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How does FromSoftware release AAA games so frequently? Elden Ring boss says "we are just blessed with a great staff" that the studio empowers and retains (www.gamesradar.com)
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[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

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?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (2 children)

FROM said Armored Core 6 is in early development in 2016

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 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?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 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.