Armored Core Lore: The Story of Armored Core 4 and For Answer (Part 1) 

Miyazaki truly was ahead of his time. Sus under GAE. This man was a memelord before the concept even began.

The more I play through Armored Core, the more I start to feel like your Operators ultimately became your Firekeepers/Candle Maidens. Even the line "hey, can you hear me?" makes me think of DS3's "The End of Fire" ending, where your Firekeepers says almost the exact same words as all light fades away.

I really appreciate the little nods the devs gave to veteran AC players. The fact that you are a Raven even when other pilots are Lynx and the lore for the tech to pilot NEXTs is essentially Human+. It is nice because Human+ all but disappears to become OP-Intensify and then that all but disappears. Nice of you to include the hard mode scenarios as well. Thanks for all your work.

7:45 According to what you said, this could imply that the Raven's vocal cords were damaged in his last fight before the events of the game's beginning. That would've been one hell of an in-lore reason as to why you start out as a Silent Protagonist.

It really bugs me that none of the other channels that have talked about armored core (thanks to 6) talk about the story of these games, even vaatividya and the guy literally called writing about games both ignored or refused to talk about the story. so thank you for being the best of all of them looking extremely forward to your coverage of v/verddict day and of 6.

I like the idea the silent protagonist in AC4 have a lore why he mute and the corporation he come from based on AC Next.

Damn, Canada as birthplace of mechs is now canon...

This game is literally so beautiful it brings me to tears. Excellent narration, you did it justice.

My literal only nitpick with this video is at 0:37. I believe Akvavit was based in Europe while Rayleonard was based in Canada, that’s my only small thing. 4 and FA have such incredibly interesting worldbuilding and lore, I just wish it was told so much better. Thank God we have you to make us appreciate these games.

I just want to say, thank you SO MUCH for making a video on the story of Armored Core 4 and For Answer! Some of this stuff I never even *slightly* was able to pick up on thanks to the reportedly somewhat poor English translation of 4’s plot.

To a non-native english speaker, all your intros be like: Amodkolo xD Great vid! keep 'em coming!

Damn, you really are AC's Vaati

You cant Imagine how much i wanted a AC lore Channel! Please keep doing this videos. I really Hope you Blow up as you should.

Armored Core world is such a wild world to live in... you either live as a "hard-working citizen" or become hollow. Great video as always and the presentation itself is good. Here is my suggestion on improving your long video. 1) Firstly, instead putting lore into a 29-minutes with no break, you break the the lore down into different chapter to give viewer a breathing room (I'm not talking about Part 1 and Part 2, it's chapter/timestamp in RU-vid video). For example, "CHAPTER 1: Introduction" which cover your opening word to the lore, character introduction (player), other notable character, and the corporation; then "CHAPTER 2: Mercenary 4 Hire" where you cover the player accepting many mission up until Internal Purge where the war started as you said, "CHAPTER 3: The War Between Corporation" where you now explain the mission that ties everything together, "CHAPTER 4: The Final Confrontation" explaining Fiona and Player relationship become closer, and leading to the final fight against Joshua, and lastly "THE ANSWER" where you talk about the conclusion/recap or what's your opinion on the story, then close with the next video. In other word, give a break on your video like how Top 10-style video does... that chapter break give viewer a needed breathing room for a long video. 2) Adding background music is also important as this can give the video more life to it, and also a way to show off your music taste and expose your viewer to a great music, maybe an OST from your favorite game, or underappreciated artist (assuming they allow it). 3) Turn off your in-game music for dialogue, as the sudden spike of music or the music itself overshadow the dialogue can ruin the flow of your video... so let your background music of choice do the job. Everything still up to you, so good luck with the Part 2.

Absolutely appreciate these Lore videos! I eagerly await Part 2!

Joshua O'Brien and Anatolia Mercenary kinda developed into rivalry - friendship in common purpose defending what they called home and Both Aces in piloting NEXT. Kinda sad manipulation by corporation made only 1survive.

how many water bottles did you drink narrating this? very curious.

I know it’s non-canon, but there is a fan film out there called “armored core NEXT” that has a battle scene in the first episode that shows just how outclassed normals were against NEXT. Four Armored Cores with a HumanPLUS amongst them were ripped to utter shreds against a single NEXT. That’s how one-sided the dismantlement war was.

Armored Core 4 is by far my favorite Armored Core in the series. The movement, the characters, the story, the music, the legend that is you. Everything just feels so good. And the stories and friends I made over the multiplayer. Ill never forget the time a duo team of "master bladers" said they could take on 6 of us at once. Hahahah amazing times. Thank you for continuing to keep Armored Core alive and bring in new Ravens to this amazing series :) Keep up the great work, Raven.

The NEXT vaatvidya (mech partner of vaati)... you did a good work at your lore videos love it

Thank you for making this mammoth of a video. Having played fA before 4 this was exactly what I needed as 4 left me with more questions than answers, even regarding basic plot points. It is baffling how FromSoftware has put in the effort to have an evolving world while not bothering to tell what's happening in a way where you can get the broad strokes the first time around.

As someone who's only ever played AC:FA this video is really enlightening, really shows me what I was missing. AC:4 seems to have a really great story, glad that I bothered to look into it and that you put all the information in one convenient video.

Very good I love that you try your best to be descriptive about things you make sure to always cover the most important points

Now I'm watching this before playing V & Verdict Day, and before VI launches cause I'm completely new to this series xD

So is this channel the Armored Core version of Vaaiti Vidya?

Armored Core is back babyyy!!!!!

This is really well done! its great to hear someone cohesively put the story together after id just got done with the game.

Good Work Man on the History of Armored Core 4 and FA

I got back into the For answer grind There hasn't been a game since thats captured my focus The soundtrack is great but Rebel path turns battles in anime moments

This video helped me understand too many things. Thank you so much for all these videos!

Happy Armored Core 6

this is a great vid. watching like a movie! thank you for breaking it down, alot of the cutscenes lag/dont play on my emulator so its nice to understand wtf is going on haha

Nice! Armored Core 4 and For Answer were my favorites of the series gameplay-wise, but i could never really get into the story (because i was in high school at the time) so this video is exactly something that i was looking for. Keep up the good work!

Excellent. Looking forward for part 2!

Loving your videos. Glad armored core is getting some attention. It's my favorite video game series

I like the idea of Joshua O'Briens and Anatolia's Mercenary friendship, however the way the game shows it, there's only like 3 missions he appears in which gives the player little knowledge on who the heck who he's supposed to be, especially with at the ending, when he was supposed to be the Players good friend. And even then in the Desert Wolf Mission its entirely optional and possible to miss Joshua O'Briens assistance.

Thank you so much for making this! I recently started playing Armored Core 4 and was completely lost as to what I was doing and why. Now I have a backstory!

Love the name Kojima Particles

Seeing a video this long feels so good. U the man ACLore.

You're gonna be getting more views and follower. Nice job! (Also I really like your voice)

I wonder if mother will had a crew of people wired into it?

Great video! Instantly subscribed.

Hi! I think this video deserves a re-upload. ❤️ The audio is pretty low on my device at max volume. Im not sure how it goes for other viewers, but thats how it went on my end. Thank you!

This is so freaking good that i can't wait for the part 2 man, PART 2 PART 2 PART 2 PART 2

Both You and Gundam Facts are awesome!!!!

Never played this as a kid, but it seems alright

Oh boy... her we goooooo!!!!

Very nice, great video, and well done. I see you like your cannons.

Almost 2023 and this seems like our future haha

Armored core 6 needs to come out like soon, ever my 360 died on me I have missed this series so bad and I really want to get lost in it again plz fromsoftware release it soon 😩

This was my first AC on ps3. I loved it but i thiught there was essentially no story. I guess its storytelling is more like DS than I thought.

I like your voice. Keep up the videos. You have the means to be a good lore channel for AC6 as well. Take a look at a destiny 2 youtuber named BYF. Think you could be AC BYF lol

Ngl… I just beat white glint in acFA and I didnt realize Fiona was the girl from ac4 lol

I hope one day we could fight against the corporation

Imagine if the game actually translated any of this 🤣. Awesome stuff!

I ma very glad that someone is talking s our the story of armored core 4. I played both games and 4 had bad story telling. For answer was a better improvement on story telling

That music for marche au supplice 💪🏾

AC4 looks so cool. I hope Fromsoft re-master and release most of the old games on modern platforms at some point soon.

Rayleonard facing and dealing with the devil, how more true than one thinks.

Lovely videos, I really didn't want to go back into AC4 and the story is presented in such a bland way with long-ass, boring briefings and stuff is being told while playing where I'm focused on surviving and not paying attention. Thanks a lot for the videos! I haven't checked yet, but hopefully there are summaries for every game, because I truly don't want to go back to play oldgen at all after so much time playing AC4A and ACVD.

This make me understand Armored Core 4 story more since my PS3 copy is all Japanese dub.

The closest well ever get to a love story in AC lol. Feel bad for Anatolia's merc and Fionas sad ending in for answers. God damn league bastards.

LETS GOOOO!

i think you left the intro for the second video in at the end by accident

The operator sounds like Ayre in AC6

Why am I not surprised that Kojima is one of the names of the corps on This game lol. Always ac is back baby! Are you ready fellow Ravens!?

I always thought the story of AC4 was unrelated to the prior story (AC1-LR), but I have heard from some that the two stories are linked. But this video doesn't seem to support that theory, and seems to support what I originally thought.

Seed a Baren Earth. For any that got even half as deep as I did into the story, it changes you. To watch all that you loved, all that you fought for, and everything you have built sacrificed in an instant. It never once crossed my mind, even for a second that it could all just be taken away. I had to pause for a moment, when I heard his voice. "No!!! NOOO!!!" I exclaimed out loud. "Not Joshua, not him". He was the one Lynx that drove me to get better, push harder, and never give up no matter how overwelming the odds were.... and now I HAD to destroy him. I thought I had lost everything, but realized there was always so much more that could be taken. So I, and Pixy charged with tear filled eyes and... we won. It wasnt till a second playthrough I found out what happened at the end, I dropped the controller and had to jump out of charactor. Didnt touch the game for a couple of weeks after that. Then, I got right back at it. A long while later, I eventually picked up ACFA and loved every second of it. I was constantly pushing myself to get better and better, till eventually I became the fastest. I didnt know why at first, but all I wanted was to find others that could beat me. I now know why. Because you cant surpass your limits unless you know what your limits are. In my new build Sonic Boom, I began doing 2v1. then 3v1, and 4v1. I kept climbing untill it was always me against an entire lobby. I began learning from these players who the best were and what builds they used, and I wanted to take them all on. From Blood Drunk to the unstoppable AI someone had made. I saw the potential to beat me. And thus, the pontential to find a new limit to break. Whomever you that has read all this, never give up. When 110% isnt enough, give it 210%. You have so much more you can give, and so much more to loose should you give up

Doesnt Anatolia have to do with Greece or maybe greek history?

Random useless fact: Ubisoft publishing Armored Core: For Answer has to be the happiest moment. If not for them, Fromsoftware would have made the choice to not bring it here to the west.

What year does this game take place?

Eqbal was based out if India right?

Around 18:00 audio dropped quality and depth

MOOOOORE!!! MOOOOOOOOOORE!!!!!! LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOORE!!!!!

lmao that ending! hahahaha

14:31 Among Us moment

14:32 Funni name.

Cooooooo

The IRS helped end the world?😂

Whispering

Oh I'm so excited for my break now. Oh fuck yeah. Lol.