Voice cracking with emotion, a tremulous Geoff Keighley said he was “beyond grateful” that “one of the most decorated developers in the world” had chosen The Game Awards for the global announcement of its latest release. It is, by quite some distance, the most excited we’ve ever seen a host – and, subsequently, an audience – get for an Armored Core game. That says much about the regard in which FromSoft is now held, particularly post-Elden Ring. Whether the first entry in this series for a decade will live up to those heightened expectations is another matter, but at this point only a fool would bet against Miyazaki.