MechWarrior (5) announced

[Barrister]

I had to look some of that stuff up.

Apparently my BattleTech knowledge stopped in the midst of the Inner Sphere war on Clan Smoke Jaguar.  Everything after that is new to me.

I actually had a long term game going, with the same group of characters (minus KIAs), going for fifteen years of realtime, from the Succession Wars to the Jihad.

Cool.  Tabletop, or MechWarrior RPG?

[Ed Anger]

I had to look some of that stuff up.

Apparently my BattleTech knowledge stopped in the midst of the Inner Sphere war on Clan Smoke Jaguar.  Everything after that is new to me.

I looked up some of the recent pdfs recently, and the game seems to suffer from Star Fleet Battles-itis now.

[Neil]

Cool.  Tabletop, or MechWarrior RPG?

Both.  We'd mix and match depending on the mood.  Sometimes, we'd have adventures and intrigues, which we'd run in Mechwarrior, but we'd use tabletop for big battles, with some RPG mods (like using Edge to avoid getting headchopped by some Clanner with an ER PPC, that sort of thing).

[Neil]

I looked up some of the recent pdfs recently, and the game seems to suffer from Star Fleet Battles-itis now.

It suffers from every book outdoing the one before it, and some wacky design choices for some of the older stuff.  Thus, the House Kurita (one of the first) field manual introduced medium range dumbfire missiles and swords for 'Mechs.  The House Davion (one of the last) field manual introduces rotary autocannons, man-portable gauss rifles and super battlearmour.  The warships that they designed using old rules in the House Marik field manual are armoured in tinfoil, whereas the warships they designed using the new rules in the House Liao, Davion and Steiner field manuals are all wrecking machines.

I suppose that's what happens when you release the field manuals over a period of five or six years.

[Tonitrus]

I was always leaned more towards Kurita in my early BT days, then leaned more towards Marik for the Clan era to escape the Davion/Kurita love-fest.  And was always partial to the Taurian Concordate hoping to humiliate the Davions.

And then go hook up with some Magistracy of Canopus babes. 

[Neil]

Marik 4 life.

[Barrister]

I was always leaned more towards Kurita in my early BT days, then leaned more towards Marik for the Clan era to escape the Davion/Kurita love-fest.  And was always partial to the Taurian Concordate hoping to humiliate the Davions.

And then go hook up with some Magistracy of Canopus babes.

I have to agree that the Davion/Kurita love-fest was annoying, and that I did have a soft spot for the periphery powers (although the Taurian Concordate seemed too Mary Sue-ish).  But thinking about it the very first time I played BattleTech (and actually I think it was the mediocre Succession Wars game) I played as Steiner, and they have always been my first choice.

[DisturbedPervert]

Had a lot of fun playing MechWarrior 2 on Kali back in the day.  Hopefully this won't be too consolized.

[Syt]

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

[Scipio]

When oh when will MechWarrior 4 be released for free?

Sigh.

[Razgovory]

I discovered I own Mech Warrior 3.  I may install it and play it a bit.  It's been a while.

[Jaron]

When oh when will MechWarrior 4 be released for free?

Sigh.

Why are you such a tight ass?

[Ed Anger]

When oh when will MechWarrior 4 be released for free?

Sigh.

Why are you such a tight ass?

I assume he works out.

[Neil]

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

Consoles have devastated gaming.

[Razgovory]

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

Consoles have devastated gaming.

True.  Nothing is more frustrating then having a good series of PC games ruined by dumbing it down for the console.