Shardix posted:

Looking forward to Patch the Good Luck kicking me into a pit of Nineballs

RBA Starblade posted:

I hope we get to see our good friend Patches again

BeanpolePeckerwood posted:

FROM's flagship mech series already featured a number of familiar design elements that would eventually come to define their award-winning fantasy games through the 2010s after the arrival and stewardship of director/president Hidetaka Miyazaki: a shattered social fabric, unconventional narrative delivery, nameless player characters, rpg-inspired customization, new game+, PVP, The Moonlight Blade! , and an ambiguous sense of purpose inside of a huge landscape of pragmatic war-makers, profiteers, space pirates, and violent thrill-seekers.

Ratios and Tendency posted:

Plot-twist: this is the elden ring dlc.

punished milkman posted:

it's too bad it's so hard to give From Software money to play the older Armored Core games.

if you want to play For Answer and like me do not have a functional 360 or PS3, save yourself a bunch of wasted time perusing the shittiest websites on the internet, and just use the xenia emulator and find an Xbox 360 ROM of the game. you just open an ISO file with the emulator and it works perfectly.

it does look like it's possible to buy Verdict Day on the Xbox marketplace: https://marketplace.xbox.com/en-US/Product/ARMORED-CORE-VERDICT-DAY/66acd000-77fe-1000-9115-d8024e4d0864

AC 5 has a marketplace link, but it doesn't seem like you can buy the game: https://marketplace.xbox.com/en-US/Product/Armored-Core-V/66acd000-77fe-1000-9115-d8024e4d084f

can't find any of the other games, and there is absolutely nothing on the playstation store

Coolness Averted posted:

Yeah, I initially dismissed it for the same reasons, but scavenger backpack robot had a heavy souls feel to it. Though once again, that's cinematics, and AC games were bleak as hell long before the souls games existed.

Big Scary Owl posted:

From the IGN interview, thought this was interesting:

Rockstar Massacre posted:

ugh if there's a lock on system that turns the camera for you does that mean there won't be lock-on disrupting gizmos anymore? i loved those for pvp

WaltherFeng posted:

Did For Answer have some weird PS3 issues where sometimes it ran at 2 fps during huge fights and you had to change the patch version ingame to fix it or something

Crazy Achmed posted:

The short stages and the tinkering and upgrades bring central to the gameplay always reminded me of tyrian and raptor as well - although the ammo restrictions end up being very different. But the loop of earning money and getting new, shiny upgrades definitely scratches the same itch, so hopefully there's enough variety of parts available.

Actually, the other thing I'm hoping for is making sure all the decent-tier weapons are actually viable. Like there's a niche for slightly crap weapons for players to use while starting out, but they need to fix stuff like machine guns that only carry enough ammo to do like 2500AP damage total, assume every single shot hits target. Like what the hell were those even for? I guess maybe a quad that relies mostly on shoulder cannons?

giZm posted:

Solumin posted:

Most of the criticism I've seen isn't about the story, but rather how they tell it: mission briefing slideshows, which aren't particularly engaging, and mid-combat NPC blurbs, which can be easy to miss when you're trying not to die.
It kind of matters when they expect you to side with a faction when choosing missions, which is apparently how the story branches. Not telling the story well detracts from that.

That said, I really don't expect it to matter much.

Glimpse posted:

One exception I found is some of the missiles have an effective range of 2.5km, still not great for a vehicle mounted missile (man portable TOW missiles have a range of 3.75km). Of course, your FCS can’t lock at that distance so that’s purely for hangtime, but I don’t think they’ll ever get near that far in game before losing or hitting a target.

But yeah, these are games. Games need to be fun, realism be damned.