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** after completing that mission path the main character becomes one of these, hence the line {{spoiler|The blood of the innocent will rain down from the sky}} from the narrator.
* [[Crack Pairing]] - Shipping is rare in the fandom, but when it occurs it will invariably be this due to the [[Featureless Protagonist|impersonal nature of the series]]. Usually between the (usually male) protagonist and [[Mission Control|their (usually female) operator]] or an optional [[Token Girl|token female]] wingman that can be hired for one or two missions. ''[[Foe Yay|Last Raven]]'' [[Foe Yay|protagonist/Zinaida]] is also somewhat frequent, but the most popular by far is ''For Answer'' protagonist/[[Ensemble Darkhorse|May Greenfield]].
** As far as operators go, at least in ''Armored Core 2'' the player's operator is shown to become quite attached to and concerned for the player over the course of the game, and
* [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]] - 4A: Blowing up the Spirit of Motherwill, AF Answerer, defeating White Glint or Stasis, the final mission of every ending, and being able to beat Occupation of Arteria Carpals. In order of awesome.
** Beating Nine-Ball in Any Armored Core Game (including the Ultimate Nine-Ball in MOA and AC2:AA)
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** The final bosses of 4 and 5.
** Marche Au Supplice, Hard Mode, which pits you alone against Berlioz and his team in a four-on-one. It's by far one of the hardest missions in the game, but boy do you feel awesome when you finally manage to clear it. Same with the Occupation of Arteria Carpals mission in ''For Answer''.
* [[Crowning Moment of Funny]] - In 5 RD and Rosary get one where Rosary tells RD to grow a pair. {{spoiler|Turns out to be [[Harsher in Hindsight]]}}
** The pre fight dialog against A and BCE.
*** "By the way, did we ever have a Strategy?
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*** "And if we die...tough luck!"
** The mission where you have to fight No Count and Big Barrel (and PQ on hard mode) where you destroy Big Barrel and PQ but not No Count, No Count will beg for his life and you can let him run away without fighting him.
* [[Crowning Music of Awesome]] - We have a [[Armored Core/Awesome Music|page ]]
* [[Difficult but Awesome]] - Any weapon or part out of your comfort zone.
* [[Ensemble Darkhorse]] - May Greenfield, from Armored Core For Answer. As an entirely optional wingman, May has the bare minimum of characterization and a player can go through the entire game without even encountering her once. However, fans have apparently fallen in love with what little characterization she has, as a cheerful teenage girl who pilots a bright green [[Mighty Glacier]] engine of destruction. With a smiley face logo.
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** Why Genobee do the same thing in ''Nexus''? He's an AI too.
** Why does Wonderful Body move in the way does? Because he was a Normal pilot and Normals are basically Armored Core's form the older games. (ie: he stops boosting to save energy)
** How can the Chief keep firing the Giga Cannon Overed Weapon over and over without fail? {{spoiler|because he' also an AI.}}
* [[Game Breaker]] - Almost every Armored Core game has one (or several).
** A recurring one is the Moonlight [[Laser Blade]] and Karasawa Laser Rifle. In ''4'' and ''For Answer'', Kojima weapons.
** Reg 1.00 of for Answer has this with SALINE05s, White Glint's multi-missile launcher. Unlike other launchers, these ones have very good homing ability and most of the time, all [[Recursive Ammo|8 submissiles]] will hit the target. Firing them in rapid succession to an enemy NEXT will deplete their Primal Armor, at which the missiles will [[For Massive Damage|do double damage]]. One simply needs to use two of these in Reg 1.00 to <s>easily</s> cut half of the difficulty in [[That One Level|Arteria Carpals, Hard mode]]. Of course, that kind of gamebreakerness is not allowed and since has been nerfed.
** In ''
** Also the finger machine gun in ''Project Phantasma'', the has an incredible rate of fire, does massive damage, has a ton of ammo and is extremely light, but in got nerfed in ''Master of the Arena''. They they brought it back in ''Last Raven''.
** Chainguns and shotguns in Armored Core 5 both of which can destroy any AC build with ease and take away all the difficulty of the final boss, thankfully the next patch will be nerfing them.
* [[Germans Love David Hasselhoff]] - Although the Armored Core series is somewhat big in Japan, in North America it's a perennial niche title. So niche, in fact, that Agetec could no longer afford to localize the games after Last Raven and lost the rights to Armored Core 4 to Sega. Sega in turn dropped the license after Armored Core 4 failed to meet sales expectations. [[Ubisoft]] then snatched up Armored Core for Answer, but it failed to meet expectations as well... Are you noticing a pattern yet?
** It would help if they could advertise for it a little more...
** In this case, it would be a curious mix of [[Scrappy Mechanic|gameplay issues]], [[Sequelitis|how well the series does in general]] and [[Hype Backlash|new players being inconvinced as usual]]. Imagine, being able to afford a mecha game is as good as able to afford a game, so players in general expect a fun gun time. However, since [[
*** Armored Core 5 is now being localized by Namco Bandai.
** In a reverse example, if any comments on Niconico are to go by, Japanese players laughed at the inept translation errors that was abound in Armored Core: for Answer, but they absolutely in love with the full range of English voice cast, whether it's GA rep's hammy voice, to Shamir Ravi Ravi's murderous voice, and of course, the various accents that Canis, Dario Empio and Do Su employed. They don't even seem to be bothered by the massive change in voice type that Ay-Pool has.
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** When you lose an online match in 5 you bail out of your AC and fly around with a jump pack which is fine, but your so much bigger than the cars that sit idle on the maps, even worse when you touch them they explode.
* [[That One Boss]] - Let's see...Stinger from Project Phantasma, The Frighteners from AC2, the Massive MT and the [[Bonus Boss|Bonus Bosses]] from Another Age, Leviathan and Ofanim from AC3, Big White and IBIS from Silent Line, Agraya, Genobee and {{spoiler|Nine Ball}} from Nexus, Nine Ball from Ninebreaker, Nine Ball from ''any game he appears in'', Zinaida (On the Last Raven path) and the Pulverizers from Last Raven, take your freaking pick.
** For some players, ANY AC of relatively equal quality is [[That One Boss]].
** Sherring in AC 4 isn't exactly a pushover, either.
** Anyone who can take on the Answerer without blades deserves a fraggin medal.
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* [[That One Level]] - Missions set in fog will sink your mission rating due to the time it takes to complete them.
** Same with the above that one boss entry with any AC/NEXT being one the same goes for missions.
* [[Play the Game, Skip the Story]]: Come for the [[Megas XLR|chicks digging giant robots]], stay for the subtle war between [[Mega Corp|MegaCorps]] using tactics that would put [[General Ripper]] to shame, along with a corrupt [[Private Military Contractor]], {{spoiler|lead by your operator, which is a [[Master Computer]] / war machine whose recruits began as [[Child Soldier|Child Soldiers]], caused by Hustler One, a [[Crush! Kill! Destroy!]] alter ego}}...[[Screwed by the Network|or not.]]
* [[Screwed by the Network]]: On the English front of AC V which has two different servers for the game being US and EU, this is bad because the series doesn't sell as well as it does in Japan and the playerbase is starting to drop due to the game being three patches behind the Japanese version of the game, having multiple [[Game Breaker|game breaker's]] and having [[Unstable Equilibrium]] kick in. There is however a petition to merge the serves [http://www.change.org/petitions/from-software-namco-bandai-update-armored-core-5 here.]
* [[Visual Effects of Awesome]] - As far as this [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09L_WZQr9Nc&feature=related trailer] is concerned, the [[Polygon Ceiling]] doesn't exist.
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