Comments on: News: Armored Core 5 Announced

By: Touran

Touran — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 18:34:16 +0000

I’m unabashedly excited, the giant powerful AC in the teaser looks amazing.

The bit of transformation with the head piece is also interesting, hopefully hinting at more transforming parts – a la White Glint’s chassis folding into a different silhouette when OverBoosting.

By: Seon Arikale

Seon Arikale — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 06:16:46 +0000

While I’m glad to see us returning to the roots of the series so to speak, I’m not certain this will exactly be a true return, if anything I’d like to see them make this a merging of the two styles of game play, meeting somewhere in the middle and being better for it.

By: uberVU - social comments

uberVU - social comments — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 06:10:26 +0000

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By: Tollmaster

Tollmaster — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 01:13:15 +0000

I’m wondering if the 5 in the title means that this game is unrelated in story to 4 and For Answer. While the different paths of the campaign in For Answer would mean they would have to make one of the three paths the canonical path, I was really looking forward to what happens in the world of 4/FA.

It’s hard to tell from the video, but the mecha seem more complicated now, even if they are also slower, ground-bound vehicles. In a way, it reminds me a bit of the original #00 (Aretha) Next prototype of 4/FA, which was nothing less than ornate in its construction.

It’s good to see the Armored Core series not lock itself into one single style, at any rate. That very problem kills off a lot of series in a gaming industry that wants all games to be a part of (at least) an epic trilogy.

By: Cacophanus

Cacophanus — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 21:48:24 +0000

Good find! Thanks for that.

By: lordnikon

lordnikon — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 20:53:23 +0000

There is a lot more to this teaser site than first glance guys. At set time intervals, the number 5 will become clickable to a google query on one of 6 different words in japanese.

I decompiled the flash file, and pulled out the following google strings:

http://www.google.co.jp/search?hl=ja&q=%E6%9A%B4%E5%8A%9B%E7%9A%84
http://www.google.co.jp/search?hl=ja&q=%E5%85%B5%E5%99%A8
http://www.google.co.jp/search?hl=ja&q=%E3%82%B9%E3%82%B1%E3%83%BC%E3%83%AB
http://www.google.co.jp/search?hl=ja&q=%E7%82%8E
http://www.google.co.jp/search?hl=ja&q=%E9%9B%A8
http://www.google.co.jp/search?hl=ja&q=%E6%88%A6%E5%A0%B4

From top to bottom they search for the following japanese:

暴力的
兵器
スケール
炎
雨
戦場

Which translates roughly to:

Violent
Weapons
Scale
Fire
Rain
Battlefield

By: Jeeyeyee

Jeeyeyee — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 16:41:43 +0000

The word 暴力(Violence) is highlighted in red. It could be their new tagline.
V=5

By: Tighran

Tighran — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 16:28:22 +0000

Excellent news! I’m also very excited about the idea of it being slower paced like the older games. I like the newer games, but they weren’t the same experience as in the PlayStation games (which were a big part of my formative gaming years). Can’t wait for more news and videos, and hopefully a NA release date!