#daemon core

[witchlingcirce]

When your 55 years old and your first friends ever are a 15 year old who you told to kill his grandpa, a 300+ year old witch who has odd intentions and has probs been drugging you, and an old man who spends all of his castle funds on new outfits and being sassy.

[books-as-mood-boards]

꧁༒☬𝓻𝓱𝓪𝓮𝓷𝔂𝓻𝓪 𝓽𝓪𝓻𝓰𝓪𝓻𝔂𝓮𝓷 𝓪𝓮𝓼𝓽𝓱𝓮𝓽𝓲𝓬☬༒꧂

[anthurak]

So I recently saw a demo video for an upcoming mech-action game ‘Mecha Break’, which if you haven’t heard of it, looks like basically ‘Armored Core, now with hilariously blatant and obvious waifu bait’ in the form of sexy bombshell pilot player-characters that you can customize and have strut sexily around a hub-world between missions.

The thing is though, I can’t help but think there is something very interesting and honestly FUN about the idea of a mech game with a customizable Pilot-PC and a hub-world that you can explore ‘on-foot’ between missions. That just feels like something that would add so much fun immersion into a game like this.

Like the general rule of mech-games is that you are always essentially playing as the mech, and nothing else. With everything else like mech-customization and mission selection being done purely through menu-interfaces.

But with an actual Pilot-PC and an explorable hub-level, I feel like things get a lot more INTERESTING. Like now you can have fun with incorporating all those menus diagetically into the hub-world. Like actually going to the hanger to build and customize your mech, going to a shop to purchase new equipment, and of course the opportunity for plenty of RPG elements like chatting with other characters, finding items, reading documents and just simple exploration. And even some especially fun and egregious stuff like actually going through the full process of prepping and boarding your mech and going through the entire launch sequence before a mission.

And I can’t help but feel like that makes things at least a bit more fun and engaging overall? Sure it’s all so much ‘fluff’ and the dreaded word ‘filler’, but you know what? I think having some fluff and filler is a GOOD THING.

Honestly I feel like this is probably the one thing I really wish we’d gotten in Armored Core 6. Like yes, I know there is a Watsonian excuse for why you can’t have a Pilot-PC, but that game was made in the same engine as Elden Ring, Sekiro, Dark Souls and basically all of FromSofts other games. Would it really have been so hard to port over the PC assets from Elden Ring to make Pilot-PCs and a Firelink/Roundtable Hold-esque hub-world to hang out in and explore between missions?

Now sure, I realize that this level of immersion in a mech game wouldn’t be for everyone. Some people prefer the streamlined, simplified ‘go through some menus then play missions’ framework. But I also feel like this would be easy enough to accommodate for by having an option to easily access all of the between-mission menus and interfaces without running around the hubworld? Like say your PCs quarters in/aboard the homebase/spaceship/carrier/etc has an interface that lets them/you ‘remotely’ access all the mech-customization, parts-purchasing, mission-selection, etc. and skip the immersive fluff if you wish.

(Though perhaps with the caveat that if you do this too much, your character develops a reputation for being reclusive, anti-social shut-in which has potential consequences for the story XD)

I even think there’s a lot potential in the concept of a customizable Pilot-PC alone, aside from just being a sexy waifu. Like one game that actually did some REALLY interesting stuff with this concept was DAEMON X MACHINA from a few years back. That game not only gave you a customizable Pilot Player Character, it actually gave the customizations tangible effects on gameplay in the form of your character being able to get various cybernetic augmentations through a skill tree that gave different bonus’s to your piloting ability as you gradually turn your character into a full cyborg over the course of a playthrough.

I think we all understand value of a good hub-level in video games, particularly games that are very mission-based (shoutout to Hitman WoA’s Freelancer-mode Safehouse), and I think there’s a lot of there for the mecha-action genre.

[ilreleonewikia13]

◌TDIOBCB chapters as gifsets ↪

∯ C H A P T E R 2 : The Antefact

It had been precisely 136 years since the Conquest of Aegon Targaryen when the Seven Kingdoms once again found themselves in the throes of turmoil, bracing for the arrival of another awe-inspiring tempest, bearing the same name as its predecessor. The highly anticipated union between Prince Aegon Targaryen and Lady Daenaera Velaryon was a grand spectacle, unparalleled and captivating the hearts of all fortunate enough to bear witness. The Dragonpit, the sole edifice in the entire capital city capable of accommodating the nearly seventy thousand guests, overflowed with exuberance and anticipation as the two young lovers made their entrance

- (x)

[persephryne]

Interview with the vampire has succeeded where House of the dragon has failed, no I will not elaborate.

[alienoryva]

Queen Rhaenyra I Targaryen ✧⁠*⁠。ଓ⁠⁾⁠⁾

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[saintdeimos]

you’re a dragon, be a dragon!

get this ring ~ direct link to Saínt Deimos

[escespace]

Addam: We all agree that it's emotional when the compliment comes from a grumpy older lady?

Laenys: She was not a grumpy lady. that was my mom (⁠ಠ⁠_⁠ಠ⁠)

Addam: So... Aren't we denying that she is old?

[babyprincess777]

I want to be a targaryen princess and have my own dragon

[galactickohipot]

I just need more... ARMORED CORE. where is it FromSoft? all hope is not lost, they ported the first games on ps I think... I hope the Duskbloods ends up being something weird. I want Miyazaki to bait us and bamboozle the shit out of souls players. Yknow, I kinda want FS to make weird ass games again. like smaller project on the side that are just fucked up little B-games.

[nushiyama]

been playing a lot of Armored Core 6 and all i can think about is how 621 can be friends with rookie from Daemon x Machina

[gebo4482]

ENENRA - Combat vignettes and mechanics

Steam / Linktr.ee

[atopvisenyashill]

i think it’s really annoying silly when people imply rhaenyra would have ever disowned the velaryon boys when she spends over a decade digging in her heels about jace being her heir even after she’s had true born sons by daemon. she could have disinherited joffrey after the oldest two died, might have even been able to use the reasoning that as laenor’s only son, she wants him and baela/rhaena to have driftmark together as a way of slyly putting her true born son on the throne. but she doesn’t and there’s a really obvious, in your face reason for this and if your reading of rhaenyra is that she would EVER concede on this point or that coming to the throne uncontested was more important than jacaerys succeeding her in the line of succession, you just have a reading of rhaenyra that is fundamentally at odds with the way i see her and also with the way she’s written

[alicentsgf]

never thought there would come a day where I would find daemons side plot line more intriguing than the main one

its alys' side plot in my heart

[davidstraange]

🆕🫥🥶🍂🪽🌠⛈️🌬️😈✍️🌈💡🎨🖌️👼

[acaciapines]

Luz and Mari Settled two days before they found the Demon Realm and the Boiling Isles within, before their life changed so drastically, but Luz always thought we’ll come out the same on the other side, because that’s what Mari said, and Mari knew better. She never wanted to disappoint her daemon. She never wanted to disappoint her mother. She always has, she thinks, despite that.

the final chapter of split tide! in which there is The Big Reveal that has major ramifications on the entire rest of this series. hope you enjoy!