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[Zensei]

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[DocBach]

I like Heavy Gear, but it's going to be a really different game than MWO - to those who think MWO is twitch based, Heavy Gear is literally going to be focused on high-speed arena fighting, and Gears are more like infantry battle armor than mechs.

[Bishop Steiner]

Never could get into Heavy Gear, but will give this one a try, and see. (Just like Warhammer games and I never seemed to click)

[Sybreed]

Bishop Steiner, on 13 May 2014 - 04:03 PM, said:

Never could get into Heavy Gear, but will give this one a try, and see. (Just like Warhammer games and I never seemed to click)

Hopefully heavy gear will be the game Hawken wanted to be but failed. In my case, Heavy Gear is another nostalgic title like MW.

[Bishop Steiner]

Sybreed, on 13 May 2014 - 04:05 PM, said:

Hopefully heavy gear will be the game Hawken wanted to be but failed. In my case, Heavy Gear is another nostalgic title like MW.

Yeah, I tried. I think one of the things that kept a lot of games from clicking, and what keeps even broken, lumbering MW working for me, is basically, only 2 or 3 game systems EVER had any kind of decent fluff and fiction backing them. The HG universe, like so many others just felt really generic to me.

[Zensei]

it always reminds me of Tribes.

[Hillslam]

Tribes indeed. Same here.

[Agent 0 Fortune]

The only thing I remember a about heavy gear is roller skating mechs, which is only slightly more lame (is lame OK? I don't want the disabled climbing up my ass like the gays) than jumping mechs.

Edited by Agent 0 Fortune, 13 May 2014 - 04:37 PM.

[Hollow Earth]

Hmm, Tribes? I like those games. had lots of fun with Ascend until Hi-Rez killed it off for that MOBA game.
Hopefully this would have better map design for team games then Hawken does. Siege/Missile Assault games on Bazaar are so hilariously one sided because one side gets the part of the map that is completely bottle necked with only 3 paths while the other gets an open field area full of cover. ugh.

[Bishop Steiner]

Agent 0 Fortune, on 13 May 2014 - 04:35 PM, said:

(is lame OK? I don't want the disabled climbing up my ass like the gays)

I see what you did there.......

[Hans Von Lohman]

The "arena" mecha combat sports teams is what doesn't do it for me.

Heavy Gear was always supposed to be about the South polar nations versus the North polar nations, with wildcard minor powers playing bit parts, taking place in the massive desert around the equator.

I don't want to play in a glorified sports team. Granted, that does exist in HG setting, but it ins't the main plot anymore than Solaris VII is the "main" way to play Mechwarrior. It just isn't.

[Helmer]

Had some great times with Heavy Gear. Not nearly as much as Mechwarrior, but still, could be worth watching. Thanks!



Moving to Off Topic.

[Agent 0 Fortune]

Now it is like rollerball meets robotjox.

[Sybreed]

Hans Von Lohman, on 13 May 2014 - 04:57 PM, said:

The "arena" mecha combat sports teams is what doesn't do it for me.

Heavy Gear was always supposed to be about the South polar nations versus the North polar nations, with wildcard minor powers playing bit parts, taking place in the massive desert around the equator.

I don't want to play in a glorified sports team. Granted, that does exist in HG setting, but it ins't the main plot anymore than Solaris VII is the "main" way to play Mechwarrior. It just isn't.

I do hope they plan on doing a campaign of some sort... cause I'm also sharing that opinion. I might try it, but if it's just a battle arena, mehhhh.

[Zensei]

lol, moved the topic, thats why I stopped paying back in 2012, some things never change. I finally post on the general forums and its moved, ironic.

So guess I will still not be paying? lol

[Strum Wealh]

Bishop Steiner, on 13 May 2014 - 04:10 PM, said:

Yeah, I tried. I think one of the things that kept a lot of games from clicking, and what keeps even broken, lumbering MW working for me, is basically, only 2 or 3 game systems EVER had any kind of decent fluff and fiction backing them. The HG universe, like so many others just felt really generic to me.

Unfortunately, HG just didn't get the level of involvement that BT/MW did - what with the 100+ BT novels & short stories, dozen(-ish) video games, and cartoon series.

Though, HG did get two video games (the first of which was more of an interactive movie, and the second of which was more of a conventional game with a decent story) and its own animated series (which followed a more Duelist-oriented format (the equivalent of BT/MW's Solaris VII) rather than the "gritty warfare" format; I did (and still do) wish they had gone with something more in the style of ExoSquad - perhaps detailing a renewed conflict with between Terra Nova and Earth (or just telling the story of a squad of Gear pilots from the first such conflict), or just detailing some skirmishes between the CNCS and the AST).

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Zensei, on 13 May 2014 - 04:20 PM, said:

it always reminds me of Tribes.

Agent 0 Fortune, on 13 May 2014 - 04:35 PM, said:

The only thing I remember a about heavy gear is roller skating mechs, which is only slightly more lame (is lame OK? I don't want the disabled climbing up my ass like the gays) than jumping mechs.

In the same way that BattleTech took from conventional large mecha anime (Macross, Dougram, Crusher Joe), Heavy Gear drew heavily from a 1983 anime called Armored Trooper Votoms - the eponomous "armored troopers" ("ATs") were generally the same size and shape as Gears, and featured the same skates-in-feet gimmick.

Edited by Strum Wealh, 13 May 2014 - 05:31 PM.

[Bishop Steiner]

Strum Wealh, on 13 May 2014 - 05:27 PM, said:

Unfortunately, HG just didn't get the level of involvement that BT/MW did - what with the 100+ BT novels & short stories, dozen(-ish) video games, and cartoon series.

Though, HG did get two video games (the first of which was more of an interactive movie, and the second of which was more of a conventional game with a decent story) and its own animated series (which followed a more Duelist-oriented format (the equivalent of BT/MW's Solaris VII) rather than the "gritty warfare" format; I did (and still do) wish they had gone with something more in the style of ExoSquad - perhaps detailing a renewed conflict with between Terra Nova and Earth (or just telling the story of a squad of Gear pilots from the first such conflict), or just detailing some skirmishes between the CNCS and the AST).

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In the same way that BattleTech took from conventional large mecha anime (Macross, Dougram, Crusher Joe), Heavy Gear drew heavily from a 1983 anime called Armored Trooper Votoms - the eponomous "armored troopers" ("ATs") were generally the same size and shape as Gears, and featured the same skates-in-feet gimmick.

VOTOMs, btw, being one of the best mecha anime ever devised, IMO

[Sybreed]

Strum Wealh, on 13 May 2014 - 05:27 PM, said:

Unfortunately, HG just didn't get the level of involvement that BT/MW did - what with the 100+ BT novels & short stories, dozen(-ish) video games, and cartoon series.

Though, HG did get two video games (the first of which was more of an interactive movie, and the second of which was more of a conventional game with a decent story) and its own animated series (which followed a more Duelist-oriented format (the equivalent of BT/MW's Solaris VII) rather than the "gritty warfare" format; I did (and still do) wish they had gone with something more in the style of ExoSquad - perhaps detailing a renewed conflict with between Terra Nova and Earth (or just telling the story of a squad of Gear pilots from the first such conflict), or just detailing some skirmishes between the CNCS and the AST).

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In the same way that BattleTech took from conventional large mecha anime (Macross, Dougram, Crusher Joe), Heavy Gear drew heavily from a 1983 anime called Armored Trooper Votoms - the eponomous "armored troopers" ("ATs") were generally the same size and shape as Gears, and featured the same skates-in-feet gimmick.

Hell, I still remember some quotes and pilot names of the 2nd game.

"Welcome to Gomorrah, asscrack the universe"

And the 2 pilot names were, I think "Tharne Wulf" and "Robie Gray" Something like that

[S3dition]

Didn't activision do this after it lost the Mechwarrior license? lol.

I guess when you lose Battletech, you go Heavy Gear.

[Spokes]

Or Earthsiege/Starsiege/Tribes.