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my friend said this

it's totally cool how slow the robots are
it reminds you of how giant robots will never, ever be used in war because they're fucking stupid

also i kind of want to play MW2 or MW3 again just to see how broken they are

but it sucks getting them to run on XP apparently

lol pc

playing MW2 for PS1

circle strafing to victory

i tried to shoot a helicopter that was on the ground

but i was too close and my laser went around it

So Mad Dog with fire linked LRM10s = kill in two volleys

also linked MLAS are more useful than linked LLAS because they don't overheat as fast and you can fire faster that way

because the radar has less range than the draw distance I couldn't find my targets

sometimes it told me I was going out of the level boundaries I couldn't see

and I ran out of a time on a timer I couldn't see



but I did find this truck

wow that looks like dogshit

Well it is a PS1 port of a DOS game.

There were PS1 games in 1995 that looked (and played) better too.

And this version has power ups so it's not simhard i guess

also despite having a volume control for music there is none

and boy does the game love spawning dudes right next to you

or turning friendly units into enemies

oh wait this port was released in 1997? That's when Armored Core came out

is that true. The title screen says 1995-1997

wow

VF5SS wrote:my friend said this

it's totally cool how slow the robots are
it reminds you of how giant robots will never, ever be used in war because they're fucking stupid

also i kind of want to play MW2 or MW3 again just to see how broken they are

but it sucks getting them to run on XP apparently

lol pc

Ask him how fast he thinks armoured units right now advance.

well that response was to what was said in that quote I posted

but ya know

modern armored units aren't 40 feet tall :3

To bad, cause that would be pretty cool to see.

well the whole thing about them giant robots

at least how Gundam in particular attempted to make them more like "legit" vehicles of war

was basically to do what the Powered Suit from Starship Troopers did

create a one-man unit that can traverse terrain quickly and has access to multiple hand-held and mounted weapons

because they had to keep the size of the robots fairly large (roughly the size of an F-15 standing on its tail) what happen was we got something that was almost akin to a ground based weapon with many aspects of combat airplanes

Even in terms of how they frame the Mobile Suits in Gundam as being based on carriers and launched from catapults. having a single pilot or sometimes two being in control of multiple weapons and sensors.

Battletech likes to claim they're doing otherwise, but Battlemechs try to occupy the same hybrid plane/powered suit role

and horribly fail at it :v

also Gundam F-91 had a cool military parade with Mobile Suits

one of the Armored Core openings had a platoon of ACs marching across the desert

so I guess Japan gets it

i can totally stand still while overheated and not get hit with several swarms of missiles

So are there any 360 mech games?

Both Armored Core 4 and Armored Core For Answer are for 360

You might want to check gameplay vids to see if you like it.

There was Chromehounds but the multi is dead

Maybe there's a few others. I dunno I have a PS3

I'll see if there is a demo.

ok so you're supposed to inspect this downed dropship (and kill everyone)

but when you inspect it the data transfer takes 20 seconds

what the game never tells you that if you move too far away before time is up the mission ends because you're outside transmission range :v

it tells you after you do the wrong thing of course

The 360 AC games are shit

Bad controls, 40s missions with 90s load times, ugly robots, horrible UI, basically made for diehard fans

Just get steel battalion WALKING SHERMAN EDITIONZ when it comes out

chrome hounds was fundamentally broken

Mech games in general are just a wasteland of fail unless you own a psp

Or a PSP emulator :v

Or a Sega Saturn emulator if you want to play some Gundam games. Also Assault Suits Leynos 2 is for Saturn. It's the sequel to Target Earth (Leynos 1) on Genesis. The game Cybernator (Assault Suit Valken) for SNES is a prequel to Leynos. They're fun side scrolling robot games.

The good robot games are spread across so many systems. There used to be a website dedicated to cataloging robot games but it is long gone. Lol angelfire.

I think you can get Thexder Neo for XBLA. Another fun side scroller based on two old PC games.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=-X3GD0UnBCk

man this takes me back

so what does this show us

blue swirly meatballs PPCs are teh wins

'Mechs (never forget the apostrophe) can't notice another 'Mech when it's less than 100m away

machine guns can disable 'Mech parts

PPCs have shitty refresh rates apparently

http://youtube.com/watch?v=at9hxU864Fg
if you're going to show any video, show the mercenaries one

yeah the Mercenaries one is way better

I'd almost always watch it when I played the game :3

the MW3 one is really self-indulgent

The MW4 one has real actors which is always lulzy

you remember mechcommander?


http://youtube.com/watch?v=2MQPWE_M_EM

where would we be

without some guy in a room telling us what to do

You know, I understand all the problems btech has and how ridiculous and stupid it is.


I still really like it . It's very medieval, and I think I accept it more readily because in my mind it's like a bunch of backwards feudal era 'knights' who didn't understand when to stop adding on the plate mail, and it's got this grungy, haphazard, everything-could-stop-working-in-an-instant attitude while crunching around in enormous, clunky, inflexible robots with incredibly short range explody canons.

I dunno, that appeals to me.

i decided to play a different game for now



i love this game so much i want to marry it <3

also lol emulation issues reveal that there are still Japanese voice tracks in the game :D

joviwan wrote:You know, I understand all the problems btech has and how ridiculous and stupid it is.


I still really like it . It's very medieval, and I think I accept it more readily because in my mind it's like a bunch of backwards feudal era 'knights' who didn't understand when to stop adding on the plate mail, and it's got this grungy, haphazard, everything-could-stop-working-in-an-instant attitude while crunching around in enormous, clunky, inflexible robots with incredibly short range explody canons.

I dunno, that appeals to me.

If ya'll knew how much this applied to me and how much Btech stuff I have you'd be ashamed of me.

not saying I don't have a cache of Btech stuff myself

but do any us really enjoy rolling to hit on our LRM20s

and then rolling to see how many hit

and then rolling to see where they hit in 5 missile clusters

and then adjusting the heat scale

:psyduck: