Re: Ooh! Mechwarrior 5: The Clans is Out

 Xo> Justisaur <justisaur@gmail.com> looked up from reading the entrails of
 Xo> the porn spammer to utter  "The Augury is good, the signs say:


 Xo>> Mechwarrior, I played probably 2 and 3 and enjoyed them quite a bit.
 Xo>> I'm not sure why I never tried 4, or maybe I did and just don't
 Xo>> remember.  I like mechs, and have played a few other mech games, but
 Xo>> nothing really grabbed me (well EDF, but the mechs are a tiny part of
 Xo>> the game, and One Must Fall, but that's just a side arcade battle game
 Xo>> with mech skins.)

 Xo> Mechwarrior4 is when Microsoft took over the franchise and it changed
 Xo> quite a bit.  Fixed weapon slots on the mechs that could only take an
 Xo> energy weapon or a projectile weapon or a missile. The mechs also
 Xo> lost their ponderousness, and while that plays to the Battletech
 Xo> novels about how nimble the things are supposed to be (some kind
 Xo> of artificial muscle moving them not standard robotic gears and
 Xo> such,) it lacked gravitas.

 Xo> Also they did NOT have Mechwarrior 3's destructible terrain.

 Xo>> More actiony sounds better to me, so I'd possibly enjoy it.  There's so
 Xo>> much to play and try though, I'll leave it until it's on deep discount
 Xo>> if I'm ever even so interested to try it.

 Xo> I actually bought mech5 a while back and found it a bit meh, since the
 Xo> campaign forces you solo against loads of enemies guaranteeing your mech
 Xo> will require repairs that will take longer than you have before the next
 Xo> mission - 2-3 of those and you literally have no mech to drive for the
 Xo> next mission.


 Xo> Think I'll skip clans, but they might get me again if they put out a
 Xo> :Mercs, Mech2:mercs and mech4:mercs were the best of their relative
 Xo> groups.   Pity there was never a mech3:mercs though, just mech3 and
 Xo> pirates moon.

I've got Mech5:Mercs.  I love it, but it's a bit repetitive after a while and
I'm starting to lose interest.  I haven't purchased any of the DLCs and am
only about 10 missions in.

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