No Nineball?

[Pivas]

Just completed the game and remembered that I wanted to see that ♥♥♥♥♥♥ Nineball?
Have you guys found him or it would be just silly to add him to the game?

[GrimAtrament]

Nineball is from a older ac series. Just as white glint is only in 4answer.

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It doesn't happen in the same solar system, though the way the part list and gameplay is (feeling a bit like 2nd-3rd gen) it might be in the same timeline, so it makes sense there's no nineball.

An arena boss pretending to be nineball would've been a nice easter egg though

[Pivas]

Originally posted by GrimAtrament:

Nineball is from a older ac series. Just as white glint is only in 4answer.

Well, he was in a lot gen1 ACs and in AC4 there was nineball emblem

[Yatol]

Nineball hasn't been a thing since Last Raven

[Pizzaman]

I think every mainline AC game has a Nineball equivalent if you squint hard enough.

Like White Glint from AC4 is ranked 9th place, so might be a Nineball reference.

Or Exusia from AC5 is named after an angel... like Nineball Seraph.

Stuff like that.

[Roland]

Originally posted by Shin:

It doesn't happen in the same solar system, though the way the part list and gameplay is (feeling a bit like 2nd-3rd gen) it might be in the same timeline, so it makes sense there's no nineball.

An arena boss pretending to be nineball would've been a nice easter egg though

Most of the AC games aren't connected outside of their generation and Nine Ball was a boss like 3-4 times. He is in no way exclusive to 3rd gen. (he was literally the very first final boss of the series)

[CaLL Me sHiSHoU]

Originally posted by Pizzaman:

I think every mainline AC game has a Nineball equivalent if you squint hard enough.

Like White Glint from AC4 is ranked 9th place, so might be a Nineball reference.

Or Exusia from AC5 is named after an angel... like Nineball Seraph.

Stuff like that.

Exusia is obviously named after Gundam Exia

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Originally posted by Roland:

Originally posted by Shin:

It doesn't happen in the same solar system, though the way the part list and gameplay is (feeling a bit like 2nd-3rd gen) it might be in the same timeline, so it makes sense there's no nineball.

An arena boss pretending to be nineball would've been a nice easter egg though

Most of the AC games aren't connected outside of their generation and Nine Ball was a boss like 3-4 times. He is in no way exclusive to 3rd gen. (he was literally the very first final boss of the series)

There's no definitive lore between whether or not AC,PP, MoA are related to AA and there's speculative lore that PP, SL, 4 and 4A and 4-5 are implicitly related. It's true that Nineball was prevalent in 3rd gen, but he also was prevalent in 1st gen.

My post doesn't exclude any of this from being true, it only states that AC6 feels a lot like AA/3rd gen where nineball was present and therefore, theoretically, could be in the same timeframe lorewise since space travel has existed in multiple of the games AND that an easter egg or cameo would've been a nice fan service from fromsoft.

AC lore connections aren't great because each game is more or less meant to be it's own experience, but there are implied connections everywhere across the series.

[Call Sign: Raven]

You know that the game opens up to NG+ and NG+2, with new missions, arena fights and such, right?

[Fayde]

I really miss the feeling of ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ myself hearing "target verified. commencing hostilities."

[Roland]

Originally posted by Shin:

Originally posted by Roland:

Most of the AC games aren't connected outside of their generation and Nine Ball was a boss like 3-4 times. He is in no way exclusive to 3rd gen. (he was literally the very first final boss of the series)

There's no definitive lore between whether or not AC,PP, MoA are related to AA and there's speculative lore that PP, SL, 4 and 4A and 4-5 are implicitly related. It's true that Nineball was prevalent in 3rd gen, but he also was prevalent in 1st gen.

My post doesn't exclude any of this from being true, it only states that AC6 feels a lot like AA/3rd gen where nineball was present and therefore, theoretically, could be in the same timeframe lorewise since space travel has existed in multiple of the games AND that an easter egg or cameo would've been a nice fan service from fromsoft.

AC lore connections aren't great because each game is more or less meant to be it's own experience, but there are implied connections everywhere across the series.

God how I miss the lore speculations.

I've long assumed each generation was a parallel dimension.
Like at some point during the development of ACs the timeline just splintered, and that's why "ACs" is the only universal commonality in the series. (even the Kurasawa and Moonlight don't make it into every game)

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Originally posted by Roland:

Originally posted by Shin:

There's no definitive lore between whether or not AC,PP, MoA are related to AA and there's speculative lore that PP, SL, 4 and 4A and 4-5 are implicitly related. It's true that Nineball was prevalent in 3rd gen, but he also was prevalent in 1st gen.

My post doesn't exclude any of this from being true, it only states that AC6 feels a lot like AA/3rd gen where nineball was present and therefore, theoretically, could be in the same timeframe lorewise since space travel has existed in multiple of the games AND that an easter egg or cameo would've been a nice fan service from fromsoft.

AC lore connections aren't great because each game is more or less meant to be it's own experience, but there are implied connections everywhere across the series.

God how I miss the lore speculations. :cryptolove:

I've long assumed each generation was a parallel dimension.
Like at some point during the development of ACs the timeline just splintered, and that's why "ACs" is the only universal commonality in the series. (even the Kurasawa and Moonlight don't make it into every game)

I like to go the other route, where the first three games take place in a post apocalyptic earth after a catastrophic war that lead to 'corporations' replacing 'governments' and then that just lead to a perpetual war machine that propagated through the solar system.

With 3-Last Raven being the emergence of humanity back onto earth, 4 and 4A being the peak of technology and 5 occurring in a more distant future where the knowledge from 4-4A ended up lost to time and had to be dug up.

AC6's aesthetic is almost identical to AA and the gameplay is almost identical to 3rd gen and I already see *some* throwbacks to those games so it would've been nice to have an easter egg or two. I'm glad at least that nineball isn't the BBEG for like a sixth time.

But yeah, it's all speculative and fanfic. I think it's a deliberate move by FromSoft tbh. Both to keep the games contained as themselves and to keep the fanbase engaged.

[TofuByte]

I kinda assumed that the AI guardian in the Depths was essentially our Nineball cameo.
Transforming flight mode the whole "entering in termination mode" (cant remember the exact line) made me think. oh here is our Nineball cameo.... dont know why they didnt paint him red. Currently working on the "True Ending" so maybe there is a better cameo there.

[Roland]

Originally posted by TofuByte:

I kinda assumed that the AI guardian in the Depths was essentially our Nineball cameo.
Transforming flight mode the whole "entering in termination mode" (cant remember the exact line) made me think. oh here is our Nineball cameo.... dont know why they didnt paint him red. Currently working on the "True Ending" so maybe there is a better cameo there.

Yo spoiler tags ♥♥♥♥♥!
I read the first 4 words and already read too much!
Have some ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ decency, we live in a society.

[saten]

PC's designation is 621, 6+2+1=9, or maybe im reading too deep...