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Happy 10th birthday Mechwarrior 2!!
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VictimOfGrief
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we need another Mechwarrior game.
Meatpuppet
Member
Loved the first two, indifferent about the ones which followed.
I always used to overheat the mech, and would invariably be shot to pieces while shutdown to cool off.
I always used to overheat the mech, and would invariably be shot to pieces while shutdown to cool off.
It was the Right Arm that was initially bugged, right?
I played the living hell out of the first one so I was very hyped for the sequel... which never played on a machine that I had until it was pretty much too late
I really wish there would have been a proper sequel to the way the first game handled things, with the open economy and freedom to choose which countries you align yourself with and fight against.
Making money in the first game was great, because it was so easy.
10 goto Hesperus II
20 buy_all();
30 goto Rahne
40 sell_all();
50 goto 10
one game I had saved, I was alive for 100 years and had one billion c-notes accumulated.
But, anyway. Mechwarrior 2 was the rock. The intro was pure ownage at the time.
I played the living hell out of the first one so I was very hyped for the sequel... which never played on a machine that I had until it was pretty much too late
I really wish there would have been a proper sequel to the way the first game handled things, with the open economy and freedom to choose which countries you align yourself with and fight against.Making money in the first game was great, because it was so easy.
10 goto Hesperus II
20 buy_all();
30 goto Rahne
40 sell_all();
50 goto 10
one game I had saved, I was alive for 100 years and had one billion c-notes accumulated.
But, anyway. Mechwarrior 2 was the rock. The intro was pure ownage at the time.
The best part is definitely the music and the intro video for the clans made the game feel like a truly epic mission.
We are Clan Wolf
The Children of Kerensky
We carry the Honor of his name
As our Fathers did before us...
Return to that Jewel of the Universe
Which we left behind to Preserve
This is our Destiny and our Right...
We are Clan Wolf
The Children of Kerensky
We carry the Honor of his name
As our Fathers did before us...
Return to that Jewel of the Universe
Which we left behind to Preserve
This is our Destiny and our Right...
This was the perennial battle tech game.
Based around the coolest period of the BT universe, with the best art style.
In the decade past, FASA has disbanded, the property has returned to the original creator, but subverted severely, it's been turned into something more akin to yugioh, with large chunky mechs similar to the fisher price style horrors from the cartoon of the mid 90s. A lot of its appeal has also been lost with the story line going haywire, with word of blake...
the latest game from FASA interactive really shows what the franchise has devolved into. Once glorious, ultra real, ultra fantastical toys for grown up guys, with things like the simulator pod spaceworld type places, and full on joystick, throttle and pedal based support for MW2... it's just such a sad shadow of what it used to be.
That box art... perfectly represents the universe in its prime. Striking, daunting, yet strangely beautiful, the Timberwolf on the cover looked every bit as fearsome as its fictional (and real) reputation.
The next game MW3, featured a different looking Timberwolf; still with two missle pods, rounded cockpit and hexagonal prisms for arms, its details softened, were made more ronuded... and very much less appealing.
The latter games the Timber Wolf/mad cat... had become a parody of its original form, with hideously chunky legs and feet, and a slow lumbering motion that spoke nothing of it's original conqueror of the galaxy legacy.
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A perfect Mechwarrior game would feature the kind of artstyle prominent on that boxcover, in the intros of the game, with today's hardware.
Akin to the Gundam tech demo shown, but set in the Battle Tech universe... not just in the battle tech universe, but detailing the clan's point of view again (MW2 was from the perspective of the clans), the alien and spartan culture that was gritty and fit like hand in glove into the desolate future where a fusion of ultrafuturistic and ancient immutable technological ideas occur. How perfect would something like that be? But it won't be done. Ever again. At least not while MS retains a firm grip on the franchise.
For those of us that have given up hope of something like that, Steel Battalion would probably have to be closest in spirit to the idea of mech game that they probably originally wanted to have... before they turned the franchise into dust with its useless 'arcade' style shenanigans. It's a great tribute... but it's just not quite... there.
No, it's no Mechwarrior 2.
Based around the coolest period of the BT universe, with the best art style.
In the decade past, FASA has disbanded, the property has returned to the original creator, but subverted severely, it's been turned into something more akin to yugioh, with large chunky mechs similar to the fisher price style horrors from the cartoon of the mid 90s. A lot of its appeal has also been lost with the story line going haywire, with word of blake...
the latest game from FASA interactive really shows what the franchise has devolved into. Once glorious, ultra real, ultra fantastical toys for grown up guys, with things like the simulator pod spaceworld type places, and full on joystick, throttle and pedal based support for MW2... it's just such a sad shadow of what it used to be.
That box art... perfectly represents the universe in its prime. Striking, daunting, yet strangely beautiful, the Timberwolf on the cover looked every bit as fearsome as its fictional (and real) reputation.
The next game MW3, featured a different looking Timberwolf; still with two missle pods, rounded cockpit and hexagonal prisms for arms, its details softened, were made more ronuded... and very much less appealing.
The latter games the Timber Wolf/mad cat... had become a parody of its original form, with hideously chunky legs and feet, and a slow lumbering motion that spoke nothing of it's original conqueror of the galaxy legacy.
----
A perfect Mechwarrior game would feature the kind of artstyle prominent on that boxcover, in the intros of the game, with today's hardware.
Akin to the Gundam tech demo shown, but set in the Battle Tech universe... not just in the battle tech universe, but detailing the clan's point of view again (MW2 was from the perspective of the clans), the alien and spartan culture that was gritty and fit like hand in glove into the desolate future where a fusion of ultrafuturistic and ancient immutable technological ideas occur. How perfect would something like that be? But it won't be done. Ever again. At least not while MS retains a firm grip on the franchise.
For those of us that have given up hope of something like that, Steel Battalion would probably have to be closest in spirit to the idea of mech game that they probably originally wanted to have... before they turned the franchise into dust with its useless 'arcade' style shenanigans. It's a great tribute... but it's just not quite... there.
No, it's no Mechwarrior 2.
Musashi Wins!
FLAWLESS VICTOLY!
I played the crap out of this game. ^ nice tribute. Nothing has ever come close, imo. the series sucks now and the armored core/gundam games are sad shadows not even invoking what made that great.