Why Mechwarrior: 'Living Legends'?

[Squibby]

The name Mechwarrior: Living Legends doesn't really make much sense to me given the direction the game has taken.

anyone care to enlighten me where the title came from?, In my opinion it seems more suited to something focused on solaris arena mech fights in all their glory where famous pilots become living legends (of sorts).

With all the talk about trials of annihilation, terrain control mode and clan vs IS basis it seems to be departing from the Solaris Area stage and moving towards a more serious reproductions of battletech combined arms warfare.

I'm not asking for a change, I'm just interested in the reasoning behind the name and whether the current direction is what the devs intended when they first dreamt it up all those long years ago (which I'm completely ignorant about)

What do you lot reckon? Does the name suit the mod in it's current incarnation?

[Profane Arbiter]

Living Legends struck me as a bit odd as well.

[Virt]

"Mechwarrior" strikes me as a bit odd too, given Mechs are only one quarter of the balance equation.

[HAARP]

"Mechwarrior" strikes me as a bit odd too, given Mechs are only one quarter of the balance equation.

Not only that, it also makes dipshits go "this is Mechwarrior hurr" when they dislike other assets

[Zaro27]

Yeah, I've been wondering about the title for a while. Maybe it should be called "MechWarrior: Battletech Dreams" or maybe "MechWarrior: Combined Arms"

[sgnl05]

I like "battletech: combined arms" or something like that, but let's be honest; half the players we get turn up because the see the name mechwarrior in the title and get all excited. Change "mechwarrior" to "battletech" and we lose valuable advertising.

[Squibby]

Agreed, Mechwarrior has to be there for brand recoginition. To most people Mechwarrior represents the battletech universe.
Though we could use a better sub-title.

I like the Mechwarrior: Combined Arms title,
Or Mechwarrior: Total Warfare.
Mechwarrior:  Warfare Evolved?
Full Spectrum Mechwarrior 

[Virt]

Mechwarrior: Lumbering Ground Targets?
Airwarrior: Living Lagshields?
Battle Armours: Lasering Leggers?
Flakwarrior: Firebomb Magnets?

(LOL, just kidding.)

I like "battletech: combined arms"

+1

[(TLL)KitLightning]

Airwarrior: Living Lagshields?

lolz nice one

[DFDelta]

I'm all for
Mechwarrior: How it should be

[(TLL)CapperDeluxe]

because its:

[Trueborn/Freebirth]

I'm pretty sure it comes from a Mechwarrior RPG adventure published sometime in the nineties.

http://www.sarna.net/wiki/Living_Legends

There you have it.

[SquareSphere }12thVR{]

It's a brand thing.  PC gamers instantly know what mechwarrior is, not so much battletech.  At the same time does anyone know who owns the video game battletech rights?  We all knew that mechwarrior was owned by MS.

Personally, i like the name Mechwarrior: Hot Metal Orgy.

[~SJ~ Karuik]

Longwarrior : Tomming Legends

im a patch and a hotfix late with that joke.

[thedrunkennoob]

Is there any video games based off of battletech that isn't called Mechwarrior? The only other games that come to mind is mechcommander and mechassualt.
Like others have said, its for brand recognition.
Also I do not think Microsoft has ownership of the "Battletech" name. Renaming the mod may run into legal hurdles.