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[xLegionx5]

Wow I've been a really big fan of the mechwarrior franchise since I was little. I really enjoyed playing Mechassault on my old xbox and now I see that Mechwarrior online, which looks bloody amazing, is not coming on 360. Why is that?!?!

[akaChrisHimself]

Not sure if serious or just new.

[Evgeny Bear]

because Xbox sucks?

[Woodstock]

PC better reflects the play style?

I know consoles were considered though

[TheFreeman]

Good luck playing a simulator with a Xbox 360 gamepad...

[Antaumus]

Xbox360 has the processing power of a modern phone. Costs allot of money and time to make a console title as microsoft/sony make you jump through hoops and pay them royalties. Consoles are evil and the bane of gaming. They also suck.

[oohawkoo]

=.= why the hell would you wanna play it on a xbox ~~ they suck!!!

[Falcrist]

Because graphics on Xbox suck

[Ancalagon]

Because I know that every single Mechwarrior game I've ever played has used up over half of my keys of my keyboard. How many buttons does a controller have?

I'll just give you a little hint: It's not enough, and if they stripped down the controls till it actually worked on an Xbox controller, it would mean dumbing down the game. We don't need any more stripped down games due to limitations of a console.

[Striker1980]

The original Mechwarrior 5 considered it for sales reasons I believe, however it was dropped as it was too expensive and they couldn't find a developer to help them develop it, and to be honest I tried MechAssault 1 & 2 and they are pretty poor compared to PC versions of the game.

I don't know if it's just poor design but most console games these days just feel like a walk down a restrictive path with no way over the fence.

Mechwarrior is best on sprawling battlefields with lots of cover and no silly restrictions on being able to go off the path.

In conclusion, this is a PC MMO/Sim it really wouldn't work to well on a console, Mechwarrior 5, if they got the funding, however I don't know, I'd hope it'd stick to the mechwarrior 2/3 formula, not the Mechassault canyon run format.

Edited by Striker1980, 07 June 2012 - 01:23 AM.

[Mchawkeye]

How many reasons do you want?
Simulation games are not best suited to the 360. Partly due to the controller I think.
FtP games cannot exist on the 360, thanks to MS pricing structure.
MW has always been a PCgame (whilst I accept there were the odd console ports) that is where the vast majority of the fan bases remains.
MMO-type games just don't seem to happen on the console.

I wouldn't mind seeing it on the xbox- and no, it doesn't suck- but I just think that its not the obvious place for a game such as this; this style, the FtP model....

[Badgerpants]

It is in Gods name that it isn't being released on console!



Seriously! Can you imagine whan they'd have to do to this game to fit it on a console? Wash your mouth out!

[Dr Killinger]

Mechassault was on the Xbox, but it wasn't even nearly a proper Mechwarrior game. This harks back to the Halcyon days of Mechwarrior, where you need dozens of keys to get things done. A controller simply doesn't have that capability.

Secondly, as has been said here, the big consoles have been around for a while now, and are really, REALLY starting to show their age. Releasing this title on multiple platforms would gimp the gameplay and graphics very badly. Maps would be small, battles would be small, graphics would be sub-par. The Crytek engine is capable of such advanced graphics and fantastic effects and mechanics, but consoles aren't.

A lot of the guys are being a bit aggressive about it, but the gist is that this game cannot be fully realized on a console.

[Evgeny Bear]

STUPID CONSOLES


thank god I have a Playstation 3 instead!

[Mchawkeye]

Dr Killinger, on 07 June 2012 - 01:25 AM, said:

A lot of the guys are being a bit aggressive about it, but the gist is that this game cannot be fully realized on a console.

A wee bit of an underestimation there methinks...

[Tryg]

If you have to ask why this isn't being released on a console....you have not been following directions!

[jlbdeath]

xbox 360 sucks? any game that has been a mechwarrior title has sucked so bad that it has a curse warning for all developers when designed for the xbox. also the xbox has so many issues that any true gaming develper who wants a true sim like experiance wont touch the xbox with a 10 foot pole. also my xbox has had the sound stop working the video mess up the interface crap out etc etc so 1 time for the 90 buck repair bill xbox can die a good death any time now.

[SNOWHOUND]

from what i gather .. you liked mechwarrior based on mech assault?!
funny joke.
also consoles are nothing to a pc!

[Zerstorer Stallin]

Antaumus, on 07 June 2012 - 01:18 AM, said:

Xbox360 has the processing power of a modern phone. Costs allot of money and time to make a console title as microsoft/sony make you jump through hoops and pay them royalties. Consoles are evil and the bane of gaming. They also suck.

this

[Aelos03]

every pc game that was ported to consoles sucks and thats why i don't want mwo to get even near that ugly thing