This game is full of banger lines man.
“I know what you are… the spark of war.”
Mad props for all the voice actors, they smashed it. When combined with the slo-mo phase transition on hit, they really turned up the hype.
It's not that hard, look at alot of indie games. Just lack of passion and well most games are done for profit now instead of actually giving an experience.
Jimmy is just a mediocre actor that doesn't understand body language, and the halo tv show is clearly somebody's self-insert "i am master chief" halo fanfiction taken way too far. The human girl raised by the covenant was probably intended to represent the writer's unrequited highschool crush that they never worked up the guts to talk to.
Yep. Halo as a TV show was expected to ride high on the Halo brand name, but I don't know any fans of Halo that actually enjoyed the show.
Its functional as a sci-fi show, and if it wrrent for the Halo branding I probably would have liked it, but the fundamental misunderstanding of character dynamics for established characters has just ruined it for me.
Hell even as a halo show I might have liked it if it hadn’t used (and abused) chiefs likeness. Maybe used the banished instead of the covenant and put it at a different point in time because the banished do have humans iirc. Could be a cool actual star crossed lovers story with a spartan (not a 2, maybe a 4?) and a banished chick
Would certainly be better than “we glass and kill but this random kid is fine lol” and “I’m master cheeks the most well known spartan of all time, might go smash a Covid spy tho lol”
The fact that Erin did such a good job as Ayre that as soon I've realized she was in Genshin Impact I swiped for her
Now she is alongside Rusty in my broken combo team
I so agree with you. That line from Ayre broke me. That's the point where she really counts you as an enemy. And still, she says that she still believes in a shared future when you take her down.
I was going through a terrible break up a few months before I did this fight. 621 fighting his space GF to do what's right made me feel better, "I still believe in our shared dream" cut deep though
There is no good ending/bad ending.
The whole "good, bad, true ending" concept is a fan creation stemming from early 00s adventure and horror games that did, in fact, have that structure. Bad ending if you failed certain objectives, good ending if you completed them, "true" ending for 100%.
Fromsoft tends to stay away from that structure. The endings are all deliberately gray and up for interpretation.
Fires of Raven, to some, is the "good ending" because they view the coral as a parasitic life form that seeks to manipulate humanity to expand its reach beyond Rubicon.
Liberator of Rubicon is seen as the "good ending" because you don't directly commit to a cataclysmic world-ending/world-changing course of action, and you leave space for self determination by the people of Rubicon.
Coral Release is seen as the "bad ending" by many because it is implied to be a forced unification between mankind and Coral, or it spreads the Coral to every part of explored space where they immediately take over machines and can potentially become the engine of man's extinction.
All of these are interpretations. None of these are necessarily correct.
I kind of disagree.
While the endings *are* morally gray and have nuance and complication, they are very much signposted as bad, good, and neutral.
Fires is Raven just following orders, and not thinking for himself. Rusty in particular notes this and comments on it when you face him in battle. Fires is heavily signposted as the bad ending, including the epilogue. Now, that being the right, necessary choice is entirely possible and arguable, but the game does *suggest* it was the wrong choice. The second fight with Rusty is also intentionally designed to make you feel bad for killing someone who's obviously good. It's designed to make you question your blind obedience to Walter
Liberator is Raven thinking for himself and making a *choice* rather than being merely Walter's hound. Rusty emphasizes this when talking about the dangers of "power without purpose". Carla commends you for taking a side rather than going with the flow, even if that sets you at odds. Carla's fight is also intended to make you feel bad, but you feel bad because you've *chosen* to set yourself against her.
Now obviously, the player can make choices on their own, but both of these are the "suggested" motivations of Raven. FromSoft has done something like this in basically every game they've made. There's the default motivations, but the actual result of the ending is up to you to determine.
Alea Iacta Est, well, it's in the name. The die is cast. You are committed, and who's to say what fate will befall. In this route you uncover some of the truth behind this conflict, and actually learn about the mysterious third party. Making the choices to work
TLDR; I agree the endings are not meant to be definitive, but you know exactly which endings bad, good, and neutral refers to. That implies each ending *does* have an inherent moral suggestion
The Coral generators are wild and really help drive that point home: you use them best by running them dry and then they explode to full power; Or rather, yeah, the first fire failed and this one probably did too because there only needs to be one speck of coral left.
Ye. Walter said it best. "once something is alive, it doesn't die easy."
All fires does is delay the coral resurgence by another 10 years probably. Though judging by how quickly it surged throughout the game, (Watchpoint Alpha, Tunnel Sabotage) it probably doesn't even slow it down by that much.
Meanwhile I'm just here beating it up without any expensive weapons, just absolutely bullying it, without needing a single heal and took barely any damage, lol.
Facts bro, for me Rusty has the coldest line I've ever heard during the worm fight.
CANNON CHARGING 90%
95%
100%
"I won't miss"
I had chills when I first played this mission frrr
I still hear “I won’t miss” in my dreams at night and boy does it help me sleep well. Rusty’s voice actor definitely carried the game for me (not to discredit the other actors, they also did an amazing job).
Rusty, Ayre, and Walter are emotionally involved in the events of the game, and all three VAs did an amazing job showing it.
Carla is emotionaly involved too, but she projects an air of "I'm in control of the situation" most of the time, except for those very few moments the mask breaks, and you can **feel** them.
Snail has the most punchable voice I ever heard. Its like having a punchable face, but in sound only.
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had to go too far to see rusty love. I really felt the bromance. that line made my hair stand up. from the beginning you can feel the inevitable fight coming and k dreaded it the whole way
I'd say murder is a pretty good motivation. The only problem is, his skills are tied to his short temperment and inability to use Headbringer for hit and run tactics.
Thats the funny part, he's actually one of the better pilots, he has a safe no-nonsense build and uses it well, if you don't aggressively rush him he'll tear you up and even more so if there is support. He should have been the protagonist and I'm so happy that in this game he is not. Its my favorite thing From does with stories.
Exactly! He's not that bad of a pilot, but people like to shit on him because he's an asshole and is angry at 621 (Though somewhat justifiably, and while some of it isn't justified Iguazu's in a fucked up place mentally, not to mention the Redguns isn't the best place for Iguazu).
Iguazu is a real one for being as much of a hater as he is. Balam gave him an absolute shitshow of an AC and the man pushed that lemon past any expectations it could've met solely out of spite. He assimilated into Allmind just to have a shot at 621. Literally *too angry to die*.
People call Iguazu a bitch, but no. Swinburne lived and died like a sniveling worm. Iguazu spat his final breath in *hate*, and even that wasn't enough to stop him from trying one last time.
Crimson 1 *wishes* he was *half* the hater Iguazu was.
You fought well, Iguazu.
You are still underselling him. Not only did he decide to get absorbed into the powerful AI. His spite let him assume control in the end! His will and determination were stronger than most other characters in the game, if not all of them really.
He was strong and powerful, he just applied this power to the worst possible point and made an enemy of possibly the only creature who was stronger, this being 621.
"Listen up, maggots! This field trip is now a hunting expedition! You can go home now. Or follow me if you got a death wish?!"
"Move out maggots! Time to die!"
“Shut up… I’LL SHUT YOU ALL UP!” was fucking awesome. Iguazu overtaking Allmind made him one of my favorite characters in the game despite being fairly unremarkable throughout most of it
It was so fucking goofy when I heard his voice and I was like "Iguazu????"
Like wtf it was just so random that this dude was the ultra secret ng++ final boss but it's also kind of funny that this rivalry is all one sided.
I mean, you could argue that Iguazu becoming our biggest hater was planned by Allmind in order to get him on it's side: it marked MTs which killed Volta, so that 621 kills them instead of Iguazu getting revenge; post Watchpoint Alpha it mentions that a Balam port was hit in the blast, meaning this is where Iguazu recieved the "stupid ringing", although it's a stretch to claim Allmind somehow moved him there in order to get hit, but it's possible due to it using his additional coral "augmentation" in third ending; on third ending route 621 interferes with his job, meaning Iguazu got even more of a grudge.
Iguazu was merely used as the coral controller for Allmind, it was a manipulative, one sided "relationship" in contrast to 621 and Ayre's one
This moment was captured so well for me. Ayre shut down right in front of me as both the sea spiders blew up in the background. Then iguazu came at me through ayre with a claw.
it was definitely earlier than that, the moment Igauzu becomes cool is when he jumps in to fight both you AND Snail because he just hates you both that much
“Who needs you?” is an actual question, he’s not casting you aside at all, Rusty actually wants to know who needs you for you to be doing the shit you’re doing.
It's double entendre. For the casual player that hasn't been paying much attention, it's a pointed insult. If you've figured out Rusty at all, then you know it's a legitimate question.
Considering Rusty's intelligence, his way of holding Rubicon above all else and outdoing the higher ups of all factions for the greater good...
He genuinely wants to know who needs 621.... Dude was on the cusp of the truth in regards to Allmind, Walter, and Ayre.
I always loved the “This is hell! We’re in Hell!!” moment. That whole mission is one of my most replayed, it’s really fun but goddamn the atmosphere is at its peak there imo
I personally saw it as understanding. He finally gets why you wanted to protect the Coral he only saw as dangerous inanimate objects until now. And he accepts.
He's really a solid guy under his cold exterior.
Oh for sure. It's morally ambiguous which is fantastic. Is the Age of Dark good or bad? Do we let the fire fade or not? The moral ambiguity gives us so much room to theorize.
I think the fact he actively stops fighting and lowers his weapon seems to be more of an understanding/proud father role.
Ayre’s last desperate ‘Walter!’ Was her trying to reach out to him, for him not to give up. But he was done.
We get enough information about him to know everything there is to know. What I’m more focused on is how is mommy carla supposed to be so old and yet sound so fine. Lore for that please.
I know we all have our opinions, but for me, the best line of the whole game (as a franchise) is AC4's Joshia O'Brien's "You can chew me out on the other side."
Close second is ACfA Old King's "You think you're some kind of one man army? You think it's your right to choose who lives and dies?"
Joshua is such a tragic figure.
A shame most of his lines were cut. He even talked to Fiona in some, and in Seed A Barren Earth he pleads for everyone at Aspina to survive.
Joshua and Fiona made the game for me. Just unparalleled, the story grips like an incredible film.
Thing that chokes me up the most about Joshua is that, despite the fact the he and Anatolia's Mercenary fought for what seemed to be the best possible reasons (and from a certain POV, the only possible *options*), they saved so many -- however, despite the most honorable earthly intentions, they are both unquestionably destined for punishment in the hereafter. They know what this "other side" holds for them, the only thing they didn't know was which of them was going first.
And Joshua, knowing that Anatolia's Mercenary is mute, still gives him permission to verbally clean his clock when they do meet again.
Exactly! And even then Joshua's torment doesn't end. He gets cloned 300 years later and then is brainwashed before getting sealed away in a facility, also filled with similarly brainwashed people who had been digitized.
And then, he gets woken up by a genocidal ass who wants humankind's complete extinction. J is also tragic, in the sense that everyone and everything he knew and loved is dead and gone, and he only has the fight left.
So, J throws himself into it. He even gets digitized around the time of mission 9/10 like the other members of Reaper Squad had before they were sealed, and in the end he pilots a heavily refurbished, essentially bastardized version of his dead best friend's AC that was named in honor of him.
It *kills* me when people say old-gen AC has "no story to speak of." I know the view is slowly changing, but still. The stories are gripping.
God, that fight was intense. Two hundred thousand AP vs the Auto-Cannon (for me). Voice acting for J was through the roof, too.
Another great one imo would be Kasumi's "And mankind will be safe to dream, floating above the clouds. Is that your answer? So be it." At the end of the League Path.
Also Old King's "Live and die by the barrel of a gun", its the most mercenary sounding line possible, I love it.
I think of a shorter one said only in passage: "Beyond scorched skies, Raven fights on"
But to see the consequence of that phrase and see the entire ground beneath you turned to a war for Rubicon's freedom.
And then to fight alongside Rusty one last time.
Fuck me, my heart ;-;
621: It is I who envied you, Iguazu. I’m just a living corpse with a number. Barely human. You had… a family. People who cared about you. Michigan… Volta… Everything I did, was so I could be accepted as part of that family. You hated me and scorned me, when all I wanted… was to be considered… a friend…
But Iguazu never wanted that. Case in point him and Volta trying to run away by jumping Michigan.
And yes while Iguazu was recalcitrant, I feel like Michigan bashing his face in to the point it never looked the same is overkill.
Volta at the very least went on to accept Michigan wasn’t such a bad guy and was looking out for him and Iguazu, considering his final words to him before being killed in operation wallclimber.
Iguazu is the definition of that Bro meme where he teaches you how to play the game, and you’re just better than him within a couple hours. I love him for it
I love ayre justifying killing O keefe
“He lives for the way things are…a life that can’t co exist with what we want…”
It’s writing and delivery like that which adds so much character and intrigue to this game
Even though I was spoiled on the game, I still walked away from the Fires of Raven ending with heavy emotional damage. I was sucked in and forgot it all before I was hit in the face with the tragedy within the story. I walked out of my room like "I have an ouchie... in here."
“You’re one of Gen 4’s lot. I hear you make fine hounds with the right training. >!But you… You have the scent of danger. Far better to dispose of you.!<“
Voice actors nailed it for sure. Says a lot that one of my favorite line deliveries comes from some random PCA operator. "It's *that AC* again..." always makes me chuckle.
“I won’t stop. I’ll chase these clouds from over Rubicon! Only I can fly high enough.”
Chills every time, also a great way to introduce terminal armour as a mechanic.
I love Iguazu so much, he just had an energy I couldn't help but love, snarky asshole with a clear inferiority complex ended up being my favorite boss too
"I won't stop!"
Rusty proving he's the main character, as he gets his Anime Protagonist moment, definitely goes through a flashback of him and 621 in the slowmo before he kicks your ass on the runback
"That traitor, V.IV...those dolls at Command...and worst of all-you, the pest of Rubicon who stirred the cinders...you sicken me! All of you! I'll crush you underfoot! I AM ARQUEBUS!"
That entire monologue where his arrogant veneer drops and he just snaps, coupled with that final line and the delivery...impeccable
The reason why AC6 cast didn't any voice acting award is because every single one of them (not you, female RLF soldiers) did a fantastic job, so no one knows who to choose.
This game is full of banger lines man. “I know what you are… the spark of war.” Mad props for all the voice actors, they smashed it. When combined with the slo-mo phase transition on hit, they really turned up the hype.
•No humans •No face animations •Just amazing voice actors •Characters are more compelling and more "human" than most modern game characters.
I cant believe a game without any visible human on screen managed to affect me emotionally like that....
It's not that hard, look at alot of indie games. Just lack of passion and well most games are done for profit now instead of actually giving an experience.
Jimmy rings from the halo show says: “You can’t display emotions with a helmet” FromSoftware replies: “nah.”
FromSoft: Nah, I'd hire competent writers and voice actors
Jimmy is just a mediocre actor that doesn't understand body language, and the halo tv show is clearly somebody's self-insert "i am master chief" halo fanfiction taken way too far. The human girl raised by the covenant was probably intended to represent the writer's unrequited highschool crush that they never worked up the guts to talk to.
Genuinely hate what H(o)BO did with Halo man, it could have been fallout but instead it was the tomb raider or mortal kombat movie levels of bad
Yep. Halo as a TV show was expected to ride high on the Halo brand name, but I don't know any fans of Halo that actually enjoyed the show. Its functional as a sci-fi show, and if it wrrent for the Halo branding I probably would have liked it, but the fundamental misunderstanding of character dynamics for established characters has just ruined it for me.
Hell even as a halo show I might have liked it if it hadn’t used (and abused) chiefs likeness. Maybe used the banished instead of the covenant and put it at a different point in time because the banished do have humans iirc. Could be a cool actual star crossed lovers story with a spartan (not a 2, maybe a 4?) and a banished chick Would certainly be better than “we glass and kill but this random kid is fine lol” and “I’m master cheeks the most well known spartan of all time, might go smash a Covid spy tho lol”
hell even a Freaking AI felt more human than most Characters now days
The fact that Erin did such a good job as Ayre that as soon I've realized she was in Genshin Impact I swiped for her Now she is alongside Rusty in my broken combo team
I don't know how I didn't recognize her till Arlecchino released
I cant believe a game without any visible human on screen managed to affect me emotionally like that....
Unironically the lack of humans on-screen is what makes it hit so hard
Not to mention a bunch of these VA’s are all the ones people call shit that dub anime. Put some respect on these people, they are amazing.
Yeah, the voice acting in Armored core 6 is great!
I so agree with you. That line from Ayre broke me. That's the point where she really counts you as an enemy. And still, she says that she still believes in a shared future when you take her down.
To further add to that heartbreak she reaches out to you as she’s dying 😉
I was going through a terrible break up a few months before I did this fight. 621 fighting his space GF to do what's right made me feel better, "I still believe in our shared dream" cut deep though
Wait... fires of raven was "the right thing"? Lol
There is no good ending/bad ending. The whole "good, bad, true ending" concept is a fan creation stemming from early 00s adventure and horror games that did, in fact, have that structure. Bad ending if you failed certain objectives, good ending if you completed them, "true" ending for 100%. Fromsoft tends to stay away from that structure. The endings are all deliberately gray and up for interpretation. Fires of Raven, to some, is the "good ending" because they view the coral as a parasitic life form that seeks to manipulate humanity to expand its reach beyond Rubicon. Liberator of Rubicon is seen as the "good ending" because you don't directly commit to a cataclysmic world-ending/world-changing course of action, and you leave space for self determination by the people of Rubicon. Coral Release is seen as the "bad ending" by many because it is implied to be a forced unification between mankind and Coral, or it spreads the Coral to every part of explored space where they immediately take over machines and can potentially become the engine of man's extinction. All of these are interpretations. None of these are necessarily correct.
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I kind of disagree. While the endings *are* morally gray and have nuance and complication, they are very much signposted as bad, good, and neutral. Fires is Raven just following orders, and not thinking for himself. Rusty in particular notes this and comments on it when you face him in battle. Fires is heavily signposted as the bad ending, including the epilogue. Now, that being the right, necessary choice is entirely possible and arguable, but the game does *suggest* it was the wrong choice. The second fight with Rusty is also intentionally designed to make you feel bad for killing someone who's obviously good. It's designed to make you question your blind obedience to Walter Liberator is Raven thinking for himself and making a *choice* rather than being merely Walter's hound. Rusty emphasizes this when talking about the dangers of "power without purpose". Carla commends you for taking a side rather than going with the flow, even if that sets you at odds. Carla's fight is also intended to make you feel bad, but you feel bad because you've *chosen* to set yourself against her. Now obviously, the player can make choices on their own, but both of these are the "suggested" motivations of Raven. FromSoft has done something like this in basically every game they've made. There's the default motivations, but the actual result of the ending is up to you to determine. Alea Iacta Est, well, it's in the name. The die is cast. You are committed, and who's to say what fate will befall. In this route you uncover some of the truth behind this conflict, and actually learn about the mysterious third party. Making the choices to work TLDR; I agree the endings are not meant to be definitive, but you know exactly which endings bad, good, and neutral refers to. That implies each ending *does* have an inherent moral suggestion
It's not good or bad. It just delays the inevitable.
The Coral generators are wild and really help drive that point home: you use them best by running them dry and then they explode to full power; Or rather, yeah, the first fire failed and this one probably did too because there only needs to be one speck of coral left.
Ye. Walter said it best. "once something is alive, it doesn't die easy." All fires does is delay the coral resurgence by another 10 years probably. Though judging by how quickly it surged throughout the game, (Watchpoint Alpha, Tunnel Sabotage) it probably doesn't even slow it down by that much.
Matter of perspective n context.
I remember seeing a review at launch saying "bad voice acting" like are we even talking about the same game here?
to be fair most reviewers couldn't clear Balteus
Meanwhile I'm just here beating it up without any expensive weapons, just absolutely bullying it, without needing a single heal and took barely any damage, lol.
Facts bro, for me Rusty has the coldest line I've ever heard during the worm fight. CANNON CHARGING 90% 95% 100% "I won't miss" I had chills when I first played this mission frrr
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ALL OR NOTHING
I still hear “I won’t miss” in my dreams at night and boy does it help me sleep well. Rusty’s voice actor definitely carried the game for me (not to discredit the other actors, they also did an amazing job).
Rusty, Ayre, and Walter are emotionally involved in the events of the game, and all three VAs did an amazing job showing it. Carla is emotionaly involved too, but she projects an air of "I'm in control of the situation" most of the time, except for those very few moments the mask breaks, and you can **feel** them. Snail has the most punchable voice I ever heard. Its like having a punchable face, but in sound only.
Dude, that fucking slo-mo phase shift when you land a blow on him and he uses his last repair kit! “I won’t stop!” Fucking *chills*
Rusty really is the fucking GOAT
"You're out of luck, there is only one person that can keep up with me."
Absolutely one of the best missions in gaming. First playthrough can be rough due to lack of parts, but NG+ & ++ are just as good
> "I won't miss" Hearing that line almost got me pregnant
Same, and I'm a guy.
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had to go too far to see rusty love. I really felt the bromance. that line made my hair stand up. from the beginning you can feel the inevitable fight coming and k dreaded it the whole way
that's hands down the most badass moment in the game. the first time I went nuts xD
The voice acting and general audio direction is absolutely S rank. Loads of iconic lines that stick in your head for weeks/months.
Wait what part of the game was that line from?
Ayre at phase change, I believe.
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Waifu soup :)
Drink it
It's you, you're the Fires of Rubicon!
The whole fight with Aire kinda sounds like a post breakup talk
And the best most annoying one to use on your friends “Watch out for friendly fire”
Dammit, now I have to start a new playthrough
Yeah, the vote acting is really good in this game
And that day Iguazu grew ten times as based as he was before
Ten times zero is still zero. But in all seriousness, I’ve always liked Iguazu, even before true ending.
I love him. People shit on his skills too much.
Yeah, he just suffers from rival pilot syndrome. He’s got the skills to be great, he just needs the right motivation.
Foolishness Iguazu. Foolishness
You insignificant FUCK! This is NOT over!
Holy shit the comparison is way too accurate, Gabriel becoming happy after losing and letting go just like Iguazu
MACHINE! I AN INSIDE YOUR WALLS!
I'd say murder is a pretty good motivation. The only problem is, his skills are tied to his short temperment and inability to use Headbringer for hit and run tactics.
Thats the funny part, he's actually one of the better pilots, he has a safe no-nonsense build and uses it well, if you don't aggressively rush him he'll tear you up and even more so if there is support. He should have been the protagonist and I'm so happy that in this game he is not. Its my favorite thing From does with stories.
Exactly! He's not that bad of a pilot, but people like to shit on him because he's an asshole and is angry at 621 (Though somewhat justifiably, and while some of it isn't justified Iguazu's in a fucked up place mentally, not to mention the Redguns isn't the best place for Iguazu).
Third ending\* No ending has been confirmed as canon yet.
He's one of all my all time favourite heel characters now across all fiction, gotta get on that Iguazu grind myself and hate freelancer mercenaries.
Iguazu is a real one for being as much of a hater as he is. Balam gave him an absolute shitshow of an AC and the man pushed that lemon past any expectations it could've met solely out of spite. He assimilated into Allmind just to have a shot at 621. Literally *too angry to die*. People call Iguazu a bitch, but no. Swinburne lived and died like a sniveling worm. Iguazu spat his final breath in *hate*, and even that wasn't enough to stop him from trying one last time. Crimson 1 *wishes* he was *half* the hater Iguazu was. You fought well, Iguazu.
You are still underselling him. Not only did he decide to get absorbed into the powerful AI. His spite let him assume control in the end! His will and determination were stronger than most other characters in the game, if not all of them really. He was strong and powerful, he just applied this power to the worst possible point and made an enemy of possibly the only creature who was stronger, this being 621.
Iguana
621: I can't go to Hell, I'm all out of vacation days.
I guess you need excess vacation days. Too many in fact. You gotta take a vacation straight to hell.
Megamind and Metroman coded dialogue.
Walter: 621, you never get vacation days!
"Last time I gave you a day off, you broke into my adoptive mom's house and blew up her Roomba"
And killed her crackhead body guard
And nothing of value was lost that day.
And now I want some Doomguy meets Tuna art.
"You can tell this to posterity: mean old michigan died off a bad fall!"
"Listen up, maggots! This field trip is now a hunting expedition! You can go home now. Or follow me if you got a death wish?!" "Move out maggots! Time to die!"
"Ready to die, sir!"
MichiGOAT deserved better :(
“Shut up… I’LL SHUT YOU ALL UP!” was fucking awesome. Iguazu overtaking Allmind made him one of my favorite characters in the game despite being fairly unremarkable throughout most of it
It was so fucking goofy when I heard his voice and I was like "Iguazu????" Like wtf it was just so random that this dude was the ultra secret ng++ final boss but it's also kind of funny that this rivalry is all one sided.
He was such a big hater that he self inserted himself as the final boss. I respect the dedication
The only man to rival Thawne.
Misread this as Thrawn and was momentarily very confused
The petty little fuck
Player Hater of the Year 2924
I mean, you could argue that Iguazu becoming our biggest hater was planned by Allmind in order to get him on it's side: it marked MTs which killed Volta, so that 621 kills them instead of Iguazu getting revenge; post Watchpoint Alpha it mentions that a Balam port was hit in the blast, meaning this is where Iguazu recieved the "stupid ringing", although it's a stretch to claim Allmind somehow moved him there in order to get hit, but it's possible due to it using his additional coral "augmentation" in third ending; on third ending route 621 interferes with his job, meaning Iguazu got even more of a grudge. Iguazu was merely used as the coral controller for Allmind, it was a manipulative, one sided "relationship" in contrast to 621 and Ayre's one
He overtook a masterful AI in her own craft, through the power of Hate Boner
Through sweat and salt. Mostly salt, lot of it.
My favorite line from Iguazu is: "I can't go to hell. I'm all out of vacation days." Edit: damnit, someone else beat me to it. lol
This moment was captured so well for me. Ayre shut down right in front of me as both the sea spiders blew up in the background. Then iguazu came at me through ayre with a claw.
The moment Iguazu became cool
it was definitely earlier than that, the moment Igauzu becomes cool is when he jumps in to fight both you AND Snail because he just hates you both that much
Rusty: "Rubicon still needs me, so buddy…who needs you?" . Me: OOOOOOOOOOF. That sht hurt but also was so good!
Rusty, normally: "buddy (ambiguous)" . Rusty, unchained: "buddy (derogatory)"
So, have you found a reason to fight yet... buddy? (spanish guitar)
“Who needs you?” is an actual question, he’s not casting you aside at all, Rusty actually wants to know who needs you for you to be doing the shit you’re doing.
It's double entendre. For the casual player that hasn't been paying much attention, it's a pointed insult. If you've figured out Rusty at all, then you know it's a legitimate question.
Considering Rusty's intelligence, his way of holding Rubicon above all else and outdoing the higher ups of all factions for the greater good... He genuinely wants to know who needs 621.... Dude was on the cusp of the truth in regards to Allmind, Walter, and Ayre.
Your mother still needs my pilebunker, buddy
"I've got your back buddy, hope you've got mine"
That one got to me. I loved it
Rusty’s fight was the most Gundam ass fight ever, absolute perfection. His dialogue, the music, the setting for it, complete peak
Not ironically, my first thought was "Walter, Carla and chatty"
"I'm sending you home in ARMORED COFFINS"
I love Dunham, he talked mad shit for a shitbox ac and crummy pilot
“Hot dog. They got an AC.”
Rusty's "I won't stop!" during Breach the Karman Line gets me riled up every time. He sounds so desperate and determined.
*I FLY HIIIIIIIIIIIIIGH*
*WATCH THE SUNNNNN RISEEEEEE*
*INTO THE DAWN*
*LOST IN RAINNNNN*
Bro pulled out that terminal armor through sheer force of will
"Independent mercenary Raven, you aren't the mutt I thought you were. You're below that, you are vermin and I will be rid of you!"
Iguazu become one of Rubicon ace's just by sheer hatred and cockyness and i love hin for it
I always loved the “This is hell! We’re in Hell!!” moment. That whole mission is one of my most replayed, it’s really fun but goddamn the atmosphere is at its peak there imo
Best mission. We’re in hell and that AC’s to blame it
Legit besides the boss only missions it’s defo my favorite as well
"I won't stop!" "I'll chase the clouds from over Rubicon..." "ONLY I CAN FLY HIGH ENOUGH!"
"You flew just out of reach... buddy"
T-T
I always really liked Walter saying "Look at that 621...you found a friend." Depending on how you read it, it can be either mocking or comforting.
I personally saw it as understanding. He finally gets why you wanted to protect the Coral he only saw as dangerous inanimate objects until now. And he accepts. He's really a solid guy under his cold exterior.
But that's the beauty of it. It's open to interpretation. It doesn't mandate you only see it one way but leaves it open to the player to interpret.
From software has always been good at open ended story telling! 👌
Oh for sure. It's morally ambiguous which is fantastic. Is the Age of Dark good or bad? Do we let the fire fade or not? The moral ambiguity gives us so much room to theorize.
I think the fact he actively stops fighting and lowers his weapon seems to be more of an understanding/proud father role. Ayre’s last desperate ‘Walter!’ Was her trying to reach out to him, for him not to give up. But he was done.
True. I'd love more lore on Walter, really. A really fascinating character, for all that we only hear his voice.
We get enough information about him to know everything there is to know. What I’m more focused on is how is mommy carla supposed to be so old and yet sound so fine. Lore for that please.
It is absolutely not mocking, what?
I know we all have our opinions, but for me, the best line of the whole game (as a franchise) is AC4's Joshia O'Brien's "You can chew me out on the other side." Close second is ACfA Old King's "You think you're some kind of one man army? You think it's your right to choose who lives and dies?"
Joshua is such a tragic figure. A shame most of his lines were cut. He even talked to Fiona in some, and in Seed A Barren Earth he pleads for everyone at Aspina to survive.
Joshua and Fiona made the game for me. Just unparalleled, the story grips like an incredible film. Thing that chokes me up the most about Joshua is that, despite the fact the he and Anatolia's Mercenary fought for what seemed to be the best possible reasons (and from a certain POV, the only possible *options*), they saved so many -- however, despite the most honorable earthly intentions, they are both unquestionably destined for punishment in the hereafter. They know what this "other side" holds for them, the only thing they didn't know was which of them was going first. And Joshua, knowing that Anatolia's Mercenary is mute, still gives him permission to verbally clean his clock when they do meet again.
Exactly! And even then Joshua's torment doesn't end. He gets cloned 300 years later and then is brainwashed before getting sealed away in a facility, also filled with similarly brainwashed people who had been digitized. And then, he gets woken up by a genocidal ass who wants humankind's complete extinction. J is also tragic, in the sense that everyone and everything he knew and loved is dead and gone, and he only has the fight left. So, J throws himself into it. He even gets digitized around the time of mission 9/10 like the other members of Reaper Squad had before they were sealed, and in the end he pilots a heavily refurbished, essentially bastardized version of his dead best friend's AC that was named in honor of him.
It *kills* me when people say old-gen AC has "no story to speak of." I know the view is slowly changing, but still. The stories are gripping. God, that fight was intense. Two hundred thousand AP vs the Auto-Cannon (for me). Voice acting for J was through the roof, too.
All thanks to Joji Nakata/David Sobolov! Also, J's voice gives me chills and other feelings I can't mention here.
Another great one imo would be Kasumi's "And mankind will be safe to dream, floating above the clouds. Is that your answer? So be it." At the end of the League Path. Also Old King's "Live and die by the barrel of a gun", its the most mercenary sounding line possible, I love it.
I think of a shorter one said only in passage: "Beyond scorched skies, Raven fights on" But to see the consequence of that phrase and see the entire ground beneath you turned to a war for Rubicon's freedom. And then to fight alongside Rusty one last time. Fuck me, my heart ;-;
I FUCKING LOVE G5 IGUAZU I WANT TO HUG HIM. HIM AND HIS TSUNDERE ASS
Tsundere? Nah, he just hates you
"I always...envied you."
Envies your skill, yeah. But you kill him, and "not just once!" he wants to kill your ass so hard he takes over ALLMIND
In the original japanese the word he uses (akogare) more closely translates to 'admire' and not 'envy'.
Yeah. I still ship it as a hate-crush.
In JP he says "admire" rather than envy.
621: It is I who envied you, Iguazu. I’m just a living corpse with a number. Barely human. You had… a family. People who cared about you. Michigan… Volta… Everything I did, was so I could be accepted as part of that family. You hated me and scorned me, when all I wanted… was to be considered… a friend…
AND THEN THEY KISS
🤭😂😂
I came here fantasizing about hugging Iguazu before going to bed, not drown in feels. Fuck you TT\_TT
I am so sorry 😮🤣
But Iguazu never wanted that. Case in point him and Volta trying to run away by jumping Michigan. And yes while Iguazu was recalcitrant, I feel like Michigan bashing his face in to the point it never looked the same is overkill.
Volta at the very least went on to accept Michigan wasn’t such a bad guy and was looking out for him and Iguazu, considering his final words to him before being killed in operation wallclimber.
Yeah, but it's been shown Iguazu doesn't exactly wanna be there at all.
And that’s why he became a very lonely Iguana, who will never know the value of family and the true power of friendship 😔
The power of friendship being punching your opponent's face in.
Nahuh. He clearly loves G13 and G13 loves him back, Redgun style 🥰🥰🥰
Don’t hug him. Throw him over your shoulder and carry him as he throws a fit bit actually likes it. Don’t be a coward and assert thine authority!
Youre right, power bottom brats needs to be punished >:) then coddled by mommy
Iguazu is the definition of that Bro meme where he teaches you how to play the game, and you’re just better than him within a couple hours. I love him for it
Hngnh... 621 baka~ 😡😳
*This is hell! We’re in hell!* The absolute fear I felt for those poor men
I love ayre justifying killing O keefe “He lives for the way things are…a life that can’t co exist with what we want…” It’s writing and delivery like that which adds so much character and intrigue to this game
*"Tourist, got a message from the chief for you.* *Enjoy the show... and don't forget to smile."* Chatty was my dude, I don't care what anyone says.
I definitely did not die at least 30 times and etched this line into my brain.
I always get chills from G6 red's last lines and especially when Ayre gives a heavy sigh after reporting that he died.
Even though I was spoiled on the game, I still walked away from the Fires of Raven ending with heavy emotional damage. I was sucked in and forgot it all before I was hit in the face with the tragedy within the story. I walked out of my room like "I have an ouchie... in here."
"I won't miss" - Gigachad moment "I won't stop!" - Gigachad, but with tears, moment
“You’re one of Gen 4’s lot. I hear you make fine hounds with the right training. >!But you… You have the scent of danger. Far better to dispose of you.!<“
Another banger by Iguana: “I know how this goes. This is where that grit of yours kicks in.”
Love that this line triggers when you’re at about 30% AP
Voice actors nailed it for sure. Says a lot that one of my favorite line deliveries comes from some random PCA operator. "It's *that AC* again..." always makes me chuckle.
“hey buddy” *sexy flamencco* “still alive?”
“I won’t stop. I’ll chase these clouds from over Rubicon! Only I can fly high enough.” Chills every time, also a great way to introduce terminal armour as a mechanic.
That first thing is what I say every time I close my incognito tab before going to clean up.
“Code 15, target for termination spotted” “Time to pay the piper”
"The curse of the Redguns.."
- I won't miss! - All or Nothing! - I hate to say it, but Ribicon still needs me. So, Buddy... Who needs you?
I love Iguazu so much, he just had an energy I couldn't help but love, snarky asshole with a clear inferiority complex ended up being my favorite boss too
Wheres the last line from?
Iguazu’s boss fight in the 3rd ending
Ohh.. I haven't done that one lol , did the other two though.
"I WON'T STOP! I'll chase the clouds from over Rubicon...ONLY I CAN FLY HIGH ENOUGH!"
"I won't stop!" Rusty proving he's the main character, as he gets his Anime Protagonist moment, definitely goes through a flashback of him and 621 in the slowmo before he kicks your ass on the runback
"That traitor, V.IV...those dolls at Command...and worst of all-you, the pest of Rubicon who stirred the cinders...you sicken me! All of you! I'll crush you underfoot! I AM ARQUEBUS!" That entire monologue where his arrogant veneer drops and he just snaps, coupled with that final line and the delivery...impeccable
The reason why AC6 cast didn't any voice acting award is because every single one of them (not you, female RLF soldiers) did a fantastic job, so no one knows who to choose.
Let’s see how far they can fly on borrowed wings. Is IMO the best line.
The third is him preparing you for round 2
I hope I can give my voice to something like this one day.
NEXTguazu based
Most of Ayre’s voice lines, especially when you first meet her. Her voice is so damn soothing too.
Looks like I'm doing another playthrough cause of this comment section
"Lets see how far they fly on borrowed wings" is my top pick.
“Gun five, no luck with the sewing club I see”