Originally posted by X-Porter

Originally posted by hidden1

The Makers of Eve should develop it for microsoft.  Imagine the customizational aspects it could have.  Just a thought.

 

Nah. The makers of EVE should develop it for EVE.

A lot of players want some kind of ground combat in EVE. I'm not interested in running around as a foot-slogger, but plug my capsule into a customizable battle frame? Yeah, I'd be into that.

I was holding out for a NA release of Front Mission Online, but SE went Japan only with it. Even an Armored Core MMO would be cool. There are a lot of Mech properties out there that could work.

I'll have to look up Front Mission Online, as I completely enjoyed the turn-based Front Mission 4 on PlayStation2.  Aweseome game, great custimization of the mechs, and great skill synergy combo systems in the fighting.  I so enjoyed the Link combo system.  Thought it was very original and innovative.
 

too bad the servers shut down, this game actually looks great...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZuEu08rRXZ8&feature=related

Originally posted by mansamtam

Thanks guys, i'll have a look at both of those.

It's good to know someone has thought of doing that sort of MMO, it's just a shame that microsoft are holding back. I agree that if they do decide to make it they would launch on the Xbox, SHAME on them!

Microsoft let the license for all the former FASA IPs go back to Jordan Weissman.  His new company, Smith and Tinker now has the rights to Mechwarrior, Crimson Skies and Shadowrun.  I'm not sure what they have in the works, but I don't think it's either Mech5 or a Mechwarrior MMO.  He has been more interested in collectible games than video games for the last decade.  Hopefully though, without Microsoft sitting on the license, we can finally hope to see a new 'Mech game soon.

Ideally,  I'd like to see a combined arms Battletech MMO... With 'Mechs, tanks, areospace.... of course I still think we are a long way away from any game that cool.  I'd even be happy with a regular Mechwarrior game at this point.... unfortunately, no one seems to be working on one, and it's been six years since the last one released.

links of interest...

http://www.shacknews.com/onearticle.x/50247

http://www.smithandtinker.com/

http://www.mechlivinglegends.net/component/option,com_frontpage/Itemid,1/

 A MW MMO will never work ,any Mech or Mecha MMOG will work for that matter cause it will just be like playing a online match with a bunch of guys,look at Exteel,it's considered a MMOG but it realy isnt in almost any aspect.

 However a game based on several factions fighting in space for territory,having politics etc (like in EVE) and having mech/mechas as a feature that is hard to obtain would be more intresting.

 Also a exemple of why a full out combat game wont work long time,look at Planet Side,it was good at the begining but it's barerly standing on it's feet.

I think we just need to quit thinking every MMO released has to be just like the ones released in the past.  First, it doesn't need to be an RPG to be an MMO.   I think MPBT 3025 was a step in the right direction, but the lackluster graphics and controls doomed it to never launch. 

I believe that there is a huge market for action or FPS games that are perpetual and persistent.  people play those game because they are exciting and fun to play.  People love MMOs because they offer persistence, long term goals, and rewards for hard work and dedication... even though the goals and rewards are virtual, it still triggers a part of us that feels satisfaction at the completion of a task.

I think we are long overdue for MMOs that are actually exciting and fun to play, rather than boring and repetitive to play, but rewarding.  I don't need levels or skills in a mech MMO to make it fun for me... in fact I'd prefer it had neither.  All the game has to do in terms of progression and experience rewards is offer access to more equipment, or promotions in rank that don't make you more combat effective.  The last thing I would want to see are levels that make people do more damage with the same equipment... some RPG mechanics just have no place in a skill based, action game.

I remember playing online mech games. I dont know that an MMO would add anything to the normal 8v8 game

Originally posted by redcap036

Heres an intresting link, if you like Mechwarrior or BattleTech and you own copy of Crysis pc game.

http://www.moddb.com/mods/mechwarrior-living-legends

and from youtube;

http://www.youtube.com/results?search_type=&search_query=battletech&aq=f

Enjoy!

Awesome links Redcap! 

Thought I'd add a news article for your living legends link. 

http://www.mechlivinglegends.net/newsletter_archive/October_News_Letter.html

definitely. it was a shame that fasa shut down, the shadowrun game on 360 was crap.

 i used to love all the books and models, and activision's mechwarrior 2 and mechcommander games were brilliant. mech 2 was the first game i ever bought for a pc, and i remember playing netmech over kali all those years ago. to think that a ten meg download took hours, the joys of 28.8k modems. how things have changed :)

Something else for the mech fans to check out.  It's a free to play browser game... but it is really high quality for being either of those.  it's definitely worth checking out if you are a mech fan. it isn't Battletech 'Mechs, but it is pretty decent western style mecha.

http://www.loreaftermath.com/

I've seen a few Mech games, but to me the Battletech universe really is what would draw me to play that MMO. I love the combined arms idea. I was thinking along the same lines. Whoever mentioned Planetside. IMHO it proved that it CAN be done. The reason the servers are getting empty is that it is now dated and no significantly new content has been added for quite a while.

Dang it would be so cool. House allegiances, famous regiments, fighting the clans, dueling it out on Solaris... Gotta stop. I'm drooling.

It has lore, from the empire to 5 houses to outer clans and the side stories like the mercs.

It has armed forced combo, not just Mechs, but jump ships, LAMs, tanks, infantry, and yes infantry matters, if you overheat a mech after it fires its twin PPC, by a flame throwing infantry, you got to shut down then mech, and capture it.

It has the basis for RvR, say the 5 houses, with wild cards such as merc, or a 2 sided conflict, inner sphere vs outer clans.

So much potential and yet nothing coming out at all.

I've been playing Mechwarrior4: merc's demo all day, I've re-installed MW3, MW3-PM, MW4 demo and I've also installed them on my 2nd PC, then I went on eBay looking for the full versions MW4-V&BK aswell as MW4:Merc's, I coundn't help it, I've held out for so long, I'm gonna overdose myself on the old versions, till the Crysis MW5:LL comes out or Force of Arms open's.

DEATH FROM ABOVE!

@hidden1, that's an even better link,cheers! -seen this one? http://www.mechwarrior3.org/wordpress/?page_id=2  

@salvatoris, Instantaction.com is a great site, I also luv the WW1 dogfight game they got and Fallen legion just rock's, there are some very cool games on that site. Link for anyone who wants to see; http://www.instantaction.com/#   
 

apparently Square Enix's next MMO is going to be based around mechs.

http://superrobotwar.files.wordpress.com/2009/04/srwhotnews_newfmx360.jpg

ask and you shalt recieve!

Originally posted by redcap036

I've been playing Mechwarrior4: merc's demo all day, I've re-installed MW3, MW3-PM, MW4 demo and I've also installed them on my 2nd PC, then I went on eBay looking for the full versions MW4-V&BK aswell as MW4:Merc's, I coundn't help it, I've held out for so long, I'm gonna overdose myself on the old versions, till the Crysis MW5:LL comes out or Force of Arms open's.

DEATH FROM ABOVE!

@hidden1, that's an even better link,cheers! -seen this one? http://www.mechwarrior3.org/wordpress/?page_id=2  

@salvatoris, Instantaction.com is a great site, I also luv the WW1 dogfight game they got and Fallen legion just rock's, there are some very cool games on that site. Link for anyone who wants to see; http://www.instantaction.com/#   
 

There was a Mechwarrior 4 compliation released a few years ago by Atari.  I bought a bunch of copies when it was 20 bucks, but I don't have any of them left laying around.  You can probably still find copies of it on ebay.  Since Microsoft and Mythic stopped work on the game, Mektek has added a ton of content.  There MechPaks are pretty much required for online play... They added like 50 new mechs, including the lost mechs that FASA can't show any more. They also added power armor and infantry, and a ton of new weapons and equipment to the game.  they are also working on a couple of different stand-alone mech games.  Check them out @ www.mektek.net

I have a Mechwarrior team that i founded in 2000. We have a relatively small group still playing Mech, but we are still a close team ane we get togeether for a week of LAN gaming every summer. We were pretty big in our heyday, winning first place in the BattleZone league for 13 straight months starting the month Mech4 released.  If anyone is looking for someone to play Mech4 with, or if you have any questions about the game, check us out.  I haven't been playing for a long time time, but we do still have some active guys and we keep a server running.  www.DeathDealerMercenaries.com

Multiplayer Battletech 3025
Sadly this one never made it out of Beta.

Originally posted by Wieland

Multiplayer Battletech 3025
Sadly this one never made it out of Beta.

I was in the beta for that game and it was pretty tight and very close to completion when MS forced EA to pull the plug on it.  Rather a bizarre situation, MS licensed out the IP to Kesmai (the developers of MPBT 3035 and Solaris) with EA publishing and running the MMO (EA had just purchased Kesmai at the time).  This was at the same time MS had "The Zone" for their games which had a matchmaking service for the MechWarrior games.  For some reason, literally a few weeks away before MPBT 3025 went final, MS came to the conclusion that having a MMO Mechwarrior game would take away profits from The Zone and potential box sales of Mechwarrior as well and forced EA to pull the plug. 

At the time MPBT 3025 was going through it's closed beta process, it was the #1 game on EA.com, despite the fact it was not an open beta.  It had more players logged in during prime time hours than any other EA online game at the time.

Fuhyo

Originally posted by Salvatoris

Originally posted by redcap036

I've been playing Mechwarrior4: merc's demo all day, I've re-installed MW3, MW3-PM, MW4 demo and I've also installed them on my 2nd PC, then I went on eBay looking for the full versions MW4-V&BK aswell as MW4:Merc's, I coundn't help it, I've held out for so long, I'm gonna overdose myself on the old versions, till the Crysis MW5:LL comes out or Force of Arms open's.

DEATH FROM ABOVE!

@hidden1, that's an even better link,cheers! -seen this one? http://www.mechwarrior3.org/wordpress/?page_id=2  

@salvatoris, Instantaction.com is a great site, I also luv the WW1 dogfight game they got and Fallen legion just rock's, there are some very cool games on that site. Link for anyone who wants to see; http://www.instantaction.com/#   
 

 

There was a Mechwarrior 4 compliation released a few years ago by Atari.  I bought a bunch of copies when it was 20 bucks, but I don't have any of them left laying around.  You can probably still find copies of it on ebay.  Since Microsoft and Mythic stopped work on the game, Mektek has added a ton of content.  There MechPaks are pretty much required for online play... They added like 50 new mechs, including the lost mechs that FASA can't show any more. They also added power armor and infantry, and a ton of new weapons and equipment to the game.  they are also working on a couple of different stand-alone mech games.  Check them out @ www.mektek.net

I have a Mechwarrior team that i founded in 2000. We have a relatively small group still playing Mech, but we are still a close team ane we get togeether for a week of LAN gaming every summer. We were pretty big in our heyday, winning first place in the BattleZone league for 13 straight months starting the month Mech4 released.  If anyone is looking for someone to play Mech4 with, or if you have any questions about the game, check us out.  I haven't been playing for a long time time, but we do still have some active guys and we keep a server running.  www.DeathDealerMercenaries.com

Hopefully I will be able to buy the MW4-V&BK games next week, Mektek.net looks great, thank's for the info & link's, you can find me on Lore aftermath on instantaction.com, or in the Ace of Ace's game,( just got my Fokker Dr1 tri-plane), cheers again Salvatoris.

Originally posted by Fuhyo

Originally posted by Wieland

Multiplayer Battletech 3025
Sadly this one never made it out of Beta.

 

I was in the beta for that game and it was pretty tight and very close to completion when MS forced EA to pull the plug on it.  Rather a bizarre situation, MS licensed out the IP to Kesmai (the developers of MPBT 3035 and Solaris) with EA publishing and running the MMO (EA had just purchased Kesmai at the time).  This was at the same time MS had "The Zone" for their games which had a matchmaking service for the MechWarrior games.  For some reason, literally a few weeks away before MPBT 3025 went final, MS came to the conclusion that having a MMO Mechwarrior game would take away profits from The Zone and potential box sales of Mechwarrior as well and forced EA to pull the plug. 

At the time MPBT 3025 was going through it's closed beta process, it was the #1 game on EA.com, despite the fact it was not an open beta.  It had more players logged in during prime time hours than any other EA online game at the time.

Fuhyo

Pity if they had gone ahead, it most likely would have been the king of mmorpg's and we most likely would never have heard of WoW, they really did put a lot of work into this, http://www.mpbt3025.com/ if you look under images in the side bar menu, you can see they had very exstensive list of mech's to offer, maybe we should all just start hassling EA to re-release it now,( it can't hurt The Zone or the MW franchise any more now!), man what a waste, just make's me want to cry, specially when you look at the current stock of mmorpg's we got to play.

There are 2 MMO's I have been patiently waiting for for many years now. A Star Trek MMO (Which is finally coming) and a Battletech/Mechwarrior MMO, which I agree, would make for a fantastic setting.

Originally posted by redcap036

Originally posted by Fuhyo

Originally posted by Wieland

Multiplayer Battletech 3025
Sadly this one never made it out of Beta.

 

I was in the beta for that game and it was pretty tight and very close to completion when MS forced EA to pull the plug on it.  Rather a bizarre situation, MS licensed out the IP to Kesmai (the developers of MPBT 3035 and Solaris) with EA publishing and running the MMO (EA had just purchased Kesmai at the time).  This was at the same time MS had "The Zone" for their games which had a matchmaking service for the MechWarrior games.  For some reason, literally a few weeks away before MPBT 3025 went final, MS came to the conclusion that having a MMO Mechwarrior game would take away profits from The Zone and potential box sales of Mechwarrior as well and forced EA to pull the plug. 

At the time MPBT 3025 was going through it's closed beta process, it was the #1 game on EA.com, despite the fact it was not an open beta.  It had more players logged in during prime time hours than any other EA online game at the time.

Fuhyo

 

Pity if they had gone ahead, it most likely would have been the king of mmorpg's and we most likely would never have heard of WoW, they really did put a lot of work into this, http://www.mpbt3025.com/ if you look under images in the side bar menu, you can see they had very exstensive list of mech's to offer, maybe we should all just start hassling EA to re-release it now,( it can't hurt The Zone or the MW franchise any more now!), man what a waste, just make's me want to cry, specially when you look at the current stock of mmorpg's we got to play.

I think we are looking back at MPBT with rose colored glasses.  I played it heavily, and enjoyed some aspects of it.  Unfortunately game-play wasn't one of them.  The matches took place on small featureless maps and were generally over within a few seconds of the two sides coming in to contact with each other.  The biggest issue that game has was trying to compare to Mechwarrior 4 in terms of gameplay.