Human+ is designed as a Help mechanic for if you ever get stuck constantly failing missions at somepoint in the game.. you'll be sent back to the start of the game but you'll have an easier time with the bonuses.. the enemies don't get easier you get stronger.. a fromsoft staple..
Regarding the thing about the indoor lvl's that let you go in with your mech, Armored Core's originally where not designed as weapons, but as multipurpose tools, military use came later, that's why many structures are designed with AC's in mind, because they where build with AC's, if you take a look, some of the weapons are actually construction tools, like pile bunker's to crush through rocks and other stuff, in later AC games, some AC enemies/allies you will find are just barely modified civilan AC's.
Well, the MTs were originally multipurpose tools. ACs basically standardized the combat MT template and grew out from there, and I think that's the same in all 3 timelines currently. There is hilariously a _NEXT_ in ACFA that's basically a purpose built construction/demolition machine though.
MTs - Muscle Tracers were effectively exosuits for civilian use, particularly construction and engineering work. ACs - Are effectively the military application of the technology. Essentially the difference between Tractors and Tanks early on. In Gen 4 Nexts are introduced and are even more powerful, with MT's resembling AC's from Gen 3.
Something I wish you'd mentioned is the optional first person camera: Hold Triangle + Square + Start during a mission (can't remember if you have to pause first or not). It feels like a whole different game. There is also a drop camera you can place where ever you'd like to make some cinematic shots: While playing press Circle + X + Start.
I thought it was dope. I played the recent games before and just started the older entires a few weeks ago! Will you go all the way to the current game?
You should do a similar video on the other AC games. I loved this retrospective, Armored Core was a major part of my childhood and really shaped my love for all things mecha.
@@bigbankgib438 ya I'm going to skip 9 breaker 4 and 5 but I will cover all others so silent line, nexus, last raven, for answer, and verdict day (havent played vday yet)
Beat all three with 0 Human+, used a quad for the sweet back weapons until project phantasma gave me the Ultra-heavy generator so I switched to a heavy biped. I was really disappointed after fighting Necron because Tiamat was MUCH harder. Right before Nine-Ball Seraph I was experimenting with a light AC. Used a super-sniper to cheese the 3 before Seraph only for it to absolutely demolish me. Went back to the heavy with a karasawa and the hidden back missiles from AC1. Crushed Seraph so hard I thought the cutscene was him transitioning to a second phase lmao. Great games for a PS1, really kinda bummed I didn't have this game back then.
Yeah disagree that you "want" to go for Human+ let alone all Human+ to start out. It is a cool feature for someone struggling, or maybe a repeat playthrough, but I'd suggest just playing the game.
@@セータン Try tank legs or lighten up, Tiamat only has ballistics and missiles, if you can tank them or dodge them it's an easy fight. Also could just cheese him with the Karasawa.
Not sure if someone else mentioned it, but figured it is worth pointing out. You can fully customize the controls. I set up my D-pad like you would left stick, the face buttons like right stick, and set the rest to the shoulder and trigger buttons. Still not as smooth as having sticks, but it get close after a little playtime.
Even without Human Plus, the bosses aren't particulalry difficult. The only way to have them be difficult is to hamstring yourself into only using the weaker weapons. All of the good weapons kill the bosses fairly quickly, Human Plus or not.
@@SiphonRayzar i mean you giving a detailed counter argument to the original post when the original post is probably just so “passionate” about it that it probably wouldn’t change his mind.
My man saying Nine-Ball Seraph was underwhelming I must've died about ten times in that boss battle (I started a fresh new save on MoA and didn't have any Human+ upgrades)
Watching this series makes me feel a bit stupid: never realised there was hidden weapons, never knew about human plus and always felt rail roaded into playing slow tank thread mechs because i liked the heavy weapons so my most vivid memory for every game is consistently sweating on the final missions due to low mobility and limited ammo. How kid me managed to beat these games is a mystery.
Ya I never thought about searching the internet until kid me found a hidden part in ac2 and blew it up by accident causing me to search on the internet.
Knee high, or even ankle deep, for a 30 foot warmachine is still pretty damn deep. Also that mission to take out the guns in the shallow lake is one of 2 missions on the original demo (on interactive sampler #4), and is probably one of the most iconic things for original AC players besides Nineball.
To anyone getting into the series or otherwise playing the ps1 AC games, I highly suggest playing without H+ for your first playthrough. While the games aren't generally difficult, it does make it more of an honest challenge. The arena is 2-3x more difficult to clear if you don't have access to H+ if only for the reduced boost cost. Oh, and one thing that was missed is that you can ignore weight limits if you've cleared a certain percentage of the first game and carries over if you use that save file. I'm not sure what the percentage is.
Fun fact about the radar that you have to defend...You can get that radar if you time taking it just right just as the mission ends and not fail the mission. Took me hours...but i have a save file with 100% mission success and all parts.
For Answer was my absolute favorite. I want a remake of that game bad. I still never beat the final mission which is considered one of the hardest missions in a game other than Drakengard 1 and 3.
Yeah, that mission is insane. It's the punishment for taking all the easier, but more immoral missions when forced to choose. If you take the harder, but more ethical missions throughout the game, you get a much, much easier final mission.
I remember my roommate took the evil route in that game and got the hard final mission, I helped him beat it by using a back mounted cannon that could one-shot the ACs but only had like 5 shots, so I could only miss once! I eventually beat every ending, unlocked the highest output generator, and built a mech that could over-boost forever! Not even kidding, that game was a lot of fun! :D
Best bet is to either switch regs to unlimited energy and go blader or switch to earlier regs and equip White Glint's weapons. The missiles alone can destroy multiple NEXTs by themselves.
Its insane how FromSoft came from Kingsfield with ultra slow, barely able to walk and attack beyond the scope of slowmotion. To this fast paced semi large levels action shooter with flying robots. Its on the same freaking system FFS! Its like a Calculator manufacturer suddenly develops NASA Quantum Computers... thats just wild.
If you start master of arena with a fresh save file instead of importing you actually get a cutscene explaining how nineball killed your family. no idea why that gets cut out when you do the option probably like 90% of the people who bought this game did
Old school ACs were very op. Something shown in AC2A. As for the ACMoA back story. It's in the manual, which old games from that generation did. It was decent enough, it was just your basic story of a dude destroyed your home and family so you choose to go get revenge. Just to finally see there more to world then just your revenge. It was also meant to be a retelling of the original. Just with a story this time. Other than oh you are mercenary, have fun.
Going to incorporate that and Project Phantasma into the storytelling of the fanfic I'm writing. Probably introduce a 'Leos Klein' who has this want for revenge and has to earn his chance whilst our protagonists either have to bail him out or work around him (to emphasize that initially he is a hapless newbie but he will have his moments)
@@RayShadow278 Yeah I am just working the events of the first game AND Project Phantasma in. MoA's segments will have him be star of the show (though he'll make appearances here and there, can excuse the Seraph fight seperately because both Armored Core and MoA have a moment where you fight two Nineballs. Have the deutagonists deal with the twins while Leos goes to finish the matter. Have the two dip during the conclusion as they kinda realize that Earth has nothing more to offer for mercenaries (as Raven's Nest kinda dies with R/Nineball/Lana Nielson) and fucking off to Mars.
I only ever played the first AC game but this is a great overview. I learned a few things from your video and some of your commentary had my sides hurting from laughter (Frog Man). Great video and I'll be looking forward to your next post
This was what I was looking for when it comes to a review. I get a clear picture of the game and its story. Yours is the best one so far. I tried a couple others, but they either waxed poetic about the game play only, or droned through the story element in such a way that I couldn't properly feel like I understood it. Thanks.
Dude I came here to watch your videos because of the announcement of AC6, and about halfway through I got ads and one of them was the trailer for AC6. My day is made.
great vid! just FYI, the reason why master of arena makes no sense is that it does that 90's thing where instead of having an opening cutscene setting up the story, it just has all that shit in the manual, the plot is that your nameless raven went into the line of work to take revenge on hustler one for killing your family as collateral in one of their missions.
Nope, it's probably because he imported his save file or that he accidentally skipped the cutscene since THERE IS A CUTSCENE for it based on other clips and evidence that I googled quickly. (Edit for further clarification: This is seen after you enter your name while making a new game, even if this comment was made 2 months ago I just wanted to say something to avoid misinformation.)
@@brunocar02 wydm??? I'm just saying that there is a cutscene talking about The Raven wanting revenge for his dead family foreshadowing the AC that did it with Lana Nielson giving The Raven an offer to be a raven. The story is pretty simple "Nineball killed your family so now you gotta go kill him now even if you must bring down the system" revenge story
@@brunocar02 oh great for whatever reason TH-cam is deleting my comment (for no warning or reason at all 🙄) looked up why and is probably because I was putting a link to an external site so I was trying to post the same comment 7 times *pure frustration* anyway three things: 1. I literally said there was clips of it 2. The email says nothing about 9Ball killing his family 3. Evidence: th-cam.com/video/mVUq_WXvg5o/w-d-xo.html th-cam.com/video/sNkCv7UAosk/w-d-xo.html th-cam.com/video/T8uzVd0jLoE/w-d-xo.html th-cam.com/video/fnMh2pAN2KQ/w-d-xo.html
Armored Core was so impressive coming from Mechwarrior 2. Yeah the PSX didn't have a real GPU like a PC, but they did awesome things with what they had. Cool textures, models, and animations, and so much faster than a Mechwarrior game!
I learned so many things I completely missed in all of these games as a kid. That's probably because I only ground the missions for the parts so my buddy and I could pvp and accidentally found extra bits. But still, damn.
This video needs more views. The Project Phantasm ending was hilarious and you made it 10 times more funny on your video xD Still don't get why you think some missions are too easy or underwhelming when you're literally using Human+. Some arena fights took me forever to finish
If you were curious enough to start fresh in MoA then the beginning of the story would not be as confusing and entering the official arena is not possible without a sponsor idk why. A big theory is that ac1 and acmoa events happen simultaneously or almost at the same time
For the armored core 1 endings you have to side with one corporation and the ending for the other corp changes, but the final true ending is the same always.
Thank you kindly. I'm 6 minutes into ac3 video and I got the mic dialled in almost perfectly so only better content from here on out. Thank you for all the good lore videos you make here on yt
Took me a few days to get through it cause I don't have much time to myself but I loved this thank you! I started with armored core 2 and I cannot be happier for 6. Fly high ravens!
To my knowledge (I've watched someone else talk about this game) the protag and everyone else in the Ravens are actually either AIs that are sorta controlled by Raven Nest. Or Raven Nest had already made something similar to Phantasma that it used on the mercs under it's employ. It makes sense as you never see any of the pilots out side of their ACs and even the whole Human Plus is sorta weird. I really need to play these games!
I'd say it's going good. I'm just happy I'm getting more than 500 views a video lol. I've seen channels that do great work and have been around for years that have very little success
15:30 In Armored Core all the way up to Last Raven, you can access the map. The limits of the map is determined by the head. Some heads have no map. Some heads only remember what you have explored. And some heads, which are best in missions like this, have a complete map for you to use. It is especially useful in these maze and dungeon like levels, and in Nexus and Last Raven's case, in the event your head has no night vision.
this series makes AesirAesthetic look like a fucking hack. He didn't even bother to do separate videos for early/late 3rd gen, and only talked about the numbered entries. You're a real one and after having watched all of these intently, I have to say, it's fuckin' criminal that you have a fraction of that dudes audience. Just the fact that you said both that you're "not really *into* stories in videos games," however you "didn't read the wiki for any of this information, it just came from playthroughs." That alone puts you above like 90% of the entire video game TH-cam ecosystem. I really appreciate the effort you've gone through for all this. Plus, you speak normal English too so that's always a bonus. Regardless of me hating on other 'Tubers, you really did a great job with these. I've always been the only AC snob in my real life friends circles and these videos have been infinitely validating for me personally. I'm really happy with how you touched on virtually every single feature added and removed, as well as some that were only ever considered. This series should be considered a masterclass in how to make an in-depth series of analysis of an entire franchise, literally on par with Noah Gervais. Good job bro.
"Disc 2 arenas are not something to cover" Like, DUDE, the number of arenas in this game is higher than half of the franchise put together, and you need to be UNDEFEATED if you want to unlock the final arena with the best pilots. I did that without using human+ or no overweight cap (I did not have the first game) and I did not cheese it with height glitch. It shaped me as a player in both in-game aspect and gamer in general. The game truly grinds you to mastery and I love it for it. The last AC game that I could play was AC3 and I can only wish that they introduced more arena content, OR if it allowed us to have custom arena much like MoA did - we build enemy ACs to pilot against. Boy oh boy was that fun. You don't find content to cover there? I have enough to talk hours about it :P Well, could've. I was very young when I played this, but I still remember the ordeal.
I'll have to check it out sometime. Everything I've read on it has just said "extra arena content" which sounds cool. I know there is some way to create ac's to battle based on what you want
@@aboveaveragegaming6120 iirc, there are four "legs" arenas, developer arena (where every or many developers built their ACs), and I think one or two more along with Master(?) Arena. But there was also Custom Arena where we could build custom ACs for AI to pilot against us. It was really fun! I built some crazy ACs and then on one very humbling occasion I put together an AC with the most basic weapons and parts and it DESTROYED me with that starting rifle! He shot it so fast at me while airborne the force of the rifle stunned / rooted me in place, followed with blade attacks, then if I managed to get away he sniped me with rockets or missiles with uncanny precision. My own custom, most basic built AC stomped my ass! WHAT?!?! Lil dude gave me more trouble than the final AC in the game did. But, yeah, the second disc was amazing. I re-visited it back after I got my hands on the first game (it was years later) with no-overweight and human+ unlocked and while it felt good to shove back cannons up their arses, it didn't feel as fulfilling after doing the game "normal" way.
regarding the fight with carson and its AI. carson primarily focuses on dodging / getting away from you, until at least one of your weapons has fully depleted its ammo. at which point they become hyper aggressive with their weapons, as indicated by their description. "waits patiently for his opponent to expend all their ammo, then attacks". the issue though is that the fight will usually be ended before running out of ammo on any weapons, and indoors arenas make their defensive play style fall apart quick. can verify the ai works like that from my own experience running out of mortar ammo on them
I loved the 1st one, I had the demo on a Ps1 disc somewhere. I never heard about Project Phantasma or Master of Arena ! Then I bought every Ps2 Armored Core games. I still have them :) Also Armored Core 4 on Ps3, but I don't even remember playing it. How funny. Thank you for this series, I'm looking forward to watch all of it !
Very grateful this video series exists. I'd normally just emulate the games myself like I did with the older ace combat games, but I've heard that some of them can just be a bitch to play. I much prefer this to watching playthroughs, so thank you so much for these videos!
Been looking for this kind of Armored Core retrospective for a while and I’m glad I finally found a great one! Great job, looking forward to watching the next videos!
As a newcomer to the series who is hyped for VI, thank you very much, even when I had ps3 the games went by me, and now I am catching up, thanks to you.
Coming from the souls-likes I was looking for an introduction on the AC series. I am 1/2 into your video and I have to say I am excited for AC 6 :) Excellent job!
I loved all 3 of these games as a kid. My brother had an original PlayStation and these were the only ones I ever played. It's been over twenty years since i've picked up a controller.
9 Breaker does not equal Arena Champion. It's a reference to 9 Ball, the legendary AC of Hustler One who stood longer than anyone at top of the Raven's rankings until he vanished without a trace and only appears as a thing in the titular Armored Core Nine Breaker game. The truth being he was always an AI Controlled pilot/ac that once the player character defeat the AI systems that controlled him ends his rain.
Great synopsis, I haven't played through this series since the ps1 days. My cousins and I would spend hours building ACs and fighting split screen. Good times!
good video man. i usually avoid longform review videos unless it's from somebody i'm familiar with, but it was easy to watch your whole video. will be watching the rest of the series for sure
Also a few notes for master of arena. 1. Hustler one seems to have noticed you because (and note that this isn't really explained in the game) the player character is after hustler one because he killed his family as being a casualty during a mission. 2. You get to join the real arena because, in the mission prior to the announcement, you killed wolf, who held rank 14 in the actual arena so now a spot just conveniently opened up for you.
The best way to gain debt in armored core 1 is to finish the few first missions and then fail worker robot removal by blowing up all the generators and killing yourself in the process
This is an awesome video. So, I'm gonna comment on each game covered. For Armored Core 1, I largely agree with all of your points. I will say, I overall think the PS1 trilogy is overall really easy, even without Human Plus. Human Plus just makes things a little easier. The inclusion of hidden parts in various missions provides some decent replayability back in the day, but nowadays is just a time waster. Thankfully you only have to collect the part, unlike in later games. The controls are definitly the games biggest sticking point for newbies. Even as a Armored Core vet, I have to relearn the controls when I go back to replaying the original trilogy. Thankfully, the best way to play these games is available via emulaters, which allows you to map the move and looking controls to the joysticks. Makes the games way more playable that way. Honestly out of all the original trilogy games, my favorite is this one. One more thing about Armored Core 1, is when you 100% the game, you unlock the ability to make your AC overweight and overenergy. Meaning you can stack up your mech however you want, regardless of the weight or energy requirements. This feature is also in both Project Phantasma and Master of Arena, once you 100% both of those games. It's a neat little feature that doesn't get brought up very often. Project Phantasma is definitely the weakest of the original trilogy, but it's still a decent game. Same controls issue, but that can be fixed via emulator. The Arena is cool, and a very much appreciated feature, although I do think having 50 opponants is a bit much. The lower like, 20 opponants could be cut and the arena experience would be greatly improved. The one thing I greatly dislike about Project Phantasma, is that both Sumika's and Stinger's AC parts are unavailable for the player to use. Sumika's I can kinda understand, since she's just using a pink model of an enemy from AC1, but Stinger is straight up using unique AC parts. Except for his boosters, but he is otherwise using a completely unique AC. Thankfully you get to use his parts in Last Raven. Master of Arena is, interesting. It's story is what leads up to Armored Core 2, although it's actual canonocity is a bit, opaque. You can replace Master of Arena with AC1, and the story of AC2 won't change. Anyway, the focus on Nineball as the main antagonist is a double edged sword. If the player is invested in defeating Nineball, then great. If not, it comes across as a bit pointless. Especially if you're playing it via emulation without the context from the manual. In the manual, it states that you're player character joined the Ravens Nest to become a raven, specifically to get a chance at hunting down and killing Nineball, who killed your family prior to the events of the game. That context is lost if you only ever played it via emulation. Now, onto the Arena side of things. The focuse on more Arena style gameplay is again a double edged sword. If you enjoy the arena gameplay of the Gen 1 games, then great. If you don't, it's a slog to get through. And the extra disc has SO MANY ARENA OPPONANTS! I enjoy the arena aspect of the game, but even I find it very repetitive by the end of it all. However, there is a silver lining to it all. The Arena Maker part of the extra disc is SO MUCH FUN. It's really fun creating your own arena opponenats. I've put hundreds of hours into creating various mechs from other franchises into it, as well as remaking future ACs in it. Anyway, a very nice, enjoyable video. I hope my comment provides some insight from an Armored Core veteran.
One of the fun parts of the PS1 AC games is the one on one battles where you can use your AC and fight a friend via split screen. If you were real lucky, you could use two PS1s and the link cable and each person can play on their own screen.
One thing that's cool about the first project phantasma mission is there's a bonus objective of smashing up the place. The more boxes and structures you blow up, the more money you can get. It's incredibly easy to get 50-60k on a first playthrough. On my second I got like 75k
@@aboveaveragegaming6120 Nah, it's just a fun thing to mess around with. Usually leads to discovering dumb crap. Like I had no idea the Parry blades in AC3 actually had a legit Parry Mechanic until trying Parry/Shield, and seeing the arm raise animation incorporated the shield and made staggering blade hits a thing. Blew my friggin mind. Kneel only is just a fun meme run, since most cannon weapons are OP as hell.
Amazing vid and I can tell you’re obviously skilled in AC combat. I hate to be that guy though… AC1 was not a launch title. It released on my birthday when I turned 15 (I remember because I was SUPER hyped to get this as a gift) in 97. About 2 years after the PS1 dropped in the US.
"Like why exactly is there this bridge if the water is only like knee-high" Knee-high..... to an Armored Core. In which Pilots fit spaciously inside of the head. So the water is several full-grown adults in depth. At least 3 AC heads' worth. Which are probably about 1 and a half adult male height. So, nearly 18 feet deep. We build bridges for less irl lol.
But pilots dont pilot from the head. It only functions as a sensor... I'm no civil engineer and you're trying to indicate how high the water is in an armored core game where things arent properly to scale in real life.
Edit 7:00 can give you some perspective on just how tall my ac is. The water only goes up about 1/6 my leg. Those vehicles look like they could transport humans in the back. The water would probably only reach up 1/3 of the vehicle meaning the water is probably around 4' high. How tall is the bridge they're constructing compared to the water? (See, I can do what you did with a different more realistic object and get a different result)
@@aboveaveragegaming6120 the animosity wasn't necessary. I simply thought I remembered a snip of footage from an AC game in which an x-ray of the head showed seating for the pilot. I just assumed the bridge was massive because the vehicles being used were massive compared to irl vehicles. I'd say it's fair to assume pilots were seated in the head, or the chest, as that's where most mech games and shows have their pilots seated, and one of AC's clear influences, Mobile Suit Gundam, is no different. It's also fair to assume that AC's are roughly to scale to MS' in Gundam. That being, absolutely massive. I was simply pointing out that we build bridges over 5-8 feet of water sometimes, so it's not all that ridiculous to think they'd build this bridge if my head canon scaling was even remotely accurate.
Sources indicate that Armored Cores between Gen 2 and Gen 3 (AC2 to Last Raven) are between 30 and 40 feet tall. And you yourself state multiple times jn your video series "a four-story mech". So idk what exactly you're arguing here...
@@SynysterProjects in all reality the shallow water was just weird. In any other armored core game you would swim with the fishes in that situation. Sorry for being overly defensive.
Thanks for making this. The only suggestion would be to go for it and let yourself go overly in depth, I for sure would enjoy it I find it fascinating.
The part at the end about having difficulty playing older 3D games makes a lot of sense to me. To be honest though, having just finished AC1 I find it holds up really well. The formula is bang on the same as gen 2 and 3 and the game feel is still really solid. One of the easiest old 3D games for me to go back to
all of my life i thought the human plus was a mandatory progression of the games since i never managed to go far without getting it, i just figured it should be the equivalent of a leveling up in the story
Despite my comment being late, but I find it at how similar yet different the endings between AC1 and AC3/AC3 Silent Line are. In the Controller ending to AC1, the AI core is practically cursing your name to it's grave. Yet the AI Core in AC3 plus Silent Line, the AI cores seem to be a strange yet benevolent system. The AI cores from AC3 are practically giving you their blessing for humanity to move on, like it's programming was meant to push the entire species to leave the underground and thrive at the surface.
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Watching this in honor of Armored Core VI: Fires of Rubicon getting revealed at The Game Awards. I've been a fan of this series since Armored Core 1.
I've been waiting and wishing for years that I can play armored core again. I'm so happy to hear about VI
The armored core 6 teasers got me into armored core and although I’ve yet to play a game of this legendary series I’m already a huge fan.
Watching this in honor of ac6 being one of the best games ever made.
Human+ is designed as a Help mechanic for if you ever get stuck constantly failing missions at somepoint in the game.. you'll be sent back to the start of the game but you'll have an easier time with the bonuses.. the enemies don't get easier you get stronger.. a fromsoft staple..
Great pfp, I love that game :)
and also maintaning the grimm of the lore impling that you lost some of your humanity in human+
@@tio_johnIt outright replaces your name with a serial number on the leaderboard. Only way to have bragging rights is to reject Human+
@@nialltealeaf275 Or beat and get everything and then in order for true 100% become Plus......
Yes I'm that madman.
Regarding the thing about the indoor lvl's that let you go in with your mech, Armored Core's originally where not designed as weapons, but as multipurpose tools, military use came later, that's why many structures are designed with AC's in mind, because they where build with AC's, if you take a look, some of the weapons are actually construction tools, like pile bunker's to crush through rocks and other stuff, in later AC games, some AC enemies/allies you will find are just barely modified civilan AC's.
Awesome explanation!:)
You guys are the best. :)
Well, the MTs were originally multipurpose tools. ACs basically standardized the combat MT template and grew out from there, and I think that's the same in all 3 timelines currently. There is hilariously a _NEXT_ in ACFA that's basically a purpose built construction/demolition machine though.
MTs - Muscle Tracers were effectively exosuits for civilian use, particularly construction and engineering work.
ACs - Are effectively the military application of the technology.
Essentially the difference between Tractors and Tanks early on. In Gen 4 Nexts are introduced and are even more powerful, with MT's resembling AC's from Gen 3.
Something I wish you'd mentioned is the optional first person camera: Hold Triangle + Square + Start during a mission (can't remember if you have to pause first or not). It feels like a whole different game. There is also a drop camera you can place where ever you'd like to make some cinematic shots: While playing press Circle + X + Start.
i hope i did some decent justice to these ps1 games. the ps2 and ps3 games are more up my alley but these where fun
I thought it was dope. I played the recent games before and just started the older entires a few weeks ago! Will you go all the way to the current game?
You should do a similar video on the other AC games. I loved this retrospective, Armored Core was a major part of my childhood and really shaped my love for all things mecha.
Oh I see you have!
@@MasterAlarad I'll be making a video on almost all the armored core games 👍
@@bigbankgib438 ya I'm going to skip 9 breaker 4 and 5 but I will cover all others so silent line, nexus, last raven, for answer, and verdict day (havent played vday yet)
Beat all three with 0 Human+, used a quad for the sweet back weapons until project phantasma gave me the Ultra-heavy generator so I switched to a heavy biped. I was really disappointed after fighting Necron because Tiamat was MUCH harder. Right before Nine-Ball Seraph I was experimenting with a light AC. Used a super-sniper to cheese the 3 before Seraph only for it to absolutely demolish me. Went back to the heavy with a karasawa and the hidden back missiles from AC1. Crushed Seraph so hard I thought the cutscene was him transitioning to a second phase lmao. Great games for a PS1, really kinda bummed I didn't have this game back then.
Yeah disagree that you "want" to go for Human+ let alone all Human+ to start out. It is a cool feature for someone struggling, or maybe a repeat playthrough, but I'd suggest just playing the game.
I'm still stuck with Tiamat.
@@セータン Try tank legs or lighten up, Tiamat only has ballistics and missiles, if you can tank them or dodge them it's an easy fight. Also could just cheese him with the Karasawa.
Not sure if someone else mentioned it, but figured it is worth pointing out. You can fully customize the controls. I set up my D-pad like you would left stick, the face buttons like right stick, and set the rest to the shoulder and trigger buttons. Still not as smooth as having sticks, but it get close after a little playtime.
You call all of the boss fights underwhelming yet you are using Human+
Sir, you are a Human-
Even without Human Plus, the bosses aren't particulalry difficult. The only way to have them be difficult is to hamstring yourself into only using the weaker weapons. All of the good weapons kill the bosses fairly quickly, Human Plus or not.
@@SiphonRayzar mans just a passionate lover of the series
@@nameputhpong9041 What does that have to do with my comment?
@@SiphonRayzar i mean you giving a detailed counter argument to the original post when the original post is probably just so “passionate” about it that it probably wouldn’t change his mind.
My man saying Nine-Ball Seraph was underwhelming
I must've died about ten times in that boss battle (I started a fresh new save on MoA and didn't have any Human+ upgrades)
Watching this series makes me feel a bit stupid: never realised there was hidden weapons, never knew about human plus and always felt rail roaded into playing slow tank thread mechs because i liked the heavy weapons so my most vivid memory for every game is consistently sweating on the final missions due to low mobility and limited ammo.
How kid me managed to beat these games is a mystery.
Ya I never thought about searching the internet until kid me found a hidden part in ac2 and blew it up by accident causing me to search on the internet.
@@aboveaveragegaming6120 You can destroy hidden parts?
Now that From has such a huge following, I really hope AC6 catapults the series into more popularity
Doesn’t look that way.
@@mattymclaughlin59006 has sold very well, though
@@mattymclaughlin5900bro WDYM. It’s literally the best selling AC game and it has a very strong fan base even now
Stinger had no Idea that you were essentially just like Phantasma by being one of the pilots to undergo Human+. LOL
"why is there a bridge if the water is knee-high"
on a giant mech-suit.
Knee high, or even ankle deep, for a 30 foot warmachine is still pretty damn deep.
Also that mission to take out the guns in the shallow lake is one of 2 missions on the original demo (on interactive sampler #4), and is probably one of the most iconic things for original AC players besides Nineball.
To anyone getting into the series or otherwise playing the ps1 AC games, I highly suggest playing without H+ for your first playthrough. While the games aren't generally difficult, it does make it more of an honest challenge. The arena is 2-3x more difficult to clear if you don't have access to H+ if only for the reduced boost cost.
Oh, and one thing that was missed is that you can ignore weight limits if you've cleared a certain percentage of the first game and carries over if you use that save file. I'm not sure what the percentage is.
Fun fact about the radar that you have to defend...You can get that radar if you time taking it just right just as the mission ends and not fail the mission. Took me hours...but i have a save file with 100% mission success and all parts.
For Answer was my absolute favorite. I want a remake of that game bad. I still never beat the final mission which is considered one of the hardest missions in a game other than Drakengard 1 and 3.
Yeah, that mission is insane. It's the punishment for taking all the easier, but more immoral missions when forced to choose. If you take the harder, but more ethical missions throughout the game, you get a much, much easier final mission.
I remember my roommate took the evil route in that game and got the hard final mission, I helped him beat it by using a back mounted cannon that could one-shot the ACs but only had like 5 shots, so I could only miss once! I eventually beat every ending, unlocked the highest output generator, and built a mech that could over-boost forever! Not even kidding, that game was a lot of fun! :D
Best bet is to either switch regs to unlimited energy and go blader or switch to earlier regs and equip White Glint's weapons. The missiles alone can destroy multiple NEXTs by themselves.
One of my all time favorite series that needs to come back
Well, well...
Well, you got what ya wanted
Its insane how FromSoft came from Kingsfield with ultra slow, barely able to walk and attack beyond the scope of slowmotion. To this fast paced semi large levels action shooter with flying robots. Its on the same freaking system FFS! Its like a Calculator manufacturer suddenly develops NASA Quantum Computers... thats just wild.
If you start master of arena with a fresh save file instead of importing you actually get a cutscene explaining how nineball killed your family. no idea why that gets cut out when you do the option probably like 90% of the people who bought this game did
My friend this series and your channel is about to get a lot more popular in the coming year.
Old school ACs were very op. Something shown in AC2A. As for the ACMoA back story. It's in the manual, which old games from that generation did. It was decent enough, it was just your basic story of a dude destroyed your home and family so you choose to go get revenge. Just to finally see there more to world then just your revenge. It was also meant to be a retelling of the original. Just with a story this time. Other than oh you are mercenary, have fun.
Going to incorporate that and Project Phantasma into the storytelling of the fanfic I'm writing. Probably introduce a 'Leos Klein' who has this want for revenge and has to earn his chance whilst our protagonists either have to bail him out or work around him (to emphasize that initially he is a hapless newbie but he will have his moments)
It's not just in the manual, it is also in the game itself if you start a New Game instead of loading in a file from ACPP or AC1
@@boxtank5288 You DO know that Leos and the protag from MoA are one and the same, right?
@@RayShadow278 Yeah I am just working the events of the first game AND Project Phantasma in. MoA's segments will have him be star of the show (though he'll make appearances here and there, can excuse the Seraph fight seperately because both Armored Core and MoA have a moment where you fight two Nineballs. Have the deutagonists deal with the twins while Leos goes to finish the matter. Have the two dip during the conclusion as they kinda realize that Earth has nothing more to offer for mercenaries (as Raven's Nest kinda dies with R/Nineball/Lana Nielson) and fucking off to Mars.
@@boxtank5288 You could also work in Fritz Byne, who is literally Leos Klein, just with a different emblem and name.
I only ever played the first AC game but this is a great overview. I learned a few things from your video and some of your commentary had my sides hurting from laughter (Frog Man). Great video and I'll be looking forward to your next post
Master of Arena is unapologetically my favorite game in the series alongside 3
The amount of deadness and lack of enthusiasm in the voice, despite working on something you clearly love, is really a magical experience
I love how gritty and hard the PS1 games were.
I don't know if someone already spoiled the mini easter egg of Armored Core 1, but there was a mission called "DARK SOULS".
demonstrating isnt a translation error, demonstration is another word for protesting.
Been a fan of this series for decades. Hope they go for a more simple approach the later games were overly complicated
5 and VD were too much.... And too little. I don't like how the only way to jump was to wall climb
Absolutely not. I do not want a dumbed down game. Keep the complexity
agreed, the later ones were a bit too zippy for me and it makes me dizzy.
This was what I was looking for when it comes to a review. I get a clear picture of the game and its story. Yours is the best one so far. I tried a couple others, but they either waxed poetic about the game play only, or droned through the story element in such a way that I couldn't properly feel like I understood it.
Thanks.
Behold, your series is about to blow up!
49:18 that sound is so 90s PSX that my sense of style and my outlook on life improved.
Dude I came here to watch your videos because of the announcement of AC6, and about halfway through I got ads and one of them was the trailer for AC6. My day is made.
great vid! just FYI, the reason why master of arena makes no sense is that it does that 90's thing where instead of having an opening cutscene setting up the story, it just has all that shit in the manual, the plot is that your nameless raven went into the line of work to take revenge on hustler one for killing your family as collateral in one of their missions.
Nope, it's probably because he imported his save file or that he accidentally skipped the cutscene since THERE IS A CUTSCENE for it based on other clips and evidence that I googled quickly.
(Edit for further clarification: This is seen after you enter your name while making a new game, even if this comment was made 2 months ago I just wanted to say something to avoid misinformation.)
@@StrayEmber0 that cutscene doesnt explain even half of whats going on tho
@@brunocar02 wydm??? I'm just saying that there is a cutscene talking about The Raven wanting revenge for his dead family foreshadowing the AC that did it with Lana Nielson giving The Raven an offer to be a raven. The story is pretty simple "Nineball killed your family so now you gotta go kill him now even if you must bring down the system" revenge story
@@StrayEmber0 pretty sure that part isnt in the cutscene, thats on an email Lana sends you, and in a very compact format.
@@brunocar02 oh great for whatever reason TH-cam is deleting my comment (for no warning or reason at all 🙄) looked up why and is probably because I was putting a link to an external site so I was trying to post the same comment 7 times *pure frustration* anyway three things:
1. I literally said there was clips of it
2. The email says nothing about 9Ball killing his family
3. Evidence:
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your videos are about to blow up
Armored Core was so impressive coming from Mechwarrior 2. Yeah the PSX didn't have a real GPU like a PC, but they did awesome things with what they had. Cool textures, models, and animations, and so much faster than a Mechwarrior game!
Vaati sends his regards.
i wonder if he knows i mentioned him in my armored core last raven video lol. (it came out before he linked me)
I learned so many things I completely missed in all of these games as a kid. That's probably because I only ground the missions for the parts so my buddy and I could pvp and accidentally found extra bits. But still, damn.
What perfect content to refresh my memory before 6.
Amazing production
This video needs more views.
The Project Phantasm ending was hilarious and you made it 10 times more funny on your video xD
Still don't get why you think some missions are too easy or underwhelming when you're literally using Human+. Some arena fights took me forever to finish
Thankyou for the encouragement! Ya I'll try to keep that in mind next time.
Bro human plus is not that game breaking.
@@AndersonWave17 it is wdym
"f**k nine ball, my beef is with this chick" LMFAO!!
right tho? 😂😂
If you were curious enough to start fresh in MoA then the beginning of the story would not be as confusing and entering the official arena is not possible without a sponsor idk why.
A big theory is that ac1 and acmoa events happen simultaneously or almost at the same time
For the armored core 1 endings you have to side with one corporation and the ending for the other corp changes, but the final true ending is the same always.
A good video with clear points and a bit of personality too. Keep up the good work.
Thank you kindly. I'm 6 minutes into ac3 video and I got the mic dialled in almost perfectly so only better content from here on out. Thank you for all the good lore videos you make here on yt
@@aboveaveragegaming6120 look foward to the next vid then. And thank you for creating content too as it always a blast to see ac content being made.
The clear eyes commercials had more personality in them. Thats what this dude sounds like lol. AC was a dope game on ps1 though.
Man I loved this. I never played through the PS1 games. Just a one time blockbuster rental. So this was really informative!
Took me a few days to get through it cause I don't have much time to myself but I loved this thank you!
I started with armored core 2 and I cannot be happier for 6.
Fly high ravens!
"Give me a discount next time ^_-~"
Raven: NOPE ((drives off))
Please note that this video is the 2nd of your playlist, while Armored Core 2 is before it.
That m-m-monster cutscene at 15:00 was golden lmao wow im still laughing
To my knowledge (I've watched someone else talk about this game) the protag and everyone else in the Ravens are actually either AIs that are sorta controlled by Raven Nest. Or Raven Nest had already made something similar to Phantasma that it used on the mercs under it's employ.
It makes sense as you never see any of the pilots out side of their ACs and even the whole Human Plus is sorta weird.
I really need to play these games!
The only AI Raven in the PS1 trilogy is Nineball himself. I've never heard of ALL of the other Ravens being AI's themselves before.
@@SiphonRayzar then nevermind if I'm wrong.
@@dustgraystone9448 zinaida gets out of her ac in last raven
Theres also the arena descriptions for the pilots
No idea how your channel hasn't blown up with the AC6 announcement! Fingers crossed for you man, you're putting in the work!
I'd say it's going good. I'm just happy I'm getting more than 500 views a video lol. I've seen channels that do great work and have been around for years that have very little success
15:30 In Armored Core all the way up to Last Raven, you can access the map. The limits of the map is determined by the head. Some heads have no map. Some heads only remember what you have explored. And some heads, which are best in missions like this, have a complete map for you to use. It is especially useful in these maze and dungeon like levels, and in Nexus and Last Raven's case, in the event your head has no night vision.
this series makes AesirAesthetic look like a fucking hack. He didn't even bother to do separate videos for early/late 3rd gen, and only talked about the numbered entries.
You're a real one and after having watched all of these intently, I have to say, it's fuckin' criminal that you have a fraction of that dudes audience.
Just the fact that you said both that you're "not really *into* stories in videos games," however you "didn't read the wiki for any of this information, it just came from playthroughs." That alone puts you above like 90% of the entire video game TH-cam ecosystem. I really appreciate the effort you've gone through for all this.
Plus, you speak normal English too so that's always a bonus.
Regardless of me hating on other 'Tubers, you really did a great job with these. I've always been the only AC snob in my real life friends circles and these videos have been infinitely validating for me personally. I'm really happy with how you touched on virtually every single feature added and removed, as well as some that were only ever considered.
This series should be considered a masterclass in how to make an in-depth series of analysis of an entire franchise, literally on par with Noah Gervais. Good job bro.
8:57 knee high on an ac is the size of a semi-truck. That is some deep water.
Time to binge watch.
Thank you for the upload.
Yes.. that BGM - "Memory Shape Alloys" - love that tune!
I remember the demo disc that had AC1 on it, and then I got Master of Arena whenever it came out. Good times, good video!
"Disc 2 arenas are not something to cover"
Like, DUDE, the number of arenas in this game is higher than half of the franchise put together, and you need to be UNDEFEATED if you want to unlock the final arena with the best pilots. I did that without using human+ or no overweight cap (I did not have the first game) and I did not cheese it with height glitch. It shaped me as a player in both in-game aspect and gamer in general. The game truly grinds you to mastery and I love it for it. The last AC game that I could play was AC3 and I can only wish that they introduced more arena content, OR if it allowed us to have custom arena much like MoA did - we build enemy ACs to pilot against. Boy oh boy was that fun. You don't find content to cover there? I have enough to talk hours about it :P
Well, could've. I was very young when I played this, but I still remember the ordeal.
I'll have to check it out sometime. Everything I've read on it has just said "extra arena content" which sounds cool. I know there is some way to create ac's to battle based on what you want
@@aboveaveragegaming6120 iirc, there are four "legs" arenas, developer arena (where every or many developers built their ACs), and I think one or two more along with Master(?) Arena.
But there was also Custom Arena where we could build custom ACs for AI to pilot against us. It was really fun! I built some crazy ACs and then on one very humbling occasion I put together an AC with the most basic weapons and parts and it DESTROYED me with that starting rifle! He shot it so fast at me while airborne the force of the rifle stunned / rooted me in place, followed with blade attacks, then if I managed to get away he sniped me with rockets or missiles with uncanny precision. My own custom, most basic built AC stomped my ass! WHAT?!?! Lil dude gave me more trouble than the final AC in the game did.
But, yeah, the second disc was amazing. I re-visited it back after I got my hands on the first game (it was years later) with no-overweight and human+ unlocked and while it felt good to shove back cannons up their arses, it didn't feel as fulfilling after doing the game "normal" way.
This was a pleasant surprise to find in my recommended feed. I'll be sure to check out the other videos as well. Nice work.
regarding the fight with carson and its AI.
carson primarily focuses on dodging / getting away from you, until at least one of your weapons has fully depleted its ammo. at which point they become hyper aggressive with their weapons, as indicated by their description. "waits patiently for his opponent to expend all their ammo, then attacks". the issue though is that the fight will usually be ended before running out of ammo on any weapons, and indoors arenas make their defensive play style fall apart quick.
can verify the ai works like that from my own experience running out of mortar ammo on them
I just found your channel, and enjoyed this video immensely. It was like listening to Mr. Plinkett's (grand)son talk about video games.
Lol. Hopfully someday I wont be described like that
@@aboveaveragegaming6120 Haha wasn't meant as a criticism, just the deadpan delivery. I'd say embrace it!
I enjoyed the video therefore im commenting.
tyvm
I loved the 1st one, I had the demo on a Ps1 disc somewhere. I never heard about Project Phantasma or Master of Arena !
Then I bought every Ps2 Armored Core games. I still have them :)
Also Armored Core 4 on Ps3, but I don't even remember playing it. How funny.
Thank you for this series, I'm looking forward to watch all of it !
I'm sure that demo disk would sell for huge $
Very grateful this video series exists. I'd normally just emulate the games myself like I did with the older ace combat games, but I've heard that some of them can just be a bitch to play. I much prefer this to watching playthroughs, so thank you so much for these videos!
Thanks for watching! Ya I had problems emulating just about all of them except 3 and silent line. Repeating audio, messed up visuals, it's a pain ngl
They aren't that bad, so far
Been looking for this kind of Armored Core retrospective for a while and I’m glad I finally found a great one! Great job, looking forward to watching the next videos!
As a newcomer to the series who is hyped for VI, thank you very much, even when I had ps3 the games went by me, and now I am catching up, thanks to you.
Coming from the souls-likes I was looking for an introduction on the AC series. I am 1/2 into your video and I have to say I am excited for AC 6 :) Excellent job!
Tyvm. Not happy with the bad audio and a few mistakes I made but everyone goes through it
I loved all 3 of these games as a kid. My brother had an original PlayStation and these were the only ones I ever played. It's been over twenty years since i've picked up a controller.
9 Breaker does not equal Arena Champion. It's a reference to 9 Ball, the legendary AC of Hustler One who stood longer than anyone at top of the Raven's rankings until he vanished without a trace and only appears as a thing in the titular Armored Core Nine Breaker game. The truth being he was always an AI Controlled pilot/ac that once the player character defeat the AI systems that controlled him ends his rain.
This is an impressive series! Awesome stuff , it's a really good watch. Playing ps1 games on handheld emulators is great
I've never played armored core and have been very curious so thanks for the video. Disappointed that the channel name is an understatement. Subbed.
Thank you very much. I'm glad I've made it this far and I'll keep going
Once a raven always a raven
Great synopsis, I haven't played through this series since the ps1 days. My cousins and I would spend hours building ACs and fighting split screen. Good times!
good video man. i usually avoid longform review videos unless it's from somebody i'm familiar with, but it was easy to watch your whole video. will be watching the rest of the series for sure
The very fact that you discussed Human Plus Mode, you earned my respect. Remember it transferred with your save all the way to Master of Arena.
I hate to be that guy, but the beginning parts of the story for master of the arena are in the instruction booklet provided with the game.
Also a few notes for master of arena.
1. Hustler one seems to have noticed you because (and note that this isn't really explained in the game) the player character is after hustler one because he killed his family as being a casualty during a mission.
2. You get to join the real arena because, in the mission prior to the announcement, you killed wolf, who held rank 14 in the actual arena so now a spot just conveniently opened up for you.
The best way to gain debt in armored core 1 is to finish the few first missions and then fail worker robot removal by blowing up all the generators and killing yourself in the process
Great video, interested in getting to the series after failed attempt in the past, so excited for ac6
The name "Klein" was also used in Cyber Knight 2 for the SNES
This is an awesome video.
So, I'm gonna comment on each game covered.
For Armored Core 1, I largely agree with all of your points. I will say, I overall think the PS1 trilogy is overall really easy, even without Human Plus. Human Plus just makes things a little easier. The inclusion of hidden parts in various missions provides some decent replayability back in the day, but nowadays is just a time waster. Thankfully you only have to collect the part, unlike in later games. The controls are definitly the games biggest sticking point for newbies. Even as a Armored Core vet, I have to relearn the controls when I go back to replaying the original trilogy. Thankfully, the best way to play these games is available via emulaters, which allows you to map the move and looking controls to the joysticks. Makes the games way more playable that way. Honestly out of all the original trilogy games, my favorite is this one. One more thing about Armored Core 1, is when you 100% the game, you unlock the ability to make your AC overweight and overenergy. Meaning you can stack up your mech however you want, regardless of the weight or energy requirements. This feature is also in both Project Phantasma and Master of Arena, once you 100% both of those games. It's a neat little feature that doesn't get brought up very often.
Project Phantasma is definitely the weakest of the original trilogy, but it's still a decent game. Same controls issue, but that can be fixed via emulator. The Arena is cool, and a very much appreciated feature, although I do think having 50 opponants is a bit much. The lower like, 20 opponants could be cut and the arena experience would be greatly improved. The one thing I greatly dislike about Project Phantasma, is that both Sumika's and Stinger's AC parts are unavailable for the player to use. Sumika's I can kinda understand, since she's just using a pink model of an enemy from AC1, but Stinger is straight up using unique AC parts. Except for his boosters, but he is otherwise using a completely unique AC. Thankfully you get to use his parts in Last Raven.
Master of Arena is, interesting. It's story is what leads up to Armored Core 2, although it's actual canonocity is a bit, opaque. You can replace Master of Arena with AC1, and the story of AC2 won't change. Anyway, the focus on Nineball as the main antagonist is a double edged sword. If the player is invested in defeating Nineball, then great. If not, it comes across as a bit pointless. Especially if you're playing it via emulation without the context from the manual. In the manual, it states that you're player character joined the Ravens Nest to become a raven, specifically to get a chance at hunting down and killing Nineball, who killed your family prior to the events of the game. That context is lost if you only ever played it via emulation.
Now, onto the Arena side of things. The focuse on more Arena style gameplay is again a double edged sword. If you enjoy the arena gameplay of the Gen 1 games, then great. If you don't, it's a slog to get through. And the extra disc has SO MANY ARENA OPPONANTS! I enjoy the arena aspect of the game, but even I find it very repetitive by the end of it all. However, there is a silver lining to it all. The Arena Maker part of the extra disc is SO MUCH FUN. It's really fun creating your own arena opponenats. I've put hundreds of hours into creating various mechs from other franchises into it, as well as remaking future ACs in it.
Anyway, a very nice, enjoyable video. I hope my comment provides some insight from an Armored Core veteran.
Spectacular video! Man, my first exposure to this series was on the ps1 demo disk for AC1, still have it. Good times.
Ravens..... Lynx.....
Now is our time to rise from the ashes....
And fight for whats left of our future.
Armored core is back and 6 is coming...
One of the fun parts of the PS1 AC games is the one on one battles where you can use your AC and fight a friend via split screen. If you were real lucky, you could use two PS1s and the link cable and each person can play on their own screen.
One thing that's cool about the first project phantasma mission is there's a bonus objective of smashing up the place.
The more boxes and structures you blow up, the more money you can get. It's incredibly easy to get 50-60k on a first playthrough. On my second I got like 75k
I think there's a lot of fun in Kneel Only runs of these games.
I guess I have to do a starting ac run to make people happy in this game
@@aboveaveragegaming6120 Nah, it's just a fun thing to mess around with. Usually leads to discovering dumb crap. Like I had no idea the Parry blades in AC3 actually had a legit Parry Mechanic until trying Parry/Shield, and seeing the arm raise animation incorporated the shield and made staggering blade hits a thing. Blew my friggin mind.
Kneel only is just a fun meme run, since most cannon weapons are OP as hell.
Amazing vid and I can tell you’re obviously skilled in AC combat.
I hate to be that guy though… AC1 was not a launch title. It released on my birthday when I turned 15 (I remember because I was SUPER hyped to get this as a gift) in 97. About 2 years after the PS1 dropped in the US.
"Like why exactly is there this bridge if the water is only like knee-high"
Knee-high..... to an Armored Core. In which Pilots fit spaciously inside of the head. So the water is several full-grown adults in depth. At least 3 AC heads' worth. Which are probably about 1 and a half adult male height. So, nearly 18 feet deep. We build bridges for less irl lol.
But pilots dont pilot from the head. It only functions as a sensor... I'm no civil engineer and you're trying to indicate how high the water is in an armored core game where things arent properly to scale in real life.
Edit 7:00 can give you some perspective on just how tall my ac is. The water only goes up about 1/6 my leg. Those vehicles look like they could transport humans in the back. The water would probably only reach up 1/3 of the vehicle meaning the water is probably around 4' high. How tall is the bridge they're constructing compared to the water? (See, I can do what you did with a different more realistic object and get a different result)
@@aboveaveragegaming6120 the animosity wasn't necessary. I simply thought I remembered a snip of footage from an AC game in which an x-ray of the head showed seating for the pilot. I just assumed the bridge was massive because the vehicles being used were massive compared to irl vehicles. I'd say it's fair to assume pilots were seated in the head, or the chest, as that's where most mech games and shows have their pilots seated, and one of AC's clear influences, Mobile Suit Gundam, is no different. It's also fair to assume that AC's are roughly to scale to MS' in Gundam. That being, absolutely massive. I was simply pointing out that we build bridges over 5-8 feet of water sometimes, so it's not all that ridiculous to think they'd build this bridge if my head canon scaling was even remotely accurate.
Sources indicate that Armored Cores between Gen 2 and Gen 3 (AC2 to Last Raven) are between 30 and 40 feet tall. And you yourself state multiple times jn your video series "a four-story mech". So idk what exactly you're arguing here...
@@SynysterProjects in all reality the shallow water was just weird. In any other armored core game you would swim with the fishes in that situation. Sorry for being overly defensive.
Thanks for making this. The only suggestion would be to go for it and let yourself go overly in depth, I for sure would enjoy it I find it fascinating.
Master of Arena's story is based off of a Manga/ Novel.
I'm loving this series, subbed i hope you do more soon! Catching up on the others too, you do great work with these
The "Human +" concept had been retaken into AC6, it renamed as "Augmented Human".
great video ive been replaying the AC series to hype me up with all the talk about AC6 or what ever the reboot is called.
What was cool, seeing the ad for Armor Core IV, while watching your vid.
I got that same thing while watching other people's armored core content lol.
2:45 Wait, where did Armored Core 1 release as a launch title? It came out in 1997 that was over 2 years into the consoles life cycle.
The part at the end about having difficulty playing older 3D games makes a lot of sense to me. To be honest though, having just finished AC1 I find it holds up really well. The formula is bang on the same as gen 2 and 3 and the game feel is still really solid. One of the easiest old 3D games for me to go back to
Check out frame gride tho, it's got almost no story but it seems really interesting and I kinda wish it did have a story
all of my life i thought the human plus was a mandatory progression of the games since i never managed to go far without getting it, i just figured it should be the equivalent of a leveling up in the story
I bet this guy is psyched for AC6.
Despite my comment being late, but I find it at how similar yet different the endings between AC1 and AC3/AC3 Silent Line are. In the Controller ending to AC1, the AI core is practically cursing your name to it's grave. Yet the AI Core in AC3 plus Silent Line, the AI cores seem to be a strange yet benevolent system. The AI cores from AC3 are practically giving you their blessing for humanity to move on, like it's programming was meant to push the entire species to leave the underground and thrive at the surface.
Nice review. It's amazing you got the three PS1 games in one video. That's a lot of effort, especially with all the jank.
It was originally gonna be every single armored core game in 1 video lol. I figured out pretty quick that would take forever