Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-4196571-20140131204347/@comment-101.166.41.176-20140410083540

SlyCooperFan1 wrote: The international version of 3 was lacking because, get this, Ace Combat fans in Japan HATED the game. They liked AC2 way better. This feedback prompted the terrible export version that we got. It's like we should trade the versions of the game so that everyone becomes happy. Mate, you have no idea how mad this makes me. If Bandai Namco had just given the Aus market their original cut of Electrosphere with English subs/text, I'd have been a happier gamer around that time. I only just found out last week that in ACE3 there are alternate scenes based on your mission rank. This makes that gem I was never allowed to purchase much, MUCH deeper than I initially thought around a few years ago, and at that time I found the depth of the content, story, characters etc. to be twice as engrossing and amazing an experience as I would have later determined Ace Combat 5 to be. In contrast I'd put Infinity BELOW 6 and 04 in terms of story sustenance. My point is we got shafted with that utterly morninc decision to give non-Japanese fans that tripe. As a 9-year-old boy when AC3 was released to the JP market, I would've LOVED that kind of deep story! The action wasn't even changed for the Export version, they just gutted the story for no good reason, and that's terrible!