Armored Core Is One Of The Most Interesting Games I've Ever Played...
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- čas přidán 10. 07. 2023
- I’ve been a fan of FromSoftware’s games for a few years now, and their next project coming out in just a little over a month is Armored Core 6. The game has had me increasingly interested over the last year, so I figured it was finally time to sit down and see what this was all about by playing the original.
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Armored Core is a 1997 third-person shooter mech video game developed by FromSoftware and published by Sony Computer Entertainment for the PlayStation. It was originally released in Japan by FromSoftware in July 1997 and in North America in October 1997 and Europe in 1998 by Sony Computer Entertainment. The game is the first entry in the Armored Core series. A digital port was released in 2007 in Japan and 2015 in North America on the PlayStation Network as a part of the PSone Classics line of games.
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One thing I love when introducing this series to new fans is when someone asked "Armored Core 6, so there were past 5 Armored Core games?" and to see their shocked reaction when I told them "Actually there were FIFTEEN past Armored Core games"
There was also one for the cell phone. Armored Core Mobile Online. It was released only on Japanese flip phones. I kid you not.
@@canadadry5449you are not going to believe me but there were actually 4 other mobile armored core games as well
Armored core mobile mission 1-4
"There's an Armored Core 1-5?" *laughs in 16 total games*
should've seen my reaction when I found this out while researching for the vid 😂
@@notcole I am sure it is every bit as hilarious as I can imagine. Armored Core has as much trouble counting as six as Street Fighter.
The thing about the older armored cores most miss today was the 2player splitscreen versus mode. You could even bring your AC load outs via memory card to a friend's house against theirs.
No split screen for me. My buddy and I would break out a second television back to back and link the consoles. Many hours, much beer, and tons of cussin' and laughing. Good times.
Yeah, PvP has been in FromSoft's blood for a looong time. I'd love to see two really good oldgen AC players going at it.
@@colbyboucher6391 Check this out - Armored Core: for Answer - Online 3vs3 -NA vs JPN- (05/18/2010)
Makes me drool thinking about 6....
Dude memories
Yeah but the splitscreen is WAY more limiting.... lower framerate, smaller screen, + a LOT less Vs maps to choose from.
AC1 was a extremely rare game in my country, so when I saw it by accident, it was an instant buy. So when I bought it, I heard someone else was looking desperately for this title and he couldn't find one anywhere else. So I was one of the lucky few to own a copy of this game back then.
The thing about most of the older games is, you had to actually read the manual.
The moment in ac1 that hooked me was when I found the karisawa by chance and realizing the game had hidden parts
Welcome, Raven. I’m glad you took the time to play this painful game. The crazy thing is that they kept this control scheme all the way through the PS2 generation
Not all the way
They kept it for AC3 and Silent Line, but then Nexus, Nine Breaker and Last Raven modernised the controls and it became a twin-stick shooter.
It's so funny that the text at the start tells you to survive against "the enemy AC", but you actually fight two MTs, not one AC. Probably a translation error.
Yeah the controls in the old games are pretty awkward, but it's nice that From Software always provides a remapping feature in the options. Putting Strafing on the D-pad and aiming on the face buttons from AC1 all the way to Silent Line is a godsend. Because of the linear turn speed, button aiming doesn't even feel bad if you remap the controls like that.
A bit of a bummer that you didn't discover a lot of this game's secrets though like Human Plus and the hidden parts like the Karasawa and Moonlight blade. Those hidden unlockables are a big part of what I love about these games.
For AC1 I tend to map movement to dpad, turn and look up/down to face buttons and weapons and boost to triggers and bumpers. It works more naturally than the standard controls.
It's neat to see so many FromSoft fans from the Dark Souls days just starting out with Armored Core.
(and getting their a**es beat lmao)
too hard too hard
like get gud right? lol
controls janky!
skill issue bruv
xd
Ah the good old days. Where we didn’t have fancy thumb sticks and had to really git gud. The boss fights were absolutely nuts because you had to beat one of the most advanced enemy AIs of the day with that crazy controller scheme and you could only use one weapon at a time.
It’s one of my personal achievements to say I beat this game back when it first came out. Where even the controls were fighting you.
AC1 is janky as hell, but it has FromSoftware's DNA all throughout. Its sequels Project Phantasma and (especially) Master of Arena are top-notch games. I don't mind the janky controls because aside from that weird platforming level at the end of the vanilla game, they really do design the game around the controls, and it helps sell the fact that you're piloting a 100-ton walking tank.
I love each of the Armored Core games for their own reasons, and it's been a favourite franchise of mine for almost a quarter-century at this point. And I'm so glad to see so many people discovering them now that FromSoftware is a household name, and finding the nugget of gold underneath the challenging game design.
It's also really interesting that when you play Armored Core 4, and get to pilot a "Next", the next generation cutting edge ACs, you're pitted against legions of "Normals" they all move and fight like the clunky moving tanks from the earlier games. It felt like a genuine progression in technology throughout the setting.
You can also just re bind the look commands to the face buttons
Also the concept of From throwing you into the fray without a tutorial is how we got Souls games to throw you to get you beaten into the dirt before they even give you the tutorial.
There's a review video which has the perfect justification for the controls. You don't play as a mech. You play as the pilot of a mech.
Reminder for the early games that it was the era of the instruction booklets, which included the controls. If you started the game without reading the control section of it, then it was on your head. So the players were not just dropped in without the chance to learn how things were played. AC4 would be the first game with an in-game tutorial.
Been playing AC since the first one. My absolute favorite is Armored Core Last Raven (yep, not ACFA nor ACVD). ACLR truly shines in 2 player split screen PvP. Oh tge countless hours me and my cuz spent making builds and pitting them against each other. Good times. I'm just glad FromSoft finally made a new AC game after 9 long years.
Cool. However, do you feel that the single player aspect also makes it your favourite?
I've also been playing since the First Armored Core though for me I'd have to say my favorite is a toss up between AC3 and maybe silent line I actually had trouble getting in AC4 and I never played for answer or last raven also I never played AC5 or verdict day
@@ESEJESEJ its last raven the single player is also excellent it will kick your balls to the curb if you go all in unprepared with 6 different endings it just so happens to get every part you need to S rank at least 40-50%% of the 73 missions and then find all the hidden parts and imported saves across rhe games (Nexus to Ninebreaker for the PS2, AC3-Silent Line to Last raven ports for the PSP)
Great video! Just a small hint tho, use the laser blades lol. It’s free use because it’s energy, and they’re usually pretty hefty hitters damage wise. It’ll make those tight quarters much less imposing.
I think Armored Core 1 is the best in the series, and I dont have nostalgia blinders on because I didnt grow up with it.
Armored Core 1 seems to have been designed around you being about to play with only 1 gun, and the extra weapons slots are to have variety like a Pulse Rifle, Grenade Launcher, and Missile Launcher(Nine-Ball build).
It has the best weapons in the series and doesnt have the frequent and frustrating patch features every game after brought in.
The weapons in particular are amazing. Most of them have absurd amounts of ammunition compared to later games, like a Bazooka with 80 rounds when in a later game that would be down to 30, a Plasma/Laser Cannon with less than 300 weight, but 80 shots and about 1500 power, a Laser/Plasma cannon with 50 shots, a Pulse Rifle with 200 shots and the range of a sniper rifle, etc.
Its funny that in the first generation their are only 2 Megacorporations and SPOILER WARNING:
you end up destroying one or both by the end of the game.
The future Games used a 3+ Megacorp system and never really kill them off.
The names are themselves funny. Murakumo Millennium...and Chrome. Just Chrome? Its like Leonardo Da Vinchi vs Bob.
"There was an armored core 1-5?" This comment made me feel so much pain because Armored core was their foundation and their bread and butter, the souls games were a side project, an experiment that took the spotlight.
The human plus benefits really help new players, but what I really liked most in the old AC games was the save transfer feature- take your save progress from AC1 to Project Phantasma, then from PP to Master of Arena, and again in the ps2 AC games- AC2 to Another Age, then in the 3rd gen ps2 games AC3 to Silent line, to Nexus, to Ninebreaker, finally to Last Raven. Being able to bring your AC and emblem from your previous adventures was amazing for its time (And hasn't been replicated to this day)
You think AC6 will have a direct sequel we can transfer our progress to?
@@heardofrvb each AC gen has had at least 1 sequel game, so think there’s a good chance
@@heardofrvbMan, I really hope so. I'm loving AC6 so far.
Armored Core reminds me of how old I Am.
I remember that PlayStation demo with I.Q. ,Crock & some scary ass underwater game! easily the best demo of all time. I was like 6 years old.
Treasures of the Deep! The full game is actually pretty awesome!
I can't believe Fromsoft trolled everyone by making an incredibly successful series so they could capture the world's attention and then have them play their extremely janky robot game with the original controls. Absolute madlads.
And they used that same idea of what we now know as the Soulsborne
1) The dualshock was not the first dual analog controller for the PSX, it was the similar looking dual analog controller, but the dual shock quickly replaced it.
2) I never had much issue with the controls. In fact I found the controls of the last PS2 games that used the sticks far harder to get used to than the normal tank controls.
Then again, there is full controller remapping.
In any case, I was a long time fan of AC. I like the souls series, but my heart belongs to AC.
damn man, I always forget that controller existed 😂
Yea i never got why claw grip was a thing when you could just make the move buttons the d-pad, the look and turn the button pad, and attack and boost and stuff to the shoulder buttons.
Interestingly despite the PS2 coming up with the twin stick controller first with quite a head start, it was ironically Halo on the XBox that pioneered the actual control scheme. (Unless you count Golden Eye's special control mode, but you had to use two controllers for that.)
All the early PS2 games pre-Halo, were still following tradition and using awkward tank like controls or other schemes, even despite having both joysticks right there to use.
Actually, the Dual Analog Gamepad wasn't the first dual analog controller for the PS1. The Playstation Analog Joystick was, with two analog flightsticks sticking up out of a large base. And it actually came out a few months before AC1.
Alas, AC doesn't support it. It's a really cool piece of hardware, and is probably the most mech anime controller this side of Steel Battalion.
@@CptJistuce Well, I was thinking mainly "controller" controllers. But I know of and currently own the joystick you are referring to.
Ah. The classic AC games. Where you use the shoulder buttons to move and look. What's funny is I grew up playing this game and I got used to it. Even do this day, I still play the first gen Armored Core from time to time.
Also, go 50k in debt and you will get upgraded with human plus. Do it half a dozen times and you will have permanent radar, more energy, more recovery, and your biped legs won't kneel when you use cannons. There is even a way to make your laser sword send an energy wave. With the LS-99-Moonlight, that is the strongest attack in the game, capable of doing 3000 damage.
recently got into AC and have been loving it so far, i'm a bit surprised you didn't mention the Human plus feature though.
Ah human plus basically you suck at the game here let's give you different tiers of easy mode lol. But seriously when I finally mange to figure out how to stream using an emulator my stream is actually going to be a Human Plus run of course that means going into debt over and over again but hey why not
I left Human PLUS out because I actually never got it in my playthrough. I only learned about it after the fact when doing extra research while writing 😅
Those are pretty damn good controls compared to resident evil and other tank control games
Again I miss games playing that note not every game playing like that ,after ur 30th run it looked like a movie
Wow...this brings me back. I picked this up at release day after playing the demo that came in a playstation magazine. I was about 16 when I first fought 9-ball. All these years later and I still feel a bit of rage about that fight. Good times....
Those demo’s were amazing!!
One thing I will always bring up whenever someone mentions how FromSoft just throws you into combat without explaining anything, I feel that's less FromSoft being FromSoft and more to do with the fact that Armored Core was released within the era where game developers still expected players to read the instruction manuals in order to learn how to play their games. Not a huge issue, but still worth mentioning I find.
I remember all of this! Loved this game when it came out. One of the early mecha games. I remain baffled that they didn't do a remaster of this one, and maybe some others, in the lead up to AC6. I think they would have sold well. I'd have played it. They would needed to have added control remapping though.
I'm not sure if this works on ps1 AC games, but I'm currently playing armored core 2 and have rebinded my buttons. The og control scheme was almost unplayable for me, but this scheme gives me full control of my AC.
d-pad = movement
face buttons = cam controls
R2 = right or back weapon
R1 = left weapon
L1 = switch weapon
L2 = boost
The R1 + R2 combo is especially nice because I find it much easier to use both weapons while boosting. Hopefully this helps anyone who is put off by the OG control scheme.
you can remap since AC1 but not with analog sticks you do that via emulation
The controls were never a major issue for me, and I played these games when I was a kid lol But apparently you can remap them in game? Had no idea haha
Great video, welcome to the Raven's Nest :) Also you made some sick looking AC's here, just goes to show how much freedom even AC1 gave you over your AC's design.
I remap the strafing to the dpad and all the camera movements to the top buttons. Works pretty well for me
Honestly I always found the controls complaints baffling minus maybe looking up and down with L2 and R2 with the default control scheme. They take getting used to (same with a lot of PS1 and PS2 games typically did), but once you get it, you get it and are pretty much set for the rest of the series up until Nexus on the PS2 where they changed it to dual stick.
I see your AC controls, and I raise you Alien Trilogy:
D-PAD is tank controls, L1/R1 is Strafe left/right
Hold L2, and then also hold square or circle to look up or down (X is shoot)
R2 is run
FromSoft is the king of "Excellent Games that are Hard to Recommend".
I still have my PSOne and PS2 Armored Core games, and the first game will always be a heavy favorite to play over and over again.
For anyone trying to get into these games, I highly recommend changing the controls to make the dpad and face buttons act like analog sticks would, and move everything else up to the L and R buttons.
The strategy guides were really helpful. Without Human PLUS, the chances to succeed will be difficult but not impossible. It’s a pain although it will pay for itself. Also, hidden weapons that you won’t find in the subsequent games.
Armored core 3 and silent line are classics that I’ll replay to this day
Actually, Quake two on PlayStation had very similar controls and I remember my roommate best friend and I playing death match on that for hours. Once you get the hang of it it’s very intuitive. Probably easier when you’re 17 years old than 44 but just saying.
Always nice to see people enter AC through gen 1. They actually age like fine wine, ages much better than gen 2 AC at least.
"between the cloud and ground, i am alone the Hustled One"
-Hustler One
Been playing since the beginning, one of my all time favorite franchises.
man this was well put together. +1 sub
Hugs from Brazil bro, nice video!
honestly this is the first video that actually made me want to play this game out of curiosity about the game itself instead of just another one from software
Not sure if it was called out, but you forgot to mention that there are REVERSE Bi-pedal legs in addition to the normal Bi-peds, quads, and tank treads. So far, AC6 is matching this offering, even though AC2 had added the 5th leg type, hovers -AC6 simply decided to change up quadruped legs so that they can hover in the air.
As you caught on on your Project Phantasma video, you need to go -50,000 in debt in AC1 to get a Human Plus enhancement. A singular enhancement. There are 3 enhancement levels IIRC, but you need to do it 6 times to get the full effects. The thing to keep in mind is that you need high cost ammo and/or high cost armor to make getting into debt easier -and you can use this trick up to a certain point, before your failures just lead to GAME OVER screens -so you can build up money to a point in parts, use up all your funds buying parts, go into -50k, the game resets progress but you get H+ and keep all your prior earned parts, thus you can exploit your credit games between each reset to slowly buy out the entire shop of its parts offerings.
AC2 rekindled Human Plus, so it is important to take note on exploiting the H+ system in AC1 when you get to AC2 (which you already did, but I'm only on your Project Phantasma video as of this comment). Just like with gen 1, AC2 is the only title that offers access to Human Plus in its generation -so to have it in AC2: Another Age, requires a fully Human Plus enhanced AC2 file.
It is possible to only partially unlock the Human Plus abilities, due to the order in which they are unlocked, should one decide to stop at only unlocking them up to a certain point.
In AC1 the 3 levels are (per SteveO_528 on GameFaqs who tried to correct erroneously reported information with correct info from the Japanese fanbase):
Human Plus Lv.1: Undergo the enhancement process once.
*Automatic grid-type radar installed. (5120 range, missile detection enabled) (no other radar features are included, IIRC the refresh rate of the radar data is instant/live)
*Energy waves can be fired from the sword by holding Jump at the right time.
Human Plus Lv.2: Undergo the enhancement process four times.
*Shoulder weapons that require you to kneel can be used while moving.
Human Plus Lv.3: Undergo the enhancement process six times.
*Boosting consumes 50% of the normal amount of energy. (Incorrectly listed in a strategy guide as doubling your generator's energy capacity)
The control’s definitely do suck in this game, but back then, I had no perspective on what was better since analog controls didn’t exist, so they didn’t bother me at all. In fact, I was a master at them. Moving and aiming felt natural to me. Fast forward 26 years, with me going back and trying to play this game just before AC6 came out and man………couldn’t do it at all. This game series is very special to me since I basically grew up with it, so happy that more people are being exposed to it.
That control scheme that a lot hate is something that I got used to that I refused switching to dual analog sticks until AC 4 onwards. I feel like I have the most control over my AC with type B.
Frankly, I found the controls to be a good solution to not have dual sticks at the time. Once you get used to it, they do the job quite well.
Ahhhhhh good old days.
I remember when ac 4 came out and we finally used the joysticks to play.
I loved every entry except V and VD.
I was a hardcore aerial player. Loosing flight was like trying to play with 1 hand.
The fact flights back has me drooling to get in an ac again.
There was a decent ac fanbase in my town so I had quite a few people to play against.
At first everyone had their own style, but eventually everyone gravitated to being an aerial player and our matches became so intense. I can't imagine how hardcore competition is going to be online for this game.
I can already see my 17 yo self busting out the calculator and notepads to squeeze every bit of mobility out of my builds.
Hated floaters 😂
My friend you can rebind the controls, putting the aim controls on the right face buttons. Hope this helps in future games if you try more of the oldies. Especially important with the introduction of left-hand weapons, otherwise you'll be claw gaming. Cheers!
I grew up playing a lot of shooters and even played competitive Halo for a few years... claw gaming is in my blood at this point 😂
I've gotten a bunch of comments about rebinding, so I'll definitely check it out going forward!
Concerning the controls, I found it easier to change the bindings so that the d-pad handled movement and the shape buttons handled looking directions, with all the combat buttons relegated to the triggers.
I'm 38 years old, I've played the entire Armored Core series, for me From Software is Armored Core, I'm very pleased that they create other successful games but I don't think I'll ever play them.
The controls only take an absurd amount of time if you didn't grow up playing them. My group of friends didn't even use analog controls for the later games because it felt weird coming from a history of using the classic scheme. The classic controls really aren't difficult.
Was just going to say this.
That's something people don't realize. The modern "right analog nub does translation, the left analog nub does rotation" was not the obvious correct solution.
In fact, there's a hilarious-in-hindsight review of the PS1 Alien Resurrection game still up on GameSpot complaining about how terrible the controls are because the left analog nub on a dual shock makes you move forward and back as well as strafe left and right, and the right analog nub looks up and down as well as turning your character. They actually called this the game's "most terrifying element"
Armored Core's controls are actually pretty reasonable for the time frame.
Also: I find it funny that Resident Evil fans successfully redefined tank controls from "uuuuuugh why is Leon so slooooooooooooooow" to "you move foward and turn with the same control".
My brother got a PS1 for Christmas one year and it came with a demo disc featuring two missions of A/C. After that, I bought every new version until I became an adult. Fantastic game!
TBF the controls are re-mapable, a lot of people re-map them so the face buttons are for camera control- or if you know what you're doing, on an emulator you can map the analog sticks to the d-pad & face buttons and _then_ do that. That's what I did. It's still digital camera control (gotta have that turn speed stat) but significantly easier to get used to.
And I wouldn't say it makes you "work" for whatever story is there like some of their games do- it's all handed to you on a silver platter, you just need to, y'know, read.
Nice Samus AC btw, and the lanky-legged AA gun build you make is kind of hilarious somehow
Just equip the dual gatling gun arms an switch to first person view. The problem ist not nineball beeing overpowered, the problem is you can't git him because the 3rd person camera does not work in that tight tube. Also you need to boost only 2 times to reach the top of the room with all the boxes, just use the most efficient boosters and the highest charge generator. With human plus you can fly up in one single boost.
The controls really aren't that bad once you get used to em. Of course I'm older so maybe I'm biased, I played the demo of this game when it was brand new, granted I was like 5. But once you play it for a while it honestly starts feeling comfy you just have to rewire your brain a bit. It's a good practice.
I'm definitely getting there, once I get the vertical aiming consistent we're golden 🙂
You can rebind the keys anyway
@@notcole my suggestion is to try to kind of tap it by degrees instead of holding it down, I think the main problem with it in the first gen of armored core games tho is the camera itself when you look vertically, it seems to handle it weird and definitely made the last mission really tough
@@billyboleson2830 true, but you sure can on an emulator
oh there were more than just AC 1-5. Nexus, Nine breaker just to name a few. Armored Core's game play is so hard I never managed to fully finished an Armored Core title but I still love this series.
Yeah, Armored Core has as much trouble counting as Street Fighter does.
I got this game on a demo disc along with my PS1 back in the day. Me and my little brother played the split-screen PVP Arena for days. Later on I bought the game, but never finished it, because it was hard af. I played some of the other entries on PS2 and Xbox360, but they didn't hit home the same way for me. I learned many years later that these games were actually made by Fromsoftware, which was a funny thing, since I've been a massive fan of their Souls games since Demon Souls back on PS3. **sidenote, I think the janky controls of these games is what makes them unique, just like the original RE games with the tank controls, it's part of the experience and learning curve.
Absolutely do more of this!
Start with Master of Arena. It's the last game i tried so far and it's awesome.
Man i binged the armor core games as a kid they are amazing games i can't wait to run this new one on my pc with all max settings it's gonna be sweet
You have no idea how frustrating it is to see current FROM fans play these games and go "Oh look at all these things we love about FROM games, showing up even way back then." Because back in the day, reviewers by and large HATED these games. Especially the ones who preferred Western of Japanese games. They. Eviscerated. Armored Core. G4 TV outright mocked it on more than one occasion.
I guess I'm just glad people like this kind of stuff now. But to see FROM being loved for all the things this franchise couldn't get off the ground because it was hated on for.. Man, it sucks. To know we went a decade with no new games because AC was just ahead of its time.
Also, fuck poison levels. Yeah they're in all the AC games almost. They're always awful. Also, glad you hated the platform level. So did literally everyone else. I do want to point out that you can't 100% the game if you don't take out Nineball properly, if I recall. So, once you feel more competent, go back and give it another shot.
I also want to point out that in this era, ALL games like that had similar controls. I often cite Mega Man Legends, which is famous for how much of a beloved cult classic it is. Armored Core gets its reputation because many of its fans on boarded during AC4, which was dual stick. So when they went back to play the old games they got the shock of the old controls. This is also where the Armored Core Grip meme comes from, because to fuck with the newer players we basically lied to them about how we had to play. So, try not to be too harsh about the controls. That was just gaming during that era and we had to deal with it across the board until hardware tech caught up.
It's too late for me though. The muscle memory is so ingrained I have to adjust the controls to use the old shoulder-strafe and trigger-look to play AC still. When I tried to help others on their saves, I often couldn't accomplish the difficult task they were struggling with because I couldn't adapt to their more modern control scheme. And it's looking like I'll have to do the same for AC6!
Original control scheme wasn't bad. Just needed to learn to use your index and middle finger. You actually have to learn to pilot the AC. It's not handed to you. But I guess when a game is truly hard, people just call it bad.
your life would have been much easier if you found the Karasawa on the early mission where you destroy all of the canister things in a factory :)
The poison swamp started back in King's Field. The poison swamp is eternal.
I've played every armored core game and loved them all for what each offered. I would not go back and play the originals though
I think it was AC2 that I first came across and I remember absolutely falling head over heels for it!👌🏻 AC4 was the last one I played and that was absolutely awesome-I’m definitely looking forwards to this newest release in the series..👌🏻🙌🏻
I played the first three gens of armored core. It might be time to try the newer games.
Oh boy...the og controls. Dark times
I had forgotten about that platform segment and it’s giving me PTSD. I’m surprised I didn’t break my PSX original controller back then.
I rebound all the controls first moment i got
Translation on the dpad, rotation on the face buttons
Everything else on the triggers
Simply put, I've loved armored core since 3, but Nexus, Nine-breaker, and Last raven hooked me in for good
So, you can change the button mapping in the game. I was able to get a more Mega Man Legends controls by swapping L1/ R1 with left and right on the dpad and vice versa. Makes it soooo much easier
This will make 16. There are sixteen of these games in total
Everyone complains about the tank controls, but you can *change the controls in the game.*
Well be honest the controls give u sense of weight to ACs so i didn't mind them
This was the only game I had for the longest time. Fucking amazing lol.
Ive also just beat this game on stream and now im playing project phantasma 😁
Lol you messed up. You can rebind the look controls in options. Basically have move and strafe on the D pad but the camera buttons all on the face buttons. It’s janky, but works well since st least looking is intuitive now. Then shooting controls are all on the triggers, which gives maximum mobility. Objectively the best way to play.
So it’s play like the original mixed with Metroid. NICE!
ther are mods for every game that uses the duelshok and gives them a modern control layout
Welcome to the best, raven.
I was not expecting then Armored Core games are from From Software.
it's was crazy back in the day the controls were what we had a we just did it lol
you can skip nineball ?!?!?!? omg i never realized, i just spent an entire day killing both to reach the end boss and knife the AI cuz i ran out of bullets
unironically just running past most of the enemies is a good strategy for most missions
I’m more hyped for this then I was Eldon ring and I’ve never played a armor core but I have played the souls borne sekiro with the latter being my favorite I have played some of the transformers games (they were so good) but that’s it on the mech side but still I can’t freaking wait for this game two almost is way too long
I'm not going to lie while I feel bad that most people today don't know that there are actually 15 armored core games not just six with the release of fires of Rubicon. I do enjoy watching people who have never heard of Armored Core have no idea what they are getting into when they try the game. To be fair I am a veteran Armored Core player while I never played all 15 I have played about half of them. While this comment seems a bit condescending I don't mean it that way I am really hoping ACVI can finally bring this game series to the mainstream audience it deserves to stand side by side with From Software's soulsborne games even if it's a different beast all together.
cool vid
Little do Jump King players know, Armored Core did it first
"Wait theres Armored Core 1-5"
Hoo boy, someone didnt know why Fromsoft was called the Mech Company
*Because they have over 16 games*
Some are spinoffs(Nine Breaker, Formula Front, the unlisted Mobile games and i believe Browser games even), a Novel and Manga, and straight sequels of the past game
Also if anyone dont know, the Armored Core main timeline goes like this
Armored Core->Project Phantasma and Masters of Arena(They both happened at the same time)->Armored Core 2 and 2 Another Age(2 Another Age is weird)
Armored Core 3->Silent Line->Nexus->Last Raven
Armored Core 4->For Answer->5->Verdict Days
AC6 is its own Timeline
lol i was exactly like you. I gave up. I quit. But my brother picked up the controller and just RAN PAST nine ball and blew my mind.
Nah dude. The Poison Swamps didnt start in Armorer Core 1. It started in King's Field 2 (1 outside Japan) with the Poison Cave.
Because of ac6 i got interested in the series and am playing 4A
I felt so accomplished when I beat 9ball! 😮💨
0:45 Those are MTs, not ACs.
Try AC For Answer if you can. I haven't played it but for me I think that being able to is a luxury. Since I only played old gen. Don't play AC Formula Front unless you have tried other gens of AC. Other people might think it is a weird weird but for me it is a good weird. The original JP umd version of AC FF don't have manual mode and you can only program your AI AC. In US version, you can choose to let the AI play the AC or you manually control your AC. Also I think that AC controls clicked to me just fine and Tenchu for PS1 got more harder controls in terms of camera or movement. But I just retried AC Last Raven which I thought wasn't hard as a kid but with keyboard and mouse it is quite tough but still somewhat fun. I got used to AC FF where all parts are unlocked from the very start so the price spike of parts is something in AC LR. Also unlike 4th gen AC, the speed in AC LR and old gen is like a nerf and the only time you can enjoy nice control is with a lighter build and choosing weapons that just got enough ammo which is a shift since I am mostly medium build user and normal legs.
There’s a mech game I’m obsessed with called “Armored Cavalry: Operation Valkyrie”
*but it’s actually spelled wrong on the steam store, where it’s “Armoured Cavalry: Operation Varkiri” (sounds racist to me 😮)
It’s a top-down twin stick shooter, action rogue-like or rogue-lite. I don’t even know which is which anymore.
It’s really fun, but IMPOSSIBLE! I can’t even finish the first level after the tutorial (and that’s after replaying the tutorial multiple times to save up money and buy upgrades.
If anyone knows of any other top-down mech games like this, please let me know, because there doesn’t seem to be very many similar games that I can find
There wasn't a great deal of choice when it came to 3D control on console prior to analog sticks.
the awkward moment when you realize that AC 6 is actually the 16th game.
When most people think "fromsoftware" they think AC, ive still haven't played the dark souls games lol
I loved PS1 AC games! 1-3
And now you know that grenade launchers are king.