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yungho said:

Ace Combat 8 announced. Super excited that this finally got confirmed for releasing next year. This series is how I got into military procurement and ended up on this forum lol. Really hoping for PLAAF jets, but do not have too high hopes. Hoping for the best as the plane list for this series has gotten a bit stale over the years. Maybe even 6th gen though I doubt it.
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At this point AC8 dont include PLA Aircraft is A JOKE.
 
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yungho said:

Ace Combat 8 announced. Super excited that this finally got confirmed for releasing next year. This series is how I got into military procurement and ended up on this forum lol. Really hoping for PLAAF jets, but do not have too high hopes. Hoping for the best as the plane list for this series has gotten a bit stale over the years. Maybe even 6th gen though I doubt it.
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Too bad the PLAAF isn't really into self promotion or else we might really see it. However, I suspect that for any planes to feel properly futuristic, they're going to have to be tailess. I suspect that we're going to see design cues from the J-36 and the Shenyang plane in the crazier Ace Combat fighters. Still, it'd be really cool so see something like a J-8II in the game.

There is one problem though: Ace Combat loves its guns, and none of China's 5th and 6th gen fighters have any. It'll be a design challenge for sure.
 
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sse228 said:
That's a really good point. I guess it was unfair of me to have such high expectations from such a nascent area. I'm just worried that it'll fall into the same problem as the Chinese film industry that constantly pumps out uninspired and bland crap, half of which are some variation of a heroic war story or mythical tale. It's still unseen whether the game industry can go beyond mythology/legend and nationalistic war stuff or if it'll follow the same fate. I’m afraid China’s game industry won’t fully grow into something diverse and expressive, but it's probably too early to tell.

It's interesting to bring up Call of Duty. The US could pump out games like that because of their already-existing cultural hegemony and dominance of global entertainment. When a game like Modern Warfare came out, it felt 'normal' to global audiences because of already-existing decades of Hollywood movies where America happens to be the 'main character,' not to mention its actual geopolitical perception within the context of GWOT and the larger postwar rules-based order. That makes a game like BO or MW actually believable. Although China is working hard to cultivate the same image and making real progress, they're still very, very far from achieving what the US did. If you don't ALREADY have the cultural dominance and geopolitical image, making a COD-style game about modern counterterrorism or the Korean War or whatever would be ignored at best and ridiculed at worst, even by domestic Chinese audiences, just like with the movies.
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Agreed. I've played multi-player games with Middle Eastern gamers before. A surprising amount of Iraqis, Egyptians & Arabs in general had tags like CIA, FBI in their names. I wondered why they would include American intelligence agencies in their names when the Americans had recently bombed & invaded their fellow Muslims/Arabs. Turns it out they respect the power Americans represent in their region. It gave the Americans a certain level of mythology.


Kurds and Turks were the exceptions though, Kurds would proudly include Kurd in their names, the Turks C* to represent their flag.
 
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