Thread 718311204

Are there any good mecha games in 2025?

I'm ideally looking for a PvP mecha game that isn't dead or dying and I can really sink my teeth into.

If there aren't any good PvP mecha games, what are some good single player ones? I have a PS2 with a hard drive, a PlayStation Classic, and a computer.

Ty in advance.

Oh dang, I just realized it's almost been 2 years since AC6. Time flies.

Play every single armored core game.
I made a Pepe emblem and the pic was shared around for quite a while.

>>718311204 (OP)
Check the archives. There's a mecha rec thread like every other week

All the good mecha games are from the PS2 era. I honestly never even tried PvP games.

Like said above, every Armored Core.
Gundam One Year War (PS2) - jap only
VOTOMS (PS2) - jap only
Assault Suit Leynos remake (PC)
Daemon x Machina (PC)
Metal Wolf Chaos XD (PC)

I DON'T RECOMMEND:
- Strike Suit (both), because of the targetting system against battleships. It may seem like I'm being a belladonna here, but just that completely ruins the game.
- Lost Planet series: do not play this as a mecha game. This is Monster Hunter with mechs. If you understand that, you may play it and it's very good. But the mechs are more like vehicles to get from A to B, they're not the main focus.

>>718312385
>Assault Suit Leynos

>Shitting on most mecha franchises for not being true "mecha games" while shilling a 2D platformer
What a dishonest, hypocrite motherfucker you are

What about MechWarrior/BattleTech

>finally unlock the ZZ characters for arcade mode in Gundam Vs Zeta Gundam
>ZZ Haman sounds even more pissed off than Zeta Haman
>can't play well with her at all thanks to my blood going from my brain straight to my dick the second I use an awakening

>>718313229
Not that anon, but why are you shitting on the assault suit games?

>>718312385
>But the mechs are more like vehicles to get from A to B,
Vital Suits are core parts of almost every major bossfight in those games, especially the first one.

>>718311204 (OP)
Mecha Break for currently alive PvP, it's a hero shooter with Armored Core-like gameplay. You can make a jiggly pilot to ogle while you die or explore the lobby.
Armored Core 6 is excellent but sadly the PvP scene is very small. However there is a co-op mod that adds soulslike invasions, it's extremely fun.

>>718314813
I like the few I've played. Slower and stompier though.
>5: Mercenaries is fun as a merc company simulator, mods reccomended, but eventually falls into a samey loop
>Online can be fun but you have to find the machine that works for your playstyle. Barely gets updates and when it does, it's garbage (pride flags and maps that you can get stuck on). Missile boat/LRM spam was annoying

>>718318883
Is there a Gundam game you'd recommend?

>>718319651
The Vs/Maxiboost series for PvP but I haven't kept up with it recently. It's a 2v2 arena fighter, very popular in Japanese arcades and then gets secondary releases usually on console. There might be some PC community out there emulating one of them.

Breaker 4 is recent, it plays more like a bit of dynasty warriors with how you sweep through weaker enemies, and allows you to customize your dream mobile suit with parts you collect. No PvP as far as I'm aware.

Gundam Evolution was a hero shooter. I liked it but the monetization was ass, it locked suits behind paywalls or grinds. Felt like it didn't get much love from Bandai and the devs had some passion but were trying to chase multiple audiences (esports/eceleb fans, casuals, Gundam fans) at the same time and not doing enough for any of them. It was officially shut down but I hear there's a private server that's doing well, and I imagine they'd have to remove the monetization.

Have you played Heavy Gear 2

>>718311204 (OP)
Wasn't one just announced or shown in a showcase like a month or two ago that looked dope and was a f2p pvp mech game?

>>718321764
Mecha Break came out and it's shit.

>>718311204 (OP)
Mecha games are so weird to me. So many of them have all these cool features but I've never once seen something that felt definitive, even Fires of Rubicon felt underwhelming to me despite everything that's great about it. I want some sort of dogfight-y zero-g type thing where getting hit just once means you're winged and getting outmaneuvered means you get insta'd, kind of like quake where you don't really get ganged up on or third partied doesn't really happen the same way because you just move so fast and kill so fast and die so fast. Inbefore I get called an ideasguy by an rpgmaker tranny
Born to instagib
World is a bulletsponge
2025
129195915 numbers on my screen

Is Scramble Vice out yet?

>>718324360
>I want some sort of dogfight-y zero-g type thing where getting hit just once means you're winged and getting outmaneuvered means you get insta'd
So you want a mecha game that isn't mecha-like at all.

>>718324503
Of course not.

>>718319651
>Gundam game you'd recommend?
Not him but there is only one that is good.
Gundam Side Story 0079: Rise from the Ashes

I wanted to try something other than video games recently and I bought a gundam, it was fun to build

>>718324886
>So you want a mecha game that isn't mecha-like at all.
That's kind of like Gundam once beam weaponry became mainstream for mobile suit production. Basically any hit became lethal since basically nothing could block beams, so mobile suit production start getting more compact and focusing on mobility.

Can anyone remember a mecha arena fighter for PC which is a good 15 years+ old. The game was once in a magazine. I think it only had 8 mechs.

>>718326172
One Must Fall Battlegrounds?

Sequel to OMF2097.

>>718324886
High speed robot action is still robot action nigga

>>718324886
>So you want a mecha game that isn't mecha-like at all.
There's the autism I was talking about. It's like the people waiting for Sonic games to be good 'again'.

>>718326857
A mech doesn't keel over and die because you cut off its arm, what makes a mech cool is that it can just keep fighting anyway because a decrease in combat effectiveness isn't an immobilisation like it would be for a person.

>>718325809
Exactly. In Fires of Rubicon, the gameplay looks fast and exciting at first, but then the movement turns out to just be a kind of mellow bullet hell and dark souls-like attrition with dumb AI, and frankly the appeal ends up being in the variety rather than the base gameplay for me

>I'm ideally looking for a PvP mecha game that isn't dead or dying and I can really sink my teeth into.
Same.
So fucking sad that mechabreak failed.

>>718326857
Borderbreak is better than mechabreak

>>718327231
>dark souls-like attrition
Stagger mechanic makes this pointless

>>718327231
Is there a bullet hell where you just circle strafe everything that doesn't have an obnoxious warning beep and never get hit

>>718327021
NTA
I get that, I just don't want to see healthbars and numbers when I'm using a fucking turbo particle railgun cannon the size of a bus. Part of the fundamental appeal of mecha for me is the idea that this 'vehicle' has made any other form of combat rare because of its sheer adaptability and power. It's an apex predator that can only be feasibly challenged by another of its kind. In Gundam, when mobile suits first appear, a small force of mobile suits just straight up massacre an entire space fleet with impunity and nothing can be done about it because the enemy didn't have their own version. In terms of attrition, I'd be into stuff like ammo, rocket pods, shit you use to take potshots and control the enemy's movement, maybe discarding equipment for a mobility boost, maybe a booster like in Gundam Thunderbolt that turns you into a rocket but makes you sluggish, shit like that. But for me all the excitement and sense of hectic combat just disappears once you have these unexplicably durable vehicles that don't even have animations for when they take damage. I want to realise a second before I get hit that I'm dead and then see the cockpit go white as it turns to slag. One round I should have dodged. That's it mane

>>718327657
Doesn't really matter as the market has decided GBO2 is the only multiplayer giant robot game it will support for some fucking reason.

>>718327949
2D bullet hell is a genre I look down on but at least it feels like you're in danger

>>718328390
Probably because it's the only multiplayer giant robot game that feels like a giant robot game. I don't want to play fucking Overwatch.

>>718328465
Absolutely cringe

>>718328584
NTA but he's right. Whatever that aesthetic is called it needs to be taken out back and shot before it infects some actually great games in the future. Concept artists who do this shit are everywhere and it always always always looks cheap and lame and just serves as an excuse to not have any detail and leave the animations looking like world of warcraft

How was that Frenchie Grendizer game?

are the super robot wars games on stea any good?
Also opinions on sd gundam battle alliance?

>>718328989
gbo isn't successful because of """realism""""
it's successful because of gachashit

>>718329268
I said NTA. I don't like gbo and I don't touch gacha, and putting airquotes around realism makes you look like you play exclusively anime games

>>718328989
dumb schizo

>>718329481
Retards genuinely believe that gbo is realistic and every mecha game should play like it

>>718311204 (OP)
>PvP mecha game
MechaBreak

>>718329708
Yeah it's autism and it's why mecha games will never be as cool as they could be because of this ancient fucking autistic dogma shit

IN THE MYTH
GOD IS FORCE
https://youtu.be/pjRdRvYj3_s

Apparently Dissidia's gameplay is basically a copy of a genre of Mecha games? Could anyone tell me what games? Dissidia was fun.

>>718321193
>It was officially shut down but I hear there's a private server that's doing well
The pserver is working on a custom suit (F91) and just released a map.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=leihG70fmBQ
The caveat is that matchmaking is still a WIP so you have to join their discord server to find matches. I don't know how active it is since I'm waiting for matchmaking to be finished.

I liked Gundam Evolution. It deserved better.
The private server existing is nice but waiting for 12 players to manually join a lobby isn't the same

>>718321193
Private server has no monetization, all the characters and cosmetics from the original game are unlocked. There are a handful of custom cosmetics now too; the devs figured out how to make the game's gacha system work and give players a free pull for those each day
>>718331007
Just to warn the custom map is pretty jank. The map not being built for GunEvo's gameplay aside the capture point, spawn area etc. don't fully match the visuals of where they're placed. The devs are aware of this and the map will only be openly playable for a month before it's made limited (unavailable to be manually selected, but you can ask the devs to set your lobby to the map. There's an unfinished, unreleased test map in the game which is the same way)

Hawken existed and it died. You aren't allowed to have nice things.

>>718329260
answer me niggas

Anybody playing the TCG?

>>718335225
I kind of want to. I mean, it has miniatures like warhammer too right?

>>718335225
I’m more interested in the miniature game. And I’m only gonna remain interested in that if all of the miniatures are in-scale with each other!
>>718335486
Nope, the miniature thing is a separate game being released later. They just included minis in the TCG as a teaser.

>>718330721
The Versus games. It's only on Arcade and console, and I don't even think console has latest version.

>>718335065
V and X are Southeast Asia-locked. I just pirated them. V is very good.
30 is very good, but the mission structure may put people off.

>>718329260
If you've played one of VXT30 you've played them all. 30 has by far the most content. T has the most interesting post-game stuff through its DLC.

why the fuck are mech games so fucking expensive on steam

Where my plamo guys at?