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Conal · Jan 8, 2022

Rhaast said:
From soft saw this art and said, hire this man (person):

Let's go soulscore ! 💯 XD

edit: I can't find a link to the original's artist (mono) pages (Pixiv/twitter) :(

Personally I hope it doesn't look anything like this, that's basically just DS again.

AC already had great art direction

ARMORED CORE 5 CG trailler (full version)

armored core 5 intro movie

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Injecting some 80/90's Anime influences would be a dream. Retro HUDs and all.

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Patlabor The Movie 2, opening scene [SUB ENG]

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Patlabor 2 Tunnel scene

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If it does end up looking like that I'll be happy for you guys though.

Deleted member 14089 · Jan 8, 2022

Conal said:
If it does end up looking like that I'll be happy for you guys though.

Nah I would like something akin to the AC 4 / 4A opening, AC5 CGI intro is amazing not too brown nor the high exposure bloom. I agree that AC already had great art direction :).
I was just being a bit cheeky with the armored core/souls. It's all pre-mature talk anyway.

convo · Jan 8, 2022

I thought people who want that anime look go to Daemon x Machina, also at least produced by one former Armored Core producer.

Conal · Jan 8, 2022

Rhaast said:
Nah I would like something akin to the AC 4 / 4A opening.

Haha that's actually the one I meant to link!

Red Liquorice · Jan 8, 2022

benzy said:
in terms of graphics, did this look similar to their last gen games like Elden Ring / Sekiro, or does it look better than those and something targeting next-gen only?

This is hard to tell and it's been a few hours now since I watched the short videos AND I'm not a graphics guy, but I could only say it looked like a modern mech game, I wasn't blown away by the graphics or anything but it didn't scream last gen either. You know how when we first saw the leak of Elden Ring footage, we *knew* it looked cross-gen, I didn't get that sense from what I saw, but again it's difficult to say from the short footage, watermarked.

Lakitu · Jan 8, 2022

Red Liquorice said:
This is hard to tell and it's been a few hours now since I watched the short videos AND I'm not a graphics guy, but I could only say it looked like a modern mech game, I wasn't blown away by the graphics or anything but it didn't scream last gen either. You know how when we first saw the leak of Elden Ring footage, we *knew* it looked cross-gen, I didn't get that sense from what I saw, but again it's difficult to say from the short footage, watermarked.

Did it have From Software's usually high quality art style?

benzy · Jan 8, 2022

Red Liquorice said:
This is hard to tell and it's been a few hours now since I watched the short videos AND I'm not a graphics guy, but I could only say it looked like a modern mech game, I wasn't blown away by the graphics or anything but it didn't scream last gen either. You know how when we first saw the leak of Elden Ring footage, we *knew* it looked cross-gen, I didn't get that sense from what I saw, but again it's difficult to say from the short footage, watermarked.

Ah, nice. Thanks for the reply! I imagine mechs should be easier to make look great anyway due to modern rendering techniques for shiny metal materials. Pretty excited for this.

Red Liquorice · Jan 8, 2022

Lakitu said:
Did it have From Software's usually high quality art style?

I'd have to say to me, as someone who isn't in to mech at all, it looked kind of generic but robots, machines, it's all the same to me. I'm not worried about From Soft's art direction, but what I saw I'd say the designs were more utilitarian than flashy. Like the humanoid mecha didn't have ornate shoulder guards and leggings - it wasn't robot knights, it all looked like angular square machinery to me except the boss had a dome head iirc.

JoJo'sDentCo · Jan 8, 2022

Red Liquorice said:
I'd have to say to me, as someone who isn't in to mech at all, it looked kind of generic but robots, machines, it's all the same to me. I'm not worried about From Soft's art direction, but what I saw I'd say the designs were more utilitarian than flashy. Like the humanoid mecha didn't have ornate shoulder guards and leggings - it wasn't robot knights, it all looked like angular square machinery to me except the boss had a dome head iirc.

Thanks for the detailed answers

Host Samurai · Jan 8, 2022

Conal said:
Personally I hope it doesn't look anything like this, that's basically just DS again.

AC already had great art direction

ARMORED CORE 5 CG trailler (full version)

armored core 5 intro movie

www.youtube.com

Injecting some 80/90's Anime influences would be a dream. Retro HUDs and all.

- YouTube

Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.

www.youtube.com

Patlabor The Movie 2, opening scene [SUB ENG]

www.youtube.com

Patlabor 2 Tunnel scene

www.youtube.com

If it does end up looking like that I'll be happy for you guys though.

Yes. I am all for cel shading this to take inspiration from an 80's/90's anime. It would look absolutely insane and uncanny on modern hardware.

s y · Jan 8, 2022

edit: guess this is spoiler content

Mifec · Jan 8, 2022

s y said:
big improvement on the faces. hopefully there are some real hair options for black characters

There's a spoiler thread for datamined content.

s y · Jan 8, 2022

wasn't aware, link?

Mifec · Jan 8, 2022

s y said:
wasn't aware, link?

Elden Ring - Spoiler Thread Spoiler

So the Network Test has been datamine and over 3k voice files and a lot of story is out. There is A LOT of endgame and big reveal stuff here so don't complain after you've already clicked. I don't plan on using spoiler tags outside the OP because spoiler tags in a spoiler thread are just weird...

www.resetera.com

convo · Jan 8, 2022

Red Liquorice said:
I'd have to say to me, as someone who isn't in to mech at all, it looked kind of generic but robots, machines, it's all the same to me. I'm not worried about From Soft's art direction, but what I saw I'd say the designs were more utilitarian than flashy. Like the humanoid mecha didn't have ornate shoulder guards and leggings - it wasn't robot knights, it all looked like angular square machinery to me except the boss had a dome head iirc.

This is also how i'd describe their mech designs, utilitarian war machines. AC4a had huge war machines called armed forts that were like huge set piece boss fights and pretty cool looking already. Even if this new game is not gonna be called Armored Core, i am sure call backs to some recognizable designs will make it to here. Still curious about how the levels will look with their aquired skills in level designs, i can only imagine a new sci-fi fromsoft game.

Poimandres · Jan 8, 2022

convo said:
This is also how i'd describe their mech designs, utilitarian war machines. AC4a had huge war machines called armed forts that were like huge set piece boss fights and pretty cool looking already. Even if this new game is not gonna be called Armored Core, i am sure call backs to some recognizable designs will make it to here. Still curious about how the levels will look with their aquired skills in level designs, i can only imagine a new sci-fi fromsoft game.

Utilatarian is exactly what I want here. I want them to feel like heavy functional robots.

I hope the game doesn't lean too heavily into Souls territory but I always knew the return of AC would be quite different to the old games. I trust From to find the best way forward!

Pyro · Jan 8, 2022

Sushii · Jan 9, 2022

Red Liquorice said:
This is hard to tell and it's been a few hours now since I watched the short videos AND I'm not a graphics guy, but I could only say it looked like a modern mech game, I wasn't blown away by the graphics or anything but it didn't scream last gen either. You know how when we first saw the leak of Elden Ring footage, we *knew* it looked cross-gen, I didn't get that sense from what I saw, but again it's difficult to say from the short footage, watermarked.

Have you heard anything about the fromsoftware ps5 exclusive?

Mifec · Jan 9, 2022

Sushii said:
Have you heard anything about the fromsoftware ps5 exclusive?

There are no confirmed Sony exclusives.

definedMF · Jan 9, 2022

Conal said:
Personally I hope it doesn't look anything like this, that's basically just DS again.

AC already had great art direction

ARMORED CORE 5 CG trailler (full version)

armored core 5 intro movie

www.youtube.com

Injecting some 80/90's Anime influences would be a dream. Retro HUDs and all.

- YouTube

Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.

www.youtube.com

Patlabor The Movie 2, opening scene [SUB ENG]

www.youtube.com

Patlabor 2 Tunnel scene

www.youtube.com

If it does end up looking like that I'll be happy for you guys though.

You get bonus points for refrencing the best Patlabor movie and one of the best scenes from it.

If any ounce of that shows up in AC it will be incredible.

Vimto · Jan 9, 2022

Mifec · Jan 9, 2022

Vimto said:
This legit?

Yes, but please post those things in the spoiler thread.

Vimto · Jan 9, 2022

sorry

Mifec · Jan 9, 2022

Vimto said:
sorry

No worries.

Red Liquorice · Jan 10, 2022

Sushii said:
Have you heard anything about the fromsoftware ps5 exclusive?

The survey didn't mention any platform.

Sushii · Jan 10, 2022

Mifec said:
There are no confirmed Sony exclusives.

But Nick Baker from xbox era said that fromsoftware is working on a ps5 exclusive. Its more souls like compared to elden ring and sekiro.

Sushii · Jan 10, 2022

Could Sony and/or BluePoint make an announcement this year regarding Bloodborne remastered for ps5 and pc and that they are working on a sequel as well?

Retrosmith · Jan 10, 2022

Sushii said:
Could Sony and/or BluePoint make an announcement this year regarding Bloodborne remastered for ps5 and pc and that they are working on a sequel as well?

I mean anything is possible,

but

no. Or, don't expect it.

hideousarmor · Jan 10, 2022

Sushii said:
But Nick Baker from xbox era said that fromsoftware is working on a ps5 exclusive. Its more souls like compared to elden ring and sekiro.

Nick has been dragging the entire souls fanbase for over a year now and people keep falling for it lol. The guy even said he hated the community...at this point its clear to me he's just trolling to mess with expectations.
He hasnt gotten a single thing right regarding fromsoft since then. People really need to stop giving him that kind of attention.

OFC From will eventually work again with Sony but that doesnt mean that Nick knew shit.

Sushii said:
Could Sony and/or BluePoint make an announcement this year regarding Bloodborne remastered for ps5 and pc and that they are working on a sequel as well?

Sony hasnt touched the Bloodborne IP in 7 years. They are not suddenly gonna go back to it to work on two projects at once and I dont think BP will get anywhere close to it after the backlash against DeS art direction.

BeEatNU · Jan 10, 2022

My dude signed NDA and said screw said NDA lol.
Either way I'm looking forward to it

mrjamesmurphy · Jan 10, 2022

So that whole "Project Interstice" thing turned out to be a big fan fic, it was posted to r/GamingLeaksAndRumours with some art that was ripped off Artstation and tossed through a few filters. Quite fake.

Another big tell is that looks like they are actually making a legit Armored Core game, NOT a spiritual successor like Sekiro.

The screenshots are out there BTW. Game looks incredibly cool and honestly pretty far along. I wouldn't be surprised if it gets announced after ER's release for March next year, return to form with releases always occurring in that month.

Edit: All Hail Red Licorice. This is some amazing news thanks for sharing.

Res · Jan 11, 2022

posted from the other thread

character presets from the network test

Noctis look-alike

Haven't seen this one much before

comparison with in-game for this character

More in video

hideousarmor said:
Nick has been dragging the entire souls fanbase for over a year now and people keep falling for it lol. The guy even said he hated the community...at this point its clear to me he's just trolling to mess with expectations.
He hasnt gotten a single thing right regarding fromsoft since then. People really need to stop giving him that kind of attention.

OFC From will eventually work again with Sony but that doesnt mean that Nick knew shit.

Sony hasnt touched the Bloodborne IP in 7 years. They are not suddenly gonna go back to it to work on two projects at once and I dont think BP will get anywhere close to it after the backlash against DeS art direction.

It's been 7 years wtf

Deleted member 95442 · Jan 11, 2022

hideousarmor said:
Sony hasnt touched the Bloodborne IP in 7 years. They are not suddenly gonna go back to it to work on two projects at once and I dont think BP will get anywhere close to it after the backlash against DeS art direction.

There's a backlash?

In any case I doubt that will hold up anything, they may just use it as an opportunity to improve that area.

Grudy · Jan 18, 2022

Does today's news mean anything for a possible Sekiro 2 on playstation systems? I'm not sure how these things usually go. Does From have to partner with Activision again for Sekiro 2?

Pyroblazer · Jan 18, 2022

Grudy said:
Does today's news mean anything for a possible Sekiro 2 on playstation systems? I'm not sure how these things usually go. Does From have to partner with Activision again for Sekiro 2?

From owns the IP rights for Sekiro, so they don't need Activision for a Sekiro 2 from what we know.

DarkFlame92 · Jan 18, 2022

Grudy said:
Does today's news mean anything for a possible Sekiro 2 on playstation systems? I'm not sure how these things usually go. Does From have to partner with Activision again for Sekiro 2?

What is todays news ?

Deleted member 14089 · Jan 18, 2022

DarkFlame92 said:
What is todays news ?

It's 37 days until Elden Ring.

Microsoft bought Blizzard/Activision, Activision was publisher for Sekiro in some regions.

Suppenseppel · Jan 18, 2022

I am still curious, why did Spencer visit Fromsoftware in Japan, think it was 2019, what was the point?
Fromsoftware was a System seller for me with Bloodborne and I would buy a MS console for an exclusive in future. I think it is more lucrative for from to get some sweet and more money from MS than greedy Sony. Of course will be on PC, but I would buy a series x for an exclusive fromsoft action game or rpg.

Res · Jan 18, 2022

Suppenseppel said:
I am still curious, why did Spencer visit Fromsoftware in Japan, think it was 2019, what was the point?
Fromsoftware was a System seller for me with Bloodborne and I would buy a MS console for an exclusive in future. I think it is more lucrative for from to get some sweet and more money from MS than greedy Sony. Of course will be on PC, but I would buy a series x for an exclusive fromsoft action game or rpg.

I don't think From was the only one he visited. He probably checked out other japanese studios as well to see if he could get their games on xbox/gamepass.

Mifec · Jan 18, 2022

Res said:
I don't think From was the only one he visited. He probably checked out other japanese studios as well to see if he could get their games on xbox/gamepass.

For sure. Maybe From also pitched products they wanted funding on, they did have to shop around for Sekiro.

fantalas · Jan 19, 2022

New Hawkshaw video just dropped.

I've been rewatching their vids to make the waiting easier and I can say they're my favorite Souls channel along with illusory wall.

Anyone knows of good souls/FromSoft channels I should know about other than Zullie, Iron Pineapple, etc.?

xstaticprocess · Jan 19, 2022

Elden Ring stream next Monday as part of Taipei Game Show! Part of me wants to avoid this because of how close we are to release, but the other part knows that I'll watch anyway...

Taipei Game Show 2022 Will Feature Elden Ring and Triangle Strategy

Bandai Namco and Square Enix will hold live streams for their upcoming games like Elden Ring and Triangle Strategy at Taipei Game Show 2022.

www.siliconera.com

Blade30 · Jan 20, 2022

Ehh, I'd stay away and be on a blackout until release (it's only ~ 5 weeks now), the network test footage was already more then enough.

Mifec · Jan 20, 2022

fantalas said:
New Hawkshaw video just dropped.

I've been rewatching their vids to make the waiting easier and I can say they're my favorite Souls channel along with illusory wall.

Anyone knows of good souls/FromSoft channels I should know about other than Zullie, Iron Pineapple, etc.?

Honestly all of the good souls content creators just stopped doing stuff, I think Aegon does like 1 video a year. The pre ER scene has been dreadful. I guess Lore is doing what he can but yeah, not like he has a lot to go on with ER.

hideousarmor · Jan 20, 2022

Its not strictly souls content but I'd reccomend Sinclair Lore if you can handle how chaotic it gets at times. Sophie is someone who I feel deeply understands what these games are about and the few ER videos they have put out have been excellent. I also just generally like the low production values whereas I feel like Vaati overkills it and im totally put off by it whenever I try to watch their stuff.

For strict souls stuff I love illusory wall, lorehunter and Zullie but they are either on an hiatus until ER or surviving off the little bit of info there is left until release. I do think the post-ER scene will be very interesting and there's a big chance for new channels and smaller ones to grow a lot. I sure hope we also see a return of channels like Redgrave's and websites like the one Meph did for bb.

DvdGzz · Jan 20, 2022

I think that since this is essentially open world Dark Souls 4, I don't mind some spoilers. I'd probably avoid them if it were something totally new from FromSoftware. I think I watched like 40 hours of the network test lmao.

Fredo · Jan 20, 2022

I started playing through the soulsborne games in 2020 after getting into Bloodborne. By now I have nearly platinumed them all. Before that I had come across videos of boss fights, iconic areas/moments and even full speed runs. Anything I missed in the first run could easily be googled and understood for the next. Elden Ring feels like my first unspoiled souls experience. I wasn't invited to the network test, but have only watched little of others playing it. I'm excited to explore it on release and follow along as the community figure out the mysterious elements.

Kazen · Jan 20, 2022

Man... Just watched some spoilers for a bunch of spells in Elden Ring and Jesus.....

This game is going to be absolutely amazing

NediarPT88 · Jan 21, 2022

I'm gonna need some new Elden Ring info soon otherwise I'm going to start thinking it's getting another delay.

serdarkny · Jan 21, 2022

Kazen said:
Man... Just watched some spoilers for a bunch of spells in Elden Ring and Jesus.....

This game is going to be absolutely amazing

Yeah, that video convinced me to go for a int+dex build on my first playthrough.

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