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    Never played the 1st Mech game.
    Neither have I. It's a very old game.

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    That said, I still think Mech3 was the best, but only by a small margin. It was everything I wanted in an updated Mech game. Better graphics, sim-like gameplay, same Btech type mech configurations and goodness, and the MFBs and lancemates added a personal touch to the game. I did miss the original bitchin' betty though, the new one wasn't that great. There was nothing nonsense or gimmicky about it. Bad Caravel!
    It was awful. I actually think I still have it somewhere along with the expansion pack... or I might have sent it to the charity shop years ago...

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    The Mech4 games were arcadefests, BUT I still enjoyed them, just not nearly as much as the original 2.
    It was quite simply craptastic. I have it somewhere but I'm less likely to play that than even MW3.

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    Now, for your salvation. http://www.warp13.co.uk/mech2 Just use MW2hook. You need the Win95 versions or Titanium trilogy versions of the game. PM me if you run into problems. I just got done beating all 3 original Mech2 games a month ago after I found that.

    Well thanks for that. I will certainly give it a go, if I can come by the MW2 Windows 95 version. I wasn't actually a big fan of Mercenaries or even GBL - it's the original MW2 that is the best for me. I actually have the Mercenaries 3dfx edition, which was only available with 3dfx Voodoo Rush graphics cards...

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    Default Re: Battletech nerds rejoice? Mechwarrior 5 being worked on?

    OH MY GOD.

    http://pc.ign.com/articles/100/1002275p1.html

    Here's the interview: http://pc.ign.com/articles/100/1002164p1.html

    New video! It's confirmed, takes place in 3015, based on a Kurita invasion.

    Positives: It LOOKS beautiful. I was right, it was a Warhammer! HAH! It LOOKS like a sim! Things are big and clunky and don't move like friggin' gundams.

    Negatives: It's going to be a stupid multiplatform game. The interfaces looks decidedly consoleish and horribly oversimplified. I hope to god they fix that. Bad interfaces and controls can ruin a game completely.

    Against all better judgment I am getting pretty excited now!

    Edit - And I just had a LOT of the wind taken out of my sails.

    "Russ Bullock: First and foremost, in this day and age and this time, we've all played the PC games in the past and absolutely loved them. But certainly going forward, just out of necessity and because we think we can, we're definitely very focused also on the Xbox 360. So we're very focused on the console standpoint moving forward. Now, we still need to work out a lot with our chosen publishing partner, so some of these questions will become answered, but I think that Jordan and I are in agreement that we want to make a MechWarrior game. "

    Yet again, the PC becomes a simple afterthought.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Whacker View Post
    Yet again, the PC becomes a simple afterthought.
    No surprise there. The 2 joystick console controller should work well for moving the mech and rotating the body, fiddling with weapon cycles and other stuff will probably be kludged up though. The vid looks nice, destructible terrain and all, and I like the bit about making all mechs viable throughout the campaign. Watched the rewind vid, pretty cool that they added visual cues like weapon cooling and such.
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    Yeah, as far as I'm concerned they ****** it up good and proper already by wasting it on a console. This isn't a MW game, it's just the next iteration of MechAssault. Blech. Auto-targetting. Locked hardware controllers. No 3rd party tools or innovation.

    Mark my words, just like the MA series this is another generic bad game profiteering on the MW name.

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    Being a fan of the Mechwarrior games, and having played all the games (still couldn't finish the last mission in Ghost Bear Legacy, the one in the ice cave i think....), this is one welcome news. That is until I read they just did the latest Transformers game(?). Has anyone seen or played this game?

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    Default Re: Battletech nerds rejoice? Mechwarrior 5 being worked on?

    In related news, MW4 (and ex-packs) will be free to download from BattleTech.com soon.
    http://www.smithandtinker.com/news/m...letech-com.php
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    Just let me get a bushwacker, please!

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    Default Re: Battletech nerds rejoice? Mechwarrior 5 being worked on?

    Hope it's not too off-topic but I wanted to expand on this a little:
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    In related news, MW4 (and ex-packs) will be free to download from BattleTech.com soon.
    http://www.smithandtinker.com/news/m...letech-com.php
    Here is a Q&A thread from the people who will be releasing MW4. Apparently it's only going to be Mercenaries (fine with me, that was the best one by far, campaign-wise) plus some expansions and MekPak 3.1, with MekPak 4 possibly coming later. (I never even knew those MekPak things existed... sounds fun.) It will be a few weeks until release, so probably August, maybe a little later.

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