You know the best part of AC6 success?

[Moth]

People will jump on the Mecha-Genre train seeing that FROMSOFTWARE proved there's market for it.

So, like when we had that absolute SURGE of Soulslikes, it's reasonable to think we'll have a surge of Mecha games

about bloody damn time if i might add

[Toffe]

Well I didn't buy it because it's mecha. I bought it because it's sci-fi, made by developers I have faith in. So far not disappointed.

Actually think I like this more than any Dark Souls (and I love dks) It's just that this setting is so more favorable to me over fantasy or even dark fantasy.

[WhiteLezard]

魔装機神 Psybuster の投稿を引用：

The irony being that the only reason anyone bought Souls games in the first place is because it was made by the Armored Core company

Armored Core has always been a borderline unknown franchise in the west; Dark Souls exploded in popularity due to its aesthetics being appealing to westerners + the novelty of being a game that allowed you to play it at a time when almost every game in the market almost played itself.

魔装機神 Psybuster の投稿を引用：

Super Robot Wars has been dominating for 3 decades now. There might not be a market for mecha for foreigners though, yeah.

Those are fans of mecha anime and they always have been there. Meanwhile mainstream audiences don't care about mecha.

Toffe の投稿を引用：

Well I didn't buy it because it's mecha. I bought it because it's sci-fi, made by developers I have faith in. So far not disappointed.
Actually think I like this more than any Dark Souls (and I love dks) It's just that this setting is so more favorable to me over fantasy or even dark fantasy.

You should give The Surge games a try.

[Kalsu]

Armored Core FTW!

[Purple Sauce]

100%

[Midas]

Moth の投稿を引用：

People will jump on the Mecha-Genre train seeing that FROMSOFTWARE proved there's market for it.

So, like when we had that absolute SURGE of Soulslikes, it's reasonable to think we'll have a surge of Mecha games

about bloody damn time if i might add

This is definitely my hope. I don't care if they're cheap knock-offs, I NEED more mecha games.

[Korinth]

Yeah I hate how westerners hate sci fi and mechas.
I remember the crossover they made for Daemon X Machina, Japan had a dope crossover with Code Geass (Lancelot mech, not Guren but eh...) while we had a FREAKING THE WITCHER CROSSOVER.
Witcher crossover ?! in a mecha games ? are you kidding me ?!

[魔装機神 Psybuster]

Aryend の投稿を引用：

Yeah... From what I've seen and tried, its bad enough that I have never considered buying it even at 80% off... Despite being a huge mecha and gunpla fan and it being the only official Gundam option on PC for that particular kind of game...

It is ridiculously awful in every imaginable way, and I really cannot stress enough how badly you should stay away from it.

WhiteLezard の投稿を引用：

Armored Core has always been a borderline unknown franchise in the west

Another reason it's unfortunate that these days everyone and their mother is trying to appeal to the West.

WhiteLezard の投稿を引用：

Those are fans of mecha anime

And SRPGs. Even putting aside mecha, SRW is easily one of if not the best SRPG franchise period.

WhiteLezard の投稿を引用：

mainstream audiences don't care about mecha.

They also don't care about video games, so that seems like a moot point to be frank.

[eRe4s3r]

For me I just want to see where they go with this if at all because I love these wacky post-apoc sci-fi settings that only japanese devs seem to do.

[Moth]

Mu'Ammar of Carthus の投稿を引用：

Moth の投稿を引用：

People will jump on the Mecha-Genre train seeing that FROMSOFTWARE proved there's market for it.

So, like when we had that absolute SURGE of Soulslikes, it's reasonable to think we'll have a surge of Mecha games

Heh, every non FromSoft Souls-like sucked.
Hell, even DS2, which "officially" is a FromSoft game, sucked.

I don't expect every AC-like to be quite as bad as those, but it's not gonna be on the same level as AC6 either.

Nioh and Nioh 2 are absolute bangers