Author Topic: The Bore Mecha Gaming Thread: Gundam, Super Robot Wars, Armored Core and More! (Read 204857 times)

Mr. Gundam · « **Reply #300 on:** August 21, 2010, 08:28:17 PM »

Unlike ACE 1-3, there's no mention of FROM Software anywhere on the box art or in the manual...

Haven't had a chance to play this yet. Just got done painting and now going out for a date with Mrs. Gundam.

Bebpo · « **Reply #301 on:** August 21, 2010, 10:11:02 PM »

Don't worry, you'll probably still enjoy it. I'm kind of enjoying it and just being angsty because I was looking forward to it so much and the first impression it gives is unpolished and slightly frustrating. Also dying makes me mad.

Maybe I deserve that for starting with a bad show like SEED Destiny :'(

Purple Filth · « **Reply #302 on:** August 21, 2010, 10:18:23 PM »

Quote from: Bebpo on August 21, 2010, 07:28:07 PM

hate this game

it's one of those real shitty games you put up with for the fanservice, but I dunno, I think this one may be even too shitty for me.

Until I see the staff credits I'm not going to believe this was done by the From Software team that made ACE1-3.

after all the hype? yikes

Bebpo · « **Reply #303 on:** August 21, 2010, 10:25:35 PM »

well hype can be a bad thing because you expect a lot!

Bebpo · « **Reply #304 on:** August 22, 2010, 01:42:23 AM »

Either the game is more fun on easy because enemies take less damage and units level faster or Destiny just sucks and Geass is great, but I'm having a lot of fun playing the Geass route now.

Bebpo · « **Reply #305 on:** August 22, 2010, 03:26:36 AM »

My overall feeling after playing all night is that the game is probably made by the ACE team and is a good game about on the level of ACE1-3 although some of the changes are for the worse.

...but seed sucks. Like really really really sucks and makes you hate the game. The seed pilots are super gimped. ACE:R basically has no sense of balancing all the playable units to make them good. Instead some are amazing and some are terrible. Seed Destiny falls in the latter.

Bebpo · « **Reply #306 on:** August 22, 2010, 04:13:05 AM »

So apparently:

-game was supposed to come out in 2009 but someone pushed really hard for Macross F to be in so it was delayed until 2010 to add it
-Macross F is the only series in the game that gets its full anime storyline covered
-Macross F cutscenes are the only non-skippable cutscenes in the game (but they are a good chunk of the cutscenes including the longest ones)

uhhh...wat

Purple Filth · « **Reply #307 on:** August 22, 2010, 04:46:31 AM »

Quote from: Bebpo on August 22, 2010, 04:13:05 AM

So apparently:

-game was supposed to come out in 2009 but someone pushed really hard for Macross F to be in so it was delayed until 2010 to add it
-Macross F is the only series in the game that gets its full anime storyline covered
-Macross F cutscenes are the only non-skippable cutscenes in the game (but they are a good chunk of the cutscenes including the longest ones)

uhhh...wat

Macross F? as in Macross Frontier?

Interesting....but isn't there a game coming soon that will already be hyping Frontier

Mr. Gundam · « **Reply #308 on:** August 22, 2010, 05:19:04 PM »

Installed the game and messed around with the tutorial. Will actually try out the game tonight.

Quote from: Bebpo on August 22, 2010, 04:13:05 AM

So apparently:

-game was supposed to come out in 2009 but someone pushed really hard for Macross F to be in so it was delayed until 2010 to add it
-Macross F is the only series in the game that gets its full anime storyline covered
-Macross F cutscenes are the only non-skippable cutscenes in the game (but they are a good chunk of the cutscenes including the longest ones)

uhhh...wat

Bebpo · « **Reply #309 on:** August 24, 2010, 11:45:42 AM »

new SRW is SRW L for DS and it's horrrible. Sprite-rip fest from the other 2 DS games.

Series included:
SEED (W)
SEED D (K)
Gundam Wing Endless Waltz (W)
Combattler V (don't remember if was in W)
Voltes V (don't remember if was in W)
Mazinkaiser OAV1/2 (W)
Godanner S1/2 (K)
Gaiking 2000 (K)
Jeeg 2000 (K)

new series for SRW:
Mac F (blah)
Dancougar Nova
Ikusa 1 & 3 (? never heard of it)
Steel Linebarrels (lol)
Eva 1.11 (cool until you realize 1.0 only means only what appears in the first 6eps of Eva)

Bebpo · « **Reply #310 on:** August 24, 2010, 11:48:01 AM »

Mr. Gundam · « **Reply #311 on:** August 24, 2010, 12:16:41 PM »

WHAT THE FUCKING FUCK

Oh, Ikusa is Iczer.

Bebpo · « **Reply #312 on:** August 27, 2010, 03:43:49 AM »

With the huge letdown of L and no Z2 in site anytime soon, and after finishing up ACE:R which put me in the Macross mood, I'm finally gonna play SRW@3 to give me that good robot feel I've been missing.

Picked Kuzuha/Bullet route since I did their route in @2 three or four years ago and did their @1 story in OGs. Played the first couple of missions. So awesome. Awesome BGMs, awesome animations, awesome cast from the start. Considering it's 60 maps long plus TONS of branches (and I like to save at branch points and do both ways to get all the plot

), this will probably be my main game I'm playing through the fall. But honestly, 2-3 months of HQ robot action, I think that's about as good as it gets.

Now I just need to read up on the @1-@2 storyline because it's been so long I don't remember much at all.

spoiler (click to show/hide)

I'll probably play L in late November ;_;
I'm a sucker for portable SRW because it's easy to play while on a treadmill

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Bebpo · « **Reply #313 on:** August 29, 2010, 12:14:39 AM »

So they showed a trailer for L at Hobby Fest and probably a trailer for the new OG anime.

Should be online soon.

@3 is pretty great so far. I'm doing 4 parallel saves at least for the start to see all the maps. Done the first few maps for Kuzuha & Kanekomech paths. Kanekomech storyline is actually pretty cool. Gonna do the other 2 and see how they are. Mr. Gundam, did you ever play through alpha 3?

Mr. Gundam · « **Reply #314 on:** August 29, 2010, 12:44:58 AM »

Yeah, I played through Alpha 3 in late 2008. I thought it was great and loved Ideon's inclusion. It was also cool to see Kaneko design the Werkbau.

Mr. Gundam · « **Reply #315 on:** August 31, 2010, 10:22:59 PM »

cool breeze · « **Reply #316 on:** September 07, 2010, 09:14:33 PM »

Gundam Musou 3 was announced

according to someone on gaf, it had 00, Unicorn, X and 0083

or just 00 s2 because it is 00 Gundam with the Raiser

iconoclast · « **Reply #317 on:** September 07, 2010, 09:26:36 PM »

DWG2 is one of Koei's best games, so if they continue to improve I'll probably get it. All I ask for is more G Gundam.

Mr. Gundam · « **Reply #318 on:** September 07, 2010, 09:37:21 PM »

Quote from: Linkzg on September 07, 2010, 09:14:33 PM

Gundam Musou 3 was announced

according to someone on gaf, it had 00, Unicorn, X and 0083

or just 00 s2 because it is 00 Gundam with the Raiser

Scans are up:
http://videogamerx.gamedonga.co.kr/zbxe/1514095

I'd rehost the scans, but I'm just taking a quick break from tiling the bathroom.

Bebpo · « **Reply #319 on:** September 07, 2010, 10:04:34 PM »

What's new?
Producer guy: We added cell-shading to the engine.
I see you've changed the camera too
Producer guy: Yeah, when you had the old pulled back angle, you couldn't really tell that we added cell-shading so we pulled the camera up close so you can really see the cell shading now.

/facepalm x 10000

Japanese game development is still distinguished mentally-challenged. News at 11.

Also there isn't a mention of a single new gameplay change/feature in the whole article/interview.

Bebpo · « **Reply #320 on:** September 08, 2010, 02:54:12 AM »

Need better scans. Apparently there's online coop. Maybe other stuff too?

iconoclast · « **Reply #321 on:** September 08, 2010, 03:14:07 AM »

Cel-shading is awesome, but those scans don't look very cel-shaded to me... Guess we'll have to wait for better pics.

Zooming the camera in is pretty stupid, especially since the camera wasn't too good to begin with. $:-\$

Bebpo · « **Reply #322 on:** September 08, 2010, 11:05:41 PM »

http://gundam-musou.jp/

cell-shaded Nu looks really good. Really brings out the details. Quebley looks the same.

iconoclast · « **Reply #323 on:** September 08, 2010, 11:37:40 PM »

YES, that looks great. About time we get another awesome looking cel-shaded game that's not Naruto or Dragon Ball. This is so bought... after it's cheap, because Sengoku Basara and Hokuto no Ken are more than enough Musou for me for a while.

bork · « **Reply #324 on:** September 08, 2010, 11:57:03 PM »

Quote from: Bebpo on September 08, 2010, 02:54:12 AM

Need better scans. Apparently there's online coop. Maybe other stuff too?

What scans? All we ever get are shitty photos taken of the magazine pages.

Does no one have a fucking scanner anymore?

Mr. Gundam · « **Reply #325 on:** September 09, 2010, 12:02:25 AM »

Preordering this day one, even though it will be ~$90.

cool breeze · « **Reply #326 on:** September 09, 2010, 12:15:27 AM »

did the second game have CCA suits in it?

I only played the first DW Gundam game. For anime games like this, I usually pick up every other game in the series.

Bebpo · « **Reply #327 on:** September 09, 2010, 12:18:32 AM »

Quote from: Linkzg on September 09, 2010, 12:15:27 AM

did the second game have CCA suits in it?

I only played the first DW Gundam game. For anime games like this, I usually pick up every other game in the series.

I thought Nu was in all of them?

If not then yeah he was in #2.

I honestly can't remember the games that well. They were fun, repetitive, #2 had a lame unified story mode instead of individual storylines which were great in #1 and neither had achievements on PS3. That's about all I remember.

But I liked them enough. Put like 70-80 hours in GM1 and 30 hours in GM2, so since GM3 will probably more of the same and I enjoy it I'll drop the full $90 day 1. Especially because it's the first game I can cause chaos as Setsuna and slice shit up (DS game doesn't count).

iconoclast · « **Reply #328 on:** September 09, 2010, 12:22:45 AM »

DWG2 had Nu Gundam and the Sazabi. The campaign covers the original UC story from Gundam 0079 to CCA IIRC.

cool breeze · « **Reply #329 on:** September 09, 2010, 12:24:27 AM »

If Nu was in 1 then I'm just forgetting it.

The first game had an amazing story if only for the interactions between characters. Domon vs Loran (or Kamille?) was the best. Domon puts those damn pacifists in their place

edit: it was Kamille
[youtube=560,345]492ySx0JQZo[/youtube]

GOOOODDOOOO FINGAAAAAH

iconoclast · « **Reply #330 on:** September 09, 2010, 12:34:22 AM »

I never played the first one, but that does look pretty awesome. I skipped it because I thought the demo sucked. DWG2 is a lot of fun though. If DWG3 is just a level pack with cel-shading I'll be happy with it.

G Gundam, the best Gundam. Besides Zeta.

Bebpo · « **Reply #331 on:** September 09, 2010, 12:34:52 AM »

Quote from: Linkzg on September 09, 2010, 12:24:27 AM

If Nu was in 1 then I'm just forgetting it.

The first game had an amazing story if only for the interactions between characters. Domon vs Loran (or Kamille?) was the best. Domon puts those damn pacifists in their place

Yeah, that's why GM2 pissed me off. It ditched all the cross-over matchups and instead just did scenes from each show with mostly their cast. I really hope GM3 goes back to GM1's storyline style. The fanservice was half the fun of the game.

[youtube=560,345][/youtube]

Basically GM1 was silly light-hearted fanservice for Gundam fans.

GM2 was serious drama/action story scenes.

iconoclast · « **Reply #332 on:** September 09, 2010, 06:47:07 AM »

There's an in-game image here of the Hyaku Shiki.

spoiler (click to show/hide)

DWG2 for comparison:

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I guess it looks okay. I'm sure it looks a lot better in motion at 60 fps.

Mr. Gundam · « **Reply #333 on:** September 10, 2010, 11:32:58 PM »

Direct feed pics here (Nu Gundam and Hyaku Shiki vs. Zakus):
http://www.famitsu.com/news/201009/10033266.html

Mr. Gundam · « **Reply #334 on:** September 16, 2010, 01:55:10 PM »

December release date for Gundam Musou 3.

Also, there's a 3:30 promotional video for the Macross F hybrid pack on the Japanese Playstation Store. In-game footage of Trial Frontier is near the end. Looks good.

Bebpo · « **Reply #335 on:** September 16, 2010, 05:02:05 PM »

So it looks like console SRW didn't get announced

I think they're going to announce it in December. That's when the next wave of big JP game announcements come out around the jump fiesta (for instance when Tales PS3 is getting revealed). Since the 15th anniversary of SRW isn't until April 2011, December makes more sense I guess. Plus L will have come out and been done with and OG TV anime will be done or mid-airing.

I really wanted to see some high-res sprite action this TGS. But I guess there's been enough good game announcements already that I can wait until December :X

Mr. Gundam · « **Reply #336 on:** September 16, 2010, 08:27:48 PM »

December makes sense. SRW L, Macross Trial Frontier and Gundam Musou 3 will all be out by then. They'll need to have more mecha animu games to announce.

Bebpo · « **Reply #337 on:** September 16, 2010, 10:53:53 PM »

[youtube=560,345][/youtube]

Cell-shading looks great on some of the units. Even on the ones where it doesn't stick out, the colors are better. Unicorn looks super hot.

Gameplay looks the same, but who cares, it works don't fix it if it ain't broken. Just hope the story mode/cutscenes are good!

iconoclast · « **Reply #338 on:** September 16, 2010, 10:59:16 PM »

Quote from: Bebpo on September 16, 2010, 10:53:53 PM

Gameplay looks the same, but who cares, it works don't fix it if it ain't broken.

Truly Koei's motto.

Anyway, looks good. Will buy after I get 1000/1000 in DWG2 in the distant future.

Mr. Gundam · « **Reply #339 on:** September 18, 2010, 12:57:36 AM »

[youtube=560,345][/youtube]

Bebpo · « **Reply #340 on:** September 18, 2010, 01:01:10 AM »

what the fuck, he just got 1 hit killed by Master Gundam.

uhhh, I dunno how I feel about this new "you die very easily" and respawn balance.

oh wait, he only had 25% hp
hmm, you respawn with 25% hp

hmmmm

Mr. Gundam · « **Reply #341 on:** September 18, 2010, 10:03:40 AM »

[youtube=560,345][/youtube]

Bebpo · « **Reply #342 on:** September 18, 2010, 11:56:16 AM »

engine definitely looks nicer now

Bebpo · « **Reply #343 on:** September 27, 2010, 12:10:28 PM »

Gundam Ex-

+

Gackt

=

Jesus Gundam

Bebpo · « **Reply #344 on:** September 28, 2010, 09:04:38 PM »

Gundam Musou 3 is December 16th
7800yen

Mr. Gundam · « **Reply #345 on:** September 28, 2010, 11:19:52 PM »

Quote from: Bebpo on September 28, 2010, 09:04:38 PM

Gundam Musou 3 is December 16th
7800yen

Did Macross Trial Frontier get reviewed? I've been away from the net today, time to check.

Mr. Gundam · « **Reply #346 on:** October 09, 2010, 06:27:39 PM »

You can't save your game progress in Macross Trial Frontier.

Mr. Gundam · « **Reply #347 on:** October 12, 2010, 08:16:59 PM »

Another Century's Episode Portable for PSP.

Bebpo · « **Reply #348 on:** October 12, 2010, 08:22:49 PM »

Note there are ammo counts, so hopefully tension crap is gone.

Mr. Gundam · « **Reply #349 on:** October 12, 2010, 08:23:32 PM »

Looks like a compilation of parts of ACE 1-3 and R with a couple new mechs.

Bebpo · « **Reply #350 on:** October 12, 2010, 08:28:39 PM »

I'm hearing it has no story and is just a mission mode of tons of missions and tons of units.

If it plays like ACE3 then it might be fun.
If it plays like ACE:R..... :\

Will probably wait for JP user reviews and not get it day 1. After ACE:R I can't trust them with that day 1 money.

Joe Molotov · « **Reply #351 on:** October 12, 2010, 08:32:35 PM »

Did anyone play Front Mission Evolved? I played it a bit, and it seemed kinda crappy but I only played the first level.

Mr. Gundam · « **Reply #352 on:** October 12, 2010, 08:48:08 PM »

Quote from: Bebpo on October 12, 2010, 08:28:39 PM

I'm hearing it has no story and is just a mission mode of tons of missions and tons of units.

It's a PSP game, I figured it would something like the Gundam Battle and Macross Frontier games.

Quote

Will probably wait for JP user reviews and not get it day 1. After ACE:R I can't trust them with that day 1 money.

I'll wait until I can get it used. It's a portable game, I'll rarely (if ever) play it.

Quote from: Joe Molotov® EDGE™ on October 12, 2010, 08:32:35 PM

Did anyone play Front Mission Evolved? I played it a bit, and it seemed kinda crappy but I only played the first level.

Waiting until I can get it for $10.

Bebpo · « **Reply #353 on:** October 12, 2010, 09:42:31 PM »

Quote from: Mr. Gundam on October 12, 2010, 08:48:08 PM

Waiting until I can get it for $10.

Might take a while unfortunately. SE is very slow to price drop.

I'm hoping to nab it for around that during Black Friday on steam sale. But I'm guessing it'll be $20-25.

Mr. Gundam · « **Reply #354 on:** October 12, 2010, 10:28:16 PM »

Quote from: Bebpo on October 12, 2010, 09:42:31 PM

Quote from: Mr. Gundam on October 12, 2010, 08:48:08 PM
Waiting until I can get it for $10.

Might take a while unfortunately. SE is very slow to price drop.

That's ok. I have no real interest in anyway. But I can't pass up a mecha game for $10.

Mr. Gundam · « **Reply #355 on:** October 20, 2010, 07:30:58 PM »

I spent some more time with Macross Trial Frontier after getting home from work. After figuring out the controls and gameplay, it's really good. Kudos to ArtDink. My only complaint and hope for a full PS3 game is to make the missions longer, as right now they're still PSP-ized.

Mr. Gundam · « **Reply #356 on:** November 02, 2010, 12:04:32 AM »

Quote from: AndriaSang.com

Famitsu has a look at the online component of Gundam Musou 3, which is due for Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 release on December 16. The game will have four player online co-op play complete with exclusive online mission. Players will be able to support one-another through healing and so-forth.

Mr. Gundam · « **Reply #357 on:** November 09, 2010, 11:35:55 PM »

Bebpo · « **Reply #358 on:** November 10, 2010, 12:10:55 AM »

Musou 3 box looks good enough. They're really selling this game on the cell-shading and going by the results that's what they should be doing.

ACE Portable box looks reallllly amateur with that background.

Mr. Gundam · « **Reply #359 on:** November 10, 2010, 12:41:58 AM »

Yeah, I absolutely love the GM3 box art. The ACE P fits the mold of all previous ACE covers, but the Tron-esque background is boring.

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