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[minty]

Hello Mech fans.
When the Inner Sphere News started tweeting their teaser jigsaw pictures of their Atlas MechWarrior Online picture I decided I had to go back and play through all my Mech games again to get ready for this new release.
My first entry into the Mech universe was MechCommander in 1998 then MechWarrior3. I have been playing through these two games and recording them as I play, then uploaded them all to youtube under the name of "Let's Pwn!" for a gaming site polypwn.com.
I first played through MechCommander and the first video for that is here

I play the game from start to finish across a series of videos.
Next I started MechWarrior3 and those videos start here

I am still playing through MW3 so will upload more videos soon, after that I start on MW4.

I hope you enjoy the videos. Cheers!

[Brixx]

Thank you! I actually looked for a Lets Play of MechCommander 1. But as your title was "LetsPwn" I now know why I never found one...

[minty]

haha yeah sorry about that
I'll be doing MechCommander 2 as well at some point.

[Brixx]

I just have some trouble understanding you... I am not a native speaker as you can see... you are british, right?

[minty]

haha yeah I am, I sometimes forget people have trouble understanding me, most people in Britain do too lol. I'll try to be more clear in future videos

[chewie]

man I so wish Mechcommander would run on WIn7 64bit



I absolutely LOVED that game as much as 3025

Edited by chewie, 01 November 2011 - 01:11 PM.

[CoffiNail]

it does. Just copy the dir from the CD to the hard drive if i remember correctly.. o.O been a year or so since I had to do it haha. It does seem to freeze the PC at times though... like I mean it freezes it, not ctl+alt+del no alt+f4 only hard reset. Very odd and sucks. I JUST wish i could get it to work with MP on win 7

[Stahlseele]

MechCommander DOES run under Win7 64 Bit.
I got it to work at least once, that much i remember.

I wish there were a MechCommander III using the DOW II Engine . . It'd be perfect . .

[S3dition]

heheh, the only mechwarrior where you could step on/shoot people. They need an m rated version that allows it again.

[minty]

haha yeah I loved that bit of detail where they would scarper from the wreckage, I love stomping them.

Oh and I'm running Windows 7 64-bit and the game runs great. It did tend to crash occasionaly when right clicking mechs or weapons in the mech bay to remove or add them to lists.

I installed the game by right clicking on the CD and opening it, then right clicking the setup exe, going to properties then compatability and setting it to run under Win 95 compatability. I did the same for the game exe once it was installed, it worked ok. Let me know if you have trouble and I'll help out how I can. The real pain was getting MW3 to run properly, that's harder, instructions for that are on the first Let's Pwn MechWarrior3 video, but PM me if you need help with it.

MechCommander would crash a lot while trying to film it though haha.

if you look through the other videos on the channel you will see the whole of MechCommander on there and so far the first 2 Operations of MechWarrior3

Edited by minty, 01 November 2011 - 02:49 PM.

[Ashrok]

I actually jumped into BattleTech through MechCommander 2 when I was... 7, I think. Loved it. Eventually forced my dad to find a MechWarrior game, which was a challenge since (at that time) we could only buy games from Manila.

It's great to see a Let's Play of these old games! Cheers!

[Skoll]

minty, on 01 November 2011 - 12:47 PM, said:

haha yeah I am, I sometimes forget people have trouble understanding me, most people in Britain do too lol. I'll try to be more clear in future videos

Perhaps subtitles would help? I readily admit, I cannot understand most English accents.

[minty]

Skoll-, on 02 November 2011 - 03:11 AM, said:

Perhaps subtitles would help? I readily admit, I cannot understand most English accents.

Not a bad idea. I could subtitle with captions for videos I've already done and add them to the videos themselves for new ones.
I'll try it on the first MechCommander video and see how it turns out.
Cheers

[minty]

Ok subtitles are now working on the first MechCommander video. let me know what you think. Thanks

[Brixx]

minty, on 02 November 2011 - 06:17 AM, said:

Ok subtitles are now working on the first MechCommander video. let me know what you think. Thanks

Hah! Nice, english subtitles for an english native speaker. But yeah... if you would understand german you won´t necessarily understand anything due to my bavarian accent.

[minty]

brixx, on 02 November 2011 - 06:33 AM, said:

Hah! Nice, english subtitles for an english native speaker. But yeah... if you would understand german you won´t necessarily understand anything due to my bavarian accent.

Yeah, I'm not great with accents haha. It's the first time I've done videos like this before so I guess I never thought properly about how others will understand me, I'll subtitle the rest of my videos, I'm going the first one for MechWarrior 3 now

[Brixx]

minty, on 02 November 2011 - 06:36 AM, said:

Yeah, I'm not great with accents haha. It's the first time I've done videos like this before so I guess I never thought properly about how others will understand me, I'll subtitle the rest of my videos, I'm going the first one for MechWarrior 3 now

The subtitles are also quite well made. Did you use the automatic subtitles generator?

[Kassad16]

Nice vids!

I remember playing MechWarrior 2 back in 1995 (all three installments of it) right up to MechWarrior 4 Mercenaries only 10 years later. I've been a devoted Battletech fan for a while, and it's nice to see that it's back on the road.

Here's to a long-lived Battletech community.

[minty]

brixx, on 02 November 2011 - 06:38 AM, said:

The subtitles are also quite well made. Did you use the automatic subtitles generator?

I used the one that is automaticaly made by youtube, and I'll tell you what, it had a much harder time understanding me than you did
There was so much nonsensical rubbish in there, it only got one single sentence right haha. It had all the correct timestamps there so it all timred up pretty well, I just changed the text on it

[Brixx]

minty, on 02 November 2011 - 06:49 AM, said:

I used the one that is automaticaly made by youtube, and I'll tell you what, it had a much harder time understanding me than you did
There was so much nonsensical rubbish in there, it only got one single sentence right haha. It had all the correct timestamps there so it all timred up pretty well, I just changed the text on it

Reminds of this video: