And over those years, quite a few games have come out.
As the years have went on, more and more of those games have become multi-platform.
FromSoftware may have the best Souls games, but which are the best of the best?
Not all of them, though.
Turns out, Armored Core isn’t the only mech game FromSoftware made, either.
They’re just all exclusive to Xbox.
These games were exclusive to the GameCube, and used a rather uniquecard-based battling system, but in real-time.
It’s a fun idea, even if it’s not one that was executed perfectly in all regards.
It also had a multiplayer mode if you really wanted to put your deck to the test.
From loves a good mech game.
The game’s name is a pretty good indication of what it’s all about, too.
You are a mech chasing down other mechs.
These games were full-on action games from a third-person perspective.
The most frightening games from the far East.
One of the more interesting systems is how health and magic works.
Typical American activities, as it were.
It is a genuinely great game that understand the absurdity of the premise.
It was also later released as Metal Wolf Chaos XD 15 years later in the West by Devolver Digital.
Chromehounds released in 2006, and takes place in a fictional region around the Black Sea.
Wars were fought over a large shared map, with players clawing sections into their own domain for supremacy.
Shadow Assault is they first game developed by the studio itself, and also the worst in the series.
These are the most iconic ninjas in fighting games.
Shadow Assault is a tactics game played on a grid.
It’s an incredibly simple concept, and not really representative of any aspect of Tenchu.
It was also exclusive to the Xbox 360 in Japan, a region where the console sold very little.
Odd choices all around.
It understood that bosses could be more than just movesets, but interesting gimmicks that genuinely required to think.
It wasn’t afraid top subvert you, even if those ideas didn’t always land.
It was a pure experience, and a foundation for what was to come.
That went about as well as you’d expect.
So there was a great game there, you just had to shout very loudly to find it.
3Bloodborne
PlayStation 4
Will there ever be a console-exclusive game quite as coveted as Bloodborne.
It has attained an oddly mythical quality for no real reason.
Bloodborne is a real game that is still attainable.
But it is locked to the PS4, seemingly in perpetuity.
