Dead Horse Interchange

rabidtictac wrote: ↑

Tue Feb 05, 2019 10:54 pm

It's AC3 if you can find a control scheme that works for you. The PSP version has fully mappable controls and you can pirate that easily. 3 Portable contains extra kahntent not found in the vanilla version.

AC4 and For Answer are too "super robot" for me. They're good games but move much faster and feel more like zone of the enders.

AC5 was supposedly really bad. And AC1 and 2 are just less-polished versions of AC3 and Silent Line. With fewer parts.

VoiceOfReasonPast wrote: ↑

Tue Feb 05, 2019 11:10 pm

AdorableOtter wrote: ↑

Tue Feb 05, 2019 10:47 pm

I've never played any From Software games, what's the best Armored Core? I looked up the weeb wiki and it recommended AC3 but I'm not sure.

Man, I'm loving that quality google translate:

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rabidtictac wrote: ↑

Tue Feb 05, 2019 6:55 pm

Kugel would probably like Armored Core 3, with all the tank variations you can make with gun arms. I think you can even make a robot with no arms at all and mount super-heavy shoulder weapons on it instead.

AdorableOtter wrote: ↑

Tue Feb 05, 2019 4:21 am

Rule of thumb = actually good gundam games are not gundam games

ban wrote: ↑

Thu Feb 07, 2019 9:56 pm

You'll love the older Armoured Core games then. They are very heavy and deliberate in their planning, with the fast action-y mechs usually being the ones getting assfucked in five seconds tops due to no firepower, armour or even good weapons so you're always encouraged to be at least somewhat armoured. Think of Armoured Core 1, 2 and 3 as the Dark Souls before Dark Souls when it comes to how the game plays and ties its rpg builds together.

The irony of all this though is that the original minds behind Armoured Core now make what you describe :



And I love it. At least they are somewhat unique compared to Miyazaki's Armoured Core where he shamelessly tried to copy this :





Which actually was Super Robot Armoured Core but the funny thing is that the advanced customization found in Last Raven and Silent Line actually came from these games. Funny thing : I learned about J-Phoenix in an old Super Robot Wars forum, before I learned about Armoured Core and then I learned about Armoured Core, via J-Phoenix. And unlike AC's restrictive "battlemech" designs, J-Phoenix was the Soul Calibur 5 of mech games allowing to go crazy and get to make even things like GaoGaiGar if you wished.

AdorableOtter wrote: ↑

Tue Feb 05, 2019 4:21 am

Rule of thumb = actually good gundam games are not gundam games

MEIN NEGGER! Valken is still amazing and it's always nice to see Urushihara Satoshi's older works before Langrisser and Virtual-On is just a treat as always. But you forget the Rule of Thumb post 2008 = Actually good gundam games are not gundam games unless they are clones of Virtual-On.

Old Black Man wrote: ↑

Fri Feb 08, 2019 1:59 am

ban wrote: ↑

Thu Feb 07, 2019 9:56 pm

You'll love the older Armoured Core games then. They are very heavy and deliberate in their planning, with the fast action-y mechs usually being the ones getting assfucked in five seconds tops due to no firepower, armour or even good weapons so you're always encouraged to be at least somewhat armoured. Think of Armoured Core 1, 2 and 3 as the Dark Souls before Dark Souls when it comes to how the game plays and ties its rpg builds together.

The irony of all this though is that the original minds behind Armoured Core now make what you describe :



And I love it. At least they are somewhat unique compared to Miyazaki's Armoured Core where he shamelessly tried to copy this :





Which actually was Super Robot Armoured Core but the funny thing is that the advanced customization found in Last Raven and Silent Line actually came from these games. Funny thing : I learned about J-Phoenix in an old Super Robot Wars forum, before I learned about Armoured Core and then I learned about Armoured Core, via J-Phoenix. And unlike AC's restrictive "battlemech" designs, J-Phoenix was the Soul Calibur 5 of mech games allowing to go crazy and get to make even things like GaoGaiGar if you wished.

AdorableOtter wrote: ↑

Tue Feb 05, 2019 4:21 am

Rule of thumb = actually good gundam games are not gundam games

MEIN NEGGER! Valken is still amazing and it's always nice to see Urushihara Satoshi's older works before Langrisser and Virtual-On is just a treat as always. But you forget the Rule of Thumb post 2008 = Actually good gundam games are not gundam games unless they are clones of Virtual-On.

Valken and Virtual On? You and I are most definitely brothers in niggerdom.

Which reminds me, I really need to get back to Front Mission Gun Hazard.

Old Black Man wrote: ↑

Fri Feb 08, 2019 1:59 am

ban wrote: ↑

Thu Feb 07, 2019 9:56 pm

You'll love the older Armoured Core games then. They are very heavy and deliberate in their planning, with the fast action-y mechs usually being the ones getting assfucked in five seconds tops due to no firepower, armour or even good weapons so you're always encouraged to be at least somewhat armoured. Think of Armoured Core 1, 2 and 3 as the Dark Souls before Dark Souls when it comes to how the game plays and ties its rpg builds together.

The irony of all this though is that the original minds behind Armoured Core now make what you describe :



And I love it. At least they are somewhat unique compared to Miyazaki's Armoured Core where he shamelessly tried to copy this :





Which actually was Super Robot Armoured Core but the funny thing is that the advanced customization found in Last Raven and Silent Line actually came from these games. Funny thing : I learned about J-Phoenix in an old Super Robot Wars forum, before I learned about Armoured Core and then I learned about Armoured Core, via J-Phoenix. And unlike AC's restrictive "battlemech" designs, J-Phoenix was the Soul Calibur 5 of mech games allowing to go crazy and get to make even things like GaoGaiGar if you wished.

AdorableOtter wrote: ↑

Tue Feb 05, 2019 4:21 am

Rule of thumb = actually good gundam games are not gundam games

MEIN NEGGER! Valken is still amazing and it's always nice to see Urushihara Satoshi's older works before Langrisser and Virtual-On is just a treat as always. But you forget the Rule of Thumb post 2008 = Actually good gundam games are not gundam games unless they are clones of Virtual-On.

Valken and Virtual On? You and I are most definitely brothers in niggerdom.

Which reminds me, I really need to get back to Front Mission Gun Hazard.

VoiceOfReasonPast wrote: ↑

Fri Feb 08, 2019 5:24 pm

Is it sad if my only bit of trivia about Virtual On is "One of the mechs is basically Hatsune MIku"? She's even the pilot in a SRW title.