release armored core 4, for answer and 5 for pc.

[Barry]

i was wondering if fromsoft has considered re-releasing armored core 4, for answer and 5. i would really like to play those games but i don't wan't to risk getting a virus from downloading the wrong emulator or game files. and im not going to bother with buying an overpriced and most likely broken or absent physical copy of the game. i just wan't to get the games legitimately from the steam store.

[Algester]

Its hard to get ACV since it relies on a server as well as verdict day

[Somali Pirate Radio]

Better yet, release the REAL Armored Core games instead of the meth-addled Gundamified ones!

FLAME ON!

[Barry]

Originally posted by Algester:

Its hard to get ACV since it relies on a server as well as verdict day

does the single player rely on servers as well?

[Emerald Lance]

Originally posted by Supernewb38:

Originally posted by Algester:

Its hard to get ACV since it relies on a server as well as verdict day

does the single player rely on servers as well?

No, but it sucks pretty bad and was balanced with the assumption you'd be doing it co-op; there is no shortage of missions where you have two objective to complete on opposite sides of the map and only enough time to do one or the other (because you'd just send your friend to handle the other one). In other words, the missions are boring and very hard, often unfairly so.

AC4 and AC4A are leagues better imo. I would've said you could skip AC5 and ACVD even back when they were still up, so I'm pretty biased. But even if you're into what they offer(ed), it's pretty safe to assume you will be getting a subpar experience from those games without the servers running.

[Barry]

ah ok.. well i'll settle with for answer and 4 then. even though i have already played 4.

[Seb]

How does it work license wise? All the pre gen5 AC games where published by a bunch of different publishers in different regions.

[Barry]

sounds like AC has the same problem as the battletech/mechwarrior games

[Somali Pirate Radio]

Originally posted by Supernewb38:

sounds like AC has the same problem as the battletech/mechwarrior games

Nah. Battlemechwartech has the problem of "we kinda sorta stole some copyrighted designs, and we keep forgetting to explain why the unseen are unseen when we sell the brand/sign up another new licensor". That's a completely different issue. And... not really as I-can't-believe-they-tried-that as it sounds, given it was the 80s and they were stealing anime designs. No one they stole from even noticed, it just happened one of the shows they "borrowed" from got licensed in the US by some fairly litigious folks. Really just bad luck.



From MIGHT have the problem of having signed a long-term license with a publisher, but that's purely hypothetical.

As far as US publishers go... Agetec seems to just be dead. Not bought up buy anyone else, just... turned off the lights one evening and never came back to the office. If there's anyone around anymore to even argue about licensing rights, I'll be surprised.
Sega and Ubisoft aren't dead, but I find it hard to believe From would have signed a perpetual exclusive license in AD 2006, a dozen games into their star franchise. It wasn't their first rodeo, and they knew the brand's value.
And if they had been that foolish before, I would've expected Agetec to wind up with the trademark to the Armored Core title(thus blocking Sega and Ubisoft).


So I'm fairly confident there's no Harvest Moon/Song of Seasons rights clusterbomb going on. From just doesn't go back when they can go forward(and thus we will never see 3D Dot Game Hero ported to modern platforms).
Only example of something they own that was ported forward is Metal Wolf Chaos, and I
suspect that was Devolver's idea, not From's.

[Daikatan]

stop hating singleplayer in v/vd

[Big Yabae]

Gen 4heads who never played gen 5 stop telling people what they guess gen 5 singleplayer is like challenge (impossible)

[Somali Pirate Radio]

Gen 3 or Gen GTFO!

[frowningmirror]

Originally posted by Algester:

Its hard to get ACV since it relies on a server as well as verdict day

You can just continue to the campaign after it can't connect to server, and if you have the Japanese version you can indeed play verdict days servers.

If it was easier to emulate, I think Verdict Day would be a pretty good game for people to get into. It actually has a decent single player

[Barry]

nah im just interested in the singleplayer. although as much as i want to emulate them, there is no website that i can trust to not have malware.

[Barry]

i got my eyes on vimm's lair but it looks too sketchy

[Somali Pirate Radio]

Oh man, Vimm's Lair... I haven't heard that name in YEARS. The nostalgia is real.