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Offline Colt45

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What old Mech game am I thinking of???? HELP
« on: July 25, 2011, 05:05:13 AM »
I used to play this mech/tank based fps back in the late 1990's or early 2000's. It was a unpopular game or it didn't sell well I imagine. It had decent 3d graphics for the time. Theres only a few things I remember about this game. It was like a watered down version of mech warrior. The story went something like, humans vs aliens on distant planet in distant future. Aliens had superior technology, but the humans mangaged to  get a hold of some alien weapons and outfit them on their own vehicles. Some neat aspects were that your mech/vehicle had a shield and you could concentrate the shield on certain sides of your mech (depending on where fire was coming from). Another neat aspect was that when you targeted an enemy, the HUD would tell you how far to lead the moving target. I remember there being few weapon types and few vehicle types. This game could have been made as late as 2005.

Please help me with figuring out the title to this game. Its killing me! If I saw a screen shot I would be able to identify.
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Re: What old Mech game am I thinking of???? HELP
« Reply #1 on: July 25, 2011, 05:16:06 AM »
Starsiege.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starsiege

Best mecha game that isn't from the Mechwarrior series, IMO.  Its sales were decent but the developer got shut down in the whole Sierra/Vivendi mess.

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Re: What old Mech game am I thinking of???? HELP
« Reply #2 on: July 25, 2011, 05:32:40 AM »
other possibilities are Earthsiege, G-Nome, and  Shattered Steel...

Earthseige was an awesome game and the prequel of sorts to Starsiege, shattered steel was crap though in my opinion compared to Mechwarrior 2 series.  G-Nome was kindof on its own but wasn't half bad


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Re: What old Mech game am I thinking of???? HELP
« Reply #3 on: July 25, 2011, 06:20:01 AM »
Quote from: (TLL)CapperDeluxe on July 25, 2011, 05:32:40 AM
G-Nome

Holy crap, someone else in this world is aware of this game's existence? I loved that game as a kid.  I found it challenging as hell, given my youth and the bugginess of the game.  I remember one mission where you had to cross a minefield and wipe out an enemy base.  You were supposed to lure an enemy tank out and steal it so you could see where the mines were, but doing so triggered all the turrets and mechs to power up, so I just memorized the locations of the mines, went in, killed the tank, then had my way with the rest of the powered down defenders.  ;D

I think i still have the CD around somewhere. I might try and reinstall it for nostalgia.  IDK if it'll work on win7 64bit though.
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Re: What old Mech game am I thinking of???? HELP
« Reply #4 on: July 25, 2011, 06:22:33 AM »
i had a shareware version of one of these back in windows 98...
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Re: What old Mech game am I thinking of???? HELP
« Reply #5 on: July 25, 2011, 07:12:58 AM »
G-NOME was a hilariously fapped up game. The scorp however, were fapping bros.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KwFHvmGsO-s

Also that damn betty. READY. READY. READY. READY. READY.

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Re: What old Mech game am I thinking of???? HELP
« Reply #6 on: July 25, 2011, 01:28:22 PM »
Well, at least in G-Nome you could get out of your Machine and steal others . .
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Re: What old Mech game am I thinking of???? HELP
« Reply #7 on: July 25, 2011, 03:20:16 PM »
slightly off topic, while looking up some of this stuff about earthsiege and gnome last night I ran into this game that brought back some memories.  It was like total annihilation but the mech things had swords and clubs and stuff.





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Re: What old Mech game am I thinking of???? HELP
« Reply #8 on: July 25, 2011, 03:29:33 PM »
Metal Fatigue was a bro game.
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Re: What old Mech game am I thinking of???? HELP
« Reply #9 on: July 25, 2011, 03:35:27 PM »
Quote from: Stahlseele on July 25, 2011, 01:28:22 PM
Well, at least in G-Nome you could get out of your Machine and steal others . .
What, you mean like that thing you could do in MechAssault?

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Re: What old Mech game am I thinking of???? HELP
« Reply #10 on: July 25, 2011, 04:47:34 PM »
Quote from: =KoS= ManCowFish on July 25, 2011, 03:35:27 PM
Quote from: Stahlseele on July 25, 2011, 01:28:22 PM
Well, at least in G-Nome you could get out of your Machine and steal others . .
What, you mean like that thing you could do in MechAssault?

 :P

Yeh, except it was actually a good game.
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Re: What old Mech game am I thinking of???? HELP
« Reply #11 on: July 25, 2011, 04:56:15 PM »
For it's time.
But back then, games seem to have been better overall than today . . with some exceptions . .
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Re: What old Mech game am I thinking of???? HELP
« Reply #12 on: July 25, 2011, 05:37:53 PM »
After the video game collapse in 1982, game developers were afraid to push out overly rushed and garbage games.  Today, that's no longer the case.
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Re: What old Mech game am I thinking of???? HELP
« Reply #13 on: July 25, 2011, 05:52:10 PM »
Quote from: Mitchpate on July 25, 2011, 05:37:53 PM
After the video game collapse in 1982, game developers were afraid to push out overly rushed and garbage games.  Today, that's no longer the case.

While there is some truth in this, game development is just plain harder these days. It especially takes longer to do what on an older, less graphically intense engine you could do in a quarter of the time.

Thats why i think gameplay has been suffering. Too much attention on 'wowing' people with art assets, less on the actual core gameplay.
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Re: What old Mech game am I thinking of???? HELP
« Reply #14 on: July 25, 2011, 06:05:01 PM »
The act of actually producing the story and campaign isn't any harder than it was in the SNES days.  The big time vampire is, like you said, wow'ing the gamers with high-end graphics they don't even notice in a highly immersive game unless they stop playing and look around.

Gamers will accept lower quality graphics if the story is good, well thought out, and immersive.  Unfortunately, most gamers will accept lower quality stories if the graphics are flashy.  It's MUCH cheaper to just write a good story but being creative is hard work, it's easier to just hire a couple dozen game developers to compensate for story writing on par with that of an 8 year old.
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