• yamanii@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    Are we just going to pretend Armored Core 6 wasn’t a development hell for a good while to the point that the original producer left to do Daemon X Machina?

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      8 months ago

      You got any sources for that claim? Because quick googling makes me think it’s BS.

      EDIT: For anyone not wanting to read the rest, it is BS.

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        8 months ago

        https://www.siliconera.com/daemon-x-machina-makers-talk-about-how-they-create-their-mecha-designs/

        Daemon X Machina features two prominent people behind the helm: producer Kenichiro Tsukuda and mecha designer Shoji Kawamori, who also worked together on the Armored Core series.

        This is for staff, the hell comes from rumors about armored core 6 being made way before Daemon started it’s marketing cycle, then suddenly we have AC staff on marvelous instead of from, just do the math.

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          8 months ago

          Feel free to do the math for me, because I just don’t see it.

          • Tsukuda hasn’t worked on armored core since 3, he was long gone from FROM before Armored Core 6 was even an idea.
          • Kawamori did mecha designs for Armored Core 6.
          • FROM said Armored Core 6 is in early development in 2016
          • Daemon x machina came out in 2019
          • The director of Armored Core 6 was Masaru Yamamura who worked on Sekiro until 2019, so outside of concept art and maybe early prototypes no major work had been done on Armored Core 6 before 2019.

          At what point was the rumored development hell that you still haven’t sourced?

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            8 months ago

            FROM said Armored Core 6 is in early development in 2016

            There you go, 7 years to make the game, you did the math.

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              8 months ago

              Did the development start in hell? Because the Daemon x machina producer, who according to you left FROM because AC6 was in development hell, presented Daemon x machina in 2018. At that point AC6 had already been in “development hell for a good while”, but they had only been in development for 2 years?

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              8 months ago

              That’s not at all unusual. In fact, bigger studios will often have a few very small teams working on game concepts for years, to test an idea without spending too many resources.