Mechwarrior 5 ??!

Started by Malakin, July 09, 2009, 02:51:38 PM

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bill

#30
July 12, 2009, 09:07:35 PM
WCIV did own, though. Loved the whole rebellion stuff, and it was fun to see Towlyn finally get his own.

I'd play WC/WCII more if they didnt slow DOSBox to a goddamn crawl

Corgatha Taldorthar

#31
July 12, 2009, 09:20:37 PM
The story in 4 was very well put together, and the ability to have some choices as to what missions you went on was pretty cool.


Did you have a bug with it though? I found that ImRec missiles seemed to do way too much damage. I was even able to knock out Seether at the end by popping a single missile right in his face. It seemed like an ImRec would take down most fighter craft in one go if they hit on Ace, which extended to me. I had a lot of missions where I'd be dogfighting, see that red beep, and die, even with full shields in a Hellcat or later on in an Bearcat, and I know absorbing the cats missiles never did that to me.
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bill

#32
July 12, 2009, 09:27:23 PM
Seether was easy as hell if you just launched a couple of salvos at him right at the start. Makes sense, though, he's just one guy after all. That was the only problem with the game, no climactic final mission like Hamill doing the Death Star trench run all over in WCIII

Cvstos

#33
July 13, 2009, 01:29:10 PM
Yeah, the ending wasn't as great as the one in WCIII. Although that last level in WCIII was DAMN hard IIRC. WCIV's ending was just about the right difficulty, IMO.

I loved those games. I owned them a long time ago but lost the disks. I regret losing those CDs all the time. The Wing Commander series is EASILY one of my all-time favorites. Privateer 2 especially. My all-top time games list:

1) C&C Red Alert 1.
2) Sim City 2000
3) Privateer 2

With WC3 and WC4 definitely somewhere in the top 10. I never played the first two, but not for lack of trying. Damn Kilrathi saga didn't work on my PC when I got it so I returned it. I should have just kept them and tried again at some other time.
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Malakin

#34
July 13, 2009, 02:08:51 PM
Is this not about MechWarrior 5 :P ?
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Arcalane

#35
July 13, 2009, 07:57:27 PM
It's not MechWarrior 5, it's just "MechWarrior". Just throwin' that out there. c:

Malakin

#36
July 13, 2009, 08:28:20 PM
Quote from: Arcalane on July 13, 2009, 07:57:27 PM
It's not MechWarrior 5, it's just "MechWarrior". Just throwin' that out there. c:

I was just quoting the title ;)
"The only limit to my freedom is the inevitable closure of the
universe, as inevitable as your own last breath. And yet,
there remains time to create, to create, and escape.

Escape will make me God."

Tezkat

#37
July 13, 2009, 11:02:31 PM
Woooo... new MW game! Hawt. :kittycool


I kinda wonder why they didn't just "reboot" into the future instead of rolling back to the Succession Wars, though. That's what Dark Age was supposed to be, after all--a clean break in the timeline so that the franchise would be accessible to new fans.



In related news... apparently MW4 is going to be free to download on MekTek soon. So everyone can satisfy their Mech fix while waiting for the new game to come out.
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Arcalane

#38
July 14, 2009, 12:45:15 AM
The problem with that is there's still a lot of established stuff going around, I think. It's a real reboot of the series. Whether they intend to follow existing events rather than deviating from what's been laid out so far or doing "alternate universe" stuff in expansions or further sequels remains to be seen, I suppose.

I'm hoping the Hunchback makes it in, personally. It's perfect for the urban environments.

TheJimTimMan

#39
July 14, 2009, 12:15:17 PM
Quote from: Tezkat on July 13, 2009, 11:02:31 PM
In related news... apparently MW4 is going to be free to download on MekTek soon. So everyone can satisfy their Mech fix while waiting for the new game to come out.
Oooh, shiny. Are they going to be releasing the Black Knight expansion as well, or is it just vanilla MW4?

Quote from: Arcalane on July 14, 2009, 12:45:15 AM
The problem with that is there's still a lot of established stuff going around, I think. It's a real reboot of the series. Whether they intend to follow existing events rather than deviating from what's been laid out so far or doing "alternate universe" stuff in expansions or further sequels remains to be seen, I suppose.

I'm hoping the Hunchback makes it in, personally. It's perfect for the urban environments.
In my view, the whole thing is a powder keg. On the one hand we have the old die-hards, who might take changes to the canon a little hard. On the other hand we have the new players, who might find the story not interesting enough, leading the publishers to make the series take an awkward direction, alienating the old fans (a la Mechassault) and driving the game further into obscurity and financial problems. I had more, but I annoyingly forgot halfway through writing this (Note to self, multitask less when writing forum replies...). I really don't want to touch the "Alternate Universe" thing, especially considering how badly they usually turn out.

Keleth

#40
July 15, 2009, 08:23:20 AM
Quote from: TheJimTimMan on July 14, 2009, 12:15:17 PM
Quote from: Tezkat on July 13, 2009, 11:02:31 PM
In related news... apparently MW4 is going to be free to download on MekTek soon. So everyone can satisfy their Mech fix while waiting for the new game to come out.
Oooh, shiny. Are they going to be releasing the Black Knight expansion as well, or is it just vanilla MW4?

They're releasing -everything- all the expansion packs and the vanilla Mechwarrior 4 is going to be free to download.


Though to be honest, I can't wait, I mean the game series takes place just a few years before the clans arrive, the campaign might stretch long enough to where that happens.
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techmaster-glitch

#41
July 15, 2009, 12:46:24 PM
Quote from: Tezkat on July 13, 2009, 11:02:31 PM
In related news... apparently MW4 is going to be free to download on MekTek soon. So everyone can satisfy their Mech fix while waiting for the new game to come out.
Huh, that's pretty cool...but what about the other mechwarriors? 1-3? Can you download those free from somewhere?
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