Armored Core VI: Fires of Rubicon

[Damned Registrations]

I'm a From software fan, like all their games, but I don't like robots or shooting. Should I buy this?

Nah, doesn't play like a souls game at all. Pretty fun mecha shooter. Reminds me of Zone of the Enders, except much less story and way more action.

It plays pretty close a souls game considering you're piloting giant mechs. You've got multiple strong melee options, your mech's energy acts like stamina in that it basically doesn't generate any until you've stopped moving/firing for a period of time and then suddenly recovers incredibly fast, you've got estus flask charges to heal and enemy attacks and environmental traps that will one shot you. You've got dashes instead of dodge rolls, and you lock onto enemies the same way you would in a souls game. The game is also full of boss fights in big open boss arenas. Oh, and a posture system that is basically what enemies had in ER.

It's obviously different in a ton of ways too; you're way more mobile, can jump and glide incredibly far (the right kind of mech can 'fly' infinitely in a halting, gimped sort of way) and obviously everything has guns. Building a mech is quite different than raising stats in a souls game, and there's no real penalty for death, no corpse to retreive. There's a handful of equipment to be found sitting in some corner of a stage or whatever but most is acquired as the story progresses and a bunch more by getting achievements during missions. It's also got a very different style of storytelling, you basically get a ton of narration and commentary from a handful of NPCs, along with some mostly fake CnC.

 

[Grampy_Bone]

It plays pretty close

Yes a mission-based game with no level ups and all guns is totally the same as a slow paced grind heavy melee action RPG.

Dodge rolls, boss fights = Dark Souls? Are you a game journalist? "They both have health potions though." Jesus Christ. This is what happens when they take analogies off the SATs.

 

[Damned Registrations]

So what exactly is your criteria? It's not a soulslike if because it has missions and no levels? (It actually does have level ups but they're not terribly important.) Soulslike = no missions and an xp system? Everything has to be identical?

Health potions are a pretty fucking strange inclusion for a mech game, so is basically everything else I listed. It's probably just about the only mech game with any of that.

 

[Inec0rn]

The game is nothing like dark souls.

 

[Lyric Suite]

If you take out the bosses the game plays 100% identical to old AC games.

And the bosses themselves don't actually play like Souls at all. The controls of this game are just too different. The only similarity is that they have telegraphed attacks that you need to learn and master. Oh there's also a stagger mechanic that is kinda similar to the one in Sekiro. That's pretty much it.

The strongest enemies in the original games were other ACs and those are still there and play out pretty much the same.

 

[Big_poppa_pump]

I kinda wish AC6 had better multiplayer offerings like 5VD did

 

[Morgoth]

I kinda wish AC6 was actually good lol.

 

[Damned Registrations]

If you take out the bosses the game plays 100% identical to old AC games.

Absolutely not true. The way energy recovers, the healing and low health pool, the camera and the posture system are all wildly different. There's tons more stuff that's different too, those are just the things that especially stood out as really wrong for a heavy mech game.

Obviously it's nowhere as close to the souls series as something like Lies of P or Nioh, but they copied over a ton of mechanics that absolutely did not belong in an AC game. AC6 is to Dark Souls what Fallout 3 is to Oblivion. Only retarded fanboys pretend the similarities are no big deal.

 

[Dedicated_Dark]

I wish Armored Core 6 had a fucking difficulty option, instead of being a boring ass cakewalk except at some bosses the first time.

 

[HeatEXTEND]

there's also a stagger mechanic

sucks balls

 

[cruel]

I managed to last 30 minutes. Glory to Lord Gaben and Steam refunds.

 

[Lyric Suite]

Helicopter goes brrr and remains undefeated.

 

[Big_poppa_pump]

Nah, doesn't play like a souls game at all. Pretty fun mecha shooter. Reminds me of Zone of the Enders, except much less story and way more action.

It's as if FromSoft made a Formula 1 racing game. Even if it was getting 10/10s wall to wall it simply wouldn't be for me.

And even if someone put a gun to my head and forced me to play something with robots I'd rather play a Mechwarrior game instead. AC just doesn't appeal to me at all.

Mechwarrior/Battletech fans when the mechs arms don't move at 2 mph -

 

[Optimist]

Nah, doesn't play like a souls game at all. Pretty fun mecha shooter. Reminds me of Zone of the Enders, except much less story and way more action.

It's as if FromSoft made a Formula 1 racing game. Even if it was getting 10/10s wall to wall it simply wouldn't be for me.

And even if someone put a gun to my head and forced me to play something with robots I'd rather play a Mechwarrior game instead. AC just doesn't appeal to me at all.

Mechwarrior/Battletech fans when the mechs arms don't move at 2 mph -

This, but unironically

 

[Grampy_Bone]

Hard for me to comprehend anyone with Y chromosomes would not love giant robots in any form.

 

[cvv]

Hard for me to comprehend anyone with Y chromosomes would not love giant robots in any form.

I've always thought they're goofy, idk.

I was mildly entertained watching giant robots smashing faces with some monsters in that big stupid movie.... Pacific Rim. Does it count?

 

[Grampy_Bone]

What is goofy about this???

 

[The Decline]

Hard for me to comprehend anyone with Y chromosomes would not love giant robots in any form.

Hard to believe, but there are guys who aren't interested in machinery.

 

[AfterVirtue]

Hard for me to comprehend anyone with Y chromosomes would not love giant robots in any form.

Hard to believe, but there are guys who aren't interested in machinery.

To me, my Comrades.

 

[deuxhero]

Hard for me to comprehend anyone with Y chromosomes would not love giant robots in any form.

Or X

 

[mediocrepoet]

Hard for me to comprehend anyone with Y chromosomes would not love giant robots in any form.

Hard to believe, but there are guys who aren't interested in machinery.

You mean fags?

 

[The Decline]

Hard for me to comprehend anyone with Y chromosomes would not love giant robots in any form.

Hard to believe, but there are guys who aren't interested in machinery.

You mean fags?

You said it, not me.

Yes, fags.

 

[Hag]

Mechwarrior/Battletech fans when the mechs arms don't move at 2 mph -

I read that battlemechs are supposed to be agile and nimble and can jump, run, roll, grapple, etc.
It was probably too difficult to animate for video games though.

 

[Lyric Suite]

AC is like a lite sim, or a simcade mecha game.

Controlling the mech has a certain learning curve compared to stuff like Souls.

I think that's what filters a lot of people.

I only played the PS1 era AC so for me jumping into this one was a breeze.

 

[ferratilis]

For Codex mecha-fags

https://japantoday.com/category/nat...-finished-receives-shinto-blessing-in-osaka-2

Japan’s newest life-size Gundam is finished; receives Shinto blessing in Osaka​

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By Casey Baseel, SoraNews24

TOKYO
When doing construction projects in Japan, it’s customary to have a Shinto priest come to the site to purify it, bestow a blessing upon the project, and pray for its safe completion. This practice is observed when building houses, office buildings, and, yes, real-world giant life-size anime robots.
We’re now less than half a year away from the opening of the Expo 2025 Osaka world’s fair, which will be held on Yumeshima Island in Osaka City. Among the presenters at the event will be Bandai Namco, the toymaker behind the vast array of Gundam merch. Rather than just show up with a bunch of scaled-down plastic model kits, though, the organizers of Bandai Namco’s Gundam Next Future Pavilion have built a full-size Gundam statue, dubbed the RX-78F00/E Gundam.


Japan’s eastern Kanto region has had three life-size Gundams to date, two in Tokyo and one in Yokohama, and the southwestern island of Kyushu has one as well. This is the first time for the central Kansai region to be Gundam-graced, however, and rather than wait until Expo 2025 opens to assemble the mecha or keep it under wraps, Bandai Namco has decided to finish its 1:1-scale Gunpla build early, and show off the results in a special preview video and shared photos.

The Shinto purification ceremony was held on Wednesday, prior to the final piece, Gundam’s head, being raised by a crane and placed atop his already completed body. The ceremony followed the same schedule as the ones for the Yokohama and Fukuoka (Kyushu) Gundams, which were also blessed by Shinto priests on the day that their heads were installed to pray that the workers be able to complete their projects without incident or injury.
In its tweet about the ceremony, the official Gundam Next Future Pavilion mentions that the RX-78F00/E Gundam has light blue paneling on its legs and armor skirting “which was not present on the moving Gundam Factory Yokohama Gundam,” and also that at Expo 2025 you’ll be able to get a close view of the Gundam’s feet and back, which “could not be seen closely” [at the Yokohama Gundam facility]. This would seem to imply that the Yokohama Gundam, which was disassembled this past spring, has been shipped to Osaka for the expo and given some new accouterments to repurpose it as the RX-78F00/E Gundam.
The Osaka Gundam having the same internals as the moving Yokohama one also makes sense in light of the RX-78F00/E Gundam’s complicated posing, in which the mecha is reaching out to touch the stars and “carve out a new space age with humanity.” It’s 16.72 meters from the ground to the tips of Gundam’s outstretched fingers.