Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-4114312-20140911191018/@comment-25409912-20140917201907

Well, I've got Shattered Skies and Unsung War, but thank you for being so generous Mobious. And I love them both. Sadly my PS2 is on the fritz and I think I'm just going to wait a few months for there to be a significant price drop on the PS3 so I can get that and play my old titles as well as give a more first hand judement on Infinity. But mostly Unsung War and Skies of Deception are what made me just fall in love with the Strangreal universe, not that Shattered Skies is bad or even not as good, it was just the combination of Skies of Deception being my first title and the sheer uniqueness of the story and the personalities of the wingmen in Unsung War. But I still need to play Fires of Liberation and The Belkan War (I went to Gamestop today and shifted through literally 300 copies of Band Hero, Guitar Heroes 1-3 and every singing game Disney ever produced just to find try and find Zero, no luck, but not time wasted in my mind).

I must admit though, I do feel pandered to by giving our player character a real name and backstory, but I also understand because the story was written by an American Military Fiction writer and not someone who is directly employed by Project Aces. I've always enjoyed having characters with little to no backstory or lines, like the main charatcer in Doom who all we know about is a male, or in all the old Call of Duty and Medal of Honor titles. And even Halo in which it has lately gotten more and more into the Chief's story, but no one even knew that he was a guy until The Fall of Reach novel in 2003 (did I mention that I'm also a major Halo fan?) or the Rookie from ODST who Gameinformer still speculates as to whether or not the Rookie is a man or woman (it's pretty well agreed that the Rookie is a guy, but all we really know is that the Rookie is a Cuacaisian Lance Corporal). And I mean, I'll admit that I like a game with a great backstory for the protagonist that is also first person (I play Ace Combat from the cockpit point of view, so I consider Ace Combat first person game, not FPS, but first person) like did anyone play Bioshock Infinite, the story was out of this world and the main character had a surprising amount of depht, same thing with, and surprisingly, Black Ops 2, both games with killer campaigns set in first person with great main characters.

I know I just wrote a fracking article so long it could be in a news paper, so I'm going to end this with one more bone I need to pick with AH's writer.

Seriously? A Russian coup? Was it just a crappy coincidence, or did you make it a point to copy the biggest video game franchise on Earth (Call of Duty: Modern Warefare) and so many other books, games, movies and probably a radio show or two? (Can anyone else tell than I'm dripping with sarcasm?) Can no one get over the fact that the Cold War is over? I mean, I get it, fighting the Middle East blows, your so constricted on plot devices and what the enemies can do because lt's be honest, Al Queada and the Taliban have about ten smart guys between them and everyone else is so dumb they would watch CBS sitcoms (not counting how I met your mother) if they didn't like, you know, wish death on all the third rate "actors". ANd if you want to write Espionage about the middle east, well, Allah help you cause I haven't read anything entertaining about that shit...ever. You want a great show of creativity in a modern combat games story, here's a hint, it comes from the most unlikely source. Call of Duty: Ghosts had a really creative story on two points, ODIN, the orbital weapons platform that is turned against us by, point 2, a conglomerated nation made up by all the nations of South and Central America. The Ghosts campaigne was so-so, I'd give it a solid 7.9, but those two  things were really well thought out and I don't feel pandered to because the writers feel like I, the consumer, am stupid. (BTW, I reall want to see something like ODIN in a Strangreal setting, where in one of the later missions you fly a space shuttle modified to fire missles into space to take out an orbital weapons platform)

That's all I have left to say on what I've seen of AH...oh wait, that Colonel dude, the main character, way to buff for a fighter pilot. Fighter pilots are not supposed to way 250 lbs, they need to be light so the planes can hold them up along with any payloads at a low speed of less than 200 MPH. Our airforce has minimal waite regulations that I don't think he would meet...Okay, done.