Armored Core VI: Fires of Rubicon

I'm really surprised at all the attention this is getting, the ten year hiatus and the increased prominence of Fromsoftware might finally be Armored Core's chance. Hopefully that ten year break gave them a chance to rethink some things regarding how the games play.

It's the addition of flying that's the problem, the camera and controls could never keep up with what you are trying to do, such as trying to land on a slender walkway within a superstructure whilst dodging enemy fire and not smashing into anything yourself. Oh well, they figured how to make games where you hide behind walls work pretty well in the ten year span between Winback and the Gears & Uncharted games etc. Maybe the era of the jet pack games is finally upon us.

I will deffo be monitoring reviews here before shelling out, helps From are not going the £69.99 route, factors into it bigtime.

Well i think the difference is it's not a semi open world game like Sekiro, they're discrete sectioned off missions where at your base which is just a menu screen allows you to chose your loadout and you select the mission, complete it, screen fades to black and your back at the menu screen.

That sounds pretty close to Nioh/Wo Long then, yeah (although those at least had a world map, not just a menu screen)

We'll see how it goes...

I think I’ve only ever played the one AC game that appeared on 360. Can’t remember which number it was. Seem to recall it being pretty average though.

I’m not a massive fan of the jet boot powered ninja robots this seems to have. Prefer my mechs big and stompy.

I’m just holding out for a Battletech port or a new Front Mission. Only have MW5 to fill my mech needs at the moment.

I have not played an AC game but was interesting to hear from multiple perspectives that 2-3 minutes for missions is almost nothing new. The mindset is that you're not meant to think of it like an action adventure but like a fighting game. And how you wouldn't complain that a round in SF6 was only 90 secs.

Come to think of it it'll probably be jarring even if you're used to the Nioh/Wo Long structure I mentioned above, for some reason I completely missed the 2-3 minute part and I don't remember any missions being that short there (even those that were only boss fights usually took a little longer)

Still, I'd imagine not all missions would be that short, surely there's some beefier ones in there... Or maybe it's a quantity over length deal?

Weirdly the thought of short missions really appeals to me. Saw it on one thing somewhere that it feels like jumping in to do the side missions in MGSV, only these are the main missions, but they are over just as quick. I quite like the thought of that. For me personally I can't see any souls DNA in there at all, which I'm quite happy about. Just looks like Fromsoft making another fucking brilliant game. If ACV was backward compatible, I'd grab it for the Xbox to play through first. As it is, I'm quite keen based on what I've seen of this.

I like that. Can't be doing with all those silly cartoon like mechs. Give me serious mechs or don't give me any.

Actual size

True beauty can be blinding

I think that's hairy palms

You can paint your AC, so you can go all Gundam if you want.
You can also download other people’s colour themes, like a racing game.

Yep, you can customise the paint on parts and also apply decals and patterns in the last few Armored Core games.

Custom decals should be there too... But these days that's probably off the table, the prospect of somebody playing with a mech covered in Swastikas or something and the media getting hold of it is too horrifying for most publishers to deal with.