Do I need to play other Armored Core games?

[lilc]

Like every sequel, there always a story that you need to follow to understand what's been going on
So I am wondering that I should play the previous one to catch up?

[Hobo Misanthropus]

No, but if you can play any Armored Core, I would play 4 Answer (not 4, 4 is trash) It will kind of give you a feel. Every Armored Core is kind of the same game over and over, dealing with a lot of the same themes but explored in a different way. Armored Core 4 plays out in a very nice Branching storyline, branching to the point where you can literally become the Final Boss of the game, and have the whole world attempt to stop you.

[Blahto Blahtoto]

This is probably a new timeline so no. Also Armored core 1 -3 and Armored Core 4 -5 have different gameplay too. The former is slow while the latter is fast pace.

[Doozy Bot dowmein]

The stories are mostly self contained.
The gameplay changed over the course of the series.

[Canniballistic]

Like the others say, no you dont need to, theres no continuous story, each numbered entry is a self contained story, but there are some bangers.

IMO the AC3 series has a very interesting world and the story is quite good, but generally the stories are complete gibberish nonsense.

If you played DxM thats exactly how the story telling is, which is also just traditional FromSoft story telling you even find in their Souls games, but yeah DxM is a good comparison because its on Steam and its essentially just AC made by some guys who got bored of making Souls games at FromSoft.

[luckz]

I like ze slow ones.
Is DxM (DAEMON X MACHINA) like ze fast ones?

[Doozy Bot dowmein]

I wouldnt say dxm story is really like ACs. Big difference is that theres a cast of characters in dxm that act like saturday morning cartoon characters vs AC where everyone ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ dies because their environment and jobs are actually cutthroat.

[deuxhero]

4 onward is a separate canon from prior games. IIRC everything in the series has taken place on earth, a satellite around Earth, or Mars. Given that and that 6 involves a new planet, it's either its own canon or so distant it won't matter.

The said, the game's not coming out anytime soon though, and many of the older games are great. You should pick up Nexus (the first with dual analog control options) or For Answer (really good, great fun, but really deviates from some of AC's core identity in places).

[ExoSoul]

Short answer: no.

Long answer: in the series some titles are known to exists in the same timeline [three timelines: AC1 all the way to AC2AA, AC3 up to ACLR and AC4 to ACVD] the "plot" barely interacts between them and the stories are self contained.
However this is a new timeline, in a completely different setting and it's very unlikely that fromsoft will tie it in with any of the preexisting titles.

[Daikatan]

Originally posted by Nom:

Like every sequel, there always a story that you need to follow to understand what's been going on
So I am wondering that I should play the previous one to catch up?

https://old.reddit.com/r/armoredcore/comments/s0slg1/im_new_to_armored_core_faq_20/

[Loop_Stratos]

They're usually about as connected as DS1 to DS2 or DS2 to DS3 so not really. In the past there's games that are more connected like DS1 to Artorias but each newly numbered game feels like a reboot.

[Ialda]

I love 4A (my favorite game from the franchise), but you couldn't have a gameplay more remote from the rest of the series. Faster, and more airbone than your regular AC.

DxM doesn't really translate well how the weight of your mecha affects the control. Also, the RNG elements and the weeb storytelling are very different from AC.

I'd say go into AC6 blind, it will be way more interesting that way.

[lilc]

Originally posted by Daikatan:

Originally posted by Nom:

Like every sequel, there always a story that you need to follow to understand what's been going on
So I am wondering that I should play the previous one to catch up?

https://old.reddit.com/r/armoredcore/comments/s0slg1/im_new_to_armored_core_faq_20/

I am not going to click on a random link just to get a answer thank you

[Daikatan]

It's not "random", its literally pinned FAQ post in biggest Armored Core community on Reddit.

[Error]

every 2 or so games we get a timeline reboot or an alt universe setup so i'm guessing AC6 will take place in a completely new universe with no prior knowledge needed
Thats just a guess however and if it ends up taking place in the same timeline as the last game then I'd recommend starting with AC4 and going forwards.
If you do have the time however, AC games in general are fun and i'd recommend almost all of em besides maybe Nine Breaker which kinda sucked

[Mad Matt Dog]

Originally posted by luckz:

I like ze slow ones.
Is DxM (DAEMON X MACHINA) like ze fast ones?

no, DXM is a very basic version of the faster games and feels very different in terms of controls, dxm is very straight forward