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[Milocinia]

Be honest now, how many mechs or mech packs have you bought solely because of this guy's tremendous artwork, as opposed to your love or loyalty for PGI or this game?

My hands are up \o/

[Hit the Deck]

He's the sole reason I play this game!

BTW, Sam Wood is also awesome!


EDIT: Sam Wood's works on Sarna

Edited by Hit the Deck, 29 June 2015 - 02:18 PM.

[Maxx Blue]

I quite happily pay money so that a great mech artist has a chance to revise and reimagine some of the (frankly goofy looking) classic BT mechs. The fact that I get to play shooty-bots in them when he is done is sometimes just a bonus! Right now, I'm about laser-boated out. I've been playing a ton of them recently and don't have much of a desire to play another one at the moment. That said, I will probably pay real money for the Crab just because I like the visual design and I want to reward the company for making it. I'm sure I'll get around to playing it eventually, but for now I just want to look at it!

[Milocinia]

Maxx Blue, on 29 June 2015 - 02:06 PM, said:

I quite happily pay money so that a great mech artist has a chance to revise and reimagine some of the (frankly goofy looking) classic BT mechs. The fact that I get to play shooty-bots in them when he is done is sometimes just a bonus! Right now, I'm about laser-boated out. I've been playing a ton of them recently and don't have much of a desire to play another one at the moment. That said, I will probably pay real money for the Crab just because I like the visual design and I want to reward the company for making it. I'm sure I'll get around to playing it eventually, but for now I just want to look at it!

I'm not a TT fanboi nor am I a MW diehard but I do love the franchise and everything that it is. What Alex has drawn is just too good and fair play to PGI for getting at least some of that vision into the game.

[stjobe]

Kyocera, on 29 June 2015 - 01:53 PM, said:

Be honest now, how many mechs or mech packs have you bought solely because of this guy's tremendous artwork, as opposed to your love or loyalty for PGI or this game?

All of them?

Excepting perhaps the founder pack, which I bought because I wanted to help bring a BattleTech game into being. That was what they said they would do; too bad they made... this... instead :/

[Milocinia]

stjobe, on 29 June 2015 - 02:24 PM, said:

All of them?

Excepting perhaps the founder pack, which I bought because I wanted to help bring a BattleTech game into being. That was what they said they would do; too bad they made... this... instead :/

Well... yeah. Not sure I can add anything meaningful or constructive to that!

[One Medic Army]

Guilty...

[Mechteric]

Hit the Deck, on 29 June 2015 - 02:01 PM, said:

He's the sole reason I play this game!

BTW, Sam Wood is also awesome!


EDIT: Sam Wood's works on Sarna

Yummy, the Black Lanner




It was pretty awesome when it was put in MWLL, would also be great in MWO!

Edited by CapperDeluxe, 29 June 2015 - 04:12 PM.

[Lyoto Machida]

I'd have to agree with the OP. I just hope that when paychecks start getting held and people start getting terminated at PGI, Alex is the last to go.

Or maybe the first, if he finds a game company paying him double or triple what he makes now. Whatever PGI is paying him now, it may not be enough for his talent.

[Milocinia]

Lyoto Machida, on 29 June 2015 - 04:23 PM, said:

I'd have to agree with the OP. I just hope that when paychecks start getting held and people start getting terminated at PGI, Alex is the last to go.

Or maybe the first, if he finds a game company paying him double or triple what he makes now. Whatever PGI is paying him now, it may not be enough for his talent.

Alex has pretty much made this game what it is, within his limits as an art designer.

I too genuinely hope he has a bright future beyond this game because his talent is outstanding and could clearly be applied elsewhere.

I think the minute Alex leaves or is removed from the team, I go too.

[El Bandito]

None, actually. I am all about function over form. I am at an age when outer looks matter less to me than what's inside.

[Dirk Le Daring]

I've said it before, and will say it again.......

The battlemech has never looked better.

[CycKath]

I definitely like the unified art style, but long time TT player so its more the brand and lore for why I'm playing.

[MoonUnitBeta]

\o/

[NephyrisX]

Alex is pretty much one of the top reasons why this game stays afloat.

[Mycrus]

Lyoto Machida, on 29 June 2015 - 04:23 PM, said:

I'd have to agree with the OP. I just hope that when paychecks start getting held and people start getting terminated at PGI, Alex is the last to go.

Or maybe the first, if he finds a game company paying him double or triple what he makes now. Whatever PGI is paying him now, it may not be enough for his talent.

Im pretty sure russ/ekman/ their coo from rabbit hole times have perpetual dibs on that.

[CDLord HHGD]

Both!

[Juodas Varnas]

It's a shame, not all mechs are translated well into 3d models.

The most obvious ones being the Centurion and Quickdraw.
They looked so good in Alex's art, but the models don't do the art justice.

Edited by Juodas Varnas, 30 June 2015 - 12:23 PM.

[Heffay]

Kyocera, on 29 June 2015 - 01:53 PM, said:

Be honest now, how many mechs or mech packs have you bought solely because of this guy's tremendous artwork, as opposed to your love or loyalty for PGI or this game?

My hands are up \o/

The guy is a creative genius. I hope he writes a book some day.

[process]

Heffay, on 30 June 2015 - 01:47 PM, said:

The guy is a creative genius. I hope he writes a book some day.

I will buy a coffee table to go with the book.