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Mechassult rocks tha party that rocks tha body.. There really is nothing better in life than being able to blow shit up. 
Check that.. there is one thing better...
Coming back from 28 points down at halftime to beat the 49ers in San Fran with my Titans! I did that last night and I gotta say I felt pretty good for a mere regular season win on a video game.
Check that.. there is one thing better...
Coming back from 28 points down at halftime to beat the 49ers in San Fran with my Titans! I did that last night and I gotta say I felt pretty good for a mere regular season win on a video game.
Re: MechAssault...MechWarrior4.... ?
MechAssault is far different than the MechWarrior series. There's no customization of mechs, the realism isn't there, and it's very simplistic. It's just a 3rd person shooter that uses a mech skin as the hero.
That being said the game is very fun. However it is also very short single player. Can easily beat it in a rental period. It may rock on live, but I have no plans on gaming with a bunch of kids around the nation using voice communication...so I sold it after I beat it several times through and had a few split screen matches.
Phantom Crash has the mech customization of the Mechwarrior games. But it's an arena combat type game.
Steel Battalion has everything Mechwarrior does and more. It's the one with that behemoth controller and pedals. Most realistic mech experience ever. Unfortunately the game is sold out everywhere but ebay. But a sequel is coming with Live capability.
FunJohnny said:
MechAssault is far different than the MechWarrior series. There's no customization of mechs, the realism isn't there, and it's very simplistic. It's just a 3rd person shooter that uses a mech skin as the hero.
That being said the game is very fun. However it is also very short single player. Can easily beat it in a rental period. It may rock on live, but I have no plans on gaming with a bunch of kids around the nation using voice communication...so I sold it after I beat it several times through and had a few split screen matches.
Phantom Crash has the mech customization of the Mechwarrior games. But it's an arena combat type game.
Steel Battalion has everything Mechwarrior does and more. It's the one with that behemoth controller and pedals. Most realistic mech experience ever. Unfortunately the game is sold out everywhere but ebay. But a sequel is coming with Live capability.
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Re: Re: MechAssault...MechWarrior4.... ?
I hope the good sales reinforces the company's efforts here. Everything I read says the game is phenomenal. I like seeing a company go out on a limb and push the envelope and succeed.
I am gonna go rent MechAssault today, I think.
I just got done with a rental of NFS2. Overall not that great in terms of graphics, but I liked the game design and the overall vast number of miles of road to drive. I'm excited for Gotham 2 though. And game that puts the Mercedes Gullwing in it has balls. I really enjoyed the "feel" in Gotham 1.
I'm also eagerly awaiting Fable but my goatee's gonna be grey by the time it comes out. Any idea when, Arc? Arc????
Also.. can't think of the name of it... need more coffee.... that mission based shooter from Microsoft... with 4 characters.... Brute Force!!
Also Star Wars KOTR, BC, Ninja Gaiden, and Godzilla, and Soul Caliber 2.
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I hope the good sales reinforces the company's efforts here. Everything I read says the game is phenomenal. I like seeing a company go out on a limb and push the envelope and succeed.
I am gonna go rent MechAssault today, I think.
I just got done with a rental of NFS2. Overall not that great in terms of graphics, but I liked the game design and the overall vast number of miles of road to drive. I'm excited for Gotham 2 though. And game that puts the Mercedes Gullwing in it has balls. I really enjoyed the "feel" in Gotham 1.
I'm also eagerly awaiting Fable but my goatee's gonna be grey by the time it comes out. Any idea when, Arc? Arc????
Also.. can't think of the name of it... need more coffee.... that mission based shooter from Microsoft... with 4 characters.... Brute Force!!
Also Star Wars KOTR, BC, Ninja Gaiden, and Godzilla, and Soul Caliber 2.
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What? What?
*gets off the phone*
Okies ...
Fable right now is coming out in early November, Brute Force holding in late April, & Soul Caliber 2 is Mid August.
Star Wars KOTR, Ninja Gaiden, and Godzilla I think all all coming up in the next few months ... I didn't check the dates.
Whats BC?
I have noticed that dates on lots of titles are jumping around.
*sigh*
*gets off the phone*
Okies ...
Fable right now is coming out in early November, Brute Force holding in late April, & Soul Caliber 2 is Mid August.
Star Wars KOTR, Ninja Gaiden, and Godzilla I think all all coming up in the next few months ... I didn't check the dates.
Whats BC?
I have noticed that dates on lots of titles are jumping around.
*sigh*
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Yes I know ... I picked that title up ...
I just suck at playing it ... for the first area I got a C rating. I think I might need a joystick to play this game.
Welcome to the gaming thread Romial!
I just suck at playing it ... for the first area I got a C rating. I think I might need a joystick to play this game.
Welcome to the gaming thread Romial!
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The C rating was on the 2nd try ... I don't remember what I got in the 2nd area, but I died fighting the worms ... I am really bad at dodging ...
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Heh heh heh 
I forgot about changing the dragons form ... too busy trying to target & shoot
I forgot about changing the dragons form ... too busy trying to target & shoot
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Arc da Rat said:Heh heh heh
I forgot about changing the dragons form ... too busy trying to target & shoot
LOL...the 3 dragon forms is what keeps you alive.
Use the heavy on big things, use the 3rd form(glider) to hit a whole shit load of missile's down, and use the first one to hit a lot of things at once.
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Hi Rom!
Here's a link to some BC stuff.
http://gamespot.com/gamespot/filters/products/0,11114,537533,00.html
Here's a link to some BC stuff.
http://gamespot.com/gamespot/filters/products/0,11114,537533,00.html
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You start out with a few villagers and basically try to survive and learn to flourish. I think you research how to do new things a-la Age of Empires or Civ. Check one of the stories. It's totally non-linear. It's a Peter Molineaux game.
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Romial said:
Yeah, you could say that.
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Here's an excerpt from an acticle at IGN.com
Peter Molyneux's favorite word when it comes to describing his games is "simulation." The whole concept behind B.C. as well as the marvelous Project Ego is to create a living, active world that simply reacts to what you do with the main character. In the case of B.C., that living, breathing world is prehistoric and filled with cavemen, dinosaurs and all kinds of smaller critters. It's the ridiculous level of detail that's making us feel like B.C. is going to be such an accomplishment.
The smaller creatures in the lush highlands that serve as the opening area in B.C. includes little vegetable eating dinosaurs, birds and mice. Molyneux mentioned something about functional anthills but we were unable to find any to confirm their existence. The mice, however, were present and would scurry through the tall grasses that also happen to sway in the breeze. The smaller dinosaurs we saw were kangaroo-sized herbivores that spend quite a bit of time freaking out and running away from slightly larger predators. Sometimes you'll see one of those meat-eaters actually catch one of those scampering little veggie-eating dinos. The stampeding dinosaurs and the predators that try to kill them are just one example of how life is and will continue to go on and do its thing in B.C. until and unless you decide to interfere.
One particularly impressive example is when Molyneux took one of the caveman characters and ran him into an open field. On his way to the field, a giant pterodactyl swooped down looking like he was going to attack but pulled up at the last moment. The folks at Intrepid had to explain to us that the bird was swooping down looking to eat our little caveman because they like to eat anything that's smaller than them. He pulled up out of his dive because he realized our hero was too big to eat. This is how interactive the environment gets.
The control scheme itself is relatively simple. You can control any member of your tribe of cavepeople but, much like a typical real time strategy, you need to make sure the other members of the community are doing something that benefits the group as a whole. One woman was grinding grain into powder using stones as a pestle and mortar but only after she was given the stones and took the time to figure out how they work. An elder caveman was trying to teach a younger caveboy how to crack open a giant ostrich egg but only after the elder caveman was given the egg to investigate. A group of three cavepeople were grouped near a fire gesturing and behaving as if they were having a conversation, even though they were not. They're cavemen so they don't know how to speak just yet, but this is how they show the effort that they're trying. Eventually they will speak but only if you facilitate this by letting them hang out with each other. In all of the above examples the benefits are clear. Ground up grain and ostrich eggs are good for food, which every society needs. The benefits of communication are obvious since it leads to instruction and learning which makes everything easy.
The whole tribe development process seems complicated and convoluted until you learn to look at it in a different way. The cavemen trying to talk or the elder trying to learn how to crack an egg open are analogous to a status bar in an RTS game where you're waiting for a peon to finish building a barracks or castle or something. Rather than simply showing a green bar the grows, B.C. shows the people actually trying to figure out the problem that you've asked them to solve. Taking one caveman character, you tag the members of your tribe you want to control and then lead them to an area or object you want them to deal with. You aim your character at the object, hit the "go" button and they start trying to figure out what it is you want them to do with it. With the three gathered around the fire, they were all tagged, lead to the campfire and then commanded to "go." Since the fire was already burning (something you had obviously invented way before) they chose to explore the social implications of a campfire gathering. They wanted to start telling stories, perhaps scary, but didn't have any language to carry it out.
Peter Molyneux's favorite word when it comes to describing his games is "simulation." The whole concept behind B.C. as well as the marvelous Project Ego is to create a living, active world that simply reacts to what you do with the main character. In the case of B.C., that living, breathing world is prehistoric and filled with cavemen, dinosaurs and all kinds of smaller critters. It's the ridiculous level of detail that's making us feel like B.C. is going to be such an accomplishment.
The smaller creatures in the lush highlands that serve as the opening area in B.C. includes little vegetable eating dinosaurs, birds and mice. Molyneux mentioned something about functional anthills but we were unable to find any to confirm their existence. The mice, however, were present and would scurry through the tall grasses that also happen to sway in the breeze. The smaller dinosaurs we saw were kangaroo-sized herbivores that spend quite a bit of time freaking out and running away from slightly larger predators. Sometimes you'll see one of those meat-eaters actually catch one of those scampering little veggie-eating dinos. The stampeding dinosaurs and the predators that try to kill them are just one example of how life is and will continue to go on and do its thing in B.C. until and unless you decide to interfere.
One particularly impressive example is when Molyneux took one of the caveman characters and ran him into an open field. On his way to the field, a giant pterodactyl swooped down looking like he was going to attack but pulled up at the last moment. The folks at Intrepid had to explain to us that the bird was swooping down looking to eat our little caveman because they like to eat anything that's smaller than them. He pulled up out of his dive because he realized our hero was too big to eat. This is how interactive the environment gets.
The control scheme itself is relatively simple. You can control any member of your tribe of cavepeople but, much like a typical real time strategy, you need to make sure the other members of the community are doing something that benefits the group as a whole. One woman was grinding grain into powder using stones as a pestle and mortar but only after she was given the stones and took the time to figure out how they work. An elder caveman was trying to teach a younger caveboy how to crack open a giant ostrich egg but only after the elder caveman was given the egg to investigate. A group of three cavepeople were grouped near a fire gesturing and behaving as if they were having a conversation, even though they were not. They're cavemen so they don't know how to speak just yet, but this is how they show the effort that they're trying. Eventually they will speak but only if you facilitate this by letting them hang out with each other. In all of the above examples the benefits are clear. Ground up grain and ostrich eggs are good for food, which every society needs. The benefits of communication are obvious since it leads to instruction and learning which makes everything easy.
The whole tribe development process seems complicated and convoluted until you learn to look at it in a different way. The cavemen trying to talk or the elder trying to learn how to crack an egg open are analogous to a status bar in an RTS game where you're waiting for a peon to finish building a barracks or castle or something. Rather than simply showing a green bar the grows, B.C. shows the people actually trying to figure out the problem that you've asked them to solve. Taking one caveman character, you tag the members of your tribe you want to control and then lead them to an area or object you want them to deal with. You aim your character at the object, hit the "go" button and they start trying to figure out what it is you want them to do with it. With the three gathered around the fire, they were all tagged, lead to the campfire and then commanded to "go." Since the fire was already burning (something you had obviously invented way before) they chose to explore the social implications of a campfire gathering. They wanted to start telling stories, perhaps scary, but didn't have any language to carry it out.
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Hey everybody! I thought BC looked really interesting too. I loved Black and White. I'm hoping to at least rent Devil May Cry 2, seeing as I have no money currently. Gotta buy that new Zwan cd y'know Anybody seen anything on The Getaway? Oh...and the new trailers for Hulk and Matrix Reloaded kicked ass tonight
I thought BC looked really interesting too. I loved Black and White. I'm hoping to at least rent Devil May Cry 2, seeing as I have no money currently. Gotta buy that new Zwan cd y'know Anybody seen anything on The Getaway? Oh...and the new trailers for Hulk and Matrix Reloaded kicked ass tonightSimilar threads
