Battletech was a huge let down for me, a Battletech fan... Exactly because it was so barebones. Internet sings it's praises, mostly by people repeating same argument over and over: "I waited sooo long for a Battletech game like that!" like it's supposed to cut all the discussion. I played the tabletop, am MW and Battletech veteran, I love me some wargames, and how can anyone consider this **MESS** to be good is beyond me. Battletech (the tabletop) has so much to offer, multiple platforms and hardware of all kinds to make the game amazing... Battletech has mechs, tanks, VTOLS, planes, artilery, infantry, for all sorts of missions. Meanwhile here, you can field just 4 mechs! Just 4 mechs! One lance is it... What tactical depth is there?! And sorry, Roland, but AI is beyond pathetic. That's not a match between chess masters, the AI indeed makes sure to take cover and not overheat, BUT it makes the dumbest mistake in history of Battletech, breaking RULE nr.1 of a battletech game... That rule says "DON'T EVER stretch the FORMATION" In Battletech game, you should always move your lance as a unit, so that all machines start engagements at the same time. If you have a mixed force of light and heavy mechs, the heavies go front, the lights move to flanks, but they keep the line, so that when exchanges happen you don't get picked off one at a time. You want to beat a mission in this game the easy way? Well, unless it's a mission with timed objectives, keep your lance back, scout forth with your light mech and ping the enemy, then run back to your line, and observe how entire enemy force forms a long stretched line, comming at you one at a time, getting pounded to oblivion, falling over due to fire-saturation and getting owned further on. First come either lights or vehicles. Focus Fire = dead. There comes a medium mech, focus fire that dumbass, and erase it from existance... Then comes heaavies and assaults, but at that point they already lost the edge. You don't split the formation for that exact reason, it's the FIRST lesson you learn in a wargame... And this game, a game proudly bearing a Battletech name, doesn't get that right. How can one claim this game offer Tactical Depth is beyond me... What tactical depth is there with just 4 mechs each mission? What tactical depth is there without artillery suport or vehicles employed on your side? What tactical where we cannot deploy things so simple as smoke screens, reconaissance, troops to hold buildings, etc? 4 mechs! That's it... just four pathetic mechs is all we are given, and when you optimize your build, you'll be stuck with pretty much same roster for the rest of the campaign. MegaMek Against-the-Bot has better campaign variety. The story itself is so heavily railroading players in a preset outcome, it's ridiculous! Firstly, it's not our story, and before some spastic cames out to say 'Well obviously, you're a merc, the story doesn't have to revolve around you' - let me redirect you to other Mechwarrior games. Or Arma, or whatever. Sure we are a little guy in a grand story, but in MW4:M, despite galactic politics taking their own course, we are are the main focus, our team takes contracts and decides where we go. In Arma series, the war goes it's own course, but we get to interract with civilians, meet characters in game, help them out, etc. we have the choice on our own level. This game presents you with the ENDING in the friggin INTRO?! We have no say in how the story develops, in fact even having the audacity to suggest something (In good faith) to the main character, we are being attacked and scoffed at. We are an NPC in someone else's story... why even have a pretense of mercenary company where we don't get to choose the employer? (aside from shitty repetitive generated missions that is). In character generation we pick our origin, where we came from, an obvious nod to the fact people have their preferences and beloved factions in the universe. How does that translate into gameplay? It just gives you a starting mech and a stat... that's it. I'm playing as a Davion loyalist, or at least I thought I was, untill the game forced in my character's mouth a line saying that he just came from Federated Suns, has no memory or loyalty towards place of his origin and that literaly comes nowhere into play. And there was so much opportunity! I mean imagine a dilema at some point where you have to overcome a particularly hard mission, if you were of a shady background, let's say you get an option to contact smugglers who deliver a bunch of small vehicles on the planet behind the enemy lines... or use a contact in Liao spy network to get intel or deactivate static defences for few rounds... or as a noble, you can hail a friendly merc corp and invoke an old deed they owe your family... whatevs, seriously so many aspects could have been vital to this game... this whole time I've been thinking why we don't drop the damn pretense and play as Kamea Arano in the first place, like we played with Drussari in MW4? Oh right, because the whole marketing for this claimed what an awesome classic merc adventure it would be in huge open world of Inner Sphere during a succession war, but instead we got a railroading story in a made up backwater zone of the space. They had a massive kickstarter campaign. I also backed the kickstarter expecting much. They exchanged designes and models with MWO team and everything seemed to be amazing! But then, the same people, mind you, opened the YT channel called HyperRPG (yes, Harebrained studios) where they ran a tabletop RPG with almost exactly same story we later seen in the video game, it's called Death From Above. And I wondered why the game is so lacking in features, meanwhile people responsible for it burned the budget on a UA-cam pop culture media channel the likes of which Nerd Crew makes fun of, yet no BT fanboy ever brought it up. They had budget, assets and models from MechWarrior Online, and that's it?
Yuri PRIME this reminds me of what happens with things like the shadowrun returns and its sequels. They don’t have as much of the crazy shit you’re going to see In the actual game.
Meanwhile I still haven't gotten around to Brigador from however many videos ago. Goddamn, Dusk looks right up my ally, and you put beautifully into words why Strafe (while not bad) didn't click with me. In-fact, that's really this channel. Efficient, effective, and entertaining. Looking forward to whatever's next. May you have a great 2019!
Battletech doesn't suck but I never once landed a shot with an auto-cannon, even with skilled pilots and a 95 percent to-hit. I don't trust a tactics game that's even worse at math than I am.
I hit maxed ac shots all the time. But they do seem to miss a lot. You want terrible hit chances add the rogue tech mod. I will say now that I've seen the video all the way through I have had smaller Mechs retreat after I fuck them up many many times. Then again I'm on week 6000 with over 150 Mechs so I've seen just about every ai behavior out there. You seem very discerning in your preferences and I'm not trying to tell you your wrong. Many of your points were valid. I just wanted to share some of my experiences.
It's because of how they implemented dice rolling. Each time you miss, the game starts to weight the dice in your favor. Sine ACs tend to be the biggest weapon, it fires first and gets no weighting, so purely random. The follow up shots go down the weapon tree, to the smaller weapons, which then get weighted. Yay, ML spam is even better. :/
@@coldwave007 most of my heaviest assault build builds are king crabs with Max jj Max medium lasers and lrm45 or massage srm6+++. The latter can core anything under 80 tons in one a alpha strike
I agree that the playing narrative in this game is not great. However, it is getting better. And I found it helps to name your mechwarriors yourself. But that was the most disappointing thing for me in battletech (i love rpgs). What you say about AI is true.
What if in Battletech *both the enemy and your own team* can eject from a heavily damaged 'Mech or flee from a bad situation? In the game there can be a separate stat called "Loyalty" and it determines a pilot's limit. Loyalty would increase as you do more missions with your squadmates but you can lose loyalty if you are in too many dangerous missions. With a proper loyalty system pirates should be easy prey (well, *easier* prey.)
My subjective problem with permadeath in games like XCOM is that it often depends on factors outside of your control. Like in Enemy Unknown: a soldier dies, another goes crazy and shoots a third one, then jumps into the jaws of an alien. To me that's less having to deal with the consequences of your mistakes and more the game going "fuck you lol, now deal with it".
its always nice to see a different approach of reviewing the year. I got really tired of seeing God of war, Spiderman and Red dead everywhere, though I personally loved god of war. This year I will be probably getting dead cells, frostpunk and kingdom come, because I am missing out on some great games.
Kingdom come is so good, I beat it, found out Hardcore mode was a thing now, and am now playing again as an out of shape, on the spectrum, sleepwalker, with a botomless stomach
Great video. I think Battletech would have been better if you had some infantry and vehicles other than mechs in that game. Make it feel more like a living world. Maybe civilian buildings and units as well.
I do understand your annoyance with Battletech and all points are valid, but some of the good stuff they've done is amazing, such as how customization works for mechs, its a brilliant mix of classic tabletop and hardpoint system with some slight sugar in the form of modules that increase melee damage or make it so you can tank an AC round to the face.
Design/Technology/Art is a pretty good wheel theory for game programming. I tend to favor design over either by a pretty big margin, though good design/technology can be an art in itself. My favorite games tend to innovate or refine from a design aspect, but the very best games usually have art incorporated in some significant way I'm probably not acknowledging
The only award show I give a rat's ass about and the only one I always look forward to. If I could give you 5 stars I would but you're going to have to settle for one of those detached hands with an extended thumb pointing straight up. Hopefully this year will have more fun stuff to play than the last.
Sees notification. Elog's Best and Worst. *grabs popcorn* Look on the side bar, sees "The Rise and Fall of Operation Flashpoint", well this is a very good day indeed.
BattleTech is what got me interested in the entire franchise. So, credit where it's due, it is a good entry-level game. That said, it does lack longevity at the moment; though that may change with DLC's (which I wouldn't gamble on). And, yes, it is due to the lack of AI prerogatives outside of "kill player under all circumstances", as well as the CONSISTENT dropping of reinforcement waves in each mission!!!
I just realized why Battletech seems so lukewarm. I want to directly control mechs instead of ordering them around from Gods view. Weighty feel of robot stomping around and its inertia are some of the most alluring aspects of good mecha game, otherwise your game is just a reskin of TPS/FPS. Also what's the game at 16:03?
I'm really not a fan of Survival type games but everyone had been telling me that Subnautica is different and you will like it. While I do find the game the best out of every Survival game, honestly the game still didnt grab me, I'm gladKinu really love the game, I just wish I could. Kingdom Come is fantastic. Wish I could have played it more.
I agree on Subnautica, it just didn't seem too interesting to me. I love Kingdom Come. I think it's the best game I've ever played, or one of, at least.
I know that getting ready to fight skynet is very time consuming but you can take a break every once and a while and upload something, we missed you mr connor
100% right about Battletech and Xcom. I hate when I lose an xcom soldier because of how invested I get in them the longer I have them. After so many missions I customize them and make them a unique person. So when they die I dont only lose one of my best soldiers i lose someone I got invested in. In Xcom 2 with bonds and everything its even more devastating. In Battletech I lose someone and I reload because the game is set up in a way where losing them means I lose my infinitely more valuable mech they were piloting. Which of course cripples my game and cause me to slog through until I get a proper replacement. I dont care if one of the dumb random events makes one my mechwarriors leave me for another company. Its annoying, but at least they dont take my precious money or gear.
You were referenced by another UA-camr, glad I checked out your channel, you're very well spoken, and have a interesting and informative way of talking about things, you've definitely earned my sub! Maybe add more of a variety of footage, make your vids more concise and maybe swear a little less and you'll be yuge! lol
Yeah, Kingdom Come was great. Never played another game that made me feel like a dirty peasant. It's buggy (and still buggy) though, and it takes a beast of a computer to run it because the optimizations are so-so (kind of reminds me of Stalker in that way), but I think it'll age quite well.
Finished mechwarrior 4 mercenaries last week, just got mechwarrior 2 in a playable state today, and now you tell me there’s MORE games I need to check out? :/
Its a shame Jagged Alliance is a bunch of crappy spin-offs nowadays and X-com is now a generic mediocre strategy game with all the depth replaced with more dice rolls.
This one was really entertaining although you talked about only a few games unlike previous years. I kinda get what you were talking about regarding losing your teams in strategy games being fun because it presents a new challenge but I can't help but save scum. I just don't wanna lose anyone if I can help it. Regardless, it's good to watch your outlook once again. You are one of the few gaming channels whose opinions I really pay attention to. I hope to comment in your video for 2019 as well. Cheers!
I pumped 50 plus hours into battletech before I even marginally got good, before I got any mechs that felt good, And before I even started having genuine fun, Honestly with a fun curve THAT fucking heavy ive picked it up and put it down several times, something I dont do with games often, Like I am bitter towards a game that I want to like, but between the by the numbers story and the unrealistic AI, Coupled with using the same mechs over and over..I'm bored. I can't even have different colors for my individual mechs, and for a game that has lancemates so fucking similar to one another (besides their preferred fucking pronouns, because when I think of apocalyptic tier warfare I think FUCKING GENDERFLUID) that I genuinely can only tell who's who, by what fucking gun they carry , the mech selection is so samey it fucking hurts. And the gameplay os fun, I just wish there was more of a reason for me to play it. There is never a reason to fall back and leave a mission, because you'll lose money, Save scumming is ALWAYS the right choice (barring the one and only time I had a pilot get fucking one shot from across the map, And she ended up having the weakest kill history so I let it happen) and really the only thing you end up risking in the end is repair costs, because who's gonna lose a heavy mech and just eat the loss? Oh thats right, fucking nobody because the alternative is to use a shitty mech instead, OR fucking grind for HOURS like its a god damned MMO. No thanks.
To me Battletech is to XCOM Enemy Unknown what its sequel hopefully is to XCOM 2. Enemy Unknown was a perfectly fine game but XCOM 2 just blows it out of the water with about two dozen changes spread across the different arenas of play. Like, in EU you were just killing aliens evrry mission. That was the goal and everything that came at the end of the mission like new research options was a side effect. XCOM 2 allowed you to be proactive in what your broad campaigns goals were. I hope the Battletech sequel does the same. Like, imagine if you could actually trick out your favourite mech with Ferro Fibrous armour but you needed to jump through some specific hoops to get it done instead of just getting one upgrade to fall into your lap or paying for it. Or what if your ship upgrades required you to hunt down parts in various regions instead of just going full C-Bills on a few missions. In XCOM EU/EW there weren't really any goals you could specifically set, you were just snowballing and Battletech is the same.
On the subject of sleeping in TES games, you absolutely nailed it! Oblivion had just the right feeling to it...man, but those stupid Skyrim-centric elder scrolls fanboys...they disliked that amazing "3 reasons I don't like skyrim" video of yours like crazy and that drives me absolutely insane! Thing is, I play skyrim while understanding its god damn context and wholistic context of TES as a franchise. Every game puts SOMETHING to the table and neither one is perfect. Arena - best antagonist; Daggerfall - true old school rpg/dungeon crawler; Morrowind - most complete TES experience with unconventional World; Oblivion - balance of gameplay, rpg elements and amazing world design with outstanding side quests; TES Adventures: Redguard - the best story of all TES games by far; and Skyrim - FEEDBACK (you feel the effects of fireballs that you cast and damage your weapons do), action/power fantasy concept with a blooming modding community. The only reason that I still occasionally play heavily modded skyrim is because I'm so much into elde scrolls LORE and mythos. The Lore itself is so fucking genius that there's so much materiel for immersion and imagination. Other than that, Skyrim is the weakest game in the whole franchise and that's what those fanboy children don't understand...
I guess I'll have to try your number one recommendation. Honestly not many games have piqued my interest for the last 5 years. Makes me sad. Nice garand btw. When you gonna upgrade to the scar?
Yea heres the thing though: Skyrim was made in 2011 and before. The game doesnt suck at all lmfao it revolutionized elements of gaming. Sure it was a hack n slash, but the base game can always get changed with mods. Even the base game, which was most the Skyrim I played, on Xbox, is amazingly fun. It looked and felt 100x better than oblivion gameplay wise. Sure, the base game hasn't aged well, with especially way too many scripted events getting boring after a few hours. But it has such a charm, atmosphere, and style of play that is simply unmatched in most games. Plus the DLC, especially Dragonborn, was awesome.
Battletech feels like a bare bone but good start to something that could be great. It reminds me of Mech4. With mech4 you had an okay game but nothing great. Blackknight you had more of the same and noting much. Then you get mech4 mercs. Then shit got real. I think the battletech game is at the mech stage. The expansion that's come out feels like a black knight thing. more of the same with something else. I'm waiting for something big to happen.
Battletech - meh, I was more excited about re-release of Metal Fatigue on GOG than this. And yeah, RDR2 was so overrated it wasn't even funny. I was playing RDR1 GotY for warmup before sequel got released, then played some RDR2 for like 10-15h and... come back to RDR1. That sequel sounds great on paper but it's boring. And I'm not some kind of goldfish with short attention span with ADHD or else. No memorable characters (they couldn't beat gravedigger from RDR1), no memorable missions, forgettable camp-filler sections...
Damn man sounds like you completely missed the point of the game. It was everything a RDR1 fan wanted AND more it was the perfect sequel. If anything it was too casualised in parts and needed more immersion and survival features. Overall amazing story and game tho.
@@tastycookiechip it wouldn't be bad if, for example, missions were good. But they weren't. For such expensive developement they make basic mission that give little to no freedom and have nothing interesting or memorable.
I dont know why subnatica was the best game of 2018... it really wasnt.... FIRST LET ME EXPLAIN.... there were glaring inconsistencies with the game about firearms and other offensive tools.... i made a shitty video about it... but in the comments i explain it way better about... how just because of the massacre on Obraxis prime doesn't mean that there woundnt have been a security station on the aurora
I'm not sure why you liked the story of Subnautica or why you wanted to leave at the end. Your PDA tells you at the start of the game that the resources you're using to build cost so much money that if you survive you're going to be made a slave for the rest of your life because you'll never pay it off. And all the PDAs you find in the game paint a picture of a society so far up its own ass with political correctness that every conversation is 90% ass-kissing and apologizing to each other, and yet people are still greedy, racist, and entirely self-centered trash people. Why would your character want to go back to that?
what are you talking about battletech was great, It incorporated many features that where intermittently present throughout the franchise. and your lancemates do matter, they often drive dialogue driven events and can even unlock some nice perks, some of the people you can recrute are only found in special events. I mean yea its limited and would have been better if you could command more than 4 mechs, but it surly wasn't the worst game of the year by far. Leave that to the trashy like of EA and activision
@@TheExaminedLifeofGaming yea well that's how I feel a bit about MW5 its basically a single player asset flip from mwo, and not what the commercial a few years back conveyed
Battletech was a huge let down for me, a Battletech fan... Exactly because it was so barebones. Internet sings it's praises, mostly by people repeating same argument over and over: "I waited sooo long for a Battletech game like that!" like it's supposed to cut all the discussion. I played the tabletop, am MW and Battletech veteran, I love me some wargames, and how can anyone consider this **MESS** to be good is beyond me.
Battletech (the tabletop) has so much to offer, multiple platforms and hardware of all kinds to make the game amazing... Battletech has mechs, tanks, VTOLS, planes, artilery, infantry, for all sorts of missions. Meanwhile here, you can field just 4 mechs! Just 4 mechs! One lance is it... What tactical depth is there?!
And sorry, Roland, but AI is beyond pathetic. That's not a match between chess masters, the AI indeed makes sure to take cover and not overheat, BUT it makes the dumbest mistake in history of Battletech, breaking RULE nr.1 of a battletech game... That rule says "DON'T EVER stretch the FORMATION"
In Battletech game, you should always move your lance as a unit, so that all machines start engagements at the same time. If you have a mixed force of light and heavy mechs, the heavies go front, the lights move to flanks, but they keep the line, so that when exchanges happen you don't get picked off one at a time.
You want to beat a mission in this game the easy way? Well, unless it's a mission with timed objectives, keep your lance back, scout forth with your light mech and ping the enemy, then run back to your line, and observe how entire enemy force forms a long stretched line, comming at you one at a time, getting pounded to oblivion, falling over due to fire-saturation and getting owned further on. First come either lights or vehicles. Focus Fire = dead. There comes a medium mech, focus fire that dumbass, and erase it from existance... Then comes heaavies and assaults, but at that point they already lost the edge. You don't split the formation for that exact reason, it's the FIRST lesson you learn in a wargame... And this game, a game proudly bearing a Battletech name, doesn't get that right.
How can one claim this game offer Tactical Depth is beyond me... What tactical depth is there with just 4 mechs each mission? What tactical depth is there without artillery suport or vehicles employed on your side? What tactical where we cannot deploy things so simple as smoke screens, reconaissance, troops to hold buildings, etc? 4 mechs! That's it... just four pathetic mechs is all we are given, and when you optimize your build, you'll be stuck with pretty much same roster for the rest of the campaign. MegaMek Against-the-Bot has better campaign variety.
The story itself is so heavily railroading players in a preset outcome, it's ridiculous! Firstly, it's not our story, and before some spastic cames out to say 'Well obviously, you're a merc, the story doesn't have to revolve around you' - let me redirect you to other Mechwarrior games. Or Arma, or whatever. Sure we are a little guy in a grand story, but in MW4:M, despite galactic politics taking their own course, we are are the main focus, our team takes contracts and decides where we go. In Arma series, the war goes it's own course, but we get to interract with civilians, meet characters in game, help them out, etc. we have the choice on our own level. This game presents you with the ENDING in the friggin INTRO?! We have no say in how the story develops, in fact even having the audacity to suggest something (In good faith) to the main character, we are being attacked and scoffed at. We are an NPC in someone else's story... why even have a pretense of mercenary company where we don't get to choose the employer? (aside from shitty repetitive generated missions that is). In character generation we pick our origin, where we came from, an obvious nod to the fact people have their preferences and beloved factions in the universe. How does that translate into gameplay? It just gives you a starting mech and a stat... that's it. I'm playing as a Davion loyalist, or at least I thought I was, untill the game forced in my character's mouth a line saying that he just came from Federated Suns, has no memory or loyalty towards place of his origin and that literaly comes nowhere into play. And there was so much opportunity! I mean imagine a dilema at some point where you have to overcome a particularly hard mission, if you were of a shady background, let's say you get an option to contact smugglers who deliver a bunch of small vehicles on the planet behind the enemy lines... or use a contact in Liao spy network to get intel or deactivate static defences for few rounds... or as a noble, you can hail a friendly merc corp and invoke an old deed they owe your family... whatevs, seriously so many aspects could have been vital to this game... this whole time I've been thinking why we don't drop the damn pretense and play as Kamea Arano in the first place, like we played with Drussari in MW4? Oh right, because the whole marketing for this claimed what an awesome classic merc adventure it would be in huge open world of Inner Sphere during a succession war, but instead we got a railroading story in a made up backwater zone of the space.
They had a massive kickstarter campaign. I also backed the kickstarter expecting much. They exchanged designes and models with MWO team and everything seemed to be amazing! But then, the same people, mind you, opened the YT channel called HyperRPG (yes, Harebrained studios) where they ran a tabletop RPG with almost exactly same story we later seen in the video game, it's called Death From Above. And I wondered why the game is so lacking in features, meanwhile people responsible for it burned the budget on a UA-cam pop culture media channel the likes of which Nerd Crew makes fun of, yet no BT fanboy ever brought it up. They had budget, assets and models from MechWarrior Online, and that's it?
I didn't follow HBS closely enough to even know that this happened. lolwut-tf
Why even bother with Battletech if there's Into the Breach, a much better tactical game about giant robots?
@@boltdm8238 why not have both
Yuri PRIME this reminds me of what happens with things like the shadowrun returns and its sequels. They don’t have as much of the crazy shit you’re going to see In the actual game.
You should try out rogue tech. Much more depth and options
Meanwhile I still haven't gotten around to Brigador from however many videos ago. Goddamn, Dusk looks right up my ally, and you put beautifully into words why Strafe (while not bad) didn't click with me. In-fact, that's really this channel. Efficient, effective, and entertaining. Looking forward to whatever's next.
May you have a great 2019!
Subnautica was so fucking good. Never have I played a game that's both so relaxing and also pants shittingly terrifying.
Alright, that's enough content for 2019, back to marathon lore theories
Battletech doesn't suck but I never once landed a shot with an auto-cannon, even with skilled pilots and a 95 percent to-hit. I don't trust a tactics game that's even worse at math than I am.
I hit maxed ac shots all the time. But they do seem to miss a lot. You want terrible hit chances add the rogue tech mod. I will say now that I've seen the video all the way through I have had smaller Mechs retreat after I fuck them up many many times. Then again I'm on week 6000 with over 150 Mechs so I've seen just about every ai behavior out there. You seem very discerning in your preferences and I'm not trying to tell you your wrong. Many of your points were valid. I just wanted to share some of my experiences.
It's because of how they implemented dice rolling. Each time you miss, the game starts to weight the dice in your favor. Sine ACs tend to be the biggest weapon, it fires first and gets no weighting, so purely random. The follow up shots go down the weapon tree, to the smaller weapons, which then get weighted. Yay, ML spam is even better. :/
@@coldwave007 most of my heaviest assault build builds are king crabs with Max jj Max medium lasers and lrm45 or massage srm6+++. The latter can core anything under 80 tons in one a alpha strike
I agree that the playing narrative in this game is not great. However, it is getting better. And I found it helps to name your mechwarriors yourself. But that was the most disappointing thing for me in battletech (i love rpgs). What you say about AI is true.
Try the roguetech mod for battletech it addresses many of the issues with the game
you hit the nail on the head about kingdom come so I'm glad I let you out of your cage for this video
Could you loosen my ground harness just a bit?
@@TheExaminedLifeofGaming
But won't you fall into the sun, though?
@@dannylamb456 Sweet release...
What if in Battletech *both the enemy and your own team* can eject from a heavily damaged 'Mech or flee from a bad situation? In the game there can be a separate stat called "Loyalty" and it determines a pilot's limit. Loyalty would increase as you do more missions with your squadmates but you can lose loyalty if you are in too many dangerous missions.
With a proper loyalty system pirates should be easy prey (well, *easier* prey.)
Small team? Dusk is literally just David Syzmanski with Hulshult doing the music. The 3 guys working on Duskworld don't count.
Next review daikatana confirmed, its happening guys!
The turn based Battle Tech game seems like it should be a cautionary tale in "faithful" adaptations.
Orion The problem is, it isn’t faithful.
I forgot Kingdom Come Deliverance came out in 2018.
Most people did, which is why it's notably absent from most people's lists.
My subjective problem with permadeath in games like XCOM is that it often depends on factors outside of your control. Like in Enemy Unknown: a soldier dies, another goes crazy and shoots a third one, then jumps into the jaws of an alien. To me that's less having to deal with the consequences of your mistakes and more the game going "fuck you lol, now deal with it".
Yeah I often get an antagonistic vibe from those games. Like they don't care if anybody even gets to the endgame content.
@@TheExaminedLifeofGaming By the way is the discord for patrons only or can the unpaying misers get an invite link too?
@@Ghost_Of_SAS Invite in the video description or channel description. Lemme know if the link is dead.
@@TheExaminedLifeofGaming it works, I'm in. I'm the DeLisle carbine guy.
@@Ghost_Of_SAS D'oh
its always nice to see a different approach of reviewing the year. I got really tired of seeing God of war, Spiderman and Red dead everywhere, though I personally loved god of war. This year I will be probably getting dead cells, frostpunk and kingdom come, because I am missing out on some great games.
Well to be fair Red Dead 2 was easily the best game of 2018 and even the entire 8th generation of gaming
Few channels on UA-cam have content to offer that makes me happy and want to wait for new one. This is definitely one of those. Great video indeed!
Oh hey, how you doin-
Oh video's over, well, see ya in 2020!
Kingdom come is so good, I beat it, found out Hardcore mode was a thing now, and am now playing again as an out of shape, on the spectrum, sleepwalker, with a botomless stomach
Great video. I think Battletech would have been better if you had some infantry and vehicles other than mechs in that game. Make it feel more like a living world. Maybe civilian buildings and units as well.
I do understand your annoyance with Battletech and all points are valid, but some of the good stuff they've done is amazing, such as how customization works for mechs, its a brilliant mix of classic tabletop and hardpoint system with some slight sugar in the form of modules that increase melee damage or make it so you can tank an AC round to the face.
Design/Technology/Art is a pretty good wheel theory for game programming. I tend to favor design over either by a pretty big margin, though good design/technology can be an art in itself. My favorite games tend to innovate or refine from a design aspect, but the very best games usually have art incorporated in some significant way I'm probably not acknowledging
"I just want to come up with a way to compare subnautica to battletech"
MW5: *nervously looks at random map generator*
Psy Ops was my 2018 game of the year.
Game of the year every year.
@@TheExaminedLifeofGaming You're goddamn right it is.
The only award show I give a rat's ass about and the only one I always look forward to. If I could give you 5 stars I would but you're going to have to settle for one of those detached hands with an extended thumb pointing straight up. Hopefully this year will have more fun stuff to play than the last.
As someone who has seen over 42 films I will have to give this Subnautica a try
"Subnautica is everything No Man's Sky should've been."
Truer words have never been spoken.
See you again in 6 months
"Hey it's 2a... need to go to bed. *Roland uploaded a video* Yeah never mind..gotta watch it now"
Sees notification.
Elog's Best and Worst.
*grabs popcorn*
Look on the side bar, sees "The Rise and Fall of Operation Flashpoint", well this is a very good day indeed.
BattleTech is what got me interested in the entire franchise. So, credit where it's due, it is a good entry-level game. That said, it does lack longevity at the moment; though that may change with DLC's (which I wouldn't gamble on). And, yes, it is due to the lack of AI prerogatives outside of "kill player under all circumstances", as well as the CONSISTENT dropping of reinforcement waves in each mission!!!
Great video, glad to see you’re back.
I just realized why Battletech seems so lukewarm. I want to directly control mechs instead of ordering them around from Gods view. Weighty feel of robot stomping around and its inertia are some of the most alluring aspects of good mecha game, otherwise your game is just a reskin of TPS/FPS.
Also what's the game at 16:03?
looks like bomber crew
I'm really not a fan of Survival type games but everyone had been telling me that Subnautica is different and you will like it. While I do find the game the best out of every Survival game, honestly the game still didnt grab me, I'm gladKinu really love the game, I just wish I could.
Kingdom Come is fantastic. Wish I could have played it more.
I agree on Subnautica, it just didn't seem too interesting to me. I love Kingdom Come. I think it's the best game I've ever played, or one of, at least.
I know that getting ready to fight skynet is very time consuming
but you can take a break every once and a while and upload something, we missed you mr connor
100% right about Battletech and Xcom. I hate when I lose an xcom soldier because of how invested I get in them the longer I have them. After so many missions I customize them and make them a unique person. So when they die I dont only lose one of my best soldiers i lose someone I got invested in. In Xcom 2 with bonds and everything its even more devastating. In Battletech I lose someone and I reload because the game is set up in a way where losing them means I lose my infinitely more valuable mech they were piloting. Which of course cripples my game and cause me to slog through until I get a proper replacement. I dont care if one of the dumb random events makes one my mechwarriors leave me for another company. Its annoying, but at least they dont take my precious money or gear.
Man I love Oblivion I think it's the best Elder Scrolls game
still waiting for that MWO video
I missed you LifeDaddy
You were referenced by another UA-camr, glad I checked out your channel, you're very well spoken, and have a interesting and informative way of talking about things, you've definitely earned my sub! Maybe add more of a variety of footage, make your vids more concise and maybe swear a little less and you'll be yuge! lol
Fuck that shit
Great video, enjoyed it heaps :D Added Subnautica to my wishlist!
Yeah, Kingdom Come was great. Never played another game that made me feel like a dirty peasant. It's buggy (and still buggy) though, and it takes a beast of a computer to run it because the optimizations are so-so (kind of reminds me of Stalker in that way), but I think it'll age quite well.
Can't wait for DOOM: Eternal
new vid woot! great stuff bro
My personal GOTY for 2018 is Serious Sam: TFE
Finished mechwarrior 4 mercenaries last week, just got mechwarrior 2 in a playable state today, and now you tell me there’s MORE games I need to check out? :/
Criminally under subscribed channel, great reviews and commentary, mate.
I hope you'll continue making these each year. Your tastes are interesting so you cover more niche/unexpected things.
Still kinda shaken up about the y axis thing tbh
Every game in this video was played using Invert Y.
I also use Invert Y to control my human body.
No Fear? Thats weird. Also thanks for playing dusk!!!! I loved that game, hope you could review something about warhammer 40k
Lets Just settle with the halo retrospective.
Its a shame Jagged Alliance is a bunch of crappy spin-offs nowadays and X-com is now a generic mediocre strategy game with all the depth replaced with more dice rolls.
#MechCommander3?
It's funny how JA2 sequels were all terrible yet games inspired by them were better. Pity Apeiron went out of business...
Interesting to see if you changed your mind on Battletech. I just started playing it and I'm loving it so far. Much like Mechwarrior 1 I feel.
This one was really entertaining although you talked about only a few games unlike previous years. I kinda get what you were talking about regarding losing your teams in strategy games being fun because it presents a new challenge but I can't help but save scum. I just don't wanna lose anyone if I can help it.
Regardless, it's good to watch your outlook once again. You are one of the few gaming channels whose opinions I really pay attention to. I hope to comment in your video for 2019 as well. Cheers!
I pumped 50 plus hours into battletech before I even marginally got good, before I got any mechs that felt good, And before I even started having genuine fun, Honestly with a fun curve THAT fucking heavy ive picked it up and put it down several times, something I dont do with games often, Like I am bitter towards a game that I want to like, but between the by the numbers story and the unrealistic AI, Coupled with using the same mechs over and over..I'm bored. I can't even have different colors for my individual mechs, and for a game that has lancemates so fucking similar to one another (besides their preferred fucking pronouns, because when I think of apocalyptic tier warfare I think FUCKING GENDERFLUID) that I genuinely can only tell who's who, by what fucking gun they carry , the mech selection is so samey it fucking hurts. And the gameplay os fun, I just wish there was more of a reason for me to play it.
There is never a reason to fall back and leave a mission, because you'll lose money, Save scumming is ALWAYS the right choice (barring the one and only time I had a pilot get fucking one shot from across the map, And she ended up having the weakest kill history so I let it happen) and really the only thing you end up risking in the end is repair costs, because who's gonna lose a heavy mech and just eat the loss? Oh thats right, fucking nobody because the alternative is to use a shitty mech instead, OR fucking grind for HOURS like its a god damned MMO.
No thanks.
I just lost one of my best lancemates. They/Their didn’t see it coming.
been watching your videos for more than half a decade. Fucking love it. Keep it up as always!!!
He’s really back
These are always worth the wait.
I love your channel so much
Very good points on AI strategy. Insightful
I think Hell Daggers mimicked the polygon wiggling as well
Serious Sam is my game of the century.
This video built my wishlist.
I asked about this on stream and I finally got it. I wonder wants going to win the Bethesda award?
I rang that bell for you baby boy
To me Battletech is to XCOM Enemy Unknown what its sequel hopefully is to XCOM 2. Enemy Unknown was a perfectly fine game but XCOM 2 just blows it out of the water with about two dozen changes spread across the different arenas of play. Like, in EU you were just killing aliens evrry mission. That was the goal and everything that came at the end of the mission like new research options was a side effect. XCOM 2 allowed you to be proactive in what your broad campaigns goals were. I hope the Battletech sequel does the same. Like, imagine if you could actually trick out your favourite mech with Ferro Fibrous armour but you needed to jump through some specific hoops to get it done instead of just getting one upgrade to fall into your lap or paying for it. Or what if your ship upgrades required you to hunt down parts in various regions instead of just going full C-Bills on a few missions. In XCOM EU/EW there weren't really any goals you could specifically set, you were just snowballing and Battletech is the same.
only vidjya gaems oscars that matters.
Underrated man
do you have another channel about you shooting guns?
Yep
On the subject of sleeping in TES games, you absolutely nailed it! Oblivion had just the right feeling to it...man, but those stupid Skyrim-centric elder scrolls fanboys...they disliked that amazing "3 reasons I don't like skyrim" video of yours like crazy and that drives me absolutely insane! Thing is, I play skyrim while understanding its god damn context and wholistic context of TES as a franchise. Every game puts SOMETHING to the table and neither one is perfect. Arena - best antagonist; Daggerfall - true old school rpg/dungeon crawler; Morrowind - most complete TES experience with unconventional World; Oblivion - balance of gameplay, rpg elements and amazing world design with outstanding side quests; TES Adventures: Redguard - the best story of all TES games by far; and Skyrim - FEEDBACK (you feel the effects of fireballs that you cast and damage your weapons do), action/power fantasy concept with a blooming modding community. The only reason that I still occasionally play heavily modded skyrim is because I'm so much into elde scrolls LORE and mythos. The Lore itself is so fucking genius that there's so much materiel for immersion and imagination. Other than that, Skyrim is the weakest game in the whole franchise and that's what those fanboy children don't understand...
Of course I said fuck it when Epic Gaveaway Subnautica for free. Nothing free except for crabs is ever a bad thing. Now I feel like a dumdum.
The HBS BT game is a vague invocation of the tabletop game. Nowhere near as in depth or with its features.
I guess I'll have to try your number one recommendation. Honestly not many games have piqued my interest for the last 5 years. Makes me sad. Nice garand btw. When you gonna upgrade to the scar?
when 3 grand lol
@@oso1165 worth every penny
if you can get your hands on the euro only Hitman clone Chameleon I'd love for you to review it.
Yea heres the thing though: Skyrim was made in 2011 and before. The game doesnt suck at all lmfao it revolutionized elements of gaming. Sure it was a hack n slash, but the base game can always get changed with mods. Even the base game, which was most the Skyrim I played, on Xbox, is amazingly fun. It looked and felt 100x better than oblivion gameplay wise. Sure, the base game hasn't aged well, with especially way too many scripted events getting boring after a few hours. But it has such a charm, atmosphere, and style of play that is simply unmatched in most games. Plus the DLC, especially Dragonborn, was awesome.
Nice Enfield no.4 mk1! I really enjoy taking mine to the range.
Battletech feels like a bare bone but good start to something that could be great. It reminds me of Mech4. With mech4 you had an okay game but nothing great. Blackknight you had more of the same and noting much. Then you get mech4 mercs. Then shit got real. I think the battletech game is at the mech stage. The expansion that's come out feels like a black knight thing. more of the same with something else. I'm waiting for something big to happen.
Battletech - meh, I was more excited about re-release of Metal Fatigue on GOG than this.
And yeah, RDR2 was so overrated it wasn't even funny.
I was playing RDR1 GotY for warmup before sequel got released, then played some RDR2 for like 10-15h and... come back to RDR1. That sequel sounds great on paper but it's boring. And I'm not some kind of goldfish with short attention span with ADHD or else. No memorable characters (they couldn't beat gravedigger from RDR1), no memorable missions, forgettable camp-filler sections...
Damn man sounds like you completely missed the point of the game. It was everything a RDR1 fan wanted AND more it was the perfect sequel. If anything it was too casualised in parts and needed more immersion and survival features. Overall amazing story and game tho.
@@tastycookiechip it wouldn't be bad if, for example, missions were good. But they weren't. For such expensive developement they make basic mission that give little to no freedom and have nothing interesting or memorable.
@@SpecShadow You're nothing interesting or memorable
Your trifecta of good game design should be taught in schools
great video as per usual!
I dont know why subnatica was the best game of 2018... it really wasnt.... FIRST LET ME EXPLAIN.... there were glaring inconsistencies with the game about firearms and other offensive tools.... i made a shitty video about it... but in the comments i explain it way better about... how just because of the massacre on Obraxis prime doesn't mean that there woundnt have been a security station on the aurora
Whats your opinion of dwarf fortress?
hrot has wobbly vertex warping so yeah
You lost me when you said the shit that Subnautica is better than any movie ever made. Sorry m8, i'd rather watch a John Ford movie
@James A. In that case, yes
The ones you recommended I'll probably buy. (Nes Manga)
Anyone hyped for MW5?
Yup yup
I had no interest in subnautica before watching this video but now I may check it out. Thanks.
If you want to experience a story, you should definitely play Metro Exodus.
PavlovVr should be on every list.
Subnonica is a Minecraft rip-off
Jk
Excellent
Acg trashed deliverance but I'll give it a go if you think it's good. Also skyrim sucks bolz
Nice Rifle dude
I enjoyed and had a lot of fun with it, but it was disappointing. Needed more polish and care.
West Virginia gun range?
ever gonna do a 2020 gaming video or not? lol
good video.
No 2019? let hope there is a 2020
Art as vanity project? No shit Sherlock
Play rain world if you enjoy enemy agency
I'm not sure why you liked the story of Subnautica or why you wanted to leave at the end. Your PDA tells you at the start of the game that the resources you're using to build cost so much money that if you survive you're going to be made a slave for the rest of your life because you'll never pay it off. And all the PDAs you find in the game paint a picture of a society so far up its own ass with political correctness that every conversation is 90% ass-kissing and apologizing to each other, and yet people are still greedy, racist, and entirely self-centered trash people. Why would your character want to go back to that?
Max Payne 3 was great
Where’s hunt down the freeman for the worst game of the year?
Unlike most UA-camrs I don't pretend to be shocked when obvious shovelware gets spammed out onto my system of choice.
what are you talking about battletech was great, It incorporated many features that where intermittently present throughout the franchise. and your lancemates do matter, they often drive dialogue driven events and can even unlock some nice perks, some of the people you can recrute are only found in special events. I mean yea its limited and would have been better if you could command more than 4 mechs, but it surly wasn't the worst game of the year by far. Leave that to the trashy like of EA and activision
Not the worst, but the most disappointing for me. I didn't even bother to play the games I knew would suck.
@@TheExaminedLifeofGaming yea well that's how I feel a bit about MW5 its basically a single player asset flip from mwo, and not what the commercial a few years back conveyed
Try Roguetech. Urgh MW5.