latest Mechwarrior game to be a Crysis mod?

MrPink · February 21st, 2008

so i somehow stumbled across this website from a link on wikipedia, the website is about Mechwarrior: Living Legends which at first i thought is the next iteration of the Mechwarrior franchise for PC.

turns out this is a Crysis total coversion mod, which means a fanatic group of Mechwarrior loyalists are using the Crysis game engine to make the next Mechwarrior game, even though it will technically be a mod.

this brings the question of: what does microsoft have to say about this? don't they own the Mechwarrior franchise, or have they abandoned it?

i have not seen anything on a new MW game in the future, but seeing the lack of any mecha fighting action on the pc, I would hope that something gets released eventually. or else it will be up to me when i get out of college in 4 years to make a mecha PC game myself!

Exodus · February 21st, 2008

That's cool. I remember having fun with MW4 back in the day. As for EA... meh. That's what modding is all about. The again, Square had a hissy fit with that Chrono Trigger remake, so who knows...

Thanakil · February 22nd, 2008

MS could sue them if they use the Mechwarrior franchise I guess, in that case the mod team could simply rename everything and make sure the mechs arent copied on Mechwarrior. Using Mechwarrior can be refused, but they can't be stopped from simply making a game on Mechs, if they arent related to the franchise.

Anyway, this could be one hell of a Mod. The gfx + the physics could make for some impressive fights. Destroying other mechs in parts or destroy cities with the engines would be nice.

MrPink · February 24th, 2008

yeah, i'm not sure how long they have been working on this, but i hope they finish it soon. there are a few pre-alpha game demos available to watch on the website.

I've been itching for a good mech game since, well, the armored core series on the ps2. MW4 was awesome for a while, but it just got old, so that now it feels like a very slow FPS. This remake looks like it will have some air combat, some on foot stuff with the pilot, should be very cool when (if it gets released, like you said with MS taking notice) it is released.

February 21st, 2008	#1 (permalink)
MrPink McRoll'd Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: "out of the butt and into the f***!" Posts: 538	latest Mechwarrior game to be a Crysis mod? so i somehow stumbled across this website from a link on wikipedia, the website is about Mechwarrior: Living Legends which at first i thought is the next iteration of the Mechwarrior franchise for PC. turns out this is a Crysis total coversion mod, which means a fanatic group of Mechwarrior loyalists are using the Crysis game engine to make the next Mechwarrior game, even though it will technically be a mod. this brings the question of: what does microsoft have to say about this? don't they own the Mechwarrior franchise, or have they abandoned it? i have not seen anything on a new MW game in the future, but seeing the lack of any mecha fighting action on the pc, I would hope that something gets released eventually. or else it will be up to me when i get out of college in 4 years to make a mecha PC game myself! __________________ Intel Q9550 @ 2.83ghz l 4GB G.Skill Pi Series DDR2 1111 @ 5-5-5-15 1.9v l EVGA Geforce 8800GTX 768MB ASUS P5Q-E l Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi XtremeGamer l PC Power & Cooling Silencer 750 Quad l 2 Seagate 250GB 7.2k RPM RAID 0 Antec 1200 l OCZ Vendetta 2 with Scythe "Ultra Kaze" l Windows Vista Home Premium 64-bit

February 21st, 2008	#2 (permalink)
Exodus Now the stars don't match Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Null Posts: 14,394	That's cool. I remember having fun with MW4 back in the day. As for EA... meh. That's what modding is all about. The again, Square had a hissy fit with that Chrono Trigger remake, so who knows... __________________ No, I don't like anime, Street Fighter, Japanese music or download video game music. Yes, I know, I'm weird.

February 22nd, 2008	#3 (permalink)
Thanakil Is my post too short? Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: mtl,qc Posts: 1,880	MS could sue them if they use the Mechwarrior franchise I guess, in that case the mod team could simply rename everything and make sure the mechs arent copied on Mechwarrior. Using Mechwarrior can be refused, but they can't be stopped from simply making a game on Mechs, if they arent related to the franchise. Anyway, this could be one hell of a Mod. The gfx + the physics could make for some impressive fights. Destroying other mechs in parts or destroy cities with the engines would be nice. __________________ The world will end with robots killing us all. And you know what? We'll be too busy thinking "HOLY S*** THAT'S SO COOL" to do anything about it.

February 24th, 2008	#4 (permalink)
MrPink McRoll'd Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: "out of the butt and into the f***!" Posts: 538	yeah, i'm not sure how long they have been working on this, but i hope they finish it soon. there are a few pre-alpha game demos available to watch on the website. I've been itching for a good mech game since, well, the armored core series on the ps2. MW4 was awesome for a while, but it just got old, so that now it feels like a very slow FPS. This remake looks like it will have some air combat, some on foot stuff with the pilot, should be very cool when (if it gets released, like you said with MS taking notice) it is released. __________________ Intel Q9550 @ 2.83ghz l 4GB G.Skill Pi Series DDR2 1111 @ 5-5-5-15 1.9v l EVGA Geforce 8800GTX 768MB ASUS P5Q-E l Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi XtremeGamer l PC Power & Cooling Silencer 750 Quad l 2 Seagate 250GB 7.2k RPM RAID 0 Antec 1200 l OCZ Vendetta 2 with Scythe "Ultra Kaze" l Windows Vista Home Premium 64-bit

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