![]() Could we ever be so fortunate? Could our lost 6th mainline game be that good, too?Īnd then, at long last, the transmission we were waiting for so desperately arrived. “Maybe we’re just Ace Combat people now,” we wondered, jealousy seeping out, as our equally long-suffering jet fighter compatriots finally got their 7th real installment. It got so bad we half-joked about things like, “Dark Souls II is a mech game.” We joked about it so often, we even started to half-believe it. We thought maybe the next Souls game would be a “MechSouls.” We thought it so hard, we started to actually want it. In our longing we tweeted through it with banger after banger from previous Armored Core soundtracks. We took up Battletech and successive MechWarriors to no avail. Others Revisited Dingo Egret in Zone of the Enders 2. Some allowed themselves hope, others thought maybe Daemon X Machina would save us. Critics and journalists wrote articles about “From Software’s legacy you don’t know about.” They didn’t talk about Frame Gride or Eternal Ring, it was Armored Core. We sat on a dead rock, in dead metal, waiting for reactivation as From Software and Hidetaka Miyazaki became household names. There were Showcases, Directs, and Keighleys. But for the faithful Ravens who survived the Great Destruction and fought on through the National Dismantlement to become veterans of the Verdict War, it was a dire time.Į3s came, and went, and then really went. Sure, there wasn’t a drought of From Software content in that time- Dark Souls II, Bloodborne, Sekiro, Elden Ring. ![]() If all Armored Core VI: Fires of Rubicon did was come out, that probably would have been enough for a lot of people.
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