Board Thread:Ace Combat 7/@comment-1824272-20151216062253/@comment-25467429-20151217144724

I'll reiterate the multiple endings idea. It's a cool idea that lets you experience a very diverse set of circumstances. And as far as its effect on the canon story, Japanese games have done this practically forever - usually explicitly stating this is the "good" end, the "bad" end, and "true" end. I think particularly if there are branching options to the missions, that should have more impact than just the opportunity to do another mission off the main line for a a mission or two. Have it mean something, like if you do A, the war goes an entirely different route than if you do B.

More RPG-like aspects might be a good idea. For instance, perhaps the inclusion of pilot skills as a part of the progress, not just upgrades to plane parts. I know some iterations of this can be seen as bad, as it inherently suggests a limitation of plane control, but I think it might be a worthwhile aspect to incorporate into the campaign mode, for instance, but turn off or limit for online or free flight modes.

Finally, I hope they don't stray too far from the fidelity to real-world aircraft. The appeal to me for the series has always been that it has tried to straddle that line between being an arcade fighter and being faithful to the planes represented therein. It's fine if they waot to stray into the frequented waters of alternate variants and the like, but the Su-37 is a fighter. It fires air-to-air weapons. If they want to make a fictional variant that fires XAGMs or LAGMs or something like that, okay. But the regular Su-37 shouldn't. In-class variablity is fine (any fighter can get any air-to-air weapon), but I don't think they should, effectively, turn every plane into a multirole.

On that point, if they do allow for a system under the parameters I suggested above, perhaps limit multirole's accesibilty to those by some means. I don't have a clear vision of how that would happen, but it would be terribly unbalanced if some system isn't implemented to help it along.