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[StompyBot]

New Heavy Gear game was announced!

http://www.prnewswir...-164654816.html

[Adridos]

Also made by Canadians.

Wasn't Heavy Gear Activision's replacement for Mechwarrior when they lost the license?

[ergosphere]

Awesome! The more mech games the better. This has turned out to be a great year for the genre!

[VeiledMalice]

Oh sweet! I loved the first game. The second one was kinda... weird, but that's mostly because the builds for the Gears from the game were off too. You could basically load any number of guns onto one, with the only drawback being that it cost more "points".

Here's hoping they go back to a more balanced build system for this game.

[gilliam]

Adridos, on 02 August 2012 - 05:53 AM, said:

Wasn't Heavy Gear Activision's replacement for Mechwarrior when they lost the license?

Only as far as videogames go. heavy Gear is a tabletop Wargame much like Battletech (Mechwarriors originator) is.




This must be the year of the mech.

[Dymitry]

Yeahhhhhhhh!

[Merrick]

And what a good year it shall be

[Freric]

Full series revival!

[Dymitry]

Thinking about it, if this is the year of the world's end, from a gaming perspective, I could not be happier! (Maybe a new decent Jagged Alliance)

[Melcyna]

HAHAHAHAA... this is a great time indeed.

quite apt too given in the last few years, VOTOM which is the main inspiration behind Heavy Gears were revived as well and released their OAVs.

[Guardsmen83]

sweet THIS YEAR GETTING BETTER!!

[Murku]

VeiledMalice, on 02 August 2012 - 06:08 AM, said:

Oh sweet! I loved the first game. The second one was kinda... weird, but that's mostly because the builds for the Gears from the game were off too. You could basically load any number of guns onto one, with the only drawback being that it cost more "points".

Here's hoping they go back to a more balanced build system for this game.

Wierdly enough, the 'just add stuff to a Gear, it ups it's threat rating but it can handle it' is canon in the Franchise. They describe it a a 'design system' rather than a 'construction system', the idea being as you dump more goodies on a machine you just have to use smaller, more expensive components. Munchkins love it.

Heavy Gear has the potentual to be a very cool title if done right, more fluid Anime style than stompy. I liked HG2 more than HG1 for this, HG1 did look like it was trying to be a MW title - totally the wrong way to go!

Of course, I'd love to see Jovian Chronicles from DP9 as a game but we're a little short on proper tech to do it well yet......

Gear Krieg (alternate WW2 superscience) could rock tho.

[Melcyna]

Murku, on 02 August 2012 - 06:22 AM, said:

Wierdly enough, the 'just add stuff to a Gear, it ups it's threat rating but it can handle it' is canon in the Franchise. They describe it a a 'design system' rather than a 'construction system', the idea being as you dump more goodies on a machine you just have to use smaller, more expensive components. Munchkins love it.

Heavy Gear has the potentual to be a very cool title if done right, more fluid Anime style than stompy. I liked HG2 more than HG1 for this, HG1 did look like it was trying to be a MW title - totally the wrong way to go!

Of course, I'd love to see Jovian Chronicles from DP9 as a game but we're a little short on proper tech to do it well yet......

Gear Krieg (alternate WW2 superscience) could rock tho.

HG 1 looks like it was trying to be a MW title because IT WAS MADE USING MW2 engine..

back when they lost the license for Battletech, the developer basically had an engine they've used to make MW game but no series to use it on...

so... they did the simplest thing they could, they get another mecha series license and use the engine for that instead.

The result was the weird feeling HG1 has...

HG2 on the other hand was built more specifically for the game series itself rather than a quick reuse of the old engine.

[VeiledMalice]

Murku, on 02 August 2012 - 06:22 AM, said:

Wierdly enough, the 'just add stuff to a Gear, it ups it's threat rating but it can handle it' is canon in the Franchise. They describe it a a 'design system' rather than a 'construction system', the idea being as you dump more goodies on a machine you just have to use smaller, more expensive components. Munchkins love it.

Oh, I know. I've played the TT game. Super cool, but I liked the system better when you couldn't just instantly break it by loading up on laser gatling guns and insane missile pods. Maybe that's just my previous experience with the Battletech build system coloring my expectations.

Murku, on 02 August 2012 - 06:22 AM, said:

Of course, I'd love to see Jovian Chronicles from DP9 as a game but we're a little short on proper tech to do it well yet......

Gear Krieg (alternate WW2 superscience) could rock tho.

This. This needs to be made. Either of them would be awesome, but I'm thinking Gear Krieg would be a lot easier. Also, space combat with mechs (ie, Jovian Chronicles) seems a bit too close to Gundam for most people not familiar with the setting to immediately tell the difference.

[Vultz]

Awesome! Now we just need someone to make Mech Commander 3!

[CrackersPhinn]

This is glorious! I love'd HG2 and have always been sad that nothing came of it and that it would only work on my windows 98 machine. At least now there's something coming out again.

[Ens]

looks like as if it´s for kids

oh well...

[Tzeentch]

That mech reminds me of the space communists..... I mean the Tau.

[CrackersPhinn]

I love the Tau but they never had the stylings of the HG series for their mechs.

[Monsoon]

Glad to see more Canadian companies at it. Too bad all that investment to bring Video game development to Toronto seemed to stop with Ubisoft and Rockstar North...

Edited by Monsoon, 02 August 2012 - 07:06 AM.