funny thing happened to me today...

[spectre440]

i was looking around some ancient cd's i burned years ago, looking for something or other (dont even remember what i was looking for now...)
and what do i find?
my long lost copies of 'mechwarrior 3' and 'mechwarrior 4', and i got to thinking a bit...
'mechwarrior 3' came out in 1999, and 'mechwarrior 4' came out in 2000...
and now its nearly 2006... what happened to one of the greatest gaming franchises *ever*?
why has the gaming industry forsaken one of its best franchises ever? i mean, come on, seriously, GIANT ROBOTS! that *ROCKS*! :)

now, i know that the whole giant robots theme hasnt entirely disappeared from the gaming industry (armored core for the ps2, mechassault for the xbox, etc'), but what happened to giant robot/mech games to the PC?
why has it been 5 years since this franchise made an appearance?
and more importantly, wont it *ROCK* to have a giant robot game with today's wicked cool graphics?

im sorry if this seems a bit rant-ish, but i just thought i'd share my thoughts... :)

[DanTheBanjoman]

You can't milk a cow forever.

And if you love giant robots, I believe they were making a trans formers movie ;)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0418279/

[INSTG8R]

I have Mechwarrior 4 not installed at the moment(MS puts a lame service in my Processes )But I have and X-52 HOTAS setup and man is it ever fun with that not too mention being able to absolutely MAX your GFX settings(I found in a bargain bin at SIBA here in Norway)

[spectre440]

You can't milk a cow forever.

And if you love giant robots, I believe they were making a trans formers movie ;)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0418279/
cool. :D

[Polaris573]

I used to watch those shows....... Transformers... robots in disguise! :p

[wazzledoozle]

Yeah I miss mech games. Mechassault is too arcadey for me :(

It looks like they were working on Mechwarrior 5 and canceled it :(
http://pc.ign.com/articles/390/390490p1.html?submit.x=65&submit.y=19

[spectre440]

Yeah I miss mech games. Mechassault is too arcadey for me :(

It looks like they were working on Mechwarrior 5 and canceled it :(
http://pc.ign.com/articles/390/390490p1.html?submit.x=65&submit.y=19
yeah, a damn shame...

and i'll have to agree mechassault is nice but too arcadey.

mechwarrior 3 was definantly the best in the series, in my opinion.

[INSTG8R]

I prefer Mechwarrior 4 as my Favorite but Mercanaries kinda wrecked it, but yeah 3 is good too. but Seriously you haven't played it until you've tried in on a HOTAS setup its sweet(prolly the only reason I dug it outta the bin was cuz I knew I would be able to use it)

[Anarion]

wooow i still have copy of transformers & somepaintings though .. about mechwarrior, i luv it but just first version...... i still have some cd cover ...... i will send later ... :D