MechWarrior 4: Mercenaries (2002) - MechWarrior Retrospective Part 9
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- Опубліковано 21 лис 2024
- Cyberlore Studios sends Classic Battletech out with a bang.
In the 15 years since MW4: Mercenaries was released, we've had nothing but arcade spin-offs and a freemium 'Mech-themed FPS.
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EEGG: Once in flightschool I was laconic.
Someone wants to do a podcast.
Ghost81 Only if it's about Horse Armor, my favorite gaming topic of all time (apparently).
I'd listen to a weekly podcast about nothing but horse armor.
The Examined Life (of Gaming) Oi!
A podcast about getting this game to work on Windows 10
@@docvaliant721 Eh I'd listen to that.
I love the graphics. There's something about that era of 3d that speaks to me. It leaves something for imagination, you can fill the gaps and enjoy the atmosphere instead of focusing on the uncanny valley, not-really-realistic HD graphics. A vast open space, mountains, snow slowly falling, mist in the background... It's so simple, but you don't need anything else.
you wrote my exact thoughts.
If you get ever the chance, look up Blade of Darkness - a game from the same age of 3D and drowning in atmosphere.
Very well said. It pays off to focus on the achievable (great gameplay) instead of the impossible (realism).
You should also try Hostile Waters: Antaeus Rising for more of this kind of graphics. Loved that game as a kid. Make sure to get the GoG version over steam because it'll probably work better.
The vast open space is it for me. Modern games are usually focused on achieving high density rather than scale, but these expansive polygonal landscapes have their own kind of appeal.
Well said
This game has so much personality. It's actually confusing how modern games have less personality than an almost 20 year old game. I still have the box and original disk too and spent many many hours playing through the campaign. I didn't even realize that it was a sequel to other MechWarrior games at the time.
It baffles me that PGI had 20 years of MechWarrior to draw from, and chose not to. They have intentionally failed it in my opinion.
Heck I'm even more amazed how good the A.I. are in the MW4 franchise. They are not some brain dead A.I. that destroys your defense objective in MW5.
Games used to be made for fun.
@@dudeis2kool975 Mechwarrior 5 isn't even that fun :(
@@teknoman117 And its EVEN MORE soulless than most games nowadays.
18 years later and MechWarrior 4 Mercs is still the last real MechWarrior game.
If only somebody other than Piranha had made MW5.
We had all hoped for better.
true
@@TimberWulfIsHere Sorry, but if they couldn't make a solid singleplayer entry that lives up to the name, they should have just stuck to MWO. The randomized missions are dreadful, they feel more like one of those old arcade games that just throw things onto your screen to keep you shooting. The story is terrible, and terribly told, which is the half the point of a SP mechwarrior game.
I see no reason this needed to be a MW5 and instead wasn't just made a MWO spinoff w/ bot matches, because that's what the "missions" are in this game, just skirmish bot matches.
Being a small dev is no excuse, once you decide to make a main entry into a beloved series, expectations have already been set. At that point you dig your own grave.
@@TimberWulfIsHere I agree that MW5 is a great base to work off of at a fundamental level, but that doesn't remove the fact that the basic mission randomization is still very rudimentary and repetitive. I personally would've preferred 0 main story, and just a wide open space to explore ala Mount and Blade - which I feel fits Mercenaries type MW games very well. Even playing the game with the reworking mods that change up a lot of stuff, adding in new mechs and weapons, it's still just a little bog standard to me due to its foundation - which is to say nothing about what the game would offer without any of the mods. It'd need an obscene amount of modding and dedication to really make the MW5 experience everyone dreamed of, which I suppose isn't impossible given the progress just a year out from release already.
@@mattrocde Personally, I'd love to see some mad genius remake mech 3 in the mech 5 engine.
You've never "beaten" MW4 Mercs until you beat the GRAND championship in a FLEA.
It took me over 100 attempts. But I did it.
Doesn't count unless you do that without any energy weapons
Just did the championship but in a flea?????
be careful he's a hero
Machine guns only?
On "Elite" difficulty?
6:45 You want to know why that pilot was so cool. It's freaking Wash flying the Serenity! A firefly class.
The outtakes of Duncan “Has Been” Fisher are priceless. And this game owns.
one of my great gaming memories is going broke in Mercs 4 and grinding the whole Solaris campaign. It was fantastic. The announcer was perfect.
Hopefully now that Harmony Gold lost their suit against Harebrained Schemes we will get more Battletech content.
I recently got MW4 Mercs working with the Mektek Mod, 4k resolution graphics, and on Windows 10! Love it!!!
im sorry to ask but do you have any leads on gaining the mektek mod? ELoG provides a clancoyote digital download of the base game it looks like but the mod appears to be MIA.
How to get 4K?
Holy cow I had no idea that this was where Duncan Fisher came from. I played all the other Mechwarrior games up to this point but missed this one. I thought Duncan was a BPL thing.
My husband was playing this years ago and got into a rage at one mission. He ejected the disc, snapped it in half, ran out into the garden and ripped all of his clothes off, screaming at the top of his lungs. Our first child was conceived several minutes later against the wooden fence with several neighbours watching and cheering us on. (Some of them even joined in towards the end, guiding him into me when he couldn't see through his tears etc.). Happier times!
Wtf
I can't even process this
Haha. What a story mark!
I remember this slightly differently- it was an online match and the enemy team kept poptarting with assault mech laserboats; just pure cheese on their part. I heard the screaming and frenzied commotion, but by the time we had all showed up (only minutes later like you said) it was all over but the crying. He did go on to later curb stomp that enemy clan in a lone Urbanmech.
Me in game: "Man, the menu theme on loop for the past 50 hours is kind of obnoxious."
Me here: "OH MY GOD HE ADDED THE MENU THEME :D :D :D :D :D :D"
This is what I was waiting for from the very first moment I subscribed. Thank you!
I was doing that playing through BATTLETECH and, while obnoxious, is fitting and it stops me from getting absolutely sick of it.
"We got 'em on radar, Sol. Moving to intercept."
"Oh no!"
"We're---"
"Riiiight..."
MekTek mods gave me hours upon hours of fun in this game.
The MekTek packs are really cool but kind of break the balance of the campaign mode over their knee. You can be stomping around in assaults after only a few missions and then just steam-roll the game from there.
Agreed.
you can choose not to buy/play assaults at all until later
Interesting note about the Eaton campaigns. If you look at the insignias on the mechs of the escorts, you can see the Black Knight Legion on the Chimeras.
This one is what got me hooked on BattleTech period. I remember buying it around 02 or so and I was hooked. It started me down the road of buying the books for the fluff and collecting these "Clix" models that I guess were for tabletop gaming. I never played tabletop but I loved collecting the things.
Yeah, I guess MW5 feels limiting in comparison to this title but hey, between that and BattleTech, I'm just happy the franchise is back. Here's hoping to more titles in the future. I honestly wouldn't sneeze at a remastered version of this game either.
Wouldn't be much of a retrospective, but PLEASE do Mechwarrior 5 Mercenaries!
Am I the only one who would want to see a mechwarrior game set during the Amaris Civil War?
I loved the music in this game, always felt epic playing the Overlord mission with Davion giving his speech, then the metal kicking in. The adrenaline rush was real.
MW5 has none of this. Really kills it for me.
@@dudeis2kool975 yeah
All these years later and i still do MW4Mercs campaigns every once in a while with the Mekpaks. I was very involved online back then. Started off as a Longbow driving fire support specialist then worked my way onto brawling type mechs. Eventually became a devotee of Lights mechs and was a charter member of The Light Brigade,
One piece of advice i'll give to anyone having a go is to is seriously devote yourself to the Solaris games and you can make a whole lot of money to equip your unit with way better mechs than the usual campaign. There's a big difference between fielding a lance of Lights vs a one of Heavy/ Assaults.
PS- Totally agree that Templars are shit. They were a shelf mech online and get damaged and destroyed way too easily in the game.
Also there was one key reason this game was the best battletech ANYTHING, and it's not even duncan fisher (who is a close second)
It's Goblin.
"I NEED A NEW TARGET, NHEYEHEHEYEHEYEHEYEHEYEHEYEYEH."
Now I guess you can do a Mechwarrior Living Legends and Mechwarrior 5 video? :-)
That recon jet was a Firefly. Prove me wrong. O.O
i have such fond memories playing this game and working with the guys at mektek
Ahhh yes, the multiplayer... always a weakness of the mechwarrior franchise. still is.
When all we ever wanted was coop... just the ability to substitute AI lancemates with your friends... :(
Besides that, I still can't tell what my favorite mechwarrior is. They were all different, but legendary games at their time.
Mechwarrior 2 - eye-opener, best atmosphere, soundtrack, mission design, clans, simulation aspect, most memorable.
MW2: Mercs - dark, dirty, more of everything awesome.
Mechwarrior 3 - Saitek FCS, 3D glasses, bushwacker, fishing village, people... imitating the thor from the intro...
Mechwarrior 4 - arcady but well done, graphics, dual LBX Loki...
MW4: Mercs - dynamic campaign, content, maximum most out of everything microprose balls!
Me and my friends loved them all religiously. Whenever a new MW came out, we used to pilgrim 2 hours by train to the next competent import store to grab the totally overpriced UK collectors editions cause those usually came out a few days earlier. MW4 was so expensive I had to share a copy with my best friend (only acceptable with this calibre of friend and holy game lol). In case of MW3, we had already set up a LAN and junk food before the trip and when we returned, everyone installed their copies, got their acne riddled faces curbstomped by the intro mission and then kept bashing each other in multiplayer for the rest of the night, constantly making the most unusual noises a male human in puberty can possibly produce...
I don't care if I sound old or what my friend's parents thought about the squealing, those WERE the golden ages!
Developers of Mechwarrior games, I praise thee for making my childhood gaming experience glorious and leading me out of console peasantry. Forever, Amen.
...poor fishing village people.....
Mechwarrior Living Legends will solve all your multiplayer woes.
Holy shit, are we the same damn person??
Have you heard of Mechwarrior 5 Mercs my guy
MW5 sucks with no multiplayer and available at EGS
here just to relive my childhood, while downloading merc 5.
Playing it now
You can still play MW4:M and mekmatch is back for multiplayer. some play via Gameranger also.
I give MW5 a solid, "It's OK."
Maybe it's just my nostalgia, but I'm really impressed by Mechwarrior 5 and I'm surprised it even got made...
I really like your in-depth analysis and review of MW games, I played them all since I was a kid (my first game was Mercs 2, and went from there), my favourite sim-wise and realistic wise is without a doubt MW3, but for me all of them have their good points, others aren't simply bad, they just feel different, all depending on the perspective of who plays it. :)
I would love to watch your take on Mechwarrior 5: Mercenaries that came out in 2019, since there is a huge time gap since MW4, it would be very cool to watch a in depth review of it, and ya know, you need to complete these series anyways ahahaha!
Great job, love your videos! Keep up the good work!
Hey, I'm only up to to 17:40, but I just heard your skepticism that full-scale Mechwarrior gameplay complete with vehicles, aero, and infantry could ever really pan out - and I have good news!
You should check out the free standalone Mechwarrior Living Legends, which is alive again and under development! Unbelievably, 14v14 Battlefield-style gameplay on huge maps turns out to work pretty darn well, and you can rank up (within the match, there's no persistent ranking) to buy better units. It's a Mechwarrior dream come true. Battle armor are fun and well-balanced, ASFs and VTOLs and tanks are all viable choices, there's artillery and yet Mechs are still king. It's super cool.
This game is just great, badass. Interface, models, animations and effects - everything looks and feels like a good engineering product with perfect optimization. Sitting on a computer gives u a sense of using this robots on a distance, like u are using them remotely. Probably the future weapons or exploration systems will be the same or almost the same or maybe just training programs
Still the best even after playing MW5
Hands down, pal.
I beat the grand championship in the colesium piloting a daishi with to Clan guass cannons and enough ER large lasers to fry a heavy in one shot. 5 minutes before watching this. It's 3 am and I still occasionally grind out the entire campaign on a free day. I love this game
I am quite interested in seeing a MechCommander retrospective video from you, as well as an MW:O review vid. I have to admit, until something better comes out, I am quite the MW:O addict myself.
So many memories with this and Vengeance, as well as the two xbox titles. I can only hope that MW5 is successful enough to receive continued support and eventual expansions or dlcs. I have to go find my discs now.
The devs already said that they aren't gonna do anything to the game after Feb or so
Geltance I was just watching the first circuit podcast, they most likely will be doing dlc and a free update.
@@chimpman3496 woop. :) but I already got tired of the game but might revisit
Geltance i’m just doing a single play through until they add more mission types and a career mode
@@Geltance devs never stated that. Bullock already said the game did well and mentioned that due to Epic, actual numbers can't be stated. MW5 Twitter did mention that DLC is planned but no roadmap has officially been published yet.
Hop... is that you? I feel as if I've entered a parallel universe
25minutes of Roland talking Mech action???
Fuck yes. I speak for all when i say you make some of the best gaming content on UA-cam
You barely speak for yourself.
I understand that MechWarrior 5: Mercenaries, with the DLC, has become a great game finally. In considering making a purchase of that (it's on sale for about 50% off as I write this), I stumbled across your retrospective series. Great content that shows deep knowledge of the subject matter. Hope you'll add the more recent games to this series some day.
Its fun in small bursts but you see all of the tricks up its sleeve really fast, and the random generated environments make it feel sort of shallow. As a sandbox its not bad, dont expect a good narrative though. Has decent mod support on PC as well.
@@ebookjapan8054 I bought it and played it a lot for a while, then fell out of it. The missions and environments all started feeling repetitive pretty quickly. Agreed on the narrative. When I upgrade my PC later this year, I'll probably reinstall it and put some of the more ambitious graphics/terrain mods on.
Get the mod (Yet Another Mech Lab).
You: "If you only play one Mechwarrior game, play Mechwarrior 2."
Me: FILTHY CLANNEEEEEEEEEEEEEER!
*DFA*
I just watched the entire MW Tretrospective series. It helped to inspire me to finally build a retro PC machine. I even ordered Merc's 4 on ebay based on this video.
I was able to find my old Voodoo5 5500, mounted it to an Asus Motherboard with an Intel Pentium 3, and I installed my old Soundblaster Live sound card. I started to install some of them old games that won't work on newer windows OS. I had all of the Mechwarrior 2 disks, but I never played 4 so I am looking forward to that.
I also installed Need For Speed 2se. Mostly because of the good memories, but it's also has a 3DFX exe version :) BTW, the NFS series might be a great retro series.
Thank you for posting this video series. I'm looking forward to playing these classic games with my kids!
Gosh that sounds awesome! If I ever get the time and funds I might build a retro gaming pc!
I think you did the game justice, even thinking it was THE closest game to Battletech. Now I must check MW2 out. Cool videos, keep em' coming!
The voice acting was very memorable in this game. Hell, they even brought back Duncan Fisher in MW5.
Today is the day when MechWarrior 5: Mercenaries is coming :)
shame it was trash
@Невада большевик the simulation is severely dumbed down, theres no radar, bomes dont affect heat, theres only a few miasion types, ai is bad and runs in circles, enemy forces spawn 20ft infront of the objective, player actions dont affect salvage, soundtrack is horrible. Nobody who made mw5 cared. Only nice thing is starmap. It couldve been good but they didnt care.
@Невада большевик the ai is bad cause they dont use cover or hills, rotate torso to avoid damage. Just run in circles. Not even using jumpjets. Ai from stalker, a game made by 2 slavs in pijamas in 2000s was better and far more advanced. The mission scripting is broken and if you snipe an objective or destroy it before you get within 250m of the marker, gg youve softlocked the game. No gauss or missile sniping allowe, not because of gameplay but lazy devs. Simulation wise no radar systems, no temperature affecting heat, no optics, no coolants, no putting heatsinks on legs and standing in water. Also salvage is unrelated to mission so no legging mechs to be able to salvage them or no coring and exploding a mech and it being unsalvagable etc. Its just shallow and poorly thought out. Everything the experience if piloting a mech is ok.
And its so much worse then 4...
mechwarrior 4 + mw5's starmap = best MW game ever
God that was enjoyable! Thanks a lot for this entertaining coverage of one if my all time favorites.
Gotta get some horse armor now..
I still have Mechwarrior 4 and all the expansions in their original boxes. I loved this game back in the day.
Oh there were glooooorious online brawls back around launch and up to like 4 years later. Fafnir was insane along with good old catapult and longbows. Firefly with heat on was one helluva tactic to disable 2-3 of the enemy's advancing mechs and let your boys pound them into scrap.
Firefly was in the game?
Duncan Fisher's voice does some battletech videos to this day.
The Solaris circuits were fantastic. My go-to Solaris weapon was always the Clan LB/20X. Put one on a Kit Fox/Uller for Light, two on a Summoner/Thor for Heavy, and four on an Annihilator for the Assault circuit and championship. I can never remember what I used for the Medium series.
Edit: Oh, man. I actually got to play Mercs 4 multiplayer a few times. It was stupid fun. I even challenged a friend of mine to a duel between two 100-ton assaults with Railguns. He took the Behemoth/Stone Rhino, and I chose the Marauder II.
Back when PC games were still PC games, and games in general weren't focus-grouped to death.
Yep.
Mechwarrior 4:Mercs is my jam!
ESPECIALLY with the EPIC, HUGE (and free, including a legal free copy of MW4:MERCS itself!) mod that adds TONS of weapons and over, what, 30+ additional mechs AND elementals.
Lol, dat Firefly reference.
One of the best summations of THE best (play-wise) MechWarrior game of all-time. (To my mind THE best MW game is #3; the only one which really makes you feel you're driving a walking vehicle.)The original #4 - Vengeance - is a brilliant piece of emotional play which includes what I believe to be the finest opening sequence in video-game history: the destruction of Sigma Lance. The opening of #3 is meh; but the beginning of the campaign is electrifying; an assault in force shredded before it begins by powerful land-based weapons. Against these, the beginning of MW4:Merc is forgettable; but the gameplay is the best of the entire series by far. The 'Mechs are strong and well-balanced; smaller chassis can hit well above their weight if handled right. (I typically take a troop of 3 ballistic Bushwackers into Halloran; pick up the 4th at Industry Raid and hold that force until facing Jade Falcon. With a RAC2, an LBX AC/20 and an LRM15; the low-slung Bushwacker is a hard-hitting and hard to hit menace.)Good job dude - let's see how MW5 stacks up. Based on the videos the graphics are nice but I'm not holding out much hope for the game play. :)
Its a shame how limited MechWarrior 5 mercenaries is when it comes to how many mechs can be in play compared to MechWarrior 4 mercenaries.
still a lot more than the base battletech game on steam
Yeah, true. However since the franchise is back who knows what the future holds? I'm hoping for more MW titles which hopefully will evolve in the right way.
MW5 has more mechs actually. You are accounting for mekpaks in MW4 which were basically mods.
One thing I really love and/or always get a good laugh out of with this game is how a number of the personnel you can hire look like celebrities and/or other famous personalities. For instance, Goof looks like Pierce Brosnan and Goat looks a wee bit like Captain Janeway from Star Trek: Voyager. Oh, and don’t forget Rubius who looks like, if they were to pan down on his portrait, you’d see him wearing some scrubs with the name tag “Turk.”
MW5 Mercs Review when
I maybe 6 years late to the party but, Mech 4 and Mech 4 Mercs had a huge League presence in the forms of SL, VL, and MWL. VL kind of died off with MSN gaming zone becoming super scarce, while a lot of the other leagues lived on but slowly burned out. Believe it or not, many of the people who participated in those leagues carried over their units and groups are still around either playing Mechwarrior: Online or Star Citizen and it truly is a community where everyone pretty much knows everyone.
I can always appreciate a review where the reviewer simply states "big fucking waste of time" thank you for that honesty.
One of the best games I played and to this day still play My old clan has multiple servers up, and weekends get busy with a lot of players.
This game is my childhood. Instead of Mario or Sonic my childhood was spent playing this game every day. Experimenting with every outcome and mech in the game. The only thing I missed during that time was the multiplayer because my original retail copy couldn't connect online and as a kid I didn't know how to download the patch for that. This game made my expectations for games high and I still haven't played a single player game as repayable as this game. I still have the box set and original CD, but I don't use it since I have the latest mechtek pack. I still replay this game every month or so and have done so since 2003.
Drive on!
An all in one download is available at clancoyote.com under the download section. We play through Gameranger and are active in the late afternoon/evenings with players online.
Damn, this needs a remaster. This would make a great game.
Late to the party but thanks for this mech retrospective series,took me back to when nothing but gaming and girls mattered to me 🤟
I feel like MW3 and MW4 are both the best for different reasons. MW3 has better simulatory cockpit control more like you're in a mech, whereas MW4 feels too arcadey. MW4 however has the perfect music, action, and story structure for a MechWarrior game.
I hope one day we can get a hyper-realistic simulation MechWarrior that's very difficult to make being a good pilot something to brag about.
MechWarrior 4 the best game when all the clans and severs were up and the mech load outs were spectacular, legends were made in those days.
MechWarrior: Living Legends is best mech game (mod) ever made ;) Given it is multiplayer and has everythign you wished for in MW4
But yes, for commercial, official release MW4 is a wonder.
not really MW4 is better though MWLL was going to get a campaign if PGI didn't exist
I once took on those two stars with nothing but two lances of Timber Wolves with invincibility off.
I won.
I think I did it in a Hellbringer once, but that was by hiding behind my beefier lance mates like a total scrub.
I faced them off in honorable combat, out in the open, with PPCs flying, and the will and determination that all Wolf warriors have.
#ClanWolfForever
Also, I found out the name of the MFB guy from MechWarrior 3. According to "Trial Under Fire", which is the canonical interpretation of Operation: Damocles and is available for free with the download of MechWarrior 4: Mercenaries, his name is Thomas Sorenson .
Made my day when i saw this video in my feed
Well, at least MechWarrior Living Legends is alive again and you can get your massive battle fixes there. Even has battle armor and vehicles. I've been having great fun with that recently.
Xeno426 yeah mwll is awesome. I just miss actually having lasting Progression and salvage mechanics. Other than that though, mwll blows mwo out of the water
I love this series, but this is my favorite in the series by far.
I've put probably over 200 hours into this game.
2:20 Always called it MechFourrior, myself.
What an informative and thoughtful video man. I guess I'll start on Part 1 now.
You have never made a video about the Clix game. :(
It had its good and bad points.
The number one draw to me was a much faster game play with my friends. Build an army, tactically move them about and roll dice.
House rules and home campaigns gave it more life beyond the core rules, and made it far more enjoyable for me than it likely was for the masses. I miss the old wizkids forums, where we shared such house rules and ideas.
The arena deathmatches had so much personality and operation overlord is the best mission ive played in any MW game. Especially at night. This was hte last MW game I ever played. Over 15 years ago. Im a console player these days, retired PC gamer. I hope MW5 comes to PS4. I like what I see to say the least lol
Waiting for your mechwarrior 5 mercs review!
A great video, I love the laze-fair way of unboxing the discs.
This is probably the PC game I've spent the most time playing, and it IS the only game that's migrated from my first windows tower ,PC, through houses and apartments and relationships come and gone, from PC to PC with the odd year long detour into zIpdrives, progressively larger burned CD storage, and finally a diverse array of progressively more efficient thrumb drives and laptops right up to this very day. The AMAZING and free release of the high quality hundreds of fan made mechs, elementals, aerospace fighters, tanks, etc. Combined with the highly repayable campaigns and the same single player ai skirmish mode that is EASILY the single most mode I played over the years. The lack of clan mechs and the lack of a centered third person view have severely reduced my enjoyment of the latest installment.
For me this was the best video in this series so far. Good work.
I found these videos today by chance, cool to see you JUST released it.
Tabletop Battletech is alive and well. It had it's 35th anniversary last year with new products coming out. So really Battletech didn't go anywere and Mechwarrior: Dark Age/Age of Destruction didn't replace it.
This is still my favorite game of all time.
There was a pretty significant competitive scene in MW4V en MW4M! I distinctly remember the tedious multiplayer lobbies on a website - I don't remember what it's called - Which were mostly used for organizing ranked 1v1's. You also had mechwarriorleagues.com (now defunct, sadly) which had it's own, real Solaris league complete with spectator/commentators and a live radio broadcast. It was awesome back in the day....
The multiplayer community at the time (2002 to 2005-ish) was pretty amazing tbh.
Funny because I’ve been replaying MW4mercs recently and the Templar’s actually grown on me. It’s so much faster and more flexible than the fafnir is, though you get both chassis anyway so you win no matter your preference.
I remember first downloading this off MXC back in the day. Perfect game for a 12 year old to let out some steam and blow shit up. Good memories of headshotting Nondi with the railgun on the Behemoth 2.
The best mechwarrior game is the mechwarrior living legends mod that released on crysis (and is now a free stand alone game) it has mechs, tanks, aerospace and battle armour. Its a bit janky and unrefined but the gameplay is very deep and complex. Has a bit of a learning curve but once you learn it then its pretty fun.
Hey I just wanna say these videos are great, keep them up!
I've got one of those click mechs - it came with my copy of Mech4 Merc. It's a Zeus whose pilot is apparently Nikol Brahe. It has some limited posability - torso and shoulder joints. It is heavily dust encoated.
I have replayed this game extensively but never even knew about the DLC. I shall have to find a pirated version of it.
"no heat no ammo matches" so what, like just slam into each other until you explode?
He is talking about not generating heat or losing ammo.
I know this was made prior to MW5 and BATTLETECH (pc game) and yes, I too consider MW4 a masterpiece but MW5 is just so much more playable with mods. Can't wait for the Clans DLC.
As a kid I loved Mech 3 and as soon as Vengeance came out I begged my mom to get it for me. After a few missions of Vengeance I was severely disappointed (graphics and gameplay) but for some reason 4 Mercs I played probably 5 times over and over that summer break. It added just enough in crucial places to make it much more appealing
Any chance of seeing the Mech Commander series reviewed? They would easily fit into this series. I also get the feeling we're building up to opening a can of hate-orade on MechWarrior: Online (which may have been deserved early on, but the game's matured a great deal).
HOLY SHIT! YES! I'VE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS VIDEO!
Still got my copy from 13 years ago, though I lost the box and then promptly got another boxed copy recently. Love this game.
Beowulf, Claymore, and the pet clanner were my main lance, with Goblin filling in for the early game. MW4 mercs was my first mech game so until I install dosbox it's probably the best. Nostalgia bias, baby.
Holy crap is George LeDoux the cool aerospace pilot as well!?
MWO has had its ups and downs but it is not a bad game, and it is keeping MW alive. And now MW5 is in production as a single player only. I understand why they are not doing a new multiplayer because that would kill MWO but if they added in co-op mp into MW5 that would be awesome and just leave the VS MP in MWO.
They SERIOUSLY should do a tidy remake of this classic gem. Remember playing it on a shitty laptop a very long time ago. It barely run the game at all, but it was such a fun and in depth game. I was a bit overwhelmed really, because I was used to PS1 & PS2 games. And 14:36 FASA Studios? the same ones who did the under appreciated and ahead of its time Shadowrun. Love that game. Shame there was no single player though.
You say MW4 was the death of Mechwarrior. I assume you mean the "official" titles? Because Mechwarrior Living Legends is still alive and well with a thriving, if small, community.
AncientRaig No mod, no matter how good, can really keep a franchise sustained. The diehards will play literally anything, but most gamers will not.
With MWLL especially the cost of entry was way too high. Requiring a copy of Crysis and ALSO a Crisis ready rig, plus as I recall it was never a simple thing to download the "right" version. At least when I first learned of the game yeaaars ago it was hard to find the correct files on any reputable sites.
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Well, MWLL has evolved quite a bit since then. It was revived rather recently by one of the old MWLL clans. They have a website with the download link that includes a free demo copy of Crysis Wars, making it completely free to play. With a bunch of MWO UA-camrs branching out into it, as well as a number of MWO players who are disgusted with MWO and PGI, it's starting to get popular again. It's definitely not pulling in the thousands like MWO, but considering it's only been alive again for a few months it's doing pretty well.
The Examined Life (of Gaming) MWLL has been completely free for a while now since it includes the Crysis Wars demo instead of requiring the full version Crysis like it used to. In fact, with the recent update, now is the perfect time to get into MWLL. I tried it out of curiosity when I was tired of MWO, and I'm very glad I did.
You mean that MWLL is the fall back for whiny ass babies that didn't get their way, so they left. Good fucking riddance.
The mod doesn't need Crysis anymore, you just download the launcher and it sets everything up in one go.
Operation flashpoint? That's a couple times you have mentioned it. Wink wink
It's a shame that some modern computers can't even access the two Steiner path endings because of the Hacker Run crash.
Also, the Clan Coyote link in the description is throwing out a 509 error.
I am trying to install it on an old pc now. Never played this game, but I am excited to play it alongside mw5mercs in a few days and see what has changed and which of the two is more engaging. Let's see if pgi can live up to the legacy.
It seems like what would have saved this series is if they charged WAY more money for the game. I watched Spoony's interview of Richard Garriet and one thing that stood out to me was Spoony asking why Ultima games needed expensive high-end hardware to be played, sometimes so high-end the hardware was not even out yet. Richard responded, _"Well, those are the ones that pay for the Ultima right away anyways."_ (or something like that) I was astounded by the simplicity of that response. And if you looked into how much they charged for the games, especially the early games during the 80s, Ultima was double in price of other games. This makes sense considering the lower sales compared to consoles. Higher quality games should cost more and it makes having a smaller customer base more doable.
Not sure what the price should be but I think MechWarrior/BattleTech fans would pay 200 dollars for a game and more for the separate joysticks and pedals.
I love this game, especially with the MekPaks (some of those 'Mechs are even better than the 'Mechs in the main game). Though, to be honest, the download I have has an irreversibly broken Steiner storyline. Of course, MekTek, like the team that made Living Legends, got screwed by the lawyers despite having been given rights by Microsoft itself to distribute it.
Thank you, Piranha Games. /s
MechWarrior 4: Mercenaries definitely did a lot of things better than its MechWarrior 2 counterpart. However, the lack of alternate missions when you fail was really a deal-breaker for me. Without that, having any sort of economy is sort of pointless, as you will almost always be gaining funds since you are forced to succeed at every mission before moving on. Also, the arenas in Solaris VII were certainly bigger, but I would argue they are rather boring and uninspired. MechWarrior 2's Solaris VII had crazy cool arenas, like "Death or Glory" which featured lasers and strobe lights all over, and Skull Mountain, which had an enormous iron skull to fight in. Just seemed more daring and original than "Jungle with a few hills" and "Big flat coliseum."