MechWarrior (5) announced

[Syt]

I'd prefer a new take on MechCommander instead of a console-bound action shooter.

Consoles have devastated gaming.

Without Japan no consoles. However, without Japan also no Gundam or Macross, i.e. no Battletech - bit of a conundrum here.

[Razgovory]

I just installed my old copy of Mechwarrior 3.  I found it with Mechwarrior 2 and my Dick Cheney rookie card.

[Razgovory]

And it just crashes alot.  Oh well.

[Scipio]

Marik 4 life.

Word.

[Neil]

Without Japan no consoles. However, without Japan also no Gundam or Macross, i.e. no Battletech - bit of a conundrum here.

That's true.  I don't really hold anything against the older consoles, because they understood their limitations.  It's only now that everything has to have a 360 version that can be played using a gamepad that everything has gone down the drain.  Companies that won't do that shit, like Stardock, make a fine game.

[DontSayBanana]

This thread makes me all the more sad that I can only find one of my discs for Mercenaries.

Running materiel demolition from an armored-up Atlas packing a heavy gauss rifle was even more fun when one had access to a Steel Battalion controller and an Xbox-to-USB adapter.

[DontSayBanana]

That's true.  I don't really hold anything against the older consoles, because they understood their limitations.  It's only now that everything has to have a 360 version that can be played using a gamepad that everything has gone down the drain.  Companies that won't do that shit, like Stardock, make a fine game.

Mercenaries had such a lengthy control list that the only controller I was ever able to ignore the keyboard with was the massive Steel Battalion controller (for those that don't remember, it had a clutch and gear shifter, 3 joystick axes plus a hat switch, 49 buttons, and 5 toggle switches- yes, there was a windshield wiper button).