[IGN] The First Armored Core 6 Details With Hidetaka Miyazaki and Masaru Yamamura
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Not totally linear, more you woudl have gates where you have choices of missions that show up. So you would do certain missions in whatever order you want as they come up.
As soon as I saw the "VI" I knew this wouldn't be the Armoured Souls people were expecting. If they were to turn it into a Souls game, they 100% would have rebooted it.
It's cool to see FromSoft stick to their guts even if I personally may not like it. I don't remember exactly why I couldn't get into AC but it had something to do with the customisation.
It's cool to see FromSoft stick to their guts even if I personally may not like it. I don't remember exactly why I couldn't get into AC but it had something to do with the customisation.
I mean, I'm glad Miyazaki said it so plainly. Way too many reactions on Youtube and elsewhere were like "oh my god! They're making robot souls!"
No, dude, they're making Armored Core 6.
No, dude, they're making Armored Core 6.
I believe you just need to think in a (much) larger scale. You can't build Elden Ring with robots because castles, dungeons and tombs do not fit a mech game but you can have canyons, mountain passes, huge alien structures, underground complexes, enemy bases, etc. It would feel very different from Elden Ring but that's just the point cause we don't really want Elden Ring with robots. But you can still have a cohesive world, you can have exploration.
The premise in a souls game is not so far detached from your average AC game, you're an independent agent in both and have a choice of npcs and covenants/factions to align yourself with by way of completing quests/missions. So why not have your mercenary actually discover these factions via exploration of the planet's surface in order to accept those missions?
I saw a playthrough of AC 1 the other day. Even with the ps1 limitations and the mech scale constraints there was a nice exploration component to
the missions, with the game's best weapons (one of them ACs version of Moonlight Greatsword btw) cleverly hidden in the levels. I can't even imagine what From could come up with in terms of level design with today's hardware, not everything has to be arena battles across miles of barren landscape. It could be a lot more without it becoming 'mech souls'.
I hope there's more interviews coming from other outlets. I'd love to hear more about it being cross gen, how they're hoping to appeal to OG AC fans and what their expectations in terms of reception+sales are now they're considered a powerhouse studio, instead of all this 'yeah but how is it soulsy tho' stuff
I think the issue there is that you'd need to build hundreds of miles of open world for that. It would be extremely, extremely expensive, or the open world would have to be mostly unpopulated empty space, and as we all know reviews LOVE to hammer on open worlds for being barren and empty. I just feel like the benefits of building a world like that are outweighed by the costs and drawbacks of scaling the design out that wide.
There will be some exploration for sure. If you want to find all the hidden parts in the missions you will have to explore and/ or fulfill some special requirements
Good. They still have Elden Ring.
Let us mech fans have our AC.
It is law now.
I have no idea if From has ever said that before until now.
Did 3D Dot Game Heroes ever get a Steam release?
People like Max and Vaati speculating about it while the game was a rumor and then overreacting to the announcement as if "mecha souls" was a done deal.
No, it didn't, and I'm not sure how likely it is with Silicon Studio having since transitioned into being more of a middleware developer after their work on the first two Bravely games. Honestly, From could stand to do more with their back catalog in terms of re-releases, even for the games that they themselves didn't work on like that one or the Tenchu series.
What a relief to see From putting this out. I'm not a diehard fan of AC but I've got serious Soulfatigue after like almost 13 years.
Game is gonna bomb hard though. ER brought in a whole fuckload of new people who expect only Souls games. Add in FOMO boosted by social media which caters to people's need to "be a part of the conversation," general accessibility due to open world approach etc.
I'll never understand why except for Gundam, mechs and Mecha don't capture people's imagination yet real life war machines, cars, planes etc do. Either way, can't wait to experience a big budget mecha game that isn't some jankfest whose shipping tracking number doesn't involve going thru customs lol.
Game is gonna bomb hard though. ER brought in a whole fuckload of new people who expect only Souls games. Add in FOMO boosted by social media which caters to people's need to "be a part of the conversation," general accessibility due to open world approach etc.
I'll never understand why except for Gundam, mechs and Mecha don't capture people's imagination yet real life war machines, cars, planes etc do. Either way, can't wait to experience a big budget mecha game that isn't some jankfest whose shipping tracking number doesn't involve going thru customs lol.
What is the Soulslike element people want this to have in particular?
Exploration? This may still have that.
Exploration? This may still have that.
Realistically I think From just won't expect the game to sell as well as Elden Ring did and I don't think they think that's a problem. They're making this game because they want to, not because they think it'll be their best-selling game ever.
For real. They could do a lot better with their legacy content. Imagine a Shadow Tower Abyss HD Remaster, lol. That stupid fucking game.
"cant wait for armored souls"
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WTF is this??! I cant believe I spent 59.99 on this not souls game!
The IP isn't theirs. That's what sucks with AC is that it went through a million publishers some not even in business today. They sign up publishing deals with From for each entry. How many of them did Bandai Namco publish?