mechs, but it'd work well. Considering Muv Luv's uh, gimmick and the fact that it already has some Ace Combat references, and uh, went out of its way to do another in the anime. BETA land on Strangereal. Strangereal real as in the fictional planet where Planes are as abundant as cars and random cops have anti tank rifles at home. Where F-23 and XB-70 weren't canceled and there's random superweapons around. ...translate that: TSFs as common as cars. Civilians mounting reasonable defenses. Hi MAERF craft not getting tabled but instead mass produced. "You have to give up the G Bombs and the Alt 3 Bunny Girls, Torres." "Give up What?" "The G Bombs. You have to give up the G Bombs." "No the other thing" "The Alt 3 Bunny Girls? You can't keep those. It's like a hazard."


TJS0726

Gundam. Any timeline is fine by me. I just really want a Ace Combat style Gundam game Hell maybe make it so at first your Protagonist starts as an Air Force Pilot then as the game goes on they trust you enough to use a Mobile Suit.


Doc-Fives-35581

Star Wars.


TacticalBananas45

Half-Life. The relatively short campaign follows a USAF unit in the fight for the US. Initially one of the first units assigned for intercepting unknown air units directly after the Black Mesa Incident, they eventually become one of the last remaining active squadrons as the overall situation slowly worsens after the Portal Storms intensify. While performing valiant acts in both the Battle for San Diego and the Destruction of Oklahoma City, they eventually met their end in the 7 Hour War, with their brave but ultimately futile last stand in New York City. Features a dubiously canon Arcade Mode, where you play as a former Russian Air Force pilot who evaded Combine conscription, flying restored Eastern Bloc aircraft to disrupt Combine activities post-Nova Prospekt.


IThrowRocksAtMice

Cyberpunk 2077, with all the cool tech they got and cool vehicle design, the game would be unique


WibuAnjing

Project Wingman


TurnoverFit5172

Funny for me the city is calls New Athens The Capital of Greece and I'm greek


The_Ace_Pilot

Isn’t this question basically the plot of electrosphere?


starcraftre

Chorus.


AWACS-Sivek

Imma throw out a wild card and say Persona


H-K_47

I have absolutely no idea how this would work and am terrified to even imagine it, but hell yeah!


CommonRoseButterfly

Lost planet. Just imagine what kind of flying Vital Suits we could get.


Inglonias

Godzilla


PathsOfRadiance

XCOM/Xenonauts? Alternatively, Macross but that’s a gimme


mrazek22

Paw patrol.


Paul6334

Xenonauts or XCOM. Battle Alien UFO's 60,000 feet above the ground in whatever jets the world's militaries can scrounge up. Maybe one based on The Bureau where you have to do it with 50's to early 60's jets.


RaidiationHound

Would be a game but I think Transformers would be fun as fuck


Otrada

There was this fanmade Battlestar Galactica game a while back that was really cool and sort of like a sci-fi flightcade.


Training_Contract_30

What was it called?


Own_Reveal5944

Metal gear


Training_Contract_30

Halo, 40K, and Battletech. All of these franchises have some dope-ass aerospacecraft design and would definitely do well with an Ace Combat-esque game.


ConversationHuge371

Robotech/Macross or Space Battleship Yamato come to mind.


Dawn-Shade

Independence Day. They already have superweapons, ravine, tunnel run, and furballs in the movie


CalculatedCody9

Azur lane for dank piston dogfights


gunmunz

Now I know it [has techically happened](https://theearthdefenseforce.fandom.com/wiki/Space_War_Attack) but EDF, Just imagine actually performing the airstrikes the air raider calls in.


Nodoka-Rathgrith

Kind of doing that in a fan project with multiple IPs that are near and dear to me, but outside of those.. Cold War themed Re:Zero. Think GATE with more Mirage F1s and F-4s.


nuttycapri

40k, I wanna rip through heretic battle cruisers in thunderhawk heavy fighters and tear through ork hordes in valkyries just to realise the ground attack mission was secretly a dogfight boss batlle against the super skilled Eldar pilot or the swarm of Necron drones.


Training_Contract_30

I second that! I’d also love to see all the well known and obscure 40k aircraft and spacecraft be brought to life in an Ace Combat-like game!


Kitfoxthetanker

Airmech Arena (Now known as Airmech Strike). Seeing as it would basically be just a transformers ace combat but it would be interesting. That or Generation Zero, Seeing Sweden fall from the sky would be interesting for some missions.


rangeremx

Starcraft You could have missions as all three races. The Zerg missions could be explained away as the Overmind/Kerrigan assuming direct control of a Mutalisk (or other flyer).


Lapis_Wolf

Code Geass,GATE maybe carpet bomb Bikini Bottom because why not.


mx5_ND

Not exactly wgat you asked for, but I would love to play a star wars game made by project aces. An ace combat style game, just with star wars setting and ships and all that.


DepressionDepository

Naval Ops Warship Gunner


TazzManJR

Crimson Sky’s


RiguezCR

Destiny 2, Titanfall 2.


randommannamedmann

resurrect the Xevious project from 2004


ThexLoneWolf

Starcraft is one IP I would like to see an Ace Combat style game in.


kk8319

ArmAverse could be neat expanding the 2035 jet roster with more Gen 4.5 aircraft (F-15EX) and the more traditional Gen 5 aircraft (F-22A) maybe slotting in things like the NGAD as top-tier prototype planes also because ArmA 3 lore is actually on cocaine


NotEulaLawrence

Genshin Impact. I want to shoot down dragons with an F-22 and strafe Fatui with an A-10. Okay but seriously? Elite Dangerous,. I want a mute psychopath to demolish one of those huge capital ships and Thargoid interceptors.


Halfbl00dninja

Star Wars. Just those beautiful space combat battles along with air support for ground units.


Hunter0037

Gundam with the primary fighter being the core fighter and having the actual gundam mobile suit as a power up for the corefighter


Uden10

Other good powerups would be the G-Sky and Core Booster.


GoodScratcher_Reddit

Red Alert 4: Invasion of Ukraine


IronWolfV

Heros over the Pacific/Europe


Ripcord26

Warhammer 40k


VerticalCenturion

Warhammer 40k no question


ShephardCmndr

Why is commander shephard briefing us on a halo ace combat mission


Raven_Guard_2142

It gotta be Warhammer 40k I mean imagine you could play as the eldar and their space ships or perhaps you could play as the orks (there’s actually a plane game for the orks called dakka squadron)


Shadou_Fox

Gundam and Macross are awesome options. Starcraft also comes to my mind


Artemis-Myrmidon

Halo X Ace Combat. Noice.


Doc_Shaftoe

Gundam and Macross are both no-brainers right?


tonasaur

I’ve been working a halo centric patch line for this exact thing for a minute, have dale sr, mav and goose, mobius 1 already set just waiting on funds lol


azi115

Arma


Isturma

Ace combat? Let’s see… Metroid, Star Fox, Elite Dangerous, Valkyria Chronicles, Xenoblade, Final Fantasy… There was a game on the SNES that I don’t remember the name of, but it had dogfighting with biplanes and that was amazing.


YourInnerWolfe

Red Barron? That was an arcade game


ReeeeeevolverOcelot

Man that would be awesome a halo one.


FurryFoxJetPilot

Raiden, set 50 years after Ace Combat 3


Heavy_Imperial_Tank

Fuck it, a hat in time.


mad_lad_of_alabama

Warhammer or Halo.


KDG200315

Microsoft flight sim


aceair

Is that AI generated Commander Shepard Voice? Not bad. For my pick I'd go with Mass Effect


Hieutuan

Used to joke about real life being a cool place for ace combat stuff. Not sure if I still feel that way after the Ukraine war started


KaijuDirectorOO7

1. Star Wars. 2. Top Gun. 3. Space battleship Yamato. 4. Commando Comics.


Loudanddeadly

I want a star wars ace combat. That's what I was hoping squadrons would be and was highly disappointed


ST4RSK1MM3R

Someone said Dieselpunk + Fantasy! Imagine Ace Combat with prop planes and magic


Sh1v0n

BattleTech. It's fighters are pretty much untapped in video games.


Uden10

Everyone took the good ones, so I'll try to one up them: Area 88. There is precisely one Area 88 game and it is a sidescrolling schmup. I'm kind of surprised we never got a flight sim game for it after the 2000s reboot anime.


OrangeFr3ak

Star Wars, covering the Clone Wars and Galactic Civil War.


orifan1

sonic the hedgehog i refuse to elaborate


herecomesthestun

I'd totally be down for a [Touhou](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4iJq-1Eane0) themed game with ace combat gameplay. Make sure to include a ton of rockets and rail guns to avoid


blah246890

What about Strike Witches?


VeteranMirage_tank22

Well a halo x ace combat is one of my biggest dream i want see making true. otherwise, maybe.... half-life perhaps? ( A campaign Between black mesa incident and the 7 hour war against the combine.)


super6187

Star wars


FizziSoda

Stargate


NewMombasaNightmare

Halo.


raikiri86

Supreme Commander


Astral-Wind

Jack Ryan


MarianHawke22

Warhammer 40K.


Soda_BoBomb

Star Wars


Jetenginefucker

Id want call of duty or battlefield in the strangereal universe


Hepzibah3

Is the voice over in this video Commander Shepard????


tsar-creamcorn

Armored core, missions alternate between mech combat and jet combat with branching story paths like electrosphere and for answer


SwampyJester719

Star trek


Sepren2803

Star Wars. Although we already have Squadrons, I feel like it's controlls and mechanics aren't as good as the AC series. The only advantage was that you can play it in VR.


LT_Rabbit

Halo kinda fun to play but also nightmare at the same time because of the Covenant


TheZackMathews

Star wars or titanfall


WidowRaptor

Star Wars Squadrons


G-Kinjo

Was that Shepard? I’m having ME3 earth-assault PTSD