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Um, excuse me, but that is a Macross Missile Massacre.
aka The Itano Circus
came to do exactly ☝️, & shame 無弾幕🕹️.
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I love Armored Core 6. should probably try the older games sometime
also wanna try touhou but it’s a bit intimidating to get into
Older armored core is a special kind of jank, but it’s masterable.
At first I read,
but it’s miserable
And I was like “yeah sounds about right” lol.
Though if I’m being honest, I don’t think I played an AC game between AC2 and AC6. I loved 2 as a kid, but I remember the jank. And don’t get me started on the prehistoric control schemes.
I recently tested the original AC using remaps to give it dual analog control, and it works pretty great that way. I’m sure later titles are likely an even nicer experience.
As much of a shock as the control scheme is initially, the fact that the game has keybind changes all the way back then made it super simple to switch to an easier control scheme.
The initial momentum is also pretty bad to start, but then once you figure out bunny hop boosting and good mech tuning, it’s a ‘holy shit’ moment and the game possibilites open up a huge amount. All of a sudden you’ve a huge range, from mechs that feel like actual tanks, to speedy builds that absolutely zip across the map. I don’t know if there’s a viable tank build for the end portion of those games, but i do know most other builds were viable.
I’m not sure there was an easier scheme back when I played AC2.
Unless it was just pre-Time Splitters 2 and the concept of using the analog sticks to move and aim at the same time hadn’t come to be yet… Or it had, just not ubiquitous yet?
Was it possible in AC2 to remap the camera to the right analog stick?
Edit: Time Splitters 2 came out 2 years later so even if there was an option to map controls that way, my tiny mind never would have conceived of such a scheme.
I was stuck using the shoulder buttons to look up and down. Brutal.
Was it possible in AC2 to remap the camera to the right analog stick?
Oh yeah it was. I am honestly amazed that FROMSOFT had rebinding figured out all the way back then. You were forced to complete the initiation mission with the old control scheme, but after that you could rebind everything to more normal controls. Those playstation controllers also had the function where you could switch the analog sticks into direction-pad behavior, which was required until AC3 I believe.
Huh, I didn’t know that.
I guess I just never thought to do it because the concept of dual analog controls being used that way hadn’t been created yet (as far as I’m aware). Prob why you needed to switch them off analog for it to even work.
My understanding is that TimeSplitters 2 was the first to do it, but I could be wrong
I had a copy of project phantasma and no memory card. I ended up developing an arena speedrun to get the wa-finger and then melt the main game in like 2 hours. I should try that again. It’s been decades but I still remember most of it.
Project phantasma was such a fun play-through. I never optimized it, I enjoyed the challenge of intended play too much to.
Well look at Mr. Fancy pants over here with his parents that understood late nineties tech! (Just kidding with ya. Maybe I’ll try a normal play through this time)
Oh I only got to play it via emulator at 25 lol, 8 years after playing AC IV. I did fall in love with the bunny-hopping tech of the OG games, though. Simple yet high-octane and somewhat nuanced. Plus the story within it was a great build off of the first.
If you enjoyed ac6, just don’t expect anything identical. Aesthetically and mechanically, ac6 is waaay different from previous iterations. Lock-on and free turning are brand new. Movement in others ranges from running through jello to strapped face-first to a missile. I recommend emulating everything up to 3, as the original ps1/ps2 controls make me want to die.
I wouldn’t be too surprised if people have made rom hacks fixing the control issues in the older ones
There’s just been a stream release of a remake of one of the classic Touhou games. I bought it and it was way more arcady than i expected. I also suck at it
Cool! What is the game called?
This game is so easy until this point. Its like the devs wanted you to remember who made this game.
It was a skill check.
I failed the skill check.
Going back to it after first playthrough made it feel like a joke after.
Its like the devs wanted you to remember who made this game.
… they put in a poison swamp level?
i should really finish ac6…
The day I heard about the balteus nerf I turned off updates on my steam deck.
I was a day 1 buyer and was kind of just haphazardly going through it and haven’t gotten to it yet. But I wanted to experience this.
Took some head banging into a brick wall, but after about a half hour to forty five minutes that wall crumbled. Then I updated and beat the nerf’d version with incredible ease.
Baltaus my beloved
