Armored Core VI Fires of Rubicon (FromSoftware)

There's a part of me that wants to play through the entire Armored Core series, Front Mission series, and King's Field series at this point. I missed out on most of them (first AC. first FM, and the two action FMs are all I got to). I guess a full Fromsoft binge + Front Mission. I don't even think this is feasible and I don't have time considering I'm also trying to play modern stuff some time soon. Maybe if I could pause life for like 3 months I could do all this.

King's Field is probably the least-likely one, those games look super dated at this point. Front Mission I think I'm only missing 4 RPGs from, which is a lot but possible. Armored Core is the one I'm most likely to actually do, but so far the availability (or lack thereof) is looking like a roadblock on that one.

Looked into it and there's a translated ROM of Front Mission 2 on PS1. So there's pretty much nothing stopping me from getting ROMs of all the AC and FM games on PS1 and PS2, provided PS2 emulation is stable (PS1 certainly is). Might have my game project for 2023 now: The whole AC series, mixed with some FM.

Edit: Welp, that didn't happen, I went with a CRPG crusade instead and I think that was the right call.

Hateyou said:

They’re vastly different games. One is an action 3d mech battling game, the other is a tactics game.

I’ve played both series and they’re both cool but Front Mission always got very repetitive and boring to me. Armored Core was cool because there are so many different mech builds you can make, and so many you can battle against. While missions and fighting mechanics were similar the builds mixed it up so much it never got old to me.

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Yeah Front Mission is nowhere near as fun as Armored Core. Both have similar vibes and settings though so I've been thinking about both of them.

Front Mission usually devolves into "equip every mech with two of the strongest available weapon so they can fire twice at once, then the game basically plays itself" while you grind the maps out. FM1 on the Super Famicom was really good and never felt tedious to me, but FM3 on PS1 and FM4 on PS2 both got really tedious and plodding. I didn't finish either one of them and I played them in the mid-2000's when I played the hell out of anything Square put out. Never played FM2, but I got a translated ROM so I might give it a run.

The prices on all these games I'm looking at are ludicrous.

Yeah, I really made a mistake selling all my games in 2010. Looks like the PS2 gen is now reaching pricey retro levels and the PS3 gen is starting to climb up too.

This gameplay looks lightning fast. I dig it.

Fromsoft is really good at promising nothing and wildly overdelivering.