This game, Remnant 2, and BG3 are making this one of the best summers of gaming we've had in a very long time.

Thanks for the review! In case you have not been told lately, you are doing a fantastic job. Keep it up 👍

My favorite mission in, I think armor core 5, was a mission where you had to run a blockade of ships to destroy a vulnerable target behind the blockade. The mission starts with you having giant rockets strapped to your back flying at insane speed dodging incoming fire from the blockade ships. The rockets break away once you reach your target. The best part? You could boost while the rockets are firing to go even faster! So if you refit your mech for max boost you can S rank the mission because you reach the target insanely fast.

For the people that will be concerned over game lenght, there is *new* missions and content exclusive to NG+ and NG++, so its heavly incentivised to do more than just 1 playthrough

I'm so excited for this. I played it for literally 10,000+ hours as a kid. I even went to tournaments in hotel meeting rooms back in the Project Phantasma days. I mostly only did the arena though, I was never much of a fan of the missions. I'm really looking forward to this, as well as building my old AC from 25 years ago.

Thank you! Finally a review that doesn't assume I know anything about Armored Core. I went from being 50/50 on getting the game to pretty hyped.

Love this game only thing I would change is add boxes with the pilots talking in the corner that change depending on the damage taken and react real time to the action.

Good review Force! Been following ye for a while and im glad that yer soon about to hit 1 million subs, you've been deserving it for quite some time now!

Man you are about to reach 1M subs, I’ve been a subscriber since your SC2 tutorials 😂 and Force news. Hope you get there at the end of this year. Love your content!

Watching your review made me think of these battles between mechs as similar to battles between warriors in feudal Japan, or superpowered characters in a manga, or Player 1 vs player 2 in fighter games. It's like a a combat simulator.

A very honest review from a great prospective, thank you my dude.

A great video. As an armored core fan since the first game and always loving the mission based design of the games. I always wanted a side game or different series with the game play of Armored Core but open world as well.

Thanks for the great and informative review!

Good review, I’ll have to pick it up! Enjoying to see some developers come out with games with no strings attached. BG3 and AC6! Good job devs!

Thanks for the review man. I've been watching you since you were making league of legends guides. Keep up the good work brother 💪

Some crazy games this year that I wasn’t even looking out for. Bg3, street fighter 6, remnant 2, and now this. What an amazing year for gaming

I really miss the days you could play a game. Beat it. Then play it again because it was fun.

This game is amazing you can go from gatling tank to speed ninja and anything in between for no other reason but your own sadistic sense of satisfaction

Went back here after avoiding all spoilers as much as I could and I'm happy to hear we share the same thoughts. It's a great game and I think they tackled the NG+ system well. There are some story bits that are behind NG+ and they're all great missions!

been watching you since middle school starting with kingdoms of amular. I'm not gonna act like i watch every vid but it's cool you're still around doing you

I've only just started playing Armored Core VI on account of playing Baldur's Gate 3 first. It's just an incredible game and I'm completely immersed in it, love the challenge and the story isn't half bad either. I'll be playing through this 3 times to S-Rank everything but yeah - it's an instant classic for me. Great review FG.

I loved the game. It's like a love letter to similar 90s playstation esque action titles. There were so many good ones. Really cool mood, lots of missiles and lasers etc.. Like you said it's just fun to play. After my first play through I just found myself replaying missions for extra/secret new parts to play around with. It can go real chill or you can fight a two phase boss with a dagger and pistol.

I miss mission based games. This is a huge plus.

Great review, I might pick this one up. Thanks.

Been a fan of yours since your podcast days with jessee for diablo 3 before it released. Like you I have really next to none experience with armored core but that game looks great! There is such a shortage in my opinion of great single player games made by really reputable developers.

This is definitely going on my wishlist. It looks great but I've got a bunch of games already I still haven't played. The trials of being a PC gamer.

We need MORE mech and scifi games

The gameplay and combat is just so good, feels so good to fly around destroying everything. Its difficult to stop playing

I finished the game and did all three endings. amazing game, I hope this sells and I am so happy FromSoft knows it will not sell like Dark Souls 3 or Elden Ring yet they still made it.

lost me at the description of boss fights. I still haven't gotten over my pstd from Melina. Thanks for confirming I need to avoid this title too. :p great job on the review as always!!!

ill watch this after i play it x) been pretty successfull at going in blind but i came here for the discription cause i trust your opinions hahah

Definitely picking this up just not immediately, wish id not wasted timed and money on D4

Environments matter in these boss fights, such as Sea Spider. Also length of attack time as well as possibly a fixed length of attack distance, leap or area. Often times with Sea Spider, I was hitting one of his blades before one of his slam attacks were completing. So proper area positioning for being able to fully clear the full length of an attack matters.

Thanks bro. I'll be sure to pick this up

The visuals look awesome, another win from From.

Thanks for the review!

Bruh, that tank leg is terrifying af. Back in the day we just made use of range to keep distance away from tank builds while whittling away at their huge armor pools. Now the freaking tank build RUNS YOU OVER WITH ITS HEAVY ARMOR. Like a truck hell-bent on sending you to an isekai somewhere. 😱

to touch on that NG+ aspect towards the end, this game was meant to be played in NG+ as more missions open up, from what I've heard as far back at NG+5, idk if this includes additional bosses, but more missions overall open up each tier it seems. if its like Elden Ring, it'll stop at or around +7 (I believe the previous souls titles from them also stopped at 7?). something to keep in mind for anyone who was wondering if there was a point to doing NG+ after beating the story

One of the many contributing factors of this game's monetization-free customization is probably the fact that Fromsoft prioritized the single player experience over milking people's money by giving us a properly finished game complete with all of its contents.

I love this game so much. I wish there was more chests though and hidden items throughout the levels

Fantastic review. Thanks

Manual aiming unlock is gonna make the PvPers happy

Only played a few hours but so far it’s great. I would love to see multiplayer missions, competitive coop missions, etc… lots of potential for the genre.

Looks like returnal - just started this game and wow. I feel much obligated to support AC6 game because of the FromSoftware. Getting it soon. Best dev team and vision.

great review!!

This game has a lot of replayability potential in the future. For example a PvP mode Destiny style, online mission co-op mode just like Mass Effect 3 (base defense till extraction or convoy mode), capturw the flag Halo Style, 8nvading your mission on behalf of the enwmy force Elden Ring style, opposing Corp mission online, or a Raid boss online co-op mode.

It will fully blossom with multiple playthroughs and pvp.

Welcome back, Ravens.

gotta be the best looking HUD ive ever seen

Looks like zone of enders! New to this! Cant wait

I am also someone who is interested in an Armored Core-styled Elden Ring.

Jehuty, I'm coming!

NG+ is definitely part of the core experience. Best entry in the series, and finally approachable to a broad audience with all of the (admittedly charming) jank of old gone.

Developers are going off this year!

the Short and Easy mission's is by Design., not an issue, it's there since the OG one 👌👌

Love to hear it.

Good review but forgot to mention multiple different endings and new missions with NG2 and NG3

Apparently NG+ adds whole new missions, equipment and content... And get this, so does NG++

You nailed it with Armored core/ Elden Ring. I think that's what most of the base expected, but it is a very fun game with not a whole lot of replayability. Nice contained playthrough. Move on

I love it I’ve waited for so long , my only complaint is the mechs don’t read as that big the cars , trees and ect feel like model or toys not that the mech is huge I wish that scale feeling was better , but I’m nit picking

Not to mention you get full pay from replaying missions. One of the final missions gives you a whopping 500,000 and you csn literally just replay that whenever you need a bump for more parts. Plus i imagine with AC6s sucess DLC and additional customization is bound to come along now.

Im not even a souls person but this game is fun as hell. The boss fights will definitely challenge you but just remembering their move set and getting your AC build the way you want it can definitely get interesting.

I wish that this brings back new mech games, not only by From Soft, but other studios, and if FS continues to develop new ACs, hope in ACVII we have the ability to do mission in coop, assemble a lobby in the mission selector, and go in together, maybe they even add this to the game. It will make some boss fights easier, yeah, but this was never a problem in the souls games, shouldn't be a problem here either, the amount of fun would be a lot.

So many good games coming out while other games like No Mans Sky getting even more updates. Where to spend my time? Baldurs Gate, Armored Core, No Mans Sky, Fortnite, Remnant 2, and soon Starfield.

Ive wanted a good mech game since watching code gease anime. Id kill for a game in that universe

I just wanna play PvP, but I'm guessing I'll have to play through the single player to unlock parts and whatnot. Kind of a bummer, but I guess we'll see.

At first it's a lot to take in. But once the controls and movement clicks... there is no going back after that. It just feels so good playing.

With 45 right hand weapons, 58 left hand weapons, 38 right shoulder weapons (plus 44 right hand options on the shoulder), 45 left shoulder weapons (plus 57 left hand options on the shoulder), there are 21.8 million different weapon loadouts.

BG3, Remnant 2, Blasphemous 2 and AC 6 back to back are gonna destroy my life. Can't complain.

I’m not a big fan of the mech aesthetic but gameplay looks fluid af

Thanks for giving this gem the proper attention it clearly deserves. It cannot offer flopping dicks like BG3 does, so obviously GOTY cannot be challenged. But to me it's no question, nothing comes close to AC6. I've S-Ranked 53 out of 59 missions and I'm taking my time with those that are left. I don't want to be done with this game. The subsequent playthroughs give so much more insight and alternative missions are a ton of fun. In addition to all you've said, I must add that the music, the ideas, the story, and the characters are on an absolutely amazing level. Walter is by far my favorite Fromsoft character.

looks great, but damn i would love it would hAve co op in it

From what I've seen the game is very polished but has a very narrow scope. It looks they spend most of the development time refining and perfecting the feel of the combat. Thus leaving very little time to construct the content. So they went with an early 2000 on rails very structured mission system. Games like this benefit greatly from post launch content expansions.

It is fun and Awesome. Hedged on buying because Stanfield. I'm happy I bought it. Took 35 attempts to beat the helicopter. Almost tossed myself and controller out the window, but need both working to keep trying. Only Mech game i tried that I like. I heard you can repeat levels and find hidden chest

Flying seems on point

Get this man to 1mil subs already. Im tired of checking the count 😂

Just doing my part to help you to 1million subs 😎

I'd be down for an open world AC game. Sounds like PRIME expansion fodder imo. Thanks for talking about the performance of the PC version. Glad to hear it's not a problem.

Took three hours on the Sea spider, meanwhile it took me like 30mins on the 3 finale bosses, fuck the sea spider.

Did you finish finish or just first play through finish?

I think the graphics needed to be the way they are to offer bigger mission areas and more action. More missiles can take flight, with more targets to shoot, and more destructible objects in the environment, all with no frame drop, slow down, or stutter. It runs smooth on older computers, it runs perfect on newer ones, and the action is total madness during some boss fights. Some are criticizing Monster Hunter Wild trailers for looking like an older engine, but nobody commented on the huge herds of monsters in the game or how smooth it ran. The irony here is that only the only ones complaining are the ones who bought a 4090.

the emblem creation system is going to be monitored and there is even a report system in place if you see something you don't like

The game looks really fun. I can't wait to play it when I save enough money

Armored core 6 is amazing. It looks great runs great and its chalk full of action. Pvp wasnt available for review copies. And its not supposed to be a elden ring open world game. Its okay that ac6 is its own game people. The levels are pretty big sometime huge. Its a mission based game. Thats what it is. Its not supposed to be elden ring with mechs. Cant stand when people expect a dark souls game just because its fromsoftware. Belive it or not armored core was its first real big hit franchise. They know what their doing. The game is exactly what it should be. Expect the average play thru to be 50+ hours. Along with pvp and arena mode and dint forget to play the training missions. You get free mech parts for doing them. More ate added as you play thru the game with most coming in chapter 1 and 2. And explore the maps cause there is hidden mini bosses and hidden mech parts. So use your scanners alot to locate them. Hope to see you all in the battlefields.. and if i see you in pvp....good luck Ravens!

When do you unlock pvp?

But seriously tho… armored ring would be amazing!

"at its core" LOL. love it

I agree I wish it was more open armored core is awesome

I spent 6 hours in the menu last night... didn't even realize it until I saw the "time played" in Steam

I never thought I’d buy this game but all the reviews are REALLY making me change my mind.

In a year of GOTYs Fromsoft decided to just play with robots instead, and I couldn't be more excited.

Weve had balders gate 3. Remnant 2. Armored core 6. And soon Lords of the fallen will be dropping. That game is gonna be amazing. Not to mention assassin's creed mirage going back to its roots. Payday 3, lies of P, spiderman 2, starfield, cyberpunk releasing one of the biggest dlcs ever and changing the overall game with it and the new 2.0 patch coming with it. Madden for you football fans. Were getting flooded with amazing games this next 2 months. Im all for it

Dont worry as far as everything is concerned VD's servers are still up 10 years later however the american servers are effectively "dead" as everyone decided to migrate to the JP servers hosted by From Soft. There may not be an official tourney circuit now unlike back in the day but MAYBE just MAYBE From Soft might redabble back into hosting AC tourneys like they did back in late 2000s with Last Raven

Been needing a new mech game to dive into. I miss Titanfall so much

AC6 probably has the best gameplay of any game I've seen. Absolutely stunning. It doesn't really show well in videos though

I described Armored Core VI to a friend as a "game-ass game". It's a strange thing to have a game you can drop in and out of with ease these days. So many games seem to demand your attention and time. I have plenty of both but it's nice that there's a game I can just hop into, run a mission, hop out. Even if you fail the mission, it's still a lot of fun. It feels like a game from a bygone era. The easiest way I can describe this is Super Mario Bros. on the NES. You can pop that on, race through a level and then... go play frisbee. Equally you can stay up well past your bedtime trying to perfect a boss fight. And the game punishes you not a jot. I can't think of a game that was this easy going. From delivered a game and said, "here's a toy, play with it."

3:00 you forgot to mention to the folks who haven't played the AC series before - u have to do all this while piloting the mech competently.

gameplay look remind me of Exteel. but then again im sure Exteel were probably inspired by ArmorCore games..

Force, have you even completed BG3?

what you just had to ruin it for me, 3 hours early. Thanks, Force!