Very hard to tell for me. Both have pros and cons. Full Ace has complex controls and it's difficult to understand. But it's is very rewarding.
Played both extensively, but now exclusively play Full Ace. For me it's undoubtedly the best tennis game ever made. Compared to any other tennis game, it has the best gameplay and control mechanics - steep learning curve, but unbelievably realistic with how you time and aim your shots. Ball can go anywhere, miss hits, realistic errors etc. Great how you can customize so much, cosmetically (eg. camera, screen indicators, ball visuals), and more importantly, gameplay/control/ai difficulty... I put everything on the most difficult, most sim-like settings (ie. level 24), except for timing (level 10/24), which makes the game a real joy to play.
camera wise, and realistic wise, considering i have many of the default screen indicators hidden for realism. Here is an old video i posted ages ago which shows how i usually play (these days ive slightly changed my setup - which ill post in another thread):
Played both extensively, but now exclusively play Full Ace. For me it's undoubtedly the best tennis game ever made. Compared to any other tennis game, it has the best gameplay and control mechanics - steep learning curve, but unbelievably realistic with how you time and aim your shots. Ball can go anywhere, miss hits, realistic errors etc. Great how you can customize so much, cosmetically (eg. camera, screen indicators, ball visuals), and more importantly, gameplay/control/ai difficulty... I put everything on the most difficult, most sim-like settings (ie. level 24), except for timing (level 10/24), which makes the game a real joy to play.
Mods are fantastic, generally coming out at main tournaments. TE does have better support which i find unusual since I consider FA to be the far superior tennis simulation.
Finally, a recent update, has dramatically improved volleys to an amazing level of realism.. Feels so good. Its probably one of the hardest things to get right in a tennis game. Oh yes, this game also has an awesome tutorial mode, describing by example, and then getting you to actually perfectly perform the skill before moving on.
Cannot really ask for more, considering this is a one man team. The only thing Id love to see added to the game is player diving or stretching for an almost unreachable ball, and would absolutely love 'vibration/controller feedback' support - would add so much in terms of immersion. The developer has indicated (via the steam discussion) that this will occur in a future update. Can't wait.
Edit: There really needs to be a Full Ace Tennis Simulator thread opened up... May do it myself and post some helpful video, of my settings, which i consider pretty good
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Yep, best tennis game ever made i reckon. For me, the perfect balance is increasing everything to max, and then lowering 'timing'... i have it very low, ie. 8 outta 24.. just means i time most shots, or a badly timed shot isnt too disasterous. Mind you, ill still hit it out or mishit and make a weak shot if timing is way off.. its just more forgiving... and to be honest, with it too high, it feels like im an amateur player instead of the pro player im controlling (usually Nadal
Btw, just played a set, and recorded to show my settings etc. I turn pretty much everything off visually, but have a very very faint almost transparent line showing the depth of the shot i need to get back.. helps big time. Ball shadows obviously help, but when the court is fully shadowed, where you cannot see the ball shadow, its hard to know perfect foot/player position.
Other things i do to help... I always play on the bottom court,... as i only ever play vs the cpu. Id be fked in an online battle changing court.
I also increase ball size and have a black outline... and put motion blur on it. I just like the look of it...
Anyways, check this out.. just finished uploading
Done.
Thanks Tom.
I don't think TS3 is easy on the higher difficulty. You're looking at 2h or even 3h+ matches there. I even had a 5h 5-set match once, I was like a zombie when it ended.
You're probably talking about the first 2 Top Spin games. No way you can cruise through that easily on the highest difficulty in TS3.
This is the problem with almost all tennis videogames. Once you learn the mechanics it's easy to win. I think only on the highest level of TS4 is difficult to win with an average player.
And difficulty sliders are somewhere in the middle.
Well no matter how hard I try I can't beat AI regularly in Full Ace Tennis. Each match is a challenge. I am especially struggling to be consistent on serve, sometimes I hit 4 super hard servers and then in other game I do two double faults
Am I just.... bad in the game?
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