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heretrix
12/29/09

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DOWNLOADING NAOOOOOOOOWWWWWW!

Well, I mean when I get home from work anyways.
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DiExMachina
12/29/09

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New internet meme incoming:

"but will it run MechWarrior: Living Legends?"
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kitsuneconundrum
12/29/09

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they need an award and hopefully not a lawsuit as mechwarrior stuff attracts.

Also, what are the specs? crysis is still a monster.
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Hardcore
12/29/09

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Some of my boys over in the Scorpions(a mercenary crew), tested this. I'm just wondering how much playing this will destroy my PC.
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Desolation_Angel
12/29/09

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I love you BattleTech!!! Please come back to us in a reasonable form. Hell, I even bought Mech Assault 1 & 2 because I was so desperate for a fix.

Oh yeah...Shadowrun too.
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-MasterDex-
12/29/09

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Living Legends is coming along great. It's been in production since pretty much the release of the mod tools.

Anyone that has Crysis should have [www.crymod.com] bookmarked. Some of the mods in the works are amazing.
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EloquentZen
12/29/09

@-MasterDex-: Do they work for Crysis Warhead as well?
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-MasterDex-
12/29/09

@EloquentZen: As far as I know, most of them do. I think with certain mods, there may be problems due to missing assets and so on but I think you should be alright with the majority of them.
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Karlott
12/29/09

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I thought I spilled my drink on my keyboard until I realized that that was just the tears of joy streaming down my face.
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astidcrisse
12/29/09

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Wow! Very good looking indeed, alot of work was put into this and it shows

I like the nuke's effet!
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EythR
12/29/09

@astidcrisse: Don't mean to criticise your spelling (heck, I might've misspelled criticise), but did you really want to write ''effect'', or you wrote it in french?

The nuke truly is formidable.
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astidcrisse
12/29/09

@EythR: You cought me ;)
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AOClaus
12/29/09

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I think my favorite thing about some of the game in the MechWarrior game series was the music. Especially in Ghost Bear's Legacy.
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Beta_@_Random
12/29/09

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I really want MechAssault 3 for the Xbox 360 now!
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AOClaus
12/29/09

@Beta_@_Random: God I hope not. I want some real MechWarrior, not that MechAssault abortion.
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Evdor
12/29/09

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Considering the crew was paid absolutely nothing, had to do some pretty drastic things to the engine to get them to work correctly, and lovingly re-created a now-unused old gaming universe that some of us are old enough to associate fondly as a fairly big part of their childhood, (epic, EPIC battles took place between me and my friends in the place of my living room. Gamer heaven) I think I can forgive them for being a little late.

God. damn. awesome. So much so that I'm willing to venture into a god-damn's lions den of a community that will probably eat me alive, as there tend to be in these kinda niche-sim game communities, just so I can stomp around in a damned Mad Cat again.
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Teran
12/29/09

@Evdor: I'm with you on this, I wish the trailer had a bit more fighting in it, I'm most curious about how that translated.

As a fellow Timberwolf/Mad Cat fan (too bad they lost the license to the Marauder) and die hard battletech fan in general I just wish I had a rig that could run it.

Oh, I wouldn't call the Battletech/Mechwarrior universe unused just somewhat dormant. There is another "official" Mechwarrior on its way... unless it got cancelled while I wasn't looking.
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Hyena
12/29/09

@Evdor: While it's unused in the video game sense, it's still very much alive and moving forward in the paper/pencil/tabletop sense.
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denki
12/29/09

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No way! They also put in Aerotech? Well damnit, I guess I have to buy a super-high end gaming pc in order to play a mod of a shooter I don't have any interest in, that is of a brand that was decent until FASA went bankrupt and have now shunned (almost) all of the tabletop roots...

Still waiting for a Battletech strategy game for the DS. That would sell like...Twilight novels to 15 year old girls.
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Evdor
12/29/09

@denki: FYI, Battletech the board game has been re-released in its classic rule-set, and a lot of the books have been re-printed. A couple places around here have started playing it regularly again, much to my surprise.

Also I would kill for a decent DS-y-version of Battletech--just program in the scenario packs of old and give it a go. Megamek with better scripting would be like crack to me.
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denki
12/29/09

@Evdor: I found out they were reprinting the stuff some time ago, but the story is kinda...dead. That and I haven't actually played the game in 8 years- a lot to do with moving around and losing my box of BT crap.

Yeah, Megamek is not without its problems. Needs a faster redraw, UI upgrade and AI rewrite- I hate watching my processor go nuts when the AI thinks.
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PoweredByHentai
12/29/09

@denki: FASA didn't go bankrupt. Microsoft bought it, chewed it out, and destroyed it completely.
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denki
12/29/09

@PoweredByHentai: That was FASA Interactive that MS bought and killed- the RPG FASA apparently just quit while they still had money. Thank you [en.wikipedia.org]
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Zelyre
12/29/09

@denki: Super high end?

A GTX260 will eat anything alive at 1680x1050 resolution, max graphics. That can be had for $170.

I've seen Core2Quad CPU/motherboard combos go for under $200 at Fry's. 4 gigs of ram nowadays is $40 for DDR2, and a legit copy of Win7 64 bit can be had for $30 if you're a student.

Even a lowly sub $100 8800 will run Crysis on medium-high.

Ya don't need to break the bank to play it and you'll get tons of benefits from having a gaming PC anyways.

I own a boxed copy of Crysis, though its in the "scary closet". Hoping it goes on sale on Steam though. I've been wanting Burnout Paradise but didn't want to pay $30 since I own it for 360. Low and behold. $7 on steam with a few of the DLCs in there as well.
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Mr.Anansi
12/29/09

@PoweredByHentai: Smith and Tinker bought back some of the FASA rights from Microsoft and are supposed to be working on a new Mechwarrior and hopefully an actual Shadowrun game.
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PoweredByHentai
12/29/09

@denki: I take it that you didn't read this:
[www.gamesindustry.biz]
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denki
12/29/09

@PoweredByHentai: Nope, no I didn't. I'm currently running on very, very light skimming articles and blind assumptions, so I had no idea FASA just changed their name (by adding Interactive). I always figured the two were somehow separate, seeing as how the game versions of BT that came out were never like their tabletop counterparts (just because they weren't strategy, a shallow distinction). I just never figured the pencil and paper guys turned into keyboard and screen guys. Sorry for my ignorance, thanks for the good links.
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PoweredByHentai
12/29/09

@denki: S'ok. I also don't read every article but occasionally, there are article titles that stand out like the one for Weisman's interview.
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Griffehpoo
12/29/09

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I have mixed feelings upon seeing the trailer. I'll have to download when I get home to see if it really does the source material justice.
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denki
12/29/09

@Griffehpoo: I've only found one thing that comes close to "[doing] the source material justice," and it's this: [megamek.sourceforge.net]
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Griffehpoo
12/29/09

I meant the MechWarrior (up to 3, at least) PC games, which this seems to have taken directly from. Who would expect it to be the tabletop version from the media they've provided?
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(Starman) NONAME
12/29/09

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"and having missed its original release window by a whole twelve months"

That's a nice way of avoiding the downing 1 year of absence remark. :P
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graavigala
12/29/09

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looks shiny and all but those ugly ass mechas are just... nasty!
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AOClaus
12/29/09

@graavigala: This is a real 'mech game. A 'mech game for SciFi and table top gaming nerds, not Gundam or something anime. Dirt, grit, sweat, and blood; not high pitched whiny women and 12 year old boys saving the world.

If two legged walking tanks are made real this is why they'll look like. Can you imagine what an anime producer would have designed an M1 Abrams to look like?
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Adhominem
12/29/09

@graavigala: I going to promote this comment with the purpose of educating you on just what made the Mechwarrior franchise so popular that it sprung out from its tabletop roots into an entire game franchise, had its own cartoon series, and continues to have quite a large fanbase even with the absence of quality titles for quite some time.

Apart from the fantastic universe that it is set in, the reason why Mechwarrior is just so fun is because of the mechanics of the gameplay. The giant bipedal walking warmachines are unlike other games in that they are tied down by some semblance of real life physics. They overheat, they turning limitations, they run out of ammunition with no reload. You really have to be strategic with your armor and weapons loadout and understand the strengths and limitations of each mech chassis. If you've never played it before I suggest visiting your local game hobby shop and getting some buddies together to experience the table top strategy game. The depth of gameplay will blow your mind.
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graavigala
12/29/09

@AOClaus:
i've been playing MechWarrior since the first but that doesnt mean that i have to love how they look :D
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graavigala
12/29/09

@Adhominem:
been playing MW since the first game, but i still think that they look buttugly :D
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commentotron
12/29/09

@AOClaus: You do realize that many of the Mechwarrior designs were lifted directly from Macross. Right? I played the original tabletop version back in the 80's, like a lot of folks, but I'm not arrogant enough to pretend that the designs are original to the content. Some are, many are not.
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AOClaus
12/29/09

@commentotron: There's already been a discussion about this on Kotaku, and saying that MOST of them were lifted is a bit of a stretch. There were a handful of designs lifted, and those were redesigned after the lawsuit.
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MaWeiTao
12/01/09

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If only game developers were even half as creative as concept artists, imagine how awesome games could be.
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WhatTheFrag
11/30/09

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Nice concept art, but to actually expect all of them to be great games or look as good is like expecting to cook a feast just because you bought great ingredients.
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b-radicate
12/01/09

@WhatTheFrag: "Look as good?" Have you never seen the Crytek engine running in full 1080p? It looks DAMN good.
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WhatTheFrag
12/01/09

@b-radicate: the cryengine 3 is pretty and looks great but they've barely had a chance to do some really interesting work besides the same boring landscape. If they do something nice looking then yeah I'll say fine. But it's the most underused one at the moment. It's not an engine that counts but what you do with it.
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braincadet
11/30/09

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PLEASE LET THE FIRST PIC BECOME A GAME
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Fo0dNippl3
11/30/09

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Surely, saying they smack of awesomeness is redundant if you've already said they smack of Frank Frazetta?!
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Black-Dog-Howls
11/30/09

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The jet one seems the most out of place otherwise the rest could all be one fantasy epic combining Japan and China with a little Africa. I speak mostly of the body style and colors used along with clothing and architecture styling.

As far as the jet? Cry Check.
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