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[Darkblood]

This poll is intended to feed some info into the forums and could be used by various threads (which make claims one way or another, seemingly out of the blue)

(not sure if a thread gets bumped if people vote, so bump if you vote)

edit: clarified that the second option (mainly Mechwarrior), doesn't exclude you also knowing/liking Battletech, it just means your background leans more to the simulator games

Edited by Darkblood, 25 February 2013 - 01:03 PM.

[Jazzblaster]

Actually it was Battletech for the sega genesis. Game pretty much changed my life

[Darkblood]

Jazzblaster, on 25 February 2013 - 12:17 PM, said:

Actually it was Battletech for the sega genesis. Game pretty much changed my life

Ok, didn´t even know about that one

I hope you (and others) will file that under "computer game series"

[Darkblood]

Small edit of the poll: clarified that the second option (mainly Mechwarrior) doesn't exclude you also knowing/liking Battletech, it just means your background leans more to the simulator games.

Text added:"whether you were latter led into Battletech or not"

Edited by Darkblood, 25 February 2013 - 01:05 PM.

[Adrienne Vorton]

oh that poll again...well it´s been a while, so i guess that´s okay

Tabletop got me into it, the universe enslaved me to it... rest is history

[Stormwolf]

Voted, went from MW to BT and loved it.

[Butane9000]

None of those options really match me.

I played Mechcommander when I was young and it's sequel. I really got into Mechwarrior when my friend introduced me to Mechwarrior 4: Vengeance which I thought was amazing. Then I heard the announcement many years ago for MW5 and was stoked. Sadly while the single player game never came to pass we've now got this game which I enjoy greatly.

[DegeneratePervert]

I was following PGI's reboot since it first saw the light of day, and nearly shat myself when closed beta signups happened. Didn't get accepted, and I was sad. Then they did the Founder's program, and I was happy.

[RLBell]

I started playing tabletop in the eighties. I stopped for twenty years and started up again late last decade. As the current incarnation has a lively internet forum, Google Ads kept plastering my monitor with MWO ads, so I installed the free open beta software. At first, my PC was way below spec, so I had no visuals. I fiddled with the settings and improved things. My second game on my PC was a slideshow. I only survived because no enemy found me (if he parked his mech on my reticle and stayed for at least five seconds, showing up in two consecutive slides, I might have gotten a shot off). Then I got a new graphics card and started playing.

[Ashnod]

The novels is what got me into the game and tabletop.. Started reading them back in elementary school.. And I'm 24 now haha

[SuomiWarder]

You forgot to allow for people that entered with the Dark Age minis and those that mainly read the book line.

[coolnames]

Mechwarrior 2 and MW2 Mercs were my training wheels. I get feels just thinkin about them again...

[grayson marik]

hmm actually my BT background did not bring me to MW:O but the expectation of multiplayer ( 1 team vs a specific other team) games with other groups, conquest of worlds and well... the remembrance of the MC X, MC2, MW3/4 leagues i used to play in.

Sadly, the same will probably be what makes me leave MW:O ( like 2/3 of my clan already did), since CW is all 3:

- far away
- maybe never coming
- probably just random steiner vs random kurita pugs like stuff

[EmeraldSongbird]

I feel like on this poll I am either a die-hard fan of Mechwarrior in some sense or a I'm a "I'm 12 and what is Mech?" kind of person. I played plenty of MechWarrior when I was much younger (2 and 3 Mercs) plus I played G-nome and Earthsiege which were in essence the same thing. That and of course Mech Assault for the Xbox.

In all honesty a beta advertisement on Facebook brought me to this game...

[coolnames]

Doobles, on 25 February 2013 - 11:02 PM, said:

I feel like on this poll I am either a die-hard fan of Mechwarrior in some sense or a I'm a "I'm 12 and what is Mech?" kind of person. I played plenty of MechWarrior when I was much younger (2 and 3 Mercs) plus I played G-nome and Earthsiege which were in essence the same thing. That and of course Mech Assault for the Xbox.

In all honesty a beta advertisement on Facebook brought me to this game...

I remember Earthsiege! I liked Heavy Gear as well

[Darkblood]

Adrienne Vorton, on 25 February 2013 - 01:10 PM, said:

oh that poll again...well it´s been a while, so i guess that´s okay

I did a reasonable amount of search, but the search tool on this forum is not really good, so sorry if I´m just repeating. Do you have the link to any previous equivalent pool?

Doobles, on 25 February 2013 - 11:02 PM, said:

I feel like on this poll I am either a die-hard fan of Mechwarrior in some sense or a I'm a "I'm 12 and what is Mech?" kind of person. I played plenty of MechWarrior when I was much younger (2 and 3 Mercs) plus I played G-nome and Earthsiege which were in essence the same thing. That and of course Mech Assault for the Xbox.

In all honesty a beta advertisement on Facebook brought me to this game...

I´m just trying to establish background, so we know if people come with expectations related to previous simulators, tabletop games, both or none. Judging by your complete answer I would say you choose the second poll option (mainly Mechwarrior).

Maybe I should have suppressed "for a long time" everywhere. But the fourth option allows for having played a little of either game and coming here for other reasons, the text reads: I played little or nothing of Battletech or Mechwarrior

[SI The Joker]

I brought my towel... as any well mannered space traveler will always be equipped with his towel.

[Not A Real RAbbi]

I played one other MW game, and it was some sick 3PS-looking thing YEARS ago, long before the internet was useful. It was on a Tandy 1000HX, if that tells you anything. And it pretty much sucked. I missed all the MechWarrior titles for PC.

Played some TT WAY back in the day, circa 3026 I think? Long before the clans at any rate. Just a little.

And I also have a towel.

Edited by TheRAbbi, 26 February 2013 - 06:41 AM.

[Iacov]

what brouth me to MWO was initially MW4
and what brought me to MW4? the opening cinematic's vulture - i fell in love with this mech and can't wait to see its design for MWO

played mw2 and 3 after mw4, as well as mechcommander 1 and 2
spent more money on MW:DA then i should have as a student
and wish i had joined battletech when there were more classic players around my city ^^

but i'm glad that mechwarrior is back on the pc!
just wished mechwarrior: tactical command would be availble for android, too, instead of iOS only

[Darkblood]

I started on the Tabletop game, back when they released a Portuguese basic box filled with plastic miniatures (all of them are unseen now... I love my little bent plastic Marauder and my one legged Locust), I guess that was back in 95 or 96 (maybe 94). Luckly some of these box ended up in Brazil!

Once I got a little more "international" I went deep in. I have a whole bunch of TROs, Manuals, Novels, etc... Also a fan of the roleplaying game (which was called Mechwarrior too, by the way). Still a costumer to this day, you can even find my "net name" (Darkblood) credited in the play-tester part of the last incarnation of the RPG (A Time of War)

Computer-wise, the first one I played was MW3 and I did a lot of MW4 PVP once MekTek got their hands on it (although the excessive jump-snipping would make me take long breaks now and then). I have played MW1 out of curiosity later.

All things considered, I choose the first option in my pool because I like the lore and the TableTop game above all else. I'm really enjoying this game though, despite some serious flaws. I hope these will be resolved to great extent and this thing reaches full potential.