FromSoftware’s Most Detailed Game Isn’t Elden Ring By A Long Shot

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Elden Ring let you create incredibly diverse characters, with many different ways to play depending on how you developed your stats. Your choices of equipment, spells, and other items further customized your character’s journey. However, another game by the same developer offers even more options for character builds – a truly massive amount compared to Elden Ring’s already impressive variety.

Games in the “Soulsborne” series are known for being intentionally unclear about how to develop your character or what the story is. FromSoftware games generally avoid hand-holding, instead encouraging players to figure things out on their own through experimentation and learning from mistakes. Even when a game has a straightforward path, mastering it usually requires a significant time commitment.

Armored Core 6’s Build Mechanics Are Far More Intense Than FromSoft’s Other Titles

While Elden Ring offers complex character building, Armored Core 6: Fires of Rubicon takes customization to a whole new level. Building the perfect mech is central to the entire game, and every single part you choose significantly impacts its performance. You’ll need to carefully consider each option, and you might even find yourself spending more time designing your mech than playing the missions!

In Armored Core 6, the weight of your mech is a key factor. Heavier parts offer more defense and allow you to equip powerful weapons, but they significantly reduce your speed and agility. Alternatively, you can build a lightweight mech for quick movement, but you’ll have to use lighter weapons, which means less damage output during combat.

Building a mech isn’t just about raw power, you really have to think about energy management too. Things like your AP (that’s health, basically) and how stable your mech is, plus how quickly it recovers, all tie into what parts you choose. I’ve found that some parts let you push a lot more energy into your systems, but they’ll drain your overall stamina. It’s a constant balancing act – tweaking one thing often means sacrificing something else, and it happens at every stage of building and upgrading your Armored Core. It’s pretty intense, honestly!

The recent updates to Armored Core 6, along with the ability to unlock more parts through gameplay, create a huge number of ways to customize your mech. You can modify everything from weapons and limbs to the core internal components, resulting in an almost overwhelming number of possible builds. Armored Core 6 offers far more customization options than any other game made by FromSoftware.

Elden Ring’s Weapons & Gear Don’t Have The Same Level Of Interaction Compared To AC6

While Elden Ring offers a lot of different ways to build your character thanks to its huge selection of weapons and armor, it doesn’t quite reach the same level of customization as Armored Core 6. Unlike Armored Core 6, gear in Elden Ring doesn’t significantly change your character’s stats, and different equipment combinations don’t create interesting limitations or unique challenges. The various items just don’t interact with each other enough to create truly distinct playstyles.

As a gamer, I’ve been thinking about how Armored Core 6 really makes you consider everything when building a mech. It’s not just about picking the strongest parts; you’re constantly balancing trade-offs. Imagine if in Elden Ring, the damage of your sword changed depending on whether you were wearing light, medium, or heavy armor. Or what if your roll speed was affected by how much damage your weapon usually does? That would make Elden Ring feel a lot more like Armored Core – every piece of gear would have a ripple effect, forcing you to really think about how it all works together. That’s what Armored Core 6 does – every part feels important because it impacts other parts, making build decisions way more interesting.

Half Of Armored Core 6’s Gameplay Comes From Mech Customization Rather Than Action

A huge part of Armored Core 6 involves carefully choosing and combining different mech parts to create the perfect build. This focus on detailed customization is a hallmark of the Armored Core series, and it’s quite different from the character building in games like Elden Ring and other “Soulsborne” titles made by FromSoftware. While players might prefer the customization in one game over the other, both Armored Core 6 and Elden Ring offer a remarkable level of detail when it comes to building your character, far beyond what you typically find in action RPGs.

The feeling of building a mech that perfectly suits how you like to play makes all the intricate customization in Armored Core 6 worthwhile. While some players familiar with FromSoftware games might think Elden Ring has the deepest character building, Armored Core proves there are games that go even further in demanding attention to detail.

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2026-02-25 17:13