Why aren't there more mech games despite the fact mechs are the coolest shit imaginable?
>>736335645its pronounced "mech", not "mech"
>>736335645Because gay Japanese mecha is all most fags are into and Battletech and 40k suck up all other diehard Western mecha stuff.
>>736335687My bad"Mechs"
Fuck lancer.
>>736335645because there's no point to mechs in video games. If you're going to make it feel like a tank just make a tank game. If you're going to make it feel like a guy just make a guy game
There hasn't been a good mechwarrior game in 25 years. Titanfall was pretty fun.
>>736335645Honestly, unless you're making a mechwarrior clone, it's just gonna end up being a 3rd person action game with the player perspective scaled up.It's why most Gundam games are dogshit, for example. Making a faithful mech game ends up being a mechwarrior clone but worse (Rise from the Ashes) or an arena fighter (Extreme VS.) it's hard to replicate mecha in-game in a way that feels satisfying to play.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hmkxSP4zjvY
I really never got japenese mecha games. they dont seem to use the medium well. hell, the fencer in edf 5 is more faithful to mecha than mecha. wish there was a cool mech game with mwo's mechanics.
>>736336537How do I make a guy game where I have a smaller guy pop out of my guy to kill the guy in the other guy and start playing as the other guy's guy?
>>736335645>>736335774If wish something like Heavy Gear would make a return, but I guess that's more like power-armour territory?Mechs sit at that awkward place, between just regular soldiers, and then full on tanks. If they behave too much like humans, that's bad. If they are too much like tanks, that's also bad...It's such a tricky thing to balance, and that's why we don't have more mechs games.
Mech games are just niche, armored core is the closest we’ll hit to what it should be, and it’s honestly just a glorified dog fighting sim.
>>736338497Pacific Rim was dogshit for the plot and the boring stereotypes but the mech designs and getting to see everything have weight and the inner mechanics of Gypsy Danger was sexy.I need that in a PVE game of fighting kaiju of some kind that has customisability alongside aircraft, tanks, and infantry. You fight in the west but you can import gay japanese style mech pieces for a premium price for how gay you'll look.
>>736338497Heavy Gear 3 is apparently going to be a thing? Let’s see how people react to it when it comes out.
>>736335645Because you can't sell it to normies, they don't like giant robots.
>>736335645Mechs are a sexual preference
>>736336537>Tank.>Dies to a $200 drone.Tanks are hard dated and fucking stupid now.
>>736336629I would kill for another HAWKEN that didn't devolve into microtransaction garbage. That game's whole gimmick was it was just an FPS with a mech coat of paint, but it did it really well.
>>736338712>see everything have weight and the inner mechanicsHow would this play? Would it still look like a TPS/brawler? Or would you actually be in the cockpit POV?>>736338809>Heavy Gear 3 is apparently going to be a thing?Really? First time hearing of this. I have to google it... Several years ago there was a failed online game, with the Heavy Gear name, but I think it was some sort of scam.
>>736339230The best way to simulate it on the cheap for hardware is to build a modular system that pops in 'moving parts' as the mech is damaged, like onion layers. Everything seperate but connected and only showing when damage is taken.That's how GTA did it in the simplest form. Block takes damages until X number is reached and it swaps models to the mid-damage model, and then when the car explodes it swaps to a super low poly model that can be left behind to save memory.
The problem is people only ever want to make action games.I would mind some mech rpgs or mech tactics games.
>>736339610I just want a better Planetside 2 with fantasy sci-fi shit.
>>736338479Why would you do that?
>>736339610yucky
>Mech games still going>They're all stuck in microtransaction or virtue signalling hellI just switched to tabletop
>>736339610Sauce?
are there any mech games where i can spam human infantry vs a mech army? all mech games are just mech v mech or robot v robot.
>>736335645It's insane that the faggot ruined an decade long running coming series that was going fine until out of nowhere after the chapter where half the gods die it all suddenly turns super lame and gay with the plot absolutely rushed, ruining the entire series.All of this just to make the gayest most retarded mech game ever.
>>736335645>>>/m/fuck off
>>736339938Broquest guy made Lancer?
>>736339719-They have a better guy than my guy.-The mission is to sneak into an enemy's base. -My guy ran out of ammo.-Take their guy into an outnumbered battle, bail out after taking heavy damage, then jump back into my guy to finish the battle.
>>736339610>I would mindI think you are in the wrong thread, then.>>736339806>Sauce?Looks like Ring of Red. I thought it was really interesting, back int he day, but I never played it, because PCMR.
>>736339610Haven't played it myself but phantom brigade is in my backlog.It's a real time with pause XCOM clone.
>>736335645>Why aren't there more mech games despite the fact mechs are the coolest shit imaginable?Putting a mech in a vidya gaem doesn't make it good dumbass.
>>736339996?we're talking about mecha videogames
>>736340117Don't eat such obvious bait
>>736336537They’re potentially expensive because mechs destroy the environment they’re in.I agree mech games are epic.Armored core strikes a middle ground between Japanese mechs and western mechs.
I remember the carnage heart on the original playstation demo disc. Looked cool but the cramming mechanic would have stopped me from enjoying at that age.
>>736339938What?
>>736335645Take a look at star sector with mech mods if you’re into space mechs.
>>736339938>coming seriesIm retarded, meant comic
>>736335645>Why aren't there more mech games despite the fact mechs are the coolest shit imaginable?I still remember BOTS!! by Acclaim. They went bankrupt. There is a private server, but I think the game is dated by today's standards. It was a fun 3D brawler at the time when you were considered rich to have a computer with 256mb of ram.
>>736335645I also played xblaster online before I got myself banned for talking shit in the chat, lol.
>>736340007Wasn’t there a Front Mission spinoff that did exactly that?
>>736339806Ring of red. It's an alternate history WW2 with mechs. Plays like fire emblem but It's VERY slow. I like it but you have to be patient
>>736335645>Why aren't there more mech games despite the fact mechs are the coolest shit imaginable?There are mech games if you look for them.
>>736335645They exist. They probably just aren't fancied by most people.
>want to recommend clearly alpha indie mechs>forgot this board is eopnvrmind
>>736335645someone says thisand every few years a mech game comes outand it bombsand "mech fans" say "it wasn't REALLY a mech game"mech fans are worse than communists
>>736335645Seek and ye shall find.
>>736340420fuck man, MechAssault was so much fun
>>736340567>someone says this>and every few years a mech game comes out>and it bombs>and "mech fans" say "it wasn't REALLY a mech game">mech fans are worse than communistsThis.
>>736339610I want a Warhammer game where you're a dread and you get to custom kit yourself like Armored Core.
>>736340567>few mech games come out>decent sales and reception>see it bombednot my fault fags are addicted to the current trending slop
>>736340518Those aren’t my vertical tanks! Why do they crawl on treads?!
>>736340629the closest you get is a imperial knight phone app. Not like current gw is capable of making anything without dei slop.
>>736340518>board is eopWhat are you talking about? Everyone here speaks Spanish and Portuguese.
>>736335645>Why aren't there more mech games despite the fact mechs are the coolest shit imaginable?Because people have a soft palette and would rather play some high fantasy faggottry rather than pilot a badass mech destroying shit.
wasnt there a ps2 3d mech game with a really weird german name? Or maybe it wasnt a mech but a huge car. I cant remember
>>736335645>Why aren't there more mech games despite the fact mechs are the coolest shit imaginable?The same reason why most people don't listen to heavy metal. Because they are pussies that cry in the shower like Drake.TLDR; It's a niche audience.
>>736338903This is the video game board, retard
>>736340007Could just be a tank instead of a guy
>>736340508I've heard of it psychic. Never played. I did play omega boost. The camera was Way too spinny for me and I played forsaken on the ps.
>>736340508Didn't AC6 sell 3 million and counting? I remember last month japs started buying it because it had hints of an "otome" game and it blew up because of that. Also the recent jap/us twitter crossover.
What ritual do I need to do to get a new Zoids game?
>>736339938Keep seething. I’d kill k6bd 3 more times over for lancer it’s one of the best TTRPGs ever.
The only mech game I’ve played that really captures the scale of the fighting is titanfall because you get the seamless transition from human to mech perspective. Escaping multiple chasing pilots into my cockpit and turning the odds of them is a power trip that no other game has captured.
>>736336627titans are not mecha
>>736340629The first space marine game's dreadnought mode was fucking top tier.
>>736335645Because normalfags need something to relate to. Look at armored core 6 for example, they simply looked up a meta build and then spent the rest of their time making ships and fanart of the characters
>>736343187How the fuck did this guy go up against dedicated jet fighters and win?
>>736335645Are the front mission remakes any good?
>>736343980don't know, haven't played them
>>736343187lost planet did it better>>736343414seriously nobody asked for more chapters. It's criminal that they still don't have playable dreads. Everybody wants the valtus experience
Check out Granvir.Also Steel Bounty, that's still in dev, but the guy is cranking it hard.
>>736343816BDE and insane off the market thrusters, I guess.
>>736343816He didn't afraid of anything
>>736335645Normalfags don't like mech games.
>>736342812thats not a 3d fighter? a new trend in the west i guess
>>736344005Fucking love Granvir, managed to turn myself into a chicken mech with a cannon on my head
