Whats your idea of an ideal mecha game?

Robotech: Battlecry

>>715351120 (OP)
Already got a pitch for my ideal mecha game I can just copypaste from the earlier thread.

>3rd/1st person power armor/exosuit multiplayer combat game
>set on the moon for low gravity shenanigan and cool space atmosphere
>where you get to fight in something like picture related, a large exosuit with multiple hardpoints for different weapon systems.
>Gameplay would be focused on movement, using Moon's craters etc for cover while rapidly boosting across open areas of making long leaps using your jet engine/jump packs. Additionally both using your own sensors to spot enemies as well as spoofing detection via flares, sensor jammers and just making massive clouds of moon dust as you race across the surface would play a large part in obfuscating your own movements/trying to spot enemies at distance.
>Heavy customization, sort of like in Armored core, ranging from weapons, different parts, like sensors, armor plating, booster jets etc and of course, paintjobs.
>Weapon range would include shit like heavy machine guns, missile and rocket launchers, laser weapons, railguns etc.
>heavy emphasis on both ammo and heat management, as overheating can be deadly on the moon, plus the hotter you are running the easier you are to detect at distance via your heat signature. Some weapons like lasers etc would have no ammo pool but instead would generate massive amounts of heat when fired, making you easy to spot.
>ablative armor plating forms most of your health pool, if your components lose their armor they are pierced, and potentially destroyed. Destruction of stuff like limbs can be survived but if your core part is destroyed you die because the pilot goes with it.
>story could just be some standard slhock about megacorporations using exosuit mercenaries to fight over prime realestate and various industrial sites etc on the Moon.

>tl;dr: fast paced, mobility focused mecha game with locational damage and heavy focus on sensor management and customization of your mech.

>>715351120 (OP)
Mechwarrior living legends.
Infantry, tanks, aircraft, and Mechs.

>>715351395
Gimmie a physical copy and I'd back that project. Hell I'd make textures and models.
Would you want to make your own engine?

>>715351395
Sounds cool. If I could throw an idea onto the pile.
Target designators. Have one mech be a recon mech that's purpose is to scan targets for the big bois to attack with missles and artillary

>>715351665
I got no clue about making games beyond dabbling into 3d modelling and importing some simple assets and models into fucking unity while working as a part of a game demo project, so I am not equipped to answer the question if it would need it's own engine or not.
It is just an random idea for a cool game I'd like to play, I would not be able to make it with the limited skillset I have.

>>715351120 (OP)
Gundam Battle Operation 2 with a single-player campaign

>>715351870
Something like that would be fitting as well given the whole sensor & sensor spoofing focus of the idea. With the customization stuff, you could perhaps have different mech/exosuit frames that have different base stats, like health pool, speed, and how heavy their loadout can be, granting a sort of loose "weight class" system to the game, while also allowing for otherwise rather wide range of customization within these weight classes. You could for example, have a light mech dedicated to moving fast and scouting, carrying only light weaponry for self defence, while at the same time, you could perhaps potentially customize the same frame to serve as a sort of stealthy sniper mech, using it's smaller frame to take better advantage of terrain while dedicating most of it's weightload to a heavy railcannon and long range targetting systems that let it nail mechs at range and so on.

>>715352278
EA could fund this shit right now but instead we'll just get more hero shooters with lootboxes. I hate this timeline, someone should just drop the colony already.

>>715351120 (OP)
just give me a new front mission

>>715352781
haha, like this?
the PSX game still looks better

>>715352638
What game is that

>>715352939
Heavy Gear 2?

https://youtu.be/-tAwv0hjxSU

>>715352939
Heavy Gear 2
>>715262987

>>715353032
What ever happened to that supposed reboot/new heavy gear game that was in development some time ago?

>>715353204
It got fucked hard. Ended up being a cryptoscam. The parent company of the tabletop IP Dream Pod 9 was not happy.

>>715351120 (OP)
>Whats your idea of an ideal mecha game?
You had ONE JOB.
And you succeed.

Any mecha game of my liking must have:
- inertia / physics.
- a setting that fully justify & integrate the mech
- sense of scale
- not using fake complexity to replace actual gameplay

I've got many mech games I wish to exist.
To only go with one:

>**singing choir** basically ESCAFLOWNE **singing choir**

It is magical but magic is just unexplained technology and the trick is to not overdo it.

In a medieval fantasy world where exist giant creatures, mankind survived by recovering those creature magic core to improve their own magic.
But having a giant magic signature also mean a magic attack will make you feel too much pain to stay conscious.
The answer was to armor it being plain metal.
A spell that allow kinetic/puppetry is powered-up to move those giants.

Now on the gameplay side, normal human can only cope with 1/2 spells simultaneously at most
So you can't fight & float at the same time, you can't even float and move forward.
Thus the average mook fight only do that.

Players mecha can do more only if you meet people you are magically linked to by fate, they ride with you and use the same power source to cast. It's still barely enough to fight while flying but it makes you superior regardless of the mecha you use.
Also, you'd have the flying rock-ship from escaflowne, those are cool, plus flying castles to board.

So you fight:
- giant creatures
- mook mecha
- fate boosted mecha
- and ideally also beat troops using magics, you'd even fight mage-tower, firing super magic while protected like you

Oh and half-human exist because catgirl is what happen when giant-tiger decide to magically heal human.
Entire civilization thus worship their associated monster.
It would be a big point that Dragon typically rarely ever do that so dragon-people are too rare to form civilization.

Please steal my idea

>>715353498
What would the genre of gameplay be, this strikes me as an RPG, not dissimilar to Xenogears

>>715353270
>It got fucked hard. Ended up being a cryptoscam
I have no words for the level of anger and disapointment I am feeling atm.

>>715352041
Isn't Code Fairy exactly that?

>>715353498
Is the escaflowne anime any good? It looks kino
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TsEjTzQDDRs

>>715351120 (OP)
Lost Planet's VS system but faster.

>>715353270
>>715353835
Gets worse, the whole thing spooked the owner and now he doesn't want to work with anyone/use the ip for anything like games or shows or whatever. Apparently there's people in the company supportive of the idea but it's really unlikely now.

>>715353835
Even if it came out it was gearing up (heh) to just be a poormans MWO anyway. Plus the Gear designs were fucking ugly. This is what a Jager should look like.

>>715351120 (OP)
Give me Baldr Sky, but in 3D and multiplayer.
Zero does not count.

>>715354145
And this is Assaults "Jager"

>>715354136
It wasn't just Assault. Assault was just the straw that broke the camels back. Even in the 90s Activision and SonyTV were trying to fuck over DP9, then down the line there were tabletop projects that fell through like Heavy Gear Universe which was going to be the 4th Edition of the RPG and Dreadnaughts which was going to be a bigger scale game focused on the Terranovan landships. The IP has just had a deal of bad luck. DP9 isn't completely blameless but Activision is a monster.

>>715353952
Careful,
There's "VISION OF Escaflowne"
and there's the movie, which is... impressive visually but nowhere similar, I'd say avoid the movie.

The anime series is fine as long as you don't expect too much.
It's notable in some choices that are no longer done today. On others side it's also mixing shonen-shojo in unexpected way.
Plot don't make the most sense, but by that point you should no longer care.

You should have an opinion with 3 episodes. Just avoid some retarded english version that gutted the ESCAFLOWNE music.

>>715353649
I want a simulation, no Turn-based.
Not necessarily "mount&blade" level, we want to see the cool mechs.
But something where you still need to plan your moves several seconds ahead.
Ideally, you'd have full if lesser gameplay outside the mecha. Cities would be modeled so you visit them on foot, but also get to fight through the street in the mecha.

>Introduction arc
When you were kid you played with a very rich girl whose rock-ship visiter your village, setting you on foot to become a mecha pilot
She's the god-damn princess made to visit people fate-linked to her, there's a magic for that, and it's inevitable anyway

Timeskip
Fight in mecha, mook mode, to repeal invasion
Lose the mecha, get saved by the clumsy royal mecha pilot (she always kept track of you using that magic)
Fight in royal mecha, boosted-mode.

>Plot later
You get your own rockship
>free roaming overworld
You do mission to put money in your purse
Using that magic, you track & visit people fate-linked to you, each have their own quest
Turn out you are also linked to the BIG BAD (who is somehow linked to thousands)
The BIG BAD want to capture you because they seeks to regroup all of them
So you are cast away to avoid justifying this invasion (it fail)

>Plot ending
I've got ideas but who even read what I wrote? Essentially give an open hint about what fate-link mean peoples who had a personal impact on you
Also turn out the BIG BAD is a not-Dornkirk scientist who actually did many great things for his population, but then his own military aide thought to conquer all. The game end with him finally putting a stop to this with a magic boosted speech to every single person fate-linked to him

Now will someone please steal my idea and make AAA game out of it?

>>715354145
Agreed. Those redesigns felt more like someone mashed Battletech with leftover Gundam frames and called it a day. Classic Heavy Gear had this grounded, industrial look-gears looked like machines you'd actually see on a war-torn colony planet, not cosplay mechs with rollerblades. The Jagers used to feel like proper scout-killer units, not whatever that weird bubble-chested abomination was. Honestly, give me V-engines, rotational thrusters, and shoulder mortars any day over generic FPS mech clone junk.

>>715351120 (OP)
Robot Alchemic Drive

>>715357854
It really felt like a designer that somehow didn't get the whole Votoms bootleg vibe of Heavy Gear. And that might be the case as you can see the project was headed by Mektek guys.

Out of curiosity, what Gundam game would capture the general vibe of the battles you'd see in 0079? Being a Zaku pilot must suck with this thing around.

Which do you guys prefer, Energy, Missiles, or Dakka?

>>715358404
A Zaku can BTFO a Gundam, even if the "gundanium armor" retconned as reactive armor they needed to accept back then.
The question is whether or not your pilot is a newtype who can magically ignore the all-band visual minovsky jamming and read the position of everyone around without even needing sensors.

>>715359541
I wonder then what game would capture that taking on a newtype feeling then. Closest I felt was Last Raven and dealing with some of the hard as fuck AC pilots. Though it sounds like the real outcome would be like playing chess against a computer AI.

>>715359525
Dakka if single either giant slow or cal 50 spayer. If that is not available missiles with a spicy surprise.

>>715359525
Kinda depends. I do feel missles are the most mecha weapon. Easily shoulder mounted on all of them where as in a grunt FPS, a rocket launcher is a big weapon that eats inventory. Lasers can be cool at not-Sniper weapons. Dakka is fun with machine guns. Mowing down weeny infantry is a good time.

>>715359525
dakka and melee weapons

>>715358404
Zeonic front. The mission where you encounter amuro is terrifying and he can kill you in a second. You're not even supposed to let him know you're there at all.
>>715359541
Could, in the way a man on the street could win ten rounds with mike tyson. Probably not though.

>>715360123
>Zeonic front
Sounds like what I'm looking for. Guess its time to boot up PCSX2.

I want a combination of Gungriffon and Mechwarrior 3 but with giant joint-op campaigns.
The more grounded setting of Gungriffon, leaning more into military sci-fi but the controls, customization, and general weight of MW3.

>>715351120 (OP)
VOTOMS was so fucking good.

>>715359525
>Energy, Missiles, or Dakka?
All of them and more.

>>715360553
For me it's Kummen. The jungle merc vibea made that whole arc fun.

>>715360653
Careful with that Alpha strike anon. You'll blow up your reactor.

>>715360660
Kunmen was kino

>>715359525
the feeling of melting the fucker by just looking at them has grown on me a lot but the feeling of the beat from a mounted gun and having bullets cracking on or through enemies is still king

>>715359810
>I wonder then what game would capture that taking on a newtype feeling then.
I don't think it's that hard.
But it more than making an enemy who is ridiculously hard to beat.

If I had to do it:
>early game, before you gain yourself such power
>enemy pilot a mecha you already fought and have absolutely normal specs
>approach behind it
>you are used to detecting presence using radar so you know it cannot ignore your presence
>the moment you shot the mecha dodge
>battle start
>perfect dodge
>perfect parry
>don't bother dodging what won't hit
>obtain a weapon that do undodgeable AoA damage
>enemy one-shot it out of your hand
>enemy enter communication with you
>enemy talk as if it could read your very mind
>you are ordered to escape
>enemy talk about that before you even move
>enemy disable you
>allies come to the rescue
>enemy leave dodging everything

Why can't we get a new Heavy Gear game?

>>715360123
>Could, in the way a man on the street could win ten rounds with mike tyson. Probably not though.
Eh, that's mecha, the pilot is as important as the machine
Are you fighting mike tyson, or are you fighting a dumb kid in the body of mike tyson?

>>715359810
Speaking of forced loss, Zone of the Enders had Jehuty versus Anubis
The first time you meet it you are fucked because Jehuty wasn't equipped with the Zero shift that let Anubis teleport at will.
By the end of the game you fight it again with said software.

>>715362112
See>>715353270
>>715354136
>>715354145
>>715354526
Basically IP owners don't like being burned. Last game was trainwreck.

>>715351120 (OP)
Mechwarrior, with a campaign spanning several planets each with a hub that has a semi-VN interface for interacting/shopping/investigating/getting leads for new contracts/resolving story stuff. I've only played the SNES game so all my notions of the series come from it.

And honestly kinda like this, but with way less moon. >>715351395

>>715362832
>but with way less moon.
How dare you disrespect mother earths daughter. Also you're not just going to let the cybrids win right?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PuhabfSSGHk

>>715363023
>you're not just going to let the cybrids win right?
Meh, they can be soloed so who care about self-replicating AI on the moon?
They are no big deal.

>>715363023
I demand variety. Some moon is fine, all moon is not. I loved things like being able to stand in water to enhance mech cooling and other environmental factors.

>Set up Mechwarrior 3
>Any dgVoodoo scaling option other than Stretched has the FPS rubberbanding like crazy
Fuck it, guess I'm playing in W I D E mode.

Titanfall + Battlefield

>>715351120 (OP)
Arquebus human resources management ( featuring reeducation )

>>715351395
>Heavy customization
Sorry, that's the most important aspect

>>715351120 (OP)
battlefield/planetside combined arms game with infantry, exosuits, tanks, planes and mechs
maybe make infantry hyper mobile like in titfall

>>715363581
>They are no big deal.
Haha, yeah.
>Cybrids see humanity’s will to live and fight as the reason the first Earthsieges failed, so most Cybrid tactics are centered around breaking this will. They shut down communication networks to leave the humans blind. They spread misinformation to sow discord. Trojan Horse units are used to shut down facilities and murder selected individuals to cause extreme paranoia. Sound recordings of humans undergoing Dissector experimentation are played over speakers during sieges and bombing raids. Captured women and children are tied to or impaled upon Cybrid Hercs and tanks for combat operations. Captives are implanted with bombs and then released to join up with other refugees, and the bombs are then triggered during the reunion. This has led to a human policy of shooting anyone returning from Cybrid controlled territory.

just Doll's Nest 2 but with more of a budget and some proper balancing

>>715363782
iirq there is an HD hack, though I don't know if it makes the game W I D E or has proper 16:9 projection.

>>715351120 (OP)
Anime battletech where you can romance cute girls

>>715364482
Please, that's just everyday Russia and we still don't take them seriously. except the impaled women thing but at this point it would make no difference

Should I watch patlabor? Where to fucking start?

>>715364767
WE ARE CORAL WARRIORS

>>715364795
OVA I think, though I didn't really get into it myself. The cute tomboy only does so much.

>>715364795
>Should I watch patlabor?
Absolutely, yes.
>Where to fucking start?
Watch the OVA then the movie, then move onto the TV series.
The OVA isn't really too focused on the actual mechs, word of warning. It's more of a police buddy-cop comedy with robots in the background and the movie is a detective drama for the vast majority of it. The TV series is much more focused on cop mechs doing cop mech things. I haven't seen the second movie yet but from what I know it's great but barely has any mechs in it.

>>715362832
>Way less Moon

BOO!
Moon is a cool and criminally underutilized setting for games and mech/exosuits make perfect sense as the weapon platform for lunar surfaces.

>Essentially big, armored space suits
>Low gravity does away with a lot of the weight issues a mech would have
>Lunar surface is a bitch for treads and wheels due to low gravity leading to low traction, making legs actually quite a bit more useful for manouvering. Also helps with scaling craters etc.
>Lets mechs get away with long jumps and flying via rocket thrusters due to the aforementioned low gravity.
>kino atmosphere, just the darkness of space and Earth looming in the skybox

>>715365127
patlabor 2 is just pseud bait and has pretty much none of what makes the rest of the series work

>>715365404
So its ludo kino that me, a casual fan, will love right?

>>715365501
>a casual fan
Probably not, no.

>>715351120 (OP)
A Votoms game with Heavy Gear gameplay, with both a campaign and multiplayer with large teams. Having combined arms and the ability to go on foot if your AT is destroyed.

>>715365612
Yeah, you're probably right. Patlabor 2 sounds similar to Gasaraki in how dry it is.

>>715362152
Zone of Enders is gigakino, too bad the franchise is effectively dead.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1hVM1CTc74E

>>715365801
>the ability to go on foot
How many games even do this? Titanfall is the only 3D one in mind thats recognizable. I know G-Nome is another one. 2D games featured it more. Metal Warriors was fun as fuck multiplayer because of pilot cockpit shenanigans

>>715366519

>>715366665
Man I keep meaning to play this fucking game. Where ISO?

One where I have artillery that just blows through enemy defenses, fuck Isengard, and Saruman!

>>715365801
2025 anime or PS2 cutscene?

>>715367576
2010 anime, Pailsen Files iirc.

>>715365127
>only found the english dub version of the show
>tomboy bitch has as much enthusiasm as that troon dubbing the stupid cat person in anal fantasy online
>mfw action scenes
>mfw bitch goes "aaaaaah" using the same gusto as "speeeen"

jeez that's a bummer but I'll watch it fully alright.
And how comes there's a show with only seven episodes and another with way way more?

>>715367687
>Set after the 1988 OVA movie The Red Shoulder Document
mite b good (the OVA)

>>715368006
Its okay. Desu I personally think the OVAs start to shit the bed a little Especially Shining Heresy. But if you like them then you'll have a good time.

VR Daimos game

>>715351120 (OP)
First person cockpit view. That's it, why is it so hard for these fuckers to get? Otherwise I'm just playing a third person character action game.

>>715351120 (OP)
A game where the mechs are fuckable.

>>715368902
That's every mech game.

More horror than scifi. Less fighting other mechs. More squishing humans or ewoks.

>>715368902
Sorry wrong picture

>>715369842
as cool of a buddy as he was. I just couldn't handle the coral bitch in my head anymore and had to kill him.

Unironically the ROBLOX Odessa game.

>>715371553
>zakus are normal
>goof has a squished head
>dom is one of those cleaning guys from monsters inc

>>715351120 (OP)
Slow and heavy

>>715351120 (OP)

>>715372284
I'd prefer deceptively fast, but weighty and commital. You can move fast, but your ability to go fast is far above your ability to control fast.

>>715372284
Like your mom!
Gottem

>>715365347
It's underused but for far more than its empty surface.
The low gravity would allow incredibly high building
The lack of atmosphere allows to use magnetic accelerator to reach orbital velocity
It's the only place where you can honestly build a space elevator and (one) said elevator would constantly point at Earth while also reaching Lagrange point L1.


It be like:
>MARS COLONY n°875561
>so it's a western, except sci-fi
>also bio-dome cause you can't actually breath out there

When it could be:
>MOON COLONY
>economic center because it's not far from Earth and offer both easy launch yet some gravity
>arrive to the elevator, 0G area, rotating colony linked to each other, each a biome
>descend by one of the space rail
>vacuum magrail get you there at incredible speed
>enter giant dome bigger than any Martian building could be
>forest of giant genetically engineered trees
>you can fly with plain electric propeller
>go underground
>giant open space city
>water from asteroid mining used in fake river systems
>the weak gravity allows gigantic waves, in a turn the waters basically flow on the walls
>reach industrial zone
>spaceship can be stored and take-off without needing magical antigrav

>>715373432
>mecha on the moon
>capable of jumping with very little effort
>running on the moon is like kicking the moon very fast as you move without resistance
>slowing down are cool controlled drift anime style
>any explosion throw moondust around in shapes without the air making it into a thick smoke
>with the right guns you can shot artillery to the other side of the moon

>>715351120 (OP)
fully customizable mech with battle damage actually impacting it, i'm talking let it get so bad your completely helpless.

you can opt for a back mounted jet pack or boosters on the legs, the legs will allow you to dodge in mid-air but are significantly more fragile and if one leg is shot up too much your ability to do any sort of booster jump to be fucked, you will get off the ground but it mostly just launches you off to the side.

your primary gun can get blown apart/off and you have to use sub weapons and/or a literal melee attack, these also can be disabled.

you can opt for mech legs or tank tracks, both have their pros and cons, you can even go to extremes and opt to be a literal tank for increased durability but significantly reduced mobility, this also allows you to have a heavier duty cannon.

weight affects mobility and any sort of booster jump mobility, with enough armor/weapons your booster jump can get so bad it doesn't even really work, or have significant delay to get a jet boost going.

let limbs to be blown off and if it wasn't a vital part you can keep going if you keep collecting health pickups, your still battle scarred and lacking an arm or something but you can stay in the fight longer if you keep getting pickups, the point is even good players will get worn down through a battle of attrition.

a scenario: a humanoid mech with a back mounted jet pack goes through a trapped corridor and a mine blows both legs off, you use your jet pack for any sort of mobility, however if your gun is also lost you can use your arms as your legs instead and use shoulder mounted machine guns/missile launchers, your crippled but might get a few more kills in before your done in yourself.

>>715374001
Moon sniping's gonna be fun.

>>715366426
>Zone of Enders is gigakino, too bad the franchise is effectively dead.
Honestly, it's probably for the best.
The storyline was already fully played out. Kojimbo would have made it something... crazy. Death Stranding looking normal in comparison.
And if Kojima do not possess the license, it means he can have Yoji Shinkawa working on something else.

Maybe even use his Ludens exo-armor.

>>715374707
Sniping? Outside sure
Inside you can have literal ninja inside a moon-city. You can jump 10m high, cling to wall without effort, just add danger that make using gun too dangerous and you can bring back all sort of melee weapon in space-station.
Shame the one anime that did it also made it too cringe to appreciate

>>715351120 (OP)
That one PS2 VOTOMS game but with a massive multiplayer

https://wick.itch.io/lancer-tactics
Lancer is now videogames

>>715351120 (OP)
Why does everyone hate MechWarrior?

Big, slow, punching robots like Pacific Rim or EDF

A robot fighting game like One Must Fall 2097.

>>715376239
I dont hate it, it just has a lot, a lot of issues.

>>715376310
>Big, slow, punching robots like Pacific Rim or EDF
I wish, but you need decent physics or at least animation to make it interesting.

>>715377020
I want the physics to be the main aspect, I want to rip armor/limbs off and I want to pick niggas up and throw them into things.

>>715351120 (OP)
Does Hawken count? Because Hawken (in the brief period before it became a glorified microtransaction store followed by an even worse sequel/reboot) was a ton of fun. Loved that game. If I could just get that back, but without the horrifying knowledge of what a piece of trash it would eventually become, I'd love it. Lobby-based FPS in mechs.

>>715376239
Never heard people hate it.
But it has nothing to offer except tank-control (because developing physic-based movement is a pain in the ass)
Also it was made into a F2P P2W, so the quality and trust is obviously down the drain.

>>715377095
You just increased the difficulty to make such game by over 9000.

>>715377454
I'm well aware it's lost technology, like Red Faction Guerilla.

>>715373432
Don't forget that swimming pools on the moon would be crazy fun due to the low gravity. A human could basically do dolphin tier tricks on the moon due to the lower gravity making it easier for us to propel ourself out of the water by lessening our weigh, thus making it easier for us to move, while at the same time not affecting the volume of water we displace when swimming (which is what actually grants us speed as we swim), effectively meaning that we can swim faster and jump higher out of water on the moon.

If I were to make this >>715351395, I'd make it so that you could also walk around in the base etc from which you operate with your customizable pilot character, and socialize with other players.
And I'd include swimming mechanics just so that you could have low gravity swim sessions, and bikini babes on the moon.

>>715377528
>like Red Faction Guerilla.
What are you referring to exactly?
Only thing that ring to my ears was a gimmick of being able to destroy walls or terrain deformation, I don't remember.

>>715378242
I just mean well-made and efficient destruction/physics, no game has compared since.

>>715377826
>Don't forget that swimming pools on the moon would be crazy fun due to the low gravity
I'm definitely not forgetting it, but there's less reason to have swimming in a video game. Thought my fashion on the moon would somehow involve high-cut swimsuit for autistic reasons.

>>715376239
I like it, its just not battletech accurate.

>>715378356
If you say so, to me it was just
>another FPS joining the 50 others
>destruction gimmick that won't be important in the gameplay

Let's address the elephant in the room.

We need a Mudrunner/Snowrunner with mecha

>>715353893
It isn't on PC.

MWO, but not made by a bunch of retarded, lazy, inapt niggers like PGI.

Also this >>715379837

What systems would you like in your ideal mecha game?

>>715380010
Segmental damage is always a must.

>>715380064
This, one of the biggest faults in armored core games imo is the lack of locational damage.

>>715351395
I know how to program model and animate, who's ready to get to work?

>>715351120 (OP)
I want a retelling of Char's Counterattack made in the Armored Core 6 engine, that has you playing as multiple characters from both sides of the conflict (basically every character with an on-screen presence who pilots a mobile suit), is intercut with scenes directly from the movie, has an art style that mimics the animation of the film, transitions seamlessly from footage to gameplay, preserves the raw panic and anti-gravity emotions of the movie, and ideally has input from Tomino on making it feel right.

There's no way this would happen, and if it did happen I dunno if they could get it exactly right, there is a certain feeling they need to nail

But that'd be it for me
Might be safer/better to make something original that aims for the same passion, rather than retreading that ground
Ace Combat 7 gets very very close to the ideal

>>715379837
This would be so good.

>>715379837
so, plus-sized death stranding

>>715380010
WoT-like damage model
Immersive cockpit with actual working buttons (also cockpit customization)
Mechs filling actual roles, ie.: lights for scouting and directing fire, support mechs, etc.
In-depth mechbay to customize and tune your mechs
Realistic ballistics, no retarded mechwarrior shit

>>715381226
>retelling of Char's Counterattack made in the Armored Core 6 engine
eh,
You remind me I would definitely have a game that copy Gundam without getting stuck with its artistic style.

Thought my idea started with
>what if I genderbent the duo from Unicorn
>cute reserved girl fall into a mecha and try to defend her colony against monarchy themed enemy
>fight against the prince heir in the rotating colony and even capture him recovered by Earthian warship
>get involved in a conspiracy the princeling was fighting against, turning enemy into friend
and so on...

>>715380010
A hitpoint bar, the mecha operate at 100% capacity with no visible damage until the hitpoint reach exactly 0, then it crumbles into piece

>>715380650
Shame they only tried it once.

>>715382236
>>715380650
You can't aim for particular body parts, so it's baisically additional randomness.

>>715365404
There's a ton of funny moments, the fuck are you talking about?

>>715381792
this might be slightly fucked up
but I find Char's Counterattack specifically to be soothing.

>>715368118
What shining heresy pissed me off so hard. I wish I had never watched it.

I want an amphibious mech game

>>715380960
Would it even be feasible to make such a game on no budget and a bunch of hobbyists/amateurs (which is the most likely type of team you'd get together, even in the unlikely scenario you'd even gather any people for it on /v/). I for one, can't do much besides just draw shit and maybe make simple 3d models so I wouldn't be much of help in any project besides the most basic demos or shit like that.

>>715383069
Seconding this
It's not mecha, but there was this cool little demo for a game I found on Steam, which seems like it's never coming out.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1666150/Manta/

>>715380650
I feel like AC would kind of suck with it honestly. In MechWarrior its cool since it moves at a slower pace adding an element of strategy. but in something like Heavy Gear 2 which isn't even full segmental damage, just general Gear debuffs, it makes combat even more brutal and one-shot. I feel like the same would happen to AC

>>715383790
That's more of a skill set than I'd have. All I could bring to the table is music and be an ideas guy.

>>715380010
locational damage and limbs/parts falling off
ability to manually eject armor, limbs, and weapons
different movement modes: skating, walking/climbing, swimming
different mech heights or ability to extend/crouch for different firing positions
balance system
different vision and camo modes like neotokyo
energy shielding
customization of external/internal parts
environmental destruction, for urban maps and forests.
simulation/test program like in ac

>>715383790
Maybe, the biggest thing with these kind of projects is discipline and skill. Being willing to sit and work on one thing for months on end isnt easy especially when you have bills to pay. Additionally, everyone wants to be the ideas guy more than anything which the world alreadyhas enough of.

>>715382756
Same desu. And what really sucks is that there's good ideas, but idk what the fuck they were smoking when killing off Fyana

>>715384932
Yeah. To me votoms ended with the original show.

>>715384930
It is hard to herd a bunch of anonymous strangers into a coherent team with actual goals and schedules.To my knowledge the only game project to come out of /v/ was that amputee fucking visual novel, but I may be wrong.

>>715385414
It doesn't help that /v/ is filled with some of the most decrepit creatures you can find lmao. However, mecha threads seem to fly under their radar for the most part thank God. You should look to get a more solid idea of what you want out of the game with a well organized design document if you haven't already, it's a fun exercise and looks good to outsiders. All indie games start as a blocky demo too so no harm in starting there.

>>715384438
you reminded me of aquanox lol https://store.steampowered.com/app/39630/AquaNox/

I am working on a mech rpg, really just an excuse to show off my designs. I would really prefer to make an action game but i have no programming knowledge

Would you guys like a balance system in a mech game, like the ability to get knocked over or knock over other mechs? Idk if it would just be annoying, but I do like the idea of mechs falling over from being shot, blown up, tackled, or tripping over environmental hazards/other mech corpses. And then having to get back up or maybe continuing combat while prone.

>>715384932
Takahashi has said that he regret how he did it in a 1997 interview, I don't exactly know how to feel about the ending of his recent 'God's Child' novel taking place after phantom arc either
I wish we had more non-Chirico Votoms stories.

>>715386954
I think votoms could've really used more spinoff ovas and worldbuilding

>>715386834
Yeah like Steel Battalion. I think Death Stranding would be a great template for mecha balancing/walking mechanics

>>715386834
To be quite honest, Armored Core 6 is the best Mecha game I've played and it's because of the sense of defiance of gravity.
A balance system could be cool, but for me it'd only be cool as a way to accentuate the feeling of being in defiance of gravity

>>715387170
I like armored core for sure, but yeah votoms has been on my mind recently. Brigador too desu, I'm gaining an appreciation for flightless mechs desu
>>715387127
I haven't played steel battalion, I don't have that whole cool control setup. But I should look into the gameplay itself if it does have something like that. Haven't played death stranding either

>>715387489
>votoms has been on my mind recently. Brigador too desu, I'm gaining an appreciation for flightless mechs desu
Sure yea, we want different things then.
Brigador was fun.
I just hate gravity!

>>715387071
Several spinoff stories have been written like Blue Knight Berserga or Commando Vorct, It's largely that they aren't translated or adapted at all.
Given the scope of the setting you can tell plenty of stories.

>>715387489
SB is more than just the controller, sadly that contraption has held the game back much more than enhanced it over time.

You can actually tip your mech over if you even turn too fast.

>>715386020
Might do something like that lel, the idea is neat to me and it could be fun even as just an excercise that leads to nothing beyond it.

>>715388254
>You can actually tip your mech over if you even turn too fast.
That's awesome

>>715386067
And you remind me of another, older submarine game. Forgot its name but it wasn't especially obscure.

>>715386067

The first Aquanox was awesome.
Blade runner underwater.

>>715386954
>I wish we had more non-Chirico Votoms stories
Same. though obviously I'd have mellowlink over case irvine.

>>715351120 (OP)
>fast paced combos
>signature and finishing moves
>hard boiled protag
>insert songs during fights
>finale full of flashiness and hype
That would be my ideal mecha game. It honestly feels weird that this doesn’t exist yet

>>715392917
https://youtu.be/exLxJBLHNoM
gimme