Ep - 103 Armored to the Core!

Retrologic

Introduction

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Tell me one thing that happened this week!

Housekeeping

Sam: Now Streaming Battle Network 3 Blue!

MMBN3 Quest for 100% completion, blog - castles blowing up

John: On Topic Retro; DKC2 upcoming

FilmLogic: Summer Awards Show (feat. community votes!)

RetroGroove: On break for summer, catch up on Season 2!

The Price Is Retro

If this is your first time playing Price Is Retro, here’s how we play. I’m going to list off 4 or 5 games and everyone has to guess how much the lot is worth in total. Whoever is closest to the actual value wins that round! Everyone has a list and everyone guesses on each other's list. At the end, the player that won the most rounds wins the episode! But watch out for the robot Deus Guess Machina! He averages all of our guesses together for his own guess

Sam’s list

John’s list

Moses’s list

Trivia Card

Show Topics

Armored Core -

• A word from our corporate overlords, er.. Sponsors

Developed by Fromsoft, published by 10 different companies over time

• FromSoft (self published several games in japan, including AC1)

• Sony

• ASCII Entertainment (Project Phantasma

• Agetec ( Master of Arena, AC2, another age, AC3 )

• Ubisoft (Ac for answer)

• Metro3D (EU Releases of arena-AC2)

• 505 Games (EU Releases of Nine breaker, last raven)

• Red Ant Enterprises (AU Release of Formula Front,

• Sega (AC4, NA only)

• Bandai Namco (V and Verdict Day, VI)

Moves in “Generations” Building on one game engine but adding new parts, missions, etc.

1. Armored Core 1 : Project Phantasma and Master of Arena

2. Armored core 2 and Armored core 2: Another Age

3. Armored Core 3: Silent Line, Nexus, and Last Raven

4. Armored Core 4 and For Answer

5. Armored core 5 and Verdict Day

Also formula front for the PSP exists

3 and 4 reboot the continuity

Sam’s experience:

AC1 on a PS1 demo disk

Silent Line as the true intro to series

For Answer

Picked up AC2 a little while back for cheap

Moses’s experience:

How are you doing John?

What’s special about the series:

• Customizability

• Plot is very obtuse

• Opening cinematics were awesome

• Arena and missions - encountering other Raven’s in a mission

• Difficulty

• Soundtrack

-Daemon X Machina as the (failed?) “spiritual successor”

-Kenichiro Tsukuda as producer (producer from AC 2, 3, silent line)

-Mech designs by Shoji Kawamori (worked on every armored core before V)

-Sequel confirmed in development titled Daemon X Machina: Titanic Scion

Armored core VI

-not just dark souls with mechs

-or is it?

Community Couch

Presto: CCQ: What's your favorite musical/song from a musical?

What game would you make into a musical? What would be the big show stopping number?

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