Armored Core VI: Fires of Rubicon

Mechs have never appealed to me but I'll keep an eye on it as it's From.

Can’t drink it. It’s on fire.

These rubicon jokes are CROSSING a line

Oh man, that would make me so happy. Hands down my favourite MP experience of all time.  

Don't know anything about these games, but more from From is always exciting.

If I were to play one of the previous games in the series, which should it be?

Jeez I just noticed this is also a PS4 and Xbox one release.

Anyway I just watched the trailer properly for the first time. Visuals look better than froms previous games and the action looks good but it's giant robots, fighting giant robots and that does nothing for me at all. Same with things like Godzilla, just a giant monster fighting another giant monster.

Playing previous games in the Armored Core series can be kind of pricey at the moment, all the PS3 releases are more expensive than they originally retailed for now. If you have a 360 it might be a bit more tolerable, Xbox games prices tend to be lower.

If you can emulate PS2 games you may be able to try some out, the PS2 has five Armored Core games (I think). They're mostly pretty affordable if you want to play original copies.

Christ no pressure with that sort of headline from PushSquare. I wonder if people are aware that this isn't a Soulsbourne kind of game and there are levels in a traditional manner? I fear some people may bounce off this because they're expecting a certain kind of gameplay.

PushSquare are a bit of a joke aren't they? "Impossible to fail" yet it was a hands off demo.

Yeah, there's no doubt at all that tens of thousands will buy it without really fully understanding what it is - and will be bitterly disappointed.

I don't blame folk for buying it - apart from the fact it's From, it looks bloody amazing in those previews. Those vertical environments, the art design. It's all looking really good. But there's only been a tiny glimpse at the actual mech-building, which is at the heart of the game. The handful of screens we've seen of that looks fantastic, very AC, but if you're not into spending hours tinkering, tweaking, trying to balance your systems then it's just not a game for you; it's just flying pew-pew stabby-stab robots in dystopian environments, something that I suspect would get old quite quickly without the investment in the customisation.

Got to also say that whoever is playing as the ZoE speedy bipedal bot in the previews is bloody good. I reckon that build would only take a few hits before being destroyed. Not sure I could pull off all the dodging and dancing he does. This is all speculation based on old ACs though - maybe the gameplay /is/ more forgiving and arcadey now? Who am I kidding. It's From. 

Looking forward to finding out more about multiplayer but I'm starting to suspect that will just be one-on-one arena-based rather than anything like Chromehounds.

I don’t think many people are looking at it thinking pew pew robots; after all, they have expectations around what a From game is at this point. Nobody saw Elden Ring previews and thought it was going to be a simple hack & slash.

Weirdly this might be the most receptive the general audience has been for ages for an AC game, purely down to the expected complexity and difficulty.

Perhaps, but how many people (given millions bought it) bounced off Elden Ring based on its complexity? A lot, I suspect. Once you get into selling hundreds of thousands, millions, we're looking at a lot who purchase off marketing and look rather than in-depth previews. That sounds snobby. It is snobby, but there's surely some truth in it.

I saw in one vid there's an elevator, so I imagine that's how they get through the areas.

Never played an AC game before but tempted to try, sounds like my kinda thing. There'd a clip of a bipedal robot rolling mid air to dodge an attack as he charging an enemy and it sold me.