WTH Blizzard, stop jerking our chain...

[AshburnerX]

Multi-player games accomplish this over time by the emergency of scrubs that refuse to go easy on anyone, but some single player titles (like Godhand, Ninja Gaiden, or the Armored Core series) can rarely achieve this status as well.

Absolutely ADORE the Armored Core series, I own 9 titles from PS1 to PSP. Loved them all, especially the ones that allow you to carry over some rare armor/weapons.

I only ever got to play a demo of the very first game and then Armored Core 3 and Armored Core: Silent Line. I only managed to beat Silent Line (got tired of playing nice with the boss and walked in with my Missile boat. 7 missiles fired at once FTW) as I kept getting killed trying to kill that fast little mech at the end of the laser cannon hallway in 3.

Actually, now that I think about it, you could carry over at least something from the first game, all the way to Silent Line. At the very least you could carry over the beam sword projectile ability from Another Age into 3 and Silent Line, as well as OP-OVERDRIVE into Silent Line (which was unbalancing as fuck... come on, letting two legged mechs use shoulder weapons without kneeling?!?)

would playing a rpg in a language you don't speak count? I don't get it. Probably because its an arbitrary term with subjective deffinitions.

If you can actually understand what is going on, then yes. If your just blindly working through the game or using a FAQ/Walkthrough though... then no.