Im curious, what did you first think and imagine about factions, camos, mechs, persons, storylines and such with anything first-hand Battletech you experienced?
I'll can start with my little BT story. Not too sure in which order these events were but gonna try.
First off. A notice.
I have never read any books, comics, not even seen the TV cartoon or played past MW game before the things I write below. Never have I played the boardgame either and read the technical readouts.
I played the Mech Commander demo ALOT! when I got my hands on it. But never got the money to buy the game in the local part video/ game/ snack shop, kiosk.
The music, the graphics, the challenge was immersive and darn fun. And I loved the in-game avatars of real actors and their one-liners, comments, that was truly something. The intensity of my damaged mechs and the pilots struggling to survive the onslaught of enemies. I really cared about them surviving.
Also remembering reading some norwegian gamers magazine in the early 2000, about an article regarding Mech Warrior 4 vengeance, a review I think (got an 8?). Alot of info and I read about it and dreamt about playing that game for a loooong time. I got to play it in school with 23 others in a computer classroom back in 2003/4. It was a blast! Though that was MW4 mercenaries, never got to paly the vanilla MW4 and Black Knight. Not even to this day, sadly.
Now to some other things. Short tidbits, regarding factions, story etc. With my first hand experiences and facta/ info bits from the above games and so on.
- In MC I never understood clearly who the enemies was. First now I know it was the Clan Smoke Jaguars.
- Since Kurita is portrayed as having a BIG territory and have a dragon as a symbol, thought. Surely that got to be a Chinese inspired faction. Oboy were I wrong, Japanese?? What? Liao, the Capellan Federation.. on the other hand, I thought were Japanese, due to that sword reminding me of a katana or something.
- I thought the Steiner were only german and nordic. But wait what is this Rasalhague faction?? Now thats people withnordic heritage.
- I thought the Clans were rebellous people living inside that big territory called Inner Sphere that have fought many wars with the other houses. Kinda the good guys, sonmehow gotten better tech to finally be able to strike back at the others. I imagined the Clan side were a growing big faction with different subgroups (Wolf, Jade Falcons) having different roles. I might not have been TOO far off, but still alot of speculation.
I truly didnt know anything aobut the succesion wars, Kerenskys exodus, the Pentagon worlds and so on.
I could add so much more. But for a later time.
Your turn to tell your experience with the Battletech universe
Edited by Tordin, 13 March 2017 - 01:43 PM.