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Aerial combat that gets you high. come tell us your favourite games to tear shit up in the air.

Discontent

Discontent

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May 25, 2018
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Whether it's a shmup, 3D Flight Sim, Fighting game, Character Action title or whatever genre you may have in mind, share with us the game(s) that made you feel like a badass doing air to air combat, juggles/anti air manoeuvres or even when you rained down justice from above in air to ground scenarios on unsuspecting foes (or better still, on foes that knew what was coming but couldn't do shit).

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The beautiful thing about Pharah in Overwatch or Soldier in TF2 is the ability to do all three of the things I mentioned above: air to air, juggles/anti air AND air to ground. The reason why I chose to highlight Pharah over Soldier is because of her ability to always be in flight so there are more opportunities for air to air combat especially when there's a Pharah on the enemy team. I love going solo against a Pharmercy combo and trying to take them down. I don't think I succeed all that often lmao but it's always a thrilling endeavour. Shoutouts to the Mercys who every so often are dumb enough to pocket my weak ass Pharah lol. Also a shoutout to how wonderful it feels to land an airshot with Junkrat; that moment when you realize your aim trajectory is on point; hoo boy!

And I have to give a special mention to TF2 airshots, which are still the best looking airshots in any game:
 
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Aerial51

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Nice that you make an entire Thread to ask me personally.
I'd say DMC is my fave. But Bayonetta 1 has amazing combat as well.
 
BakedTanooki

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Ace Combat series and Zone of The Enders 2.
Also love to fight in the air in Dragon Ball games.

Edit: Omega Boost and Star Fox are always nice too.
 
Tortillo VI

Tortillo VI

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May 27, 2018
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Ace Combat 7 deserves to hijack this thread. It feels so visceral in comparison to both previous entires and other arcade flight sims. Never thought they could make the original gamepaly feel so similar yet so much better. A true generational leap for the saga, and makes the previous titles feel "static" in comparison.

Kind of when you played racing games with more active AI, and went back to the likes of GT3 and old Ridge Racers to see cars always following the exact same line.

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TerremotoDePorta

TerremotoDePorta

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Another vote for Ace Combat, but I would also add what essentially is an "indie Ace Combat fangame": Project Wingman.

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It's basically Ace Combat. With VR support. Developed by basically 3 people (main dev/artist, main producer/writer, and 1 musician). It's got the crazy anime story, the arcade planes with 100s of missiles, the soundtrack that's just *chefs' kiss*, and the ability to turn around on a dime and pump enemies full of LEAD.
 
Beth Cyra

Beth Cyra

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Oct 26, 2017
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Kingdom Hearts 2/ Final Mix : There is a flow and movement to Sora when attacking in the air that just feels great, add in Drive Forms and it can take it to a whole new level.

Not super complex by any means, but still great overall.
 
Sirhc

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Helicopters in Battlefield are so fun once you get good, just taking uncoordinated teams to task, or in BC2s case everything, cause those fuckers are busted.
 
Dremorak

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Oct 25, 2017
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In Avalon Code you can juggle enemies in a way that you sort of bounce them up just before they hit the ground and then they go higher. You can do this to the point where they go to outer space lol
 
Rubblatus

Rubblatus

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Oct 25, 2017
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Namedropping DMC5 in a thread like this without a combo video should be a bannable offense.

For your Nero "WHAT" fix:

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For everything else:

 
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Tagyhag

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Oct 27, 2017
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I had a lot of fun with War Thunder and IL2-Sturmovik.

Nowadays I prefer WW2 airplanes over modern ones, but if I have to play modern I'd choose something like DCS World. I used to really like F-22 Lighting 3 as a kid though.

I tried giving Ace Combat and H.A.W.X a shot but I think arcade flight games aren't for me. I do enjoy their presentation though.
 
Techno

Techno

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Oct 27, 2017
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Ace Combat is the one, especially on expert controls.

Another one if it counts is Elite Dangerous, the dog fighting in that game is intense.
 
Chaos2Frozen

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Devil May Cry is one of those games where you can tell the difference between a novice and an expert from their fight style.

They'll move in ways you'll never thought possible- like flying all the time lol
 
Valkerion

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Oct 29, 2017
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Also gonna say AC and add:

Zone of the Enders 2, game has my favorite villainous mech, Anubis!
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Also Also!

How could we not mention the Vs. series
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