Re: Favorite mech game ofall time

**Wimpinator** · 07-14-2009, 04:10 PM

Mechwarrior 4 is going to be available for free here:
http://battletech.catalystgamelabs.com/

I believe this is a promo for the new mech game.

**Ghost02** · 07-14-2009, 04:16 PM

Gonna take a few weeks for it to be ready though.

**Siantis** · 07-14-2009, 09:06 PM

Mechwarrior 2 was my favorite. I love the clans, and clan tech.

Loved playing in a clan on Mplayer, and fighting over planets and systems through a website based campaign. Taking on your superiors to advance in rank, fighting other clans for possession of planets, etc etc.

It was also nice to follow a rank based system where you could only take mechs whose tonnage was equal to or lighter than your rank.

**Slaughter** · 07-25-2009, 08:14 PM

Originally Posted by Captainglitter

Nah, MW4 was to arcadey for me. MW2 was the best. They should make a graphical remake of it. Such a shame they went out of business though.

Mech Warrior 2 definatly but Mech Warrior 4/Vengance with the Black Knight Expantion was good too...

But hold on to your Jump Jets Mech Fans... There is a new version coming out

Links:
MechWarriors Reveal Trailer
Article on new MechWarriors

Excerpt from interview that really sounds great...

Russ Bullock:
I think that the persistence level that we'd like to have, on just simple terms, is if you look at Call of Duty 4 and just how immensely popular the multiplayer is with that experience based persistent aspect of your character. It's one of those things that the bells go off in your head and you say, "MechWarrior is just absolutely perfect for something like that." We talked a lot about how we would do that, whether it would be starting with the small mechs and building your way up and that idea had some traction, but that got changed as we thought well, "Some people might want to start in a heavier mech." You don't want to make them go all the way up there. So that's how we got to what Jordan mentioned earlier, where we want the player to become very specialized in the mech of their choice.

**sibs101** · 08-07-2009, 03:51 PM

Originally Posted by Kerostasis

Besides that, I had an old DOS game called battledrome or something like that where you challenged other mech pilots to arena matches. The goal was to make money (to buy better mechs and guns) and improve your league ranking (which would unlock the bigger size-classes of mechs). If you lost a match, the game wasn't over, but you had to pay money to repair your mech before signing up for your next match -- and the game would auto-save at the end of the fight to prevent you from just re-trying. If you ran out of money for repairs, you lost, and if you got your league ranking to #1, you won. That was a pretty fun game too.

Edit: Found it, it was Battledrome, from the same people who made Earthsiege. Apparently it was designed to be played as a multiplayer game, but I didn't know anyone else who owned the game, so I just played singleplayer mode.

I've been looking for this game forever!!!!!! anyone who can find a copy for me is a god

**ScratchMonkey** · 08-07-2009, 08:17 PM

Interesting. Looks like it came from Sierra/Dynamix, the same people who brought us the Tribes 1 and 2 series:

http://www.classic-pc-games.com/pc/a...ttledrome.html

**Temphage** · 08-11-2009, 02:50 PM

Mechwarrior 4's primary achievement was 'standardizing' mech design. The 'weight is your only limit' part of previous games was silly and unrealistic. You could strap PPCs to your legs, for christ's sake.

All the battlemechs had roles, were designed with uses in mind (for example, the Catapult is a 65 ton missile platform. Over half of its chassis were two missile pods... you're not exactly going to find it easy to jury-rig an autocannon in their place).

The story was pretty lame (and the voice acting was horrible), but the method of upgrading mechs was the best in the series.

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