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[Armored Yokai]

They are working on necropolis right now
and that's probably why there's such a long time
i'm sad that MWO designs will be in it
i prefer Shimmering Swords smoother cleaner designs

[LordKnightFandragon]

Armored Yokai, on 06 September 2015 - 01:12 PM, said:

They are working on necropolis right now
and that's probably why there's such a long time
i'm sad that MWO designs will be in it
i prefer Shimmering Swords smoother cleaner designs

Im not, MWO's remakes of the mechs might be the best part of this game. The models do look good, even if they might need some rescaling. They do look good and really give a Giant war machine look to them. The original art for the mechs like in the TROs, all, imo, looked really thin, lanky, like they were more pipe cleaners with armor on them then mechs.

Ofc, past the Warhammer i saw in a thread here, idk what their other designs look like.

[Alan Davion]

5th Fedcom Rat, on 06 September 2015 - 12:56 PM, said:

This guy is basically our George Lucas. He's made some questionable decisions over the years, including selling off his own IP to corporate behemoths that don't have its best interests at heart... and yet you really gotta love him for dreaming up this whole universe we love in the first place.

Like Lucas he then shepherded it to global multimedia success through the '80s and '90s. Well, everywhere except Japan anyway. They never liked the idea of westerners dreaming up giant humanoid war robots of their own. That's part of the reason for the irrational vindictiveness of Harmony Gold. Mech IPs are not just about money. They're about honour.

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I think it's more to do with how HG took three unrelated mecha animes, weaved them into one series by changing little things here or there, and then proceeded to put a complete stranglehold on those previous animes, making sure they were the only ones that could sell them worldwide, and that the originals could only be bought domestically.

As far as other mecha anime/games/whatever, Dream Pod 9's Heavy Gear franchise, which was based on the Armored Trooper VOTOM series, actually does surprisingly well worldwide, because DP9 handled themselves much better than HG did.

All DP9 did was start with the general idea of the 1-man IFV, like the VOTOMs were, and then built an entire universe and story around that concept, and it worked because they kept the originality of their product high... Whereas HG did almost the complete opposite, they just grabbed what they thought was good, marketed it and then sat on it, doing nothing with it for 20+ years.

[stjobe]

5th Fedcom Rat, on 06 September 2015 - 12:56 PM, said:

Well, everywhere except Japan anyway. They never liked the idea of westerners dreaming up giant humanoid war robots of their own. That's part of the reason for the irrational vindictiveness of Harmony Gold.

You do know HG is an American company, right? Their headquarter is in Los Angeles, California, so their irrational vindictiveness has nothing to do with Japan; it's pure, home-brewed, red-blooded Yankee capitalism, through-and-through.

And they have never dreamed up a single humanoid war robot of their own, they've just sat on some ill-gotten Japanese designs for 30 years so nobody else could use them - not even the guys who licensed them years before they did.

[LordKnightFandragon]

stjobe, on 06 September 2015 - 01:55 PM, said:

You do know HG is an American company, right? Their headquarter is in Los Angeles, California, so their irrational vindictiveness has nothing to do with Japan; it's pure, home-brewed, red-blooded Yankee capitalism, through-and-through.

And they have never dreamed up a single humanoid war robot of their own, they've just sat on some ill-gotten Japanese designs for 30 years so nobody else could use them - not even the guys who licensed them years before they did.

Then gab your over quirked Stalkers and commandos, il bring a star of Gauss Whales and OP'd TBRs, lets go take over those ********!

[Burktross]

Is it bad that I'm just as excited for Necropolis as I am for Battletech? The market really needs more roguelike exposure!