DO NOT BUY Armored Core 6 - VERY disappointing

Uh, hello, welcome back to a new video.

So I recently had the privilege and the

opportunity to be able to play the new

Armored Core 6: Fires of Rubicon, and I

thought I'd make a video giving you my

thoughts and impressions on the game. But

unfortunately, even though I am a massive

fan of Armored Core games and FromSoft

games, I don't really feel like I can

recommend this. I really love Elden Ring

and I really love Souls games, and I was

really excited to hear that FromSoft was

making this game because I thought, oh my

God, this is going to be like Elden Ring

but with mechs. Unfortunately, I was

extremely disappointed with the game so

far. The gameplay is nothing like a Souls

game. It's completely different to Elden

Ring. You wouldn't even know that this was

made by FromSoft, so I don't even know why

they made this game in the first place.

It just doesn't really feel anything like

Elden Ring. It's a very quick and

fast-paced action game, just kind of like

a very generic and basic shooter game with

a mech that jumps around a lot. So the

main core of the gameplay is basically

just jumping around and flying around and

dodging enemy incoming attacks whilst you

hold down your your attack button or your

trigger buttons to keep shooting your

oversized guns that never seem to run out

of ammunition. So the reason why I, as a

fan of soulslike games, am disappointed

with this game is because this game

doesn't have anything that makes, that

makes soul games like Elden Ring fun at

all. So the reason why Elden Ring was so

fun was because of the slow-paced,

methodical combat where you had enemies

swinging at you and it was your job to

either block or dodge the attacks and then

counter them with abilities and spells and

your own attacks. In this game, all you do

is hold down the shoot button. There

aren't really abilities and spells with

cooldowns or kind of like abilities or

talent trees that you unlock. When I heard

that FromSoft was making the new Armored

Core game, I thought it would be like a

slow-paced game with a big melee weapon,

and instead of being a human, you would be

a giant robot mech wielding these big

massive melee weapons, and you'd be doing

things like blocking with a shield and

countering and parrying and doing like

cool melee combat with other robots. But

instead what you're doing is like jumping

around and floating about, flying around

with these jetpacks. I really don't like

the auto-aim, auto-assist mechanics in the

game. It just makes it feel too easy.

There's zero skill involved when it comes

to shooting your enemy because there's

auto-aim assist. It's just like playing a

shooting game with auto-aim mechanics just

sucks out all the fun and the skill

required to be able to aim at your target

and shoot at them. So there's basically no

skill required when it comes to shooting.

All of the skill in the gameplay comes

down to how well you can maneuver the mech

and dodge enemy incoming attacks. They've

already got auto aim assist. They might as

well just have automatic firing because

you're just holding down the fire button

whenever you can and only letting go of it

to reload. Most of the time when you're

fighting enemies, you'll be focusing on

trying to jump and dodge. So because of

the auto aim assist, you never really have

to worry about whether your shots are

going to hit or not. It's literally

impossible to miss any of your shots

because it's all automated. You're only

going to have to worry about dodging and

being able to evade the enemy's attack.

So basically the whole gameplay revolves

around moving around and maneuverability.

The gameplay is completely dependent on

being highly maneuverable. The boss fights

are kind of cool and kind of epic. The

designs for the bosses are very good and

typically what you'd expect from a

FromSoft game because they're very good at

making these epic boss battles, but they

go on for way too long. The bosses have

massive health bars, and if you screw drop

and you fail the boss fights, you have to

start all the way back. And the boss

fights are kind of annoying because most

of them basically revolve around one

gimmick, and that is they will just spam a

massive barrage of missiles at you in some

kind of pattern. And then you basically

just have to remember the pattern that the

missile barrages are coming at you and

then dodge them. The entire boss fight is

just like 80% trying to dodge all of the

missiles coming from the enemy and then

trying to do some counterattacks and fire

back at them. Whilst you don't have to do

all this jumping around and maneuvering.

I just found the gameplay to be kind of

lacking in luster compared to Elden Ring

and Soulslike gameplay. It doesn't really

feel like a Souls game, just feels like a

dumbed-down generic action shooter with a

lot of jumping around, which kind of gives

me a headache. So you'll be jumping up and

then flying up into the air, rolling

around and dodging left and right using

your jetpacks and sliding around, and it

just makes me feel kind of dizzy. I get

motion sickness So when a game like this

has extremely high mobility and

maneuverability, and that's part of the

core mechanics of the gameplay, it kind of

makes me sick. It's just really

frustrating because they could have made

this game so much better if they just made

it like Elden Ring, where you've got this

kind of slow, clunky character and maybe

you've got like a massive claymore,

two-handed wielded plasma sword or

whatever. They should have focused the

game on melee combat, which maybe it

sounds weird because it's like futuristic

tech. Why are they using melee weapons?

Or maybe ammunition is like a rare

resource and hard to come by. And there

are ranged weapons like maybe a cannon or

a Gatling gun or a rifle, but ammunition

should be extremely scarce and it should

only be used against really tough enemies.

And most of the time you'd be using melee

weapons like a massive ball on a chain.

Like, imagine medieval-style melee

weapons but in a mech, and you're like

slowly clunking around, and then you see

an enemy mech in the horizon and he's got

like a massive shield and got to block his

attacks and dodge and swipe him with like

your claymore. That would have just been

so much more enjoyable and entertaining as

a game than what the game currently is,

where it's basically just like jetpack on

steroids and you're just jumping around

with this jetpack and boosting around

trying to avoid all these stupid missiles

coming at you. And it just feels like the

game could have been so much more

interesting if they made it more of a

melee game. I know there are melee attacks

in the game, but they're kind of like a

second afterthought, and 99% of people

will be focusing on using guns and

missiles and dodging around. I really like

how you can customize the mech and change

components of the mech and have different

weapons and loadouts and have different

legs. Like, you can have the tank tracks,

and the different kind of double-jointed,

reverse-jointed legs look really cool.

But the tank tracks are kind of stupid

because they make the mech— well, the mech

already just feels like it floats around

like you're ice skating. It feels like the

ground is made of ice and you're just kind

of sliding around everywhere. You can

walk, but most of the time you'll be using

the jets to boost your feet and you'll

just be kind of like sliding around like

you're an ice skater. And it just makes it

feel like you're weightless and your mech

doesn't really have weight, and it's not

like this heavy massive piece of metal

machinery. It just feels like it's a very

light and floaty character. And when you

have the tank tracks on, this is even

worse because you're just like boosting

into walls and bouncing off of them, and

you feel like a sponge floating around in

the sink. And it's not really— it doesn't

really feel like you have any realistic

weight or gravity in place. Visually, the

game is a very dull and boring looking

game. I mean, look at this footage. The

entire thing is just gray. All the

landscape and scenery is just gray. White

and gray and black. The color spectrum is

just like a grayscale. Everything's just

gray all the time. I know they wanted to

go for like this industrial complex, all

this machinery and metal kind of look,

but it's so boring to look at. And it's

such a shame because these are the people

who made Elden Ring, and Elden Ring looks

amazing. It was so colorful and so

majestical and fantastical, and it looked

great with the, the kind of scenery and

the mountains and all that stuff. And then

How can they go from that to this? This

looks so bland. The only color in the game

is the orange from the explosions and

maybe some random blue lights from plasma

energy weapons, but the scenery and the

landscape is so dull. I really hate the

levels where it's just loads of metal

machinery and metal-looking boxes and

buildings and kind of infrastructure. It

is so ugly and bland to look at. Couldn't

they have come up with something like I

mean, there was a game called Zone of the

Enders that came out 20 years ago that

basically is the same as this game where

you're a mech and you fly around, you've

got auto aim assist and you've got these

weapons. But Zone of the Enders, even

though it's a 20-year-old game with dated

graphics, it looks better than this game

because it was more colorful and there's

like all this neon sci-fi cyberpunk kind

of futuristic imagery. I just really feel

like they did a bad job with the level

design. I don't like the cityscapes. They

look too boring. They should look more

futuristic with more lights. Also, I don't

really like how the game is not open

world. So you have missions, and basically

you just have to finish the missions and

get S-rank, but there's no open world or

no kind of like hub where you go to buy

and sell stuff. I think the game could

have been so much better if they just made

an open world with like maybe a spaceship

you fly back up to to restock your ammo

and refit your mech and do stuff like

that, and then you could fly around the

open world to do missions. I don't like

how there's just like a start and an end

of the missions, and then you go to a menu

screen and then go to the next mission.

It just kind of ruins the immersion. So

yeah, I guess I'm not really into this

game that much. I feel like I'm very

disappointed because I was expecting Elden

Ring with big mechs and big robots, and

this game is basically nothing like that.

And it's too late for them to make any big

changes. I guess this is what they're

going for, this is what they want the game

to be, and there's just no time to make

any massive drastic changes, and that's

completely fine because this is what

they're going for. But for me personally,

I don't like this game. I think it's

boring. There's better shooter games out

there. I would unfortunately have to give

this game a hard pass, and I don't really

recommend you buying it either.