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[Huntsman]

I'll still occasionally pull that up on youtube just because I suddenly get in the mood to watch that. I wish MWO released a cinematic intro.I kept thinking that would eventually happen, but no dice.

I can't think of any other images, but there are several MW:Mercs quotes that have stuck with me.

[jackswift]

I didn't discover Battletech/Mechwarrior until late in its life at MW3. For me the defining symbol would definitely be the intro to MW3 though. Close second is the concept/control functionality of MC2. Saw a friend play that for a just a couple of minutes and I was hooked instantly. Still have both of them in working order on my pc atm too.

Wish I had TT and the friends to have played it with in its hayday though. Sounds like a spectacular way to spend few weekends. A few people in my unit created a TT-like campaign they enacted through private matches in MWO. I got to act as the OpFor in a few missions and it was fun being the bad guys on occassion. Even got to hire an assassin or two at a staged protest and watch the chaos ensue. Everyone had their huds off and was just after SIB got released so the SIB played the coppers at the protest.

[Saint Scarlett Johan]

This. They had a bunch of these for sale at a poster shop when I was a kid and I liked it. So I bought one. When a friend saw it, he told me what it was and it all began from there.

[Davers]

Kevjack, on 11 March 2015 - 10:14 AM, said:

YES! I came to post exactly this.

Me being a black guy, I always laugh at the thought of being Hardcase, whenever I get to cocky and die early in a match.

Now that there's VOIP, everyone on the team can hear me say "Ejecting, ejecting ejectiiiiing!!!!!"

I still watch this intro all the time. Mechcommander was such an amazing experience when I was a kid.

Hardcase was badass. I actually tried to take that as a name, but someone beat me to it.

[ilikerice]

Once upon a Christmas,

I showed up to my cousin's house where he was proceeding to smash on mechs in Mechwarrior 3. He was a total bad ass with his brand new Microsoft sidewinder joystick murdering things with ease, where as I had a barely functioning computer at home that only ran DOS and some weird version of hangman. I watched him play for almost an hour, all while being totally envious as he went into the mech lab to edit mechs that I had never seen before.

That's when my uncle showed up, slapped him in the head and told him it was MY TURN! He then exited out of them game and put in a different disk. Thinking it was going to something stupid, I turned to him to ask to put the robot game back on, he just smiled and said "Watch" and as I turned back around I saw this....

Chadamir Fitzkrieg, on 11 March 2015 - 08:08 AM, said:

Mechcommander 1 intro. Still impresses me.

Edit:

I had never seen something so AMAZING! Plus that brand new joystick was totally worthless, and that made it so much better.

Edited by ilikerice, 11 March 2015 - 09:37 PM.

[Joseph Mallan]

DaZur, on 11 March 2015 - 09:15 AM, said:

Then this?...

Well yeah... but only when served with a side of

[TELEFORCE]

The BattleTech cartoon was my first look at the game. I have all the toys except for the Axman and Thor. I had so much fun playing with those!

Then my dad got me MechWarrior 2, which seemed really cool. It was a state-of-the-art game at the time, and it still impresses me today. As I got playing the game, I started putting two and two together: This game is in the same universe as that cartoon I used to watch!

And yes, like many others here, I can still hear Betty announcing the 'mechs as I scrolled through them in the 'mech lab. The missions were memorable. There was one on a snowy planet, Colmar I think, where I had to fight a few 'mechs with my Marauder IIC. Another snowy mission involved fighting Jade Falcons while defending a fire base. But the first mission in the Wolf campaign was Operation: Silent Thunder, where I had to destroy a Jade Falcon HPG. The mission environment, with a sunset giving the desert an ominous red and yellow glow, really made the situation seem very serious.

As for iconic battlemechs, it's the Atlas, Battlemaster, and Timber Wolf. The Battlemaster is one of my favorites in both looks and weapon loadout. Its looks in particular attracted me because it reminded me of the standing tanks in Battle Clash, an extremely fun SNES game played with the Super Scope.

Edited by TELEFORCE, 12 March 2015 - 02:34 AM.

[Vandul]

jackswift, on 11 March 2015 - 08:36 PM, said:

I didn't discover Battletech/Mechwarrior until late in its life at MW3. For me the defining symbol would definitely be the intro to MW3 though. Close second is the concept/control functionality of MC2. Saw a friend play that for a just a couple of minutes and I was hooked instantly. Still have both of them in working order on my pc atm too.

Wish I had TT and the friends to have played it with in its hayday though. Sounds like a spectacular way to spend few weekends. A few people in my unit created a TT-like campaign they enacted through private matches in MWO. I got to act as the OpFor in a few missions and it was fun being the bad guys on occassion. Even got to hire an assassin or two at a staged protest and watch the chaos ensue. Everyone had their huds off and was just after SIB got released so the SIB played the coppers at the protest.

If you use Facebook, there are a TON of groups dedicated to TT gaming, mini's, bartering, books, et al.

[Alistair Winter]

... what?

Spoiler

But actually, the MW2 Timberwolf cover, the MW2 soundtrack and enhanced imaging.

Edited by Alistair Winter, 12 March 2015 - 03:21 AM.

[Something Wrong]

I didn't get properly into MechWarrior until MechWarrior 4: Mercenaries (I did play 2 long ago but wasn't really old enough to remember much)

So that iconic artwork on the installation screen which features one of the central mechs of MW4:M :

[MeiSooHaityu]

Sum Ting Wong, on 12 March 2015 - 03:26 AM, said:

I didn't get properly into MechWarrior until MechWarrior 4: Mercenaries (I did play 2 long ago but wasn't really old enough to remember much)

So that iconic artwork on the installation screen which features one of the central mechs of MW4:M :

That mech looks like a Mad Dog with umm...how do I say this?...with umm Large Assets.

[Something Wrong]

MeiSooHaityu, on 12 March 2015 - 03:30 AM, said:

That mech looks like a Mad Dog with umm...how do I say this?...with umm Large Assets.

Indeed. The Fenrir's side torsos were really nothing more than their Heavy Gauss Rifles with armor plating and almost nothing else.

[Scurry]

My first exposure to the world of BT: a set of three novels I borrowed from a friend. Never realized that it was originally a tabletop until after I started playing MW4.

[Vandul]

This is another one, but I was already deeply entrenched in the Universe/Game at the time this came out.

[Mercules]

Hex map... miniatures...

My custom made fire and smoke markers that made the other guys groan when I pulled them out, well that and a Firestarter.

[Scyther]

Hah, agree with Lexx and Bhael... it may not be 'iconic' to the BT universe as a whole but that damned Locust on the cover of Crescent Hawk's Inception is what pops into my head first.

Your shuttle/dropship crashes and a damaged Locust is the only thing you have to fight off several incoming mechs... yes that was my intro to the BT gaming scene. Man, I had to fight so hard to pull that one off (I have a tendency to set games on 'Hard' mode even the first time I boot them up).

(I was already into the TT and tech manuals before that; from them, the Warhammer on the boxed set sticks out as well)

Surely there's gotta be money in updating and re-releasing these games?

Edited by MadBadger, 12 March 2015 - 05:01 AM.

[Vandul]

MadBadger, on 12 March 2015 - 05:00 AM, said:

Hah, agree with Lexx and Bhael... it may not be 'iconic' to the BT universe as a whole but that damned Locust on the cover of Crescent Hawk's Inception is what pops into my head first.

Your shuttle/dropship crashes and a damaged Locust is the only thing you have to fight off several incoming mechs... yes that was my intro to the BT gaming scene. Man, I had to fight so hard to pull that one off (I have a tendency to set games on 'Hard' mode even the first time I boot them up).

(I was already into the TT and tech manuals before that; from them, the Warhammer on the boxed set sticks out as well)

Surely there's gotta be money in updating and re-releasing these games?

Hmmm

http://www.catalystg...com/battletech/

[Furry Fox]

For me, definitely the Mechwarrior 3 opening cinematic!

I still remember the day when my dad purchased that game for me. We were at CompUSA together, and they had a demo set up to showcase the game with an instant-action match all set ready to go. I don't remember much apart from moving around and shooting at things with the joystick & throttle, but I must have really REALLY enjoyed it since my dad wound up purchasing the game for me (I had an awesome dad ).

What I DO remember vividly is the video that plays when you start the game. it's so awesome that I still get goosebumps when watching it. I just started playing it again recently (surprisingly, it works flawlessly on my PC), and it's even more awesome than I remembered!

Anyways, here's the video:

Edited by Furry Fox, 12 March 2015 - 08:01 AM.

[Metus regem]

Joseph Mallan, on 12 March 2015 - 01:42 AM, said:

Well yeah... but only when served with a side of

hummmm... I think I see the chicken wings in that Maruader II.....