Thread 719057456

what is your favorite mecha game?

>>719057456 (OP)
starsector

>>719057456 (OP)
Super Robot Wars is pretty good
Xenogears, never played the others besides Xenoblade X.

>>719057456 (OP)
Zone of Enders

I love omega boost but I still can't beat that health regenerating diamond weakspot boss near the end
I like carnage heart but I'm too dumb for it
I like ring of red but I'm too impatient to play it for long. It's so incredibly fucking slow. Great concepts though.
I wish high macs was fully translated.

Titanfall

>>719058120
>carnage heart
based

MechWarrior 3
and Steambot Chronicles

>>719057456 (OP)
ac4 or brigador

Armored Core 2

Armored Core 6

>>719057768
It also has my favorite pilot suit designs. Not too armor, not too plugsuit.

>>719057456 (OP)
>design big heavy machine
>it zips around like a mosquito
why are the japanese like this?

>>719060615
because it looks better than walking like a snail and getting blasted by explosives

SRW Alpha 1

Not much of a competition though.

>>719058120
>health regenerating diamond weakspot boss
Do you mean the one with the respawning chaos emeralds that fuck your shit up if you try to shoot it in the wrong way?
I hate that fucker. Always kills me several times whenever I try to play through the game on hard

this one

Why isn't there an Imperial Knights mod for Mechwarrior or something?

>>719060807
Yeah. I've gotten close to beating him a few times but he always flips his weakspot away and heals just enough for the timer to get me. I'll get him one of these days.

Favorite Mech game is Mechwarrior 5 Mercenaries (With all DLC + mods)
Favorite Mecha game is Armored Core 4

>>719061004
Legal issues?

>>719060807
YES. That one. It's like the devs looked at Omega Boost and said "what if the final exam had you juggling incoming lasers, perfect tracking, and a weakspot the size of a dime that heals if you even blink wrong." I've ragequit that fight more than once-starts off fine, then suddenly it's doing pirouettes in space and beaming me into the next dimension. Still better than that dumb lava corridor with instant kill walls though.

I played Zeonic Front last week, was fun

Name 5 mech games that arent Armored Core

>>719061096
>mech/mecha distinction

>>719061187
Mechwarrior 2, 3, 4, Mechcommander 1, 2

>>719061187
Heavy Gear
Front Mission
Zone of the Enders
Steel Battalion
Iron Harvest

>>719057456 (OP)
Baldr Force. Sky is better combat wise, but I enjoyed Force's story a lot more than high school drama.

>>719061254
All those designs look eastern/japanese.

>>719061404
All mechs look eastern/japanese, it comes free with piloting a giant metal soldier made after gundam.

>>719061404
>>719061526
It's funny because the original BattleTech designs were so obviously inspired by the mechas in Robotech and they even got sued for it which was why some of the mechs had to be redesigned while other can never be used in any new media ever again.

>>719061526
Nah

>>719060663
it completely undermines the design
form follows function

>>719061631
Yeah, the old ones at least. Which aren't the best ones. Designs have improved significantly after Jihad.

>>719057456 (OP)
lost planet.
most of them are slow weapons platforms, but they have a real neat feel even when they anime out at the end of the first game.
also the cute girl had nice boobs.

I really liked the Lost Planet 2 Vital Suits, they start out as bare bones frames but as you get to the real high end gear they get sleek and funky
the only downside is that you don't get to play with the cool ones for very long and they tend to be stuck in very limited areas/mission segments
all of them felt good to pilot though

The modern world needs a fucking Mechassault on the original Xbox type of game and I'm fucking pissed off because it doesn't exist.

there should be more fat mechs

>>719061404
Congratulations on being the first retard in the thread to fall for the ancient obvious troll image. Again.

The joke here is that the Japanese side is all western artists while the western side is actually all Japanese artists.

>>719061262
You just named the same game 5 times

>>719061310
>Armored Core but with shittier wannabe VOTOMS mechs
>Armored Core but dead
>Armored Core but Kangz n shit
>Armored Core but with a fancy controller
>Armored Core but set in WW1
Try again

What recent mecha games you guys recommend besides Armored core?

>>719061907
Two games. MechCommander is an RTS. MechWarrior is a shooter.

>>719061960
Assault Suits Valken

>>719061631
>were so obviously inspired
They were literally the exact same designs for ten years until someone asked them if they actually had the rights to them.
>>719061709
They've gone up and down in quality, but the anime ones were not only their best for ages, but it's also the only reason they do things like head cockpits and human hands. They're insanely anime-inspired. The madcat still has the glaugs legs and arms, for example.

>>719061187
Brigador
Punihi Loader 2
Steambot Chronicles
Murakumo: Renegade Mech pursuit
Shogo: Mobile Armor Division

Of all the games in the world in need of an actual modern quality of life update via a remaster why hasn't Shogo gotten one?

>>719061962
Mechassault is a shooter. Mechwarrior is a sim.
Not that a weeb would know the difference.

>>719062128
Fuck, you got me.

All the Zoids games for the GBA

>>719062306
*tank sim
They should try making a mech version of those games sometime.

>>719062458
Maybe they will once japland does something other that copy the west.

>>719062043
I never got the point of Mechwarrior / Battletech design. Do they purposely want the mechs to look like walking trash cans? Even if going for military realism they could look better

>>719062515
>Do they purposely want the mechs to look like walking trash cans?
Kind of, it goes well with the lore of the Inner Sphere being in a constant state of war for hundreds of years. think warhammer post age of strife, only less extreme.

>>719061713
>Lost Planet 2
I loved that game, really wish capcom would make another one

Clear the way, wimps.

>>719062515
Originally it was just a franchise putting japanese mech designs into a wargame with a tabletop friendly large open setting and lots of mechanical crunch. Over time the the franchise has been sold repeatedly and the fanbase has slowly seeped into the writing room and have retconned and fiddled with parts.
I dunno when they all started pretending they were way cooler than the anime they copied to make it, but it's a total quagmire of influences now. I don't think battletech even really is one thing, it's a dozen things kind of crammed together and everyone just picks out the parts they like.

bipedal armors, exosuits, robots is a retarded concept and I am tired of thinking it's not.

>>719061082
>flips his weakspot away
>timer
Oh. That thing. That's a totally different fight, I think. It's not too bad if you know exactly what to do
I just spam lockon until it flips around then mash the shoot button on its weakspot like a maniac. Kills it very quickly in my experience
Almost managed to do it on hard mode at level 1 for lols but ate shit and died at the last possible second. The timer's a lot longer but you do so much less damage that it doesn't help
Phase 2 would've timed me out even if I survived
>>719061124
It's a real fucker of a fight. Easily the hardest one in the game, maybe barring some of the bonus stages.
I always get mixed up on whether I should be shooting the core and using lockon for the emeralds or the other way around, meaning I get fucked up by the boss's obnoxiously high damage counter-fire
It's not made any easier by how it comes right after the giant mecha-serpent boss

>>719062819
I don't think it's cooler, I just prefer Battletech over something like Gundam. But not in a, "This is better than Gundam" kind of way. I'm just going to spend way more time looking at Battletech stuff than I am Gundam stuff. No hostility intended.

Lost Planet 3 is such utter ASS holy shit.

>>719062902
Yeah, and the terminator and aliens and anything that's cool? Yup, stupid and unrealistic.

I like Synduality.
The awful launch where the reviews will never recover has created a very comfy niche playerbase

>>719062702
How the fuck is this a mecha game, kid? It's literally just a run of the mill 5 hour long fps, with map proportions trying to make you feel like a giant and failing miserably. Deathmatch is cool though, much better than sp

>>719063083
Timber Wolf my beloved

>>719063194
Cause you can play as a man in a mecha.

>>719062515
it makes sense in the context of how the armor and weapon dynamics work and the way mechs are powered and controlled even if it was just a hand wave for selling licensed toy lines as their own thing

>>719063271
Yeah, the madcat looks amazing.

>>719062819
Arguably some do look cool and fit the aesthetic.

>>719063329
But it's not feeling like a mecha game - no simulation, no tactics. It feels like a much better version of Blood 2, and it isnt hard at all to be better than blood 2 lol.

>>719062431
Just play Front Mission

>>719063509
>no simulation, no tactics
Wow, just like regular mechaschlop.

I desperately want a maschinen krieger game
preferably something that plays like soukou kihei votoms

>>719063509
Zone of the enders is a mecha game too, and it's better than the rest.

>>719063625
I would like to see what a smaller armored combat game with lasers and rockets as the main weapons would look like. It's a pretty different concept.

>>719061719
You are me

>>719065021
it probably be like mechwarrior but more faster, having to focus on dealing with being mobile enough to get through the level but tanky enough to endure chip damage

>>719063607
Nigga never played a second of Mechwarrior 1-3 in his entire life.

>>719065434
Those aren't mecha, tardo

>>719063625
Me too brother Maschinen Krieger are the best looking mech ever. At least Brigador is partially inspired by MK most of the Loyalist machines like the Fork, the Mogs and the Kettle.

I loved Front Mission 3 and probably one of the few people who really liked Ring of Red.

>>719065471
Worst bait I've seen.

>was going to post
>ended up playing brigador for a couple hours instead
hrgouehod here's a cropped image
agravs > mechs because my brain can't handle orienting legs towards enemy and I walk into walls all the time
>>719063625
Would be dope.
>>719065487
Hell yeah.

>>719057456 (OP)
>MechWarrior 4: Vengeance
>Zone of the Enders 1 and 2
>Mobile Suit Gundam: Federation vs. Zeon

I wish I liked brigador but I get absolutely nothing out of isometric games. And it's a shame because there's a fair amount of perfectly decent isometric mech shooters.

>>719060615
>19m 60t war machine
>flies in the sky and does maneuvers that would kill a man
Fucking bullshit

>>719057456 (OP)
Pragmata

Haven't played many mech games. My favorite is probably Powered Gear. Cool mech beat em up in which you can switch out your arm, bottom frame, and mounted weapon with whatever the enemy drops.

Battletech: Armored Combat for the Genesis is great as well. You pilot a Madcat and do campaigns Desert Strike styled. It does get hard from campaign two and onward since you're on a fire planet depleting your life and the first mission is literally a tightly timed one on a map you're not familiar with.

Other mech games I'm interested in are the early Mech Warrior games, Gundam Sode Story 0079, Metalstorm, Metal Warriors, Target Earth, Cybernator, Future Cop LAPD, Assault Suits Valken, Front Mission: Gun Hazard, and Ranger X. Played Virtual-On in the arcades, but sparsely. Was a really fun game from what little I've played.

>>719067704
>Armored Warriors
One of my favorite beat them up of all time. Also Cyberbots: Fullmetal Madness is fantastic too.

>>719067882
Wish I was into fighting games because it does look cool as well.

>>719058120
Fuck, forgot about that. Omega Boost is really good.

you guys reminded me of cogmind. i should really get back to playing that but boy oh boy do i hate the visuals and roguelikes. but slotting in different parts and weapons is pretty fun

>>719067882
They're not pure mech games per say but In the Hunt and both GunForce games are pretty good too. Made by the Metal Slug devs so you know its good shit.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPdVe183EVQ

Meat... is obsolete.

SDGO

>>719067129
fighter jets obey the laws of physics with momentum, inertia and a wide turning circle. "Mechs" flit about like tinkerbell from peter pan

>>719070073
Exactly. Jets are outdated and gay. It's ridiculous when a scifi actually pretends we're still going to be using jets and tanks in a hundred years, like we're never going to make anything better.

for answer
earthsiege 2

>>719057456 (OP)
og here. Earth siege, try it, have fun.

Just made a thread about this game when I could've posted it in here. Anyone else played this?

>>719057456 (OP)
had lots of fun with titanfall 2
AC6 is pretty great too

I'm looking forward to Xol. We don't get first person mech shooters enough that aren't tank sims, I just hope people aren't gay and get turned off by the space theme.

>>719075582
I'm gay and I love space.

You now remember Hawken

>>719058120
try the psp carnage heart. the campaign is really just a 20 hour tutorial. you don't even have an excuse of being too dumb by the end of all that handholding

>>719065021
>>719065487
>>719065639
it's crazy that ma.k still hasn't gotten a game, lucky it is getting way more popular in the west. plus I tell everyone I can about it at hobby shops and stuff.

Well, it was at some point...

>>719076234
Why you make me sad

>>719057456 (OP)
for me, it's Chromehounds

>>719076234
Hawken was fun. But I remember disliking the monetization model. Was I correct?

>>719065639
>my brain can't handle orienting legs towards enemy
isn't there a button that auto-orients legs towards your aim? Hold E or something? It helped me a lot.

>>719062681
Nobody tell him about Lost Planet 3.

>>719057456 (OP)
It was Hawken, I don't care for the RTS ones, I don't care for for the third person auto-aim shooters, I just want to feel like I'm sitting in the cockpit controlling a giant robot.
Mech Warrior and that Gundam OW clone were also fine.

>>719076787
Based, I miss it so bad

>>719077121
>I remember disliking the monetization model. Was I correct?
Only if you cared about skin customization.
You could buy every mech and upgrade with in-game grinding from what I remember, but they did lock a lot of skins behind real money transactions.

>>719077428
I know about it already unfortunately...
god that game was ass and after 2 was so fucking good. why did you have to remind me? are you proud of yourself?

>>719063509
>no simulation, no tactics
Just like mechwarrior 5 then?

>>719077960
People kept telling me it was a hardcore mech simulator and I thought I'd have to boot my mech up on start and do shit like reroute my power after critical damage and command my team mates on a map with waypoints and then it was literally just a PVE wave shooter where you get $6 for blowing up a few dozen medium mechs.

>>719078148
5 has more in common with Mechassault than the other MW games

>>719077797
>are you proud of yourself?
No. But I got a sensible chuckle out of it.

>>719078454
Mechassault was dumb fun and at least had handcrafted levels. 5 is a bad simulator with cheap pregen missions. It's the worst of both worlds. Clans wasn't even any better at it.

>>719079118
I wouldn't even call it a simulator, there's no interaction with the mech itself.

>>719077428
lost planet 3 was a cool idea.
it wasn't a lost planet game, but the idea was cool, i would play the SHIT out of a giga-mech trucker style game where you go out into huge storms, gather lost equipment from orbital drops, and defended the base from alinn bugs.
IF, you also had faster options, like a little scout platform you could take into cave, give it a hauling hook you need to use to bring cargo back to the surface for the bigger mech to load up and haul back, and for fucks sake, dont jam it on the end of a weird jap game series that had magical anime fightan robots attacking bugs as a main plot point.

>>719080724
I'd still prefer an actual LP3.

Probably Armored Core: Silent Line but I like VOTOMS ps2 as well.

>>719057456 (OP)
Brigador and Mechassault 2

>>719065639
There's a button in the options that's called "orient to mouse" or something like that. I bound it to my mouse thumb button and it lets you pilot mechs as if they were agravs as long as you keep it pressed. It kinda feels like cheating idk

For me it's the Oxybeles

Rubicon must fall
Rubicon must fall
Rubicon must fall

>>719057456 (OP)
Mechwarrior 4 Mercenaries
To this day it remains unsurpassed.

for me? it's the bushwacker

>>719083356
The Mantis from Halo is honestly a flawless mech design, from a franchise that you don't expect to have good mechs

>>719076787
That game was so good.

But the better question is: which mech would you fuck?

>>719085598
Ibis... erotic...

>>719057456 (OP)
Dolls Nest. If that doesn't count because >mecha musume then Zone of Enders

>>719085598
VR-014 Faiyubi
SRV-14-A Fei-Yen
RVR-14 Fei-Yen the Knight
TF-14C Fei-Yen PanicHeart

in that order

>>719085598
Northstar

Why did Daemon X Machina abandon mecha for power armor?

>>719088681
because they want to tank the IP

>>719088681
The real question is why did they abandon the art style. This new game looks ugly as shit.

>>719088217
lost

the one where it actually feels like you are controlling a mecha with impactful movement and combat, according to anon, it doesnt exist

>>719077225
>>719083294
Oh wtf. Thanks.

>>719083356
I like Usul and Widow the most out of all the spacer mechs. Auto-weaponry is comfy also the Usul has a high-pitched horn that sounds like a dying robot animal

>>719088681
Because Armored Core is back and successful, they're no longer filling in an abandoned niche, why would they make a cheap imitation?

>>719072931
yeah. fun during ncsoft era. died because other fps were making bank than it. the remake in unity is about the same abit more balanced, until you spam grabs and bazookas indoors

>>719085598
andromeda from super mecha champions
narukami from mecha break

>>719057456 (OP)
Mecha mecha, for now that would be
Armored Core 6
Zone of the Enders is just kinda magical

The games with mecha where there's any inertia or a feeling a mechanized combat can be counted on one hands.

If get to count as mecha any spaceship games it could take a while.

>>719090891
Oh wait there's actual pros and cons to doing this, neat.

>>719092682
Yeah you take more damage from behind so if you are getting chased by enemies you shouldn't use it

>>719061254
Amazing bait....most people won't even get it.

future cop lapd

>>719061713
Based

>>719060615
I don't think you watched enough anime, anon.
Most "real robot" mechs are slow as shit. Even Gundams are meant to be slow as fuck on the ground, they are only fast in the air and in space.
The only exceptions are those shitty Gundam AUs and slop like Unicorn.

>>719061187
>Earthsiege/Starsiege
>Brigador
>MekHQ
>Mechwarrior games
>Mechcommander
>Battle Engine Aquila
>Power Dolls
>CRW Metal Jacket
>Front Mission
>Ring of Red
>Kriegsfront Tactics
>GNOME
>HIGH-MACS Simulator
>Phantom Crash + S.L.A.I.: Steel Lancer Arena International
>Knight Blade Howling of Kerberos
>Virtual-On Cyber Troopers

>>719094393
I think you are the one who does not watch anime faggot

>>719057456 (OP)
Action: Armored Core 6
Other: Xenogears

When I was young, I used to love Mechwarrior 3.
Nowadays, it's a franchise that need to DIE.

>year 2025
>physics engines and ragdolls are now almost mandatory feature
>reverse kinematic allow to graphically match on any terrain
>modern engines let the player character body and view rotate 360° up and down
>modern AI are capable of navigating outside prewritten path

So what the fuck are they still making GLORIFIED TANK GAME ?
Where the hell is my Patlabor game with Mudrunner level physics?

>>719094654
Armored Core 6

>>719094654
Hold up. How did a game this old manage to zoom in just a fraction of the screen while modern games, like the recent Battlefield 6, zoom in the entire screen when looking through a sight?

If I had to choose one to play for the rest of my life, G Generation.
While I love the other games mentioned in this thread, I think G Generation has the most replayability.

Has anybody ever played Sequence Palladium? I really want to get into it but the game system is rather complex and I can't find a manual for it.

>>719061719
>no MechAssault HD collection
>no MechAssault 3
MS are so goddamn stupid. They’re not trying to sell consoles anymore so exciting announcements like that will likely never happen

>>719094948
It's basically the same as the mirror situation, to do the two different zoom levels it renders the world twice and that has an unacceptable performance impact for a game like Battlefield

>>719094948
pretty sure you can turn off the fov change when using scopes in bf6

>>719057456 (OP)
I've been playing Mecharashi
It's alright I just wish it wasn't gachashit

Which Gundam games are really good?

>>719096164
None they're all cursed into being mediocre at their very best.

>>719092565
Not to mention that "American mech" is not really American. Timber Wolf design was ripped off from SDF Macross.

>>719096164
G Generation series
Gundam vs Z Gundam
Gundam Extreme VS series
Gihren's Greed series
...That's about it.
I hear Senjou no Kizuna is amazing but you need to go to Japan to play it.

>>719057456 (OP)
mechcommander gold

>>719096164
While I'm a Tomino fanboy, I belive W and SEED are better entry points than 0079.

>>719098639
Imo it depends on person's ability to watch pre-80s action anime.

>>719098639
war in the pocket is the best entry point imo

>>719092565
left is just a giant android

>Mecha
Dead genre

>>719057456 (OP)
attack on titan

>>719098953
Facts. Mecha died with the 90s Votoms ovas.

>>719098841
It's a great movie but can newfags understand what's going on to begin with?

>>719099009
Those game were pretty great, but does it really count as a mecha game when you spend 90% of the gameplay fighting as infantry against (flesh)mechas, rather than piloting one yourself?

>>719099052
idk it was my personal entry point. i don't think you really need to know the indepth history of UC to get a lot out of it, since it's mostly focused on the characters with some action thrown in

For me, its Votoms, Front Mission and Titanfall
Its like the same design philosophy from different decades

>>719057456 (OP)
>what is your favorite mecha game?
High-Macs.

It's a Gungriffon fan game that if the dev jap had any sense he'd sell.

It's an almost perfect blend of high mobility mecha with mech style simulation and outstandingly gritty audio design.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5J-r3EmPYmg

>>719099684
Good point.
I was focuesed on questions like "who are these people and why are they at war?" but on a second thought I guess that's unimportant compared to the personal struggles of the people who had no choice in being in a war.

>>719076234
This was my first VR game. It was a good'un.

>>719058602
The briefings in MW3 were so cool. I felt like I was there.

>>719057556
There‘s like no mecha in that game

>>719061187
Armored Core 2
Armored Core 3
Armored Core 4

>>719101928
>Not Armored Core1
Understandable.
The lack of analog sticks makes the control painful. I honestly don't know how I put up with it when I played it.

Hello, trannies! Really mech game for real mech game enthusiasts coming through!

early mechwarrior online was so fucking good...
i will never forgive pgi their incompetence.

>>719099713
I hope you mean the PS2 Votoms game. Yeah, that one rocks.

>>719057456 (OP)
What is the purpose of the codpiece?

>>719094623
I wouldn't call any of that "zipping around like a mosquito" it's pretty slow compared to the ballerina shit you get in Unicorn and other garbage. Hell, it's basically as fast as VOTOMs are when it comes to using jet-boosters on the ground. I even was going to originally mention VOTOMs in my post before.
Also
>ZZ
Literal slop

>>719104519
back up generator is stored there

>>719101648
it's essentially a super robot wars mount and blade with the right mods

It's a toss up between Mechwarrior 2: Mercs for the pure effort that went into everything or modded HBS Battletech (BEX mod) that scratches my itch for turn-based and modern battletech.
I should really set up a Megamek against the bot campaign desu, but it seems insanely involved.

>>719057456 (OP)
edf 4 or 5 probly
every other mech game is either tactical turn based or super-sonic fly around mech, which doesnt appeal to me
also mech warrior is a bit too slow and realistic for me tho its closer to what i want

>>719063192
i was excited about that game til i learned it was another fucking extraction shooter
I want an open world mech game like steambot chronicles