Armored Core 6: Fires of Rubicon has faithfully returned FromSoftware’s Armored Core sequence to the highlight. New and previous followers are smashing bosses, portray wild mechs, and joking about Handler Walter, and fairly quickly, they’ll be hungry for extra. And also you’d suppose with a sequence stretching again to 1997 with almost 20 entries, that it’d be a cinch to return and play… any of them. However you’d be improper!
Taking part in any of the previous Armored Core video games at the moment requires utilizing consoles from two, three, or 4 generations in the past: not a single entry is on the market for obtain on trendy consoles or PC.
You’ll be able to obtain and play Armored Core: Verdict Day (consider it as AC5.5), as long as you continue to have a PlayStation 3 or Xbox 360. You may also nonetheless buy the unique Armored Core on the PlayStation Retailer, as long as you’ve gotten a PS3 to play it. However that’s it!
If you happen to’re a complete AC convert now and wish to play as many video games within the sequence as potential, monitoring down a PS3 with PS2 backwards compatibility will assist you to play nearly the whole again catalog, as long as you get your arms on bodily copies. Emulation is one other route in, however that’s legally murky and entails some technical information that new followers of the sequence could lack.
The straightforward resolution is for FromSoftware to make the sequence out there for obtain on trendy consoles. Maybe the hassle didn’t make sense years in the past, however with Fires of Rubicon’s wild success, there isn’t a longer any excuse! FromSoftware sparked Armored Core’s future — now it must revive its previous.