Mechwarrior Online

[High Sierra]

1) There is always a first time for a company to release an awesome game. (except EA who just like to buttfuck customers... oh and Sony)
2) Its mechs. It will be awesome.
3) games based on films are usually shite because they are aimed at making a fast buck off the publicity of the film not long term playability
4) see 2)

[teds :D]

1) There is always a first time for a company to release an awesome game. (except EA who just like to buttfuck customers... oh and Sony)
2) Its mechs. It will be awesome.
3) games based on films are usually shite because they are aimed at making a fast buck off the publicity of the film not long term playability
4) see 2)

the only actually good film-inspired game i've played is goldeneye.

[Qwert]

It should be mentioned that they did not fully develop Duke; they just cleaned up the train-wrecks left by all the other developers before them.

[High Sierra]

1) There is always a first time for a company to release an awesome game. (except EA who just like to buttfuck customers... oh and Sony)
2) Its mechs. It will be awesome.
3) games based on films are usually shite because they are aimed at making a fast buck off the publicity of the film not long term playability
4) see 2)

the only actually good film-inspired game i've played is goldeneye.

oh god Goldeneye....

the only reason I bought an N64! I wasted more hours on that one game......

[High Sierra]

do NOT derail this thread.

Mechs will be epic. it will be beyond awesome. and I for one will play it no matter what.
but I STILL want a proper full on Battletech MMO with factions and mercs and pirates and Clan in about 10 years time.

[teds :D]

do NOT derail this thread.

Mechs will be epic. it will be beyond awesome. and I for one will play it no matter what.
but I STILL want a proper full on Battletech MMO with factions and mercs and pirates and Clan in about 10 years time.

all i really want is something half as good as MW4, which i'm led to understand wasn't a patch on MW3

[Liare]

its going to be pretty hard to fuck up mechs given the gameplay displayed so far.

i do wonder how the fuck they intent to make money off it, World of Tanks style maybe ?

[Joe Appleby]

its going to be pretty hard to fuck up mechs given the gameplay displayed so far.

i do wonder how the fuck they intent to make money off it, World of Tanks style maybe ?

WoT style of gameplay and monetization had been confirmed basically from the announcement on.

[Ort Lofthus]

Plenty of ways to monetize. RL$ for in game currency, premium equipment (the SL equipment or brand name gear or specific rare mechs), more slots in the mech garage, etc...

[Winged Nazgul]

Hats.

[Qwert]

Plenty of ways to monetize. RL$ for in game currency, premium equipment (the SL equipment or brand name gear or specific rare mechs), more slots in the mech garage, etc...

I could see mech skins as a big one. Lore skins, Transformers skins, ponies, etc, etc.

[High Sierra]

Plenty of ways to monetize. RL$ for in game currency, premium equipment (the SL equipment or brand name gear or specific rare mechs), more slots in the mech garage, etc...

I could see mech skins as a big one. Lore skins, Transformers skins, ponies, etc, etc.

just make everything Clan a premium item.

you could retire on the bitter tears of fanboys.

[Constantinus]

Plenty of ways to monetize. RL$ for in game currency, premium equipment (the SL equipment or brand name gear or specific rare mechs), more slots in the mech garage, etc...

I could see mech skins as a big one. Lore skins, Transformers skins, ponies, etc, etc.

just make everything Clan a premium item.

you could retire on the bitter tears of fanboys.

Make them destroyable premium items for extra laughs.

[Phrixus Zephyr]

Just so you know, i picked their best two games. They've made even worse. Expectations are now as low as i can consciously make them.

[Torashuu]

Is gonna have beta/demo. Is going to be f2p. So its not like you lose money if you try it and turns out to be bad.

[Isyel]

They haven't really "made" Duke Nukem, last i checked it was very clear the stupid thing was released just because some people thought it was too bad to let it die completely because of original dev incompetence. Should have stayed buried but, well...

[High Sierra]

Just so you know, i picked their best two games. They've made even worse. Expectations are now as low as i can consciously make them.

I AM GOING TO FIND YOU AND MAKE YOU ENJOY MECHS OR I WILL END YOU IN THE ATTEMPT

[Liare]

Just so you know, i picked their best two games. They've made even worse. Expectations are now as low as i can consciously make them.

look at the crud Microsoft studios turned out around the time of MW4's release.

the lesson here kids, is that you cant make a mech game that's mediocre, its either brainblowingly awesome or incredibly terrible, why?

because there's zero competition every time they release one, and therefore there's nothing to compare it to other than even more derpy stuff like "Heavy Gear".

[Alex Caine]

[QUOTE=Liare;457883]

because there's zero competition every time they release one, and therefore there's nothing to compare it to other than even more derpy stuff like "Heavy Gear".

I say this as a huge fan of Battletech, Mechwarrior, and everything to do with the franchise. I want to make clear that I am in no way impugning the awesomeness of MW, when I say:

FUCK YOU HEAVY GEAR WAS AWESOME. AND THE SEQUEL WAS ONE OF THE BEST MECH GAMES OF ALL TIME.

So there.

[V]

its going to be pretty hard to fuck up mechs given the gameplay displayed so far.

i do wonder how the fuck they intent to make money off it, World of Tanks style maybe ?

WoT style of gameplay and monetization had been confirmed basically from the announcement on.

Hate to burst your bubble but WOT monetization is pandoras box for good gameplay and extremely conniving. Most wont even noticed that they get arse fucked by soviet devs.