You'd never think the mechs themselves can have much personality... until you see the way the Mad Cat turns to glare at the Raven after the scout mech dares to shoot it in the back and the Raven just _cringes_ back in fear.
I've always liked the idea of mechs Nero stuff still active without a living conscious pilot and the such. Newer versions talk about ai making choices for where to actually take the next step. Older versions are very much pilot movement and in both cases we got room for the superstition and memory behavior from the mechs. I do not imagine there are many Timberwolves pilot or mech that wouldn't have an air of authority about them. Even when thr raven lines up his shots. That mech crouches in a subtle way that's cautious. Now it's just cgi guys making a video and I'm reading to much into it, but I really liked your comment.
Hey Scott thanks for helping bring such an amazing experience into the world! It’s one of my favorite games of all time and I’ve replayed it more times than I can count. What was your role in the production?
@@celestialserpent6078 I coded the map editor and the logistics phase in between missions. I also worked on the networking code. I think all the devs had their hands in that as networking games that didn't run on a LAN was pretty hardcore at the time. I was also the face of "Rooster" (not the voice, those were actual actors).
They set up the situation and tone for the game, the world and campaign, they introduce several characters and have them run through their own plausible character arcs, they show you what its about and how high the stakes are, that the enemies are truly dangerous, and thus must be overcome with daring, cleverness and speed of action, they make you run through a rollercoaster of emotions worth of a whole movie, and showcase perfectly what the game is about and why its going to be badass and they do all that and more in just over 4 minutes. This trailer is a fucking masterpiece and it still makes me want to jump up and yell "fuck yeah" at the end even now, 25 years later because its so damn satisfying. Im convinced this should be taught in film school or something.
What stands out to me as well with that intro is that it does a really great job showing the work of the tactical commander and why it's both awesome and important. Little details like the Raven saying that it has no jumpjets and the commander replying that he knows what the Mech has or hasn't... it's a nice touch to show how he's in control of the situation.
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I completly agree, the same goes for MW3 intro. Every god damn frame tells you something about the game. The intro lines in MW3 are so tightly written its insane.
I remember watching this intro as a kid back in 98 and I also still remember to this day that there is a blooper where the "general lady" is amused / laughing in the background while everyone else is dead serious (1:38). Now that the HD remaster is available on youtube you can see this blooper in literal 4k.
Of course it was a Mad Cat ... I can easily imagine the Ricochet Lance pilots thinking, "Of all the Clan mechs we could have wound up facing, it just HAD to be a Mad Cat ... "
My entire experience against Madcats, teach me that clan warriors have amazing aim skills and lot of LRM's. So that Raven should have been dead in 2 seconds.
@@allthenamesiwantedweretaken well he said closest to a movie hired steel is technically the closest when you say "real people" I assume you mean live action but I was replying to him not you and he never specified the closest thing to a live action movie.
@@228R_LavaDa1shi Didn’t need to start your period over Battletech dude, jeez. Fine, I submit, you win the Internet argument. Thanks for giving my favorite mech a bad rep.
@@allthenamesiwantedweretaken what I never got upset and I don't know what you're favorite mech has to do with anything I was just being factual maybe I wrote that as if I was angry or upset by accident but I meant to write it as if I'm just speaking to you normally.
I remember watching this back in the day and thinking while this great that the scan lines looked terrible. This on the other hand looks great. Glad to see it fixed albeit going on 25 years later.
I still remember when my grand parents gifted me this game, my first ever game, it was ofc on a CD. I had no idea how to install it, I was just a kid. Had someone come over and install and I remember it was just a screen of static when you would start it? Guy said it didn't work. After about a month, I randomly tried to start the game, pressed every single key, and then boom. I saw this masterpiece, I did not understand english so watching it now makes me sigh. I might play it again now, I never finished it.
dis game was epic. my low end pc could barely handle it. but i had some epic times. deserves remake that doesnt require some MS DOS shit that i dont know how to do.
Hardcase ejecting plays way too often in my head when playing any Battletech game. 🤣 MechCommander Gold never leaves my top 3 games on any given day. Cannot even count the amount of times I beaten it over the years. Just now getting into the Darkest Hour mod.
Always loved the intro to this and wish we had seen more of the 'story' of the unit going forward. Plus, I have to confess I thought that Colonel Reese had quite the presence in an Annette Bening kind of way :) I think tho', short as it is, the MechWarrior 2 intro is probably my favourite.
Are they on Huntress? Sorry if I don’t know, I’m a bit late in the game when it comes to appreciating BattleTech Because this seems like operation bulldog, so this would be the invasion of the smoke jaguar HomeWorld ?
No Port Arthur. Which is an Inner Sphere planet (Draconis Combine) that was captured by the Clans. It’s why in the game, the buildings are Japanese influenced, and a lot of the mechs and vehicles you fight are Inner Sphere. The clans made their bondsmen and free births fight in captured IS stuff,
I know a guy who has the software, and the MW5 Mech models... I'm sure we can also find a Timberwolf/Madcat from the most recent MW5 Clans... All that to say: It's absolutely possible someone is already working on it, heck it's possible they already uploaded it to their UA-cam channel... the algorithm just hasn't deemed them worthy yet. (No, I don't think my buddy is gonna do it. rendering about 10 seconds worth of CGI on his hardware takes about 2 hours, and he needs that computer for other stuff.)
@@dennyklein1965Thanks for reply Denny. I thought so ... I know the composer has a channel here somewhere so was wondering if it would be on there. What do you think about this music? It's just soo awesome.
Ricochet Lance consists of a Hunchback (EJECTING!) Centurion, Commando and Raven. The Centurion is the largest with the "Samus Aran" style arm cannon, the Commando is the small human-shaped one and the Raven is the one with the streamline, or 'beak' shaped Torso that ends up landing the final hit on the Mad Cat. Hope I could help? :)
Yeeeah, Jaguar Timber Wolf would have slaughtered this lance before they even got good enough range to land shots. IS bias is real ;P But great remaster!
AI enhancement is shit currently. Lost most detail making this worse than the original and SUPER blurry. The Live action scenes look worse too. On another note. Would be cool if someone could mod MC1 to work with touchscreens like with the raven 2:27. Since I never see anyone actually using that custom path feature in any videos.
Loved this game esp it's intro... and so many other titles from this era... currently replaying Dungeon Keeper 2... games were just better then, none woke, well thought out and usually bug free!
Why they calling the Davion raven, panther. Are we trying to confuse new players. Wait I figured it out. They just cracking jokes about cappies and dracies to confuse the smokies.
@@mattz1230 ... it's all written. Thr dude didn't get the callsign panther because there's a real story that makes it all make sense. And either way, Id still have a joke that make sense. At least as far as I can tell. Davion light pilot in a liao designed raven with the callsign panther.... is funny
@@Aleksandrgrc No, you just don't understand the concept. As well, given the large numbers of Raven's captured in 4th Suc. War and used by the Davions, it's very likely a scout lance would have a Raven 29 years later. Your comment is stupid and you should feel bad.
This looks worse than the original. It looks like it was overdone, the CG looks like an elementary school project, the people look completely washed out and bland. In short, burn it with fire and restart from scratch.
You'd never think the mechs themselves can have much personality... until you see the way the Mad Cat turns to glare at the Raven after the scout mech dares to shoot it in the back and the Raven just _cringes_ back in fear.
I'm a huge fan of the little heel turn the Raven did. Like the raven itself is saying "get me the hell out of here"
That 'neurohelment making the mech mirror its mechwarrior's thoughts and emotions' is solid.
Even back then you could practically see the Smoke Jag pilot just sneering at this little 35 ton shithead
I've always liked the idea of mechs Nero stuff still active without a living conscious pilot and the such. Newer versions talk about ai making choices for where to actually take the next step. Older versions are very much pilot movement and in both cases we got room for the superstition and memory behavior from the mechs. I do not imagine there are many Timberwolves pilot or mech that wouldn't have an air of authority about them. Even when thr raven lines up his shots. That mech crouches in a subtle way that's cautious. Now it's just cgi guys making a video and I'm reading to much into it, but I really liked your comment.
"YOU dare challenge me, freebirth scum? You challange my Timberwolf to a Bachal in your scout mech?"
Blast from the past! I was one of the devs on this game. This was back when games had less than a handful of devs and another handful of artists.
Hey Scott thanks for helping bring such an amazing experience into the world! It’s one of my favorite games of all time and I’ve replayed it more times than I can count.
What was your role in the production?
@@celestialserpent6078 I coded the map editor and the logistics phase in between missions. I also worked on the networking code. I think all the devs had their hands in that as networking games that didn't run on a LAN was pretty hardcore at the time.
I was also the face of "Rooster" (not the voice, those were actual actors).
So cool! Thanks for contributing to the BattleTech universe, a big part of my childhood. @@scottjanssens9978
@@scottjanssens9978 next run we taking Rooster all the way to Liberation of the Spaceport.
Спасибо вам за эту замечательную игру
"I was a great Warrior like you, once... then I took an SRM-2 to the back." 😆
Clanner*
lol
Lol, this comment sends me back to a time i was most happy.
"Track that POD" that line lives rent free for over 25 years and it can continue
Apple must have seen this cutscene
For me it's the "- I don't have jump jets. - I KNOW what you've got. Hold your position." exchange.
right thats a good one too @@AdamZovits
My favorite part of this intro.. TRACK THAT POD!!! ❤
What happens when you fail as a scout? You are demoted to "bait".
They set up the situation and tone for the game, the world and campaign, they introduce several characters and have them run through their own plausible character arcs, they show you what its about and how high the stakes are, that the enemies are truly dangerous, and thus must be overcome with daring, cleverness and speed of action, they make you run through a rollercoaster of emotions worth of a whole movie, and showcase perfectly what the game is about and why its going to be badass and they do all that and more in just over 4 minutes.
This trailer is a fucking masterpiece and it still makes me want to jump up and yell "fuck yeah" at the end even now, 25 years later because its so damn satisfying. Im convinced this should be taught in film school or something.
For what they're working with, they pull out a perfectly assembled intro
Not just that but it's a perfect demonstration of how with good tactics, even nightmare clan tech can be humbled by comparatively primitive weapons
What stands out to me as well with that intro is that it does a really great job showing the work of the tactical commander and why it's both awesome and important.
Little details like the Raven saying that it has no jumpjets and the commander replying that he knows what the Mech has or hasn't... it's a nice touch to show how he's in control of the situation.
I completly agree, the same goes for MW3 intro. Every god damn frame tells you something about the game. The intro lines in MW3 are so tightly written its insane.
I remember watching this intro as a kid back in 98 and I also still remember to this day that there is a blooper where the "general lady" is amused / laughing in the background while everyone else is dead serious (1:38). Now that the HD remaster is available on youtube you can see this blooper in literal 4k.
I always thought that was weird.
"Hah, watch, Harrison's gonna kick this Madcat's ass. He does this all the time lmao"
I remember that! My (back then) middle school self was like, "Is she a Clanner spy?!"
@@mauriciosalas3415 weird? No. It's the smirk of an IS commander about to show the Clans what real war looks like
Of course it was a Mad Cat ...
I can easily imagine the Ricochet Lance pilots thinking, "Of all the Clan mechs we could have wound up facing, it just HAD to be a Mad Cat ... "
You love to see it. This was what we all saw as young kids.
I was in my early twenties then. This was an impressive intro.
I was already 32 or 33 when i played this.....now I'm 55.....and i get teary eyed when i see this 😢
I miss the cinematic from the beginning of MechWarrior games. They were all so good. Now they are just crappy slideshows.
This is what is lacking in Mech Warrior 5. I would love to see the next sequel with both Live Actors and CG effects together just like Mech Warrior 4.
nobody does it anymore. but if devs want to have a shot at acting i wont say no.
@@TimberWulfIsHere It worked for Call of Duty: Black Ops, in 2010. It has to be done well.
@@briansmith2739 don't remember any in black ops
@@TimberWulfIsHere Watch the ending scene with the woman on the Microphone, holding the cigar. That part is live-action.
@@briansmith2739 will do, thanks
A Raven's rear armor could not withstand those many hits from a Madcat, but who cares, the intro is cool.
If it's the machine guns it's fine. The laser hit the arm.
My entire experience against Madcats, teach me that clan warriors have amazing aim skills and lot of LRM's. So that Raven should have been dead in 2 seconds.
@@ilraptor9134 doesn't Raven have the ECM? No LRMs. And running in zigzags may help to dodge some shots too.
I suffer from the same overconfidence as hard case when I strap into a hunchback
Well he is in the biggest mech in the lance. They just didnt know they were facing a clan Madcat.
@@mrbrown6896 Very smart of the Madcat to take out the strongest guy first.
@@cubismo85yes, I wouldn't want to let a hunchback to get in range either, even if I was in a timberwolf.
@@mrbrown6896there was a centurion in the lance as well, same tonnage
@@ben2741 Yeah, but not as heavily armoured
I KNOW WHAT YOU'VE GOT, HOLD YOUR POSITION!
Openings like this are the closest to a movie based on the battletech franchise.
@@228R_LavaDa1shi a movie with real people.
@@allthenamesiwantedweretaken well he said closest to a movie hired steel is technically the closest when you say "real people" I assume you mean live action but I was replying to him not you and he never specified the closest thing to a live action movie.
@@228R_LavaDa1shi Didn’t need to start your period over Battletech dude, jeez. Fine, I submit, you win the Internet argument.
Thanks for giving my favorite mech a bad rep.
@@allthenamesiwantedweretaken what I never got upset and I don't know what you're favorite mech has to do with anything I was just being factual maybe I wrote that as if I was angry or upset by accident but I meant to write it as if I'm just speaking to you normally.
Well, there is a cartoon..... LOL
The nostalgia, it BURNS.
EJECTING EJECTING EJECTING
Sometimes a video comes along that goes straight into Favourites with zero hesitation
Wow great work. Never thought mech commander could look so good and clear
I remember watching this back in the day and thinking while this great that the scan lines looked terrible. This on the other hand looks great. Glad to see it fixed albeit going on 25 years later.
Im sure i saw this in 4K as a kid. But when i watched it in original, it was like 240p. This remaster is gold!
love the old acters intros they were the best
And remember, ALWAYS track the pod
Definitely a Clanner. Zero back armor.
I honestly miss RL cutscenes. Cheesy as they may be it was fun to see real people actually involved in the game. Made it all feel more real.
Golden age of gaming
Age of Empires, Jedi Knight, Half-Life, X-Wing: Alliance and many more all came out in that period.
Warhammer: Dark Omen. They kind of did it again with DOW2, but DO is a gem that still got no equal to this day.
This is the most 90's shit I've seen since the Resident Evil Intro
We can all laugh at the 90’s in-game video sequence acting all we want, but admit it, this franchise needs human faces. That and…. Better CGI😅
The pilot of the Raven ("Panther") is actually a really solid actor for 90's FMV.
3:30
men that theme is still the best thing ever to motivated to go to work and face an unforgiving day of work
I want this game back so damned much
Almost like a real VHS preproduction tape. Nicely done. :D
Fuck what I would give to see this in Unreal Engine 5 and updated models...
Oh...Nostalgia...
Absolutely love this… amazing!!
Ed Cunningham as Commander Harrison is such a clever commander. Awesome guy😁
still a masterpiece this intro
Excellent remastering!
Lmao the scouters they have, love the campiness
i wish they would remake this game
You've done Blake's work with this. Beautiful job.
"...I have an invasion to go to" lol
I still remember when my grand parents gifted me this game, my first ever game, it was ofc on a CD. I had no idea how to install it, I was just a kid. Had someone come over and install and I remember it was just a screen of static when you would start it? Guy said it didn't work. After about a month, I randomly tried to start the game, pressed every single key, and then boom. I saw this masterpiece, I did not understand english so watching it now makes me sigh. I might play it again now, I never finished it.
live action faces get real messed up a lot here...
Real uncanny valley stuff yeah
Really? I thought they looked pretty good overall (at least compared to the original).....
This looks so damn good, i wish i got my hands on this game when it was out.
I replay this game every 10 years.
This game brought back memories 😢😭
dis game was epic. my low end pc could barely handle it. but i had some epic times. deserves remake that doesnt require some MS DOS shit that i dont know how to do.
I’m ejecting, ejecting, ejecting, ejecting, ejecting!!!!
track that pod
😂😂😂
why does the music sound like "go west" from the pet shop boys for a moment there?
Yea
"Turn.. that the turn!"
Yeah I remember how unresponsive the controls were in Mech commander.
Wish they had a show like this.
Hardcase ejecting plays way too often in my head when playing any Battletech game. 🤣
MechCommander Gold never leaves my top 3 games on any given day. Cannot even count the amount of times I beaten it over the years. Just now getting into the Darkest Hour mod.
This game just screams for a remaster or proper sequel (mechwarrior 2 doesnt count it was nothing close to as good as this one)
Still an amazing intro. Id love to see a proper Mechwarrior/commander tv show using todays cgi.
Always loved the intro to this and wish we had seen more of the 'story' of the unit going forward. Plus, I have to confess I thought that Colonel Reese had quite the presence in an Annette Bening kind of way :)
I think tho', short as it is, the MechWarrior 2 intro is probably my favourite.
love this game, thank you for the upscale!
Are they on Huntress?
Sorry if I don’t know, I’m a bit late in the game when it comes to appreciating BattleTech
Because this seems like operation bulldog, so this would be the invasion of the smoke jaguar HomeWorld ?
No Port Arthur. Which is an Inner Sphere planet (Draconis Combine) that was captured by the Clans.
It’s why in the game, the buildings are Japanese influenced, and a lot of the mechs and vehicles you fight are Inner Sphere. The clans made their bondsmen and free births fight in captured IS stuff,
@andrewsmallwood9210 well no Freeborns in this scenario as Clan Smoke Jaguar was one of the Clans that prohibited Freeborns from becoming Warriors.
Operation Serpent was the invasion of Huntress, Bulldog was driving Clan Smoke Jaguar from the Inner Sphere.
Cool now do it with to date battlemech designs.
Some of the old designs have a lot more character I think. Like old awesome is so cool, new Awesome looks a little more generic
@@mvan1225 I was referring to the Catalyst game labs designs, something with a little more "meat on the bones".
@@mvan1225do you hsve old bstlkec clan battles maniturss sets from back innthe dsy with strsnge guide book
I know a guy who has the software, and the MW5 Mech models... I'm sure we can also find a Timberwolf/Madcat from the most recent MW5 Clans...
All that to say: It's absolutely possible someone is already working on it, heck it's possible they already uploaded it to their UA-cam channel... the algorithm just hasn't deemed them worthy yet.
(No, I don't think my buddy is gonna do it. rendering about 10 seconds worth of CGI on his hardware takes about 2 hours, and he needs that computer for other stuff.)
This game needs a remake. Or make a Mechcommander 3. ❤
back when games were great
Its a good intro but not anywhere near as ruthless as the writing in any of the MW2 intros.
He's got a lock on me! HE'S GOT A LO-
We realy need mc3.
Whenever I see this trailer the same thought always occurs:
Damn Shia Labeouf was in this too!
The game came out in 98.
Shia was born in 86.
Wait, was he really? In what role?
What's the dam music, cant find it anywhere in the soundtrack.
ua-cam.com/video/PvH5uBpzXX0/v-deo.html
I don’t think it’s part of the soundtrack. It’s embedded into the video.
@@dennyklein1965Thanks for reply Denny. I thought so ... I know the composer has a channel here somewhere so was wondering if it would be on there. What do you think about this music? It's just soo awesome.
Well, it's the victory music, sooooo.....
Love it!
Is there a possibility of the mechwarrior 2 mercenaries ending/tukayyid/dinju pass? That was probably the best cutscene over made for any game ever.
@@tplambert yes already made check the playlist
Mad cat is the best and most iconic mech..
Oh! Home, sweet home....
Still really impressive
Best intro ever
thank you for doing this
Świetna gra
So you AI'd it? It looks a bit messy but good effort.
They don't make games like this anymore!
Memories
I wished MechWarrior 5 invested more effort into their intro and cutscenes
I think I recognize some of the battle mechs, but what were all of them in this intro that were used by the Inner Sphere?
Ricochet Lance consists of a Hunchback (EJECTING!) Centurion, Commando and Raven. The Centurion is the largest with the "Samus Aran" style arm cannon, the Commando is the small human-shaped one and the Raven is the one with the streamline, or 'beak' shaped Torso that ends up landing the final hit on the Mad Cat.
Hope I could help? :)
@@Atlessa Yeah, that helped a lot. Thanks. ^^
@@Pilot231 Happy to help. :)
Yeeeah, Jaguar Timber Wolf would have slaughtered this lance before they even got good enough range to land shots. IS bias is real ;P But great remaster!
seems like the pilot of madcat start getting cocky after the hunchback down, you can see how fast he take down that medium class mechs
Finished by an SRM2 - poor clanner.
AI enhancement is shit currently. Lost most detail making this worse than the original and SUPER blurry. The Live action scenes look worse too.
On another note. Would be cool if someone could mod MC1 to work with touchscreens like with the raven 2:27. Since I never see anyone actually using that custom path feature in any videos.
2024 has mech warrior 5
Well, at least we ARE getting new battletech games.
Loved this game esp it's intro... and so many other titles from this era... currently replaying Dungeon Keeper 2... games were just better then, none woke, well thought out and usually bug free!
The Panther looks weird.
@@Pedro_Kantor there’s no panther in the intro
Omg it's a Centurion.
I am conflicted. I appreciate the return of the intro, but goddamn does the AI powered "remastering" process suck ass.
Ofcourse the black dude was the first to go 😂
The acting is wooden and sub-par, but it's still a great intro.
well... so are most soldiers and command officers... therefore its more accurate that way.
Hardcase was a great actor
@@Circumnavigate Panther as well. That look of fear as the MadCat levels it's arms at him?! ("Got his attention sir.") I get shivers every time.
Everything about this is terrible and I love it.
Why they calling the Davion raven, panther. Are we trying to confuse new players. Wait I figured it out. They just cracking jokes about cappies and dracies to confuse the smokies.
Because that's the PILOT'S callsign. Ever see a 'Mech called a Hardcase?
@@mattz1230 ... it's all written. Thr dude didn't get the callsign panther because there's a real story that makes it all make sense. And either way, Id still have a joke that make sense. At least as far as I can tell. Davion light pilot in a liao designed raven with the callsign panther.... is funny
@@Aleksandrgrc No, you just don't understand the concept.
As well, given the large numbers of Raven's captured in 4th Suc. War and used by the Davions, it's very likely a scout lance would have a Raven 29 years later.
Your comment is stupid and you should feel bad.
more disgusting AI, good job......
Gross.
This is a horrible ai upscale version... Wow this is bad. XD
This looks worse than the original. It looks like it was overdone, the CG looks like an elementary school project, the people look completely washed out and bland. In short, burn it with fire and restart from scratch.