Ultimate Mech Collection

[Zakhal]

It took me *a lot* of time and money but Im finally finished. Now I have all the mech cames ever created *installed and working perfectly* on my PC with all the patches and extras - all ready for som serious mech gaming:

Earthsiege (dosbox)
Earthsiege: Expansion (dosbox)
Earthsiege: Battledrome (dosbox)
Earthsiege 2 (Virtual PC - Windows98)
Starsiege (Virtual PC - Windows98)

MissionForce: Cyberstorm (Virtual PC - Windows98)
Cyberstorm 2: Corporate Wars (Virtual PC - Windows98)

Battletech: The Crescent Hawks Inception (dosbox)
Battletech: The Crescent Hawks Revenge (dosbox)

Mechwarrior (dosbox)
Mechwarrior 2 31st Century Combat (vdms + driver coctail)
Mechwarrior 2 Ghost Bear Legacy (vdms + driver coctail)
Mechwarrior 2 Mercenaries (Virtual PC - Windows98)
Mechwarrior 3
Mechwarrior 3 Pirate's Moon
Mechwarrior 4 Vengeance
Mechwarrior 4 Black Knight
Mechwarrior 4 Inner Sphere Mech Pack
Mechwarrior 4 Clan Mech Pack
Mechwarrior 4 Mercenaries

Mech Commander Gold
Mech Commander 2

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Som of them were really hard to get working, especially the windows95 versions but finally Virtual PC fixed all my problems. Glad I never threw away that windows 98 cd.

I started playing with earthsiege and cyberstorm and I am almost finished with former ready to continue in the expansion. Its amazing how fun the old games can be even though you have newer ones installed.

For the games I use:

(1) Keyboard (best for earthsiege)
(2) Optical MS explorer mouse (good in mechwarrior2)
(3) My old trusty Sidewinder 3D ()
(4) Last of its kind (discontinued) MS Sidewinder Force Feedback 2 (works superb in mech3 and 4)

[Stroggy]

Which one is your favourite?

[Lonely Vazdru]

Go ahead, mech my day ! :guns:

[Stroggy]

Originally posted by Lonely Vazdru@Aug 4 2005, 10:12 AM
Go ahead, mech my day ! :guns:
I bet you've wanted to say that for a long time :)

[Lonely Vazdru]

Betting is evil. This is a lawful good forum. Begone evil one ! :angel:

[Stroggy]

Originally posted by Lonely Vazdru@Aug 4 2005, 10:41 AM
Betting is evil.
As is going off topic.
Anyway, do you have a favourite mech game?

[Lonely Vazdru]

You started it. Anyway, the only mech game i know is Starsiege and i liked it. But those games, i mean the recent ones, seem to be more interesting in multiplayer mode and i don't do multiplayer.

[The Fifth Horseman]

Earthsiege II was cool.

"Two words, soldier: LATRINE! DETAIL!"

And Crescent Hawks Revenge... as well. The title music was simply great.
Altough I couldn't get past the city escape mission :not_ok:

Hey, I made a savegame editor / mech editor for CHR some time ago. Would you like a copy?

[Apocalypse Dude]

Mechwarrior 2 including all the expansions. Back in the day I even bought a Wingman extreme to play 'em.

[Stroggy]

Originally posted by Lonely Vazdru@Aug 4 2005, 11:44 AM
You started it.
What is this? Kidnergarten?

[Lonely Vazdru]

Hey ! Cool it down a bit there. I made a little joke, which would have been my only post in this thread if you hadn't felt like kicking back on it. So i joke back, and suddenly you become oh ! so serious and reproach me going off topic. You got a serious attitude problem, so why don't you go bugger someone else ? :angry:

[MrBackAlleySka]

Really nice collection there man! I too, am into mech games. Mainly just the simulations though. "Weapons online, engines online....all systems nominal." Heehe

Howeveer I don't see Mechwarrior 2 Platnum? They made a Mechwarrior 2 with better graphics and more content.

[Rogue]

I'm not much into mech-games, but I do own couple of them, including one on PSX, which IMHO is more playable then one on PC (even with game pad).

I do not own X-Box, and I was just about to buy some mech game for X-Box (which will move me to get XBox too :)). It was looking really cool, with nice graphics and sound effects.

[The Fifth Horseman]

Howeveer I don't see Mechwarrior 2 Platnum? They made a Mechwarrior 2 with better graphics and more content.

I think it was called Titanium Trilogy.

[Zakhal]

Originally posted by Stroggy@Aug 4 2005, 08:54 AM
Which one is your favourite?
MissionForce: Cyberstorm was a real suprise. Its like a mech version of steel panthers except better. You can buy and customize everything even the pilots, choose your missions (mining, recon, defense, mobile defense, etc) and the battles are real fun. Good animations, background story (belongs to the same universe as Earthsiege) etc. I even restarted the game with hard-difficulty so that it would last longer LOL.

Earthsiege is fun too. Nothing beats 5x50mm chewing the enemy hercs into molten metal scarp in matter of seconds. The expansion missions are better than the ones in the original campaing so it gets even better. I play on challenging difficulty and the missions with 3 wingmen are neato. I give them best weapons and hercs and then just order them around. Give them order to put radar on and open fire and they automatically kick behind when hostiles or scout drones are met.

All of my crew in Earthsiege are currently elite. In the original campaing I had few rookies (all the vets had died) and in the last final battle they ran away when I ordered them to attack (pretty sensible though considering even I had hard time). I was pretty pissed off for been forced to fight it all by myself LOL. Took countless tries until I managed to beat it.

The Battletech: The Crescent Hawks games look good too. Looks like they are made on the same engine as the old gold box games. Just last spring I finished the first of the series (Pool of radiance) but got stuck in the third game (finished hillsfar and moved to curse of azure bonds).

[Zakhal]

Originally posted by MrBackAlleySka@Aug 4 2005, 01:15 PM
Really nice collection there man! I too, am into mech games. Mainly just the simulations though. "Weapons online, engines online....all systems nominal." Heehe

Howeveer I don't see Mechwarrior 2 Platnum? They made a Mechwarrior 2 with better graphics and more content.
The mechwarrior 2 mercenaries I have is a platinum version. Its just that I would need the original 3DFX voodoo card to get the better graphics. I actually originally bought the voodoo addon card to play that game. Also most of the titanium versions work only on windows95/98 and if youre on xp youll need virtual pc to run them. Even then the titanium version contains the 1.1 patch for mercs which greatly enhances the gameplay so its still good.

In the list you could also include Heavy Gear 1&2 allthough I played them through like ages ago. Matrix games also has mech game called Titans of Steel - Warring suns.

Looking glass also made a mech game long time ago (I think its abandonware now) called "Terra Nova". I played it through (5 years ago?) and its easily one of the best ones out there:

http://www.the-nextlevel.com/features/developers/looking-glass-studios/terra-nova-strike-force-centauri.jpg

Those who are into multiplayer prolly should check open source game called MegaMek. Its a board game conversion I think.

After that I guess its time to move on consoles. Mech assault on x-box next.