MechWarrior : Living Legends

[stemnin]

Crysis mod.. so close.. teaser trailer, model pics, etc here http://www.mechlivinglegends.net/newsletter_archive/Feb08_Newsletter.html

Gave me some goosebumps lol

 

[His Shadow]

My God - how I loved Mechwarrior. When is the release date - I ouldn't really tell from the link.

 

[spuddyt]

i never played mechwarrior, what was the gameplay like?

 

[His Shadow]

You would pilot large mechanized vehicles that looked like walking robots but actually had a human pilot in the cockpit. Before all the knock-off games (like mechassault) sort of ruined the genre, the Mechwarrior games ruled supreme. They were pretty detailed like a flight sim in terms of all the different types of mechs you could choose from and all the various weapon loadouts that you could tweak around to your liking. You had to keep track of weight, heat buildup, etc, and make choices. Sort of like a complicated RPG where the vehicle becomes your character. The single player games were great fun, but the multiplayer was even better. They had a rabid fanbase but the developer (FASA I think) closed shop and no one else picked up the franchise. Check it out if you can find a copy.

 

[Sengoku]

Not to rain on anyone's parade, but I don't think these guys have the rights to the MechWarrior IP.

Microsoft closed down their FASA video games studio.

The rights to MechWarrior the best of my knowledge are currently held by Jordan Weisman, original creator of BattleTech, MechWarrior, Shadowrun, Heroclix. As well as some of the video games attached to it.

Last I heard, Jordan Weisman was teaming up with Pete Parsons (Bungie Studio Manager for much of the Halo 1, and 2 run).

That being said, the world is seriously overdue for some hot robot on robot action. And not in the Japanese porn way.

 

[His Shadow]

LOL - I like the reference. I guess we'll see but I would love to have a new, updated, Mechwarrior game.

 

[godsizesnakeyes]

Mechwarrior 2 Mercenaries was the first PC game I ever got into. I had been playing nintento and other early systems since I was around 5 or 6 but when I was around 15 we finnally got a computer and Mechwarrior and Quake were the first games we got for it. I loved MW, played SP over and over and over again.

I would love to play an updated Mechwarrior MP game.

 

[spuddyt]

i saw somewhere that they had permission from M$ (intellectual property wise) to do this..... but i cant find it now so i may have been hallucinating - oh, and from the gameplay, this sounds like my kind of thing

 

[Kraynor]

Wow MW2: Mercenaries was the first one I played too, great game
Going to have to look for a place to pick up mw4: mercs for nostalgia's sake

 

[lukie2008]

1st post woo! that looks cool

 

[infornography42]

****...this might actually manage to make me care about Crysis...

 

[robertito]

If all goes well and this is succesful I might actually buy crysis just to play it.

 

[tallguy1618]

I don't think it will be as good as the original mechwarrior, plus its still going to run crappy for a lot of ppl. My hopes are high though

 

[godsizesnakeyes]

I don't think it will be as good as the original mechwarrior, plus its still going to run crappy for a lot of ppl. My hopes are high though

Yea it's gona be really tuff for a new version to live up to the original mech. I am glad they are going to try thou and all we can do is hope for the best.

 

[DannyBoy27]

At the end of the day, I really take my hat off to these guys who go out there and spend most of their free ( gaming lol ) time designing and building mods for games. And to take on Mech Warrior - the best of the bestest ever in the mech typeset of games - not only fulls me with all sorts of rainbowish kitty cat & marshmellow glee but also makes me excited that I own a copy of Crysis.

Crysis runs super duper on all high @ 1280x1024 at the mo so Im all good and ready to mess around with this mod. But, agreed, this will definately be a challnge. BUT DID YOU SEE THOSE SKINS?!?! Awesome Job. Lets face it - Crysis needs this mod - its beautiful for sure but bland and averagish in terms of story and gameplay. Cant seem to compel myself to finish it. Was driving around in a tank and got over it.

Plus, we havent had a good mech game since MW4.

 

[rockstone1]

Not to rain on anyone's parade, but I don't think these guys have the rights to the MechWarrior IP.

Microsoft closed down their FASA video games studio.

The rights to MechWarrior the best of my knowledge are currently held by Jordan Weisman, original creator of BattleTech, MechWarrior, Shadowrun, Heroclix. As well as some of the video games attached to it.

Last I heard, Jordan Weisman was teaming up with Pete Parsons (Bungie Studio Manager for much of the Halo 1, and 2 run).

That being said, the world is seriously overdue for some hot robot on robot action. And not in the Japanese porn way.

Battletech IS Mechwarrior. They are the exact same, and run on the same universe.

 

[infornography42]

I don't think rights have much to do with the modding community. It is only a rights violation if it is revenue generating or depriving. In this case it is neither.

 

[tallguy1618]

I don't think rights have much to do with the modding community. It is only a rights violation if it is revenue generating or depriving. In this case it is neither.

I would pay $10 for this if it turns out well.

 

[DannyBoy27]

I cant seem to find an indication of how far along this is on the website. Any solid timeframes?

 

[infornography42]

I would pay $10 for this if it turns out well.

And if you did, then it would be copyright infringing unless the modders got liscences for both mechwarrior and Crysis, which I doubt they could do on $10 a copy.

 

[theworminator]

Oh man, Mechwarrior. Nothing like taking a Daishi, loading it up with 3 LBX20 autocannons (well, the LBX were more like shotguns) and an LBX10 and going into the arena. Wow those things could take out anything short of a 60 ton heavy mech in a single alpha strike. Even full assault mechs usually can't take that much damage without falling over, letting you drop in a second alpha strike virtually unopposed.

Damn I feel like playing again now. So much fun with a Sidewinder Force Feedback 2 joystick.

As for the mod, wow that looks great. Seriously, the trailer they have imitates the Mechwarrior 4 Vengeance trailer very well. Looks fantastic.

Note: for release date, the trailer said Winter 2008, though I'm not sure they can make that, none of the screenshots have any texture yet.

 

[gigman]

I feel 4 u man!

 

[stemnin]

Oh man, Mechwarrior. Nothing like taking a Daishi, loading it up with 3 LBX20 autocannons (well, the LBX were more like shotguns) and an LBX10 and going into the arena. Wow those things could take out anything short of a 60 ton heavy mech in a single alpha strike. Even full assault mechs usually can't take that much damage without falling over, letting you drop in a second alpha strike virtually unopposed.

Damn I feel like playing again now. So much fun with a Sidewinder Force Feedback 2 joystick.

As for the mod, wow that looks great. Seriously, the trailer they have imitates the Mechwarrior 4 Vengeance trailer very well. Looks fantastic.

Note: for release date, the trailer said Winter 2008, though I'm not sure they can make that, none of the screenshots have any texture yet.

ahh alpha strike, in MW3 I think I tried to alpha strike with every mech, crazy loadouts to see if I could one shot mechs and stay alive lol

MW3, one of the best intros..

[flash=425,355]http://www.youtube.com/v/YR_ym3Gj2vE&hl=en[/flash]

 

[secolliyn]

As far as i understand from what i've red over the past few months is that they already to have the consent of the Crysis ppl and as for an who owns the mechwarrior Name for games it's Smith and Tinker http://www.smithandtinker.com/ and like it's been said as long as they do not profit from the game Mod they cant be touched i myself have been following the MW:LL for a while now i've seen some actual gameplay footage Total Beta or even Alpha at this point but still looks awsome
tanks/Airplains Mechs of course where all being Simulated it looks great and from what it sounds like is that if they get the support they need as far as wheat needs to be done we are looking at later this year

 

[ouroboros]

I stumbled across this mod some time back but had completely forgotten about it, thanks. I remember sitting at the table in my dad's house with my friends and figuring the heat/dmg issue before every round.

Looks like I may be tracking some of them down for a rematch soon