Changed the title of my thread
The Armored Core anomaly
I am very pleased that Fires of Rubicon is receiving positive reviews and my copy of the video game will arrive in a few days... (Because Amazon Mexico sold out of copies).
What I do not understand is why until the sixth installment, the series is receiving attention? It caught my attention in the PS3 era, but it was more like a Niche game...
Nobody or very few people gave Dragon Dogma a chance... but now there is a huge hype on its sequel, and the video game press is bowing down... WTF? If they didn't listen before...
This is how the same thing happened with Nier, which nobody paid attention to until Automata arrived... or with Dragon Dogma, which I bought its copy in the first months of its launch.
Is it the people who barely realize the potential of the series or the hypocrisy of the video game press that for its convenience advertises a video game?
It's simple really : Everyone and their grandmas love FROM games nowadays due to the outstanding success of the Demon's/Dark souls games...
Talking about Demon's souls that started this whole modern FROM craze/renaissance:
Remember Yoshida saying that he found it "unbelievably bad" when he 1st tried it ? Well,
the game came at a time where people were fed up by the infinite, hand-holding, auto-pilot AAA games - that, and good word of mouth, plus, the "expert" vidjya gaem journalists/ press suddenly decided that it was the "cool" thing to hype back in the day.
It was a perfect storm really for them (FROM), the rest is now history...
Having said that, it's a double edged sword : Even if FROM decided to release a game titled " Dark's Ancient brown turd quest" nowadays it'd still be a success, there's definitely a big circle-jerk community around their games nowadays where they absolutely can do no wrong with the usual "herp derp git gud" shite which has reached meme level status something which, unfortunately, is absolutely not good since it makes it impossible as to have any actual constructive criticism about their work.
I'll always side with the underdogs, thing is, FROM has left underdog status 14 years ago, for the money they're making nowadays after the success of the Souls games and especially Elden Ring, the fact that their games are always lacking in the technical department is something that I personally find to be inexcusable, no game nor developer should be above criticism...
I'll always be a fan of them but not a fanboy.
The fact that AC6 is finally getting the recognition it deserves is only a positive since I always wanted a proper, AAA AC game (i.e : with "proper"production values).
TLDNR : AC6 is getting commercial recognition is due to the fact that FROM is a powerhouse nowadays due to the success of the souls series.