One FromSoft Game Hidetaka Miyazaki’s Team “Really wanted to create” Got Stalled For 10 Years Due To Elden Ring, Dark Souls, Bloodborne, Sekiro

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One FromSoft Game Hidetaka Miyazaki’s Team “Really wanted to create” Got Stalled For 10 Years Due To Elden Ring, Dark Souls, Bloodborne, Sekiro

You are possibly going to relate a lot to this one if you just so happen to be the middle child in your family. Remember Elden Ring’s creators, FromSoft? The studio known for creating extremely punishing games that bait the player into breaking their controllers? They have another franchise that is so different that many refuse to believe it comes from the same production house called Armored Core. 

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Armored Core is one of the overlooked franchises by the studio | FromSoft

This unique IP is essentially a long-running series of mecha-based action games developed by the studio. It would surprise many to know that before the studio became synonymous with the Souls genre, it was this series that helped push it off the ground. Unfortunately, even after that, its latest installment had to wait for 10 long years for its last release. 

Armored Core 6: Rubicons of Fires and its Development Struggles 

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Armored Core 6 came out after 10 long years | FromSoft

The release of ******’s Souls back in 2009 kicked off a Souls genre campaign nobody could have seen coming at the time. The studio then quickly got to work on developing the Dark Souls Trilogy, soon followed by Bloodborne, Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice, and the studio’s latest Souls adventure, Elden Ring. 

However, what got ignored in all of this is the franchise that started it all, Armored Core. The latest Armored Core 6 title is essentially what revived the franchise in 2023 after 10 long years of waiting. Explaining why it took so long, Yasunori Ogura, the game’s producer, revealed the following via

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As for the process leading up to the development of this title, our company’s president, Hidetaka Miyazaki, myself, the director, Yamamura, and many other members of the development team all really wanted to create a new Armored Core game. –  Meanwhile, because we had several projects underway at the same time, we had to allocate internal resources for the development of other titles. Which in turn resulted in a long ten-year wait for this game.

Ogura disclosed how having multiple projects at the same time caused the unbelievably long wait for the much-anticipated release of Armored Core 6. Fortunately, something good came out of this too; that is how the fights in the game have ultimately become more immersive and better thanks to the team’s experience with all the Souls games.

Why Armored Core is historic for FromSoft

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The Armored Core franchise remains significant to the studio’s portfolio | FromSoft

If you love fast-paced mecha action, Armored Core is a franchise that you cannot miss out on. Not only is the latest Armored Core 6 the best entry point for newcomers, but older installments of the series are also worth visiting once again if you happen to be a fan.

For those who do not know, Armored Core was also the first franchise the now-renowned director Hidetaka Miyazaki worked on. The Armored Core: Nexus title released during the PS2 era was a significant title for FromSoft, as it marked the debut of a director who would go on to change the course of the gaming industry.

With the studio back on the experimenting track with the upcoming Elden Ring Nightreign, many now wonder if we might get to see another Armored Core title soon enough in the coming years, bearing in mind that Miyazaki wants to personally overlook its development.

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