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Thought I would share a recent 100% Playthrough of this Playstation classic,sure i'am not the only one who remembers it.
Links to Facebook which i'am using to host the 3600+ Pictures,please don't message me on there,as it will obviously be ignored.



Part 1
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Part 2
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Part 3
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Part 4
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Part 5
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I always loved the idea of Armoured Core games ;but always felt that the mechs were too slow/sluggish to move and the missions (certainly in 2 and 3) never gave enough reward money to cover repair and rearming costs - which meant you had to play really well to make it through and provide to buy better gear.

Loved that game back in the day, but I don't think I could play it now, the control scheme is SO wonky. Eventually they moved to dual-stick, but the look up/down with the shoulder buttons would drive me NUTS nowadys!

But the game and story were solid, I played the bejeezus out of the original AC. I think I still have my memory card somewhere, I LOVED that your same character continued to Project Phantasma and Master of Arena. Still have fond memories of intentionally losing misions to go Human+, fighting 8-ball, spending hours customizing my loadouts and color schemes and insignia in that godawful image editor. Good times.

"Welcome to the Nest. You're a Raven now"

I only ever played 4 and 4 answer.


Probably not the best place to start, I always found the arenas to be kind of bare, and the story to be a little too vague.

I think I had stopped playing them by AC4. The original was great, yes it was a bit light on story by today's standard, but essentially you were a mercenary mecha pilot accepting contracts, missions each had their own story and there was a small overarching plot about 2 rival corporations fighting for power. Which missions you accepted determined which corporation took over the other, then in the end you discover life is a sham and the computers are controlling everything. Most of the games follow similar story beats, but there is a story progression between games and the mercenary organization evolves over time. The first 3 PS1 games, AC, AC: Project Phantasma and AC:Master of Arena all follow the same mercenary (you) in a rebuilt society on post-apocalyptic earth. You could transport your saved game between them and keep all your equipment and human+ upgrades if you'd earned them, in fact some of the most powerful items in MoA could only be gotten if you had imported an AC or ACP game. The story was mostly a framework to customize mechs and the missions were mostly a framework to play around with your customized mechs, story was secondary

AC2 was OK, graphics were of course much improved since it was now on PS2 but they added radiators to shunt heat which I never felt added anything to the gameplay. Still a fun game.

I just wanted to see if i could manage it after 20 years,or if i was any better,seems age is a factor in gaming,151missions later i unlocked every single piece of equipment,plus dying several times to get plus-human enhancements.
I have a playthrough of AC2 also but will have to wait on that one,facebook likes to temp-block me for uploading album after album,it's a much better game visually and the story is much more solid,being on mars its got that future feeling instantly,same with AC2 all unlocked 100% but over 9000 sceenshots,i have played several of the armored core games,AC 4 being the last and had to be my favorite,The mechs were as close to god-mech as Zone of the enders Anubis was,being faster than the eye,fluid controls were better than instant reaction speeds on a AC4,the battles were easy though on any difficulty,But the visuals were enough to give you a damn seizure i remember them being that intense,and epic.