The Bore Mecha Gaming Thread: Gundam, Super Robot Wars, Armored Core and More!

[Mr. Gundam]

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[Bebpo]

Yeah I saw that the other day.  Looks pretty phoned in.  No story, blah graphics, probably blah controls with no 2nd analogue for free camera. 

passing.

[Mr. Gundam]

Did you actually expect a story? It's a PSP game.

[Bebpo]

Most games have a story and original levels, yes.

This is just a compilation of the missions from previous games.  There's like no point to it.

[Mr. Gundam]

The Gundam Battle games don't really have a story. I kinda figured this would be the same idea. Besides, the point is to fuck shit up in giant robots.

[Mr. Gundam]

Gundam Heavy Arms (Gundam Wing), Acguy (Gundam), Ginn (Gundam SEED) and Kapool (Turn A Gundam) playable in Gundam Musou 3.

[Bebpo]

Awesome.  That actually makes me really happy because I think there's a good chance the whole Wing crew will be in.  Only 2 missing now.

It also sets a good precedent for them including support cast from Gundam shows in either GM3 or GM4+  Like they could add in the rest of the OO meisters, or other SEED characters, etc...

[cool breeze]

If they're having more than a few Wing suits, what about Tallgeese? I'd take 1 or 3.

[Mr. Gundam]

Dear Japan,

YOU FUCKING SUCK.

SD Gundam G Generation World for the PSP and Wii? What. The. Fuck.

Oh yeah, another Macross Frontier game on the PSP, too.

Japan, you used to be cool.

[chronovore]

Dear Japan,

YOU FUCKING SUCK.

SD Gundam G Generation World for the PSP and Wii? What. The. Fuck.

Oh yeah, another Macross Frontier game on the PSP, too.

Japan, you used to be cool.

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[Mr. Gundam]

Front Mission Evolved is $19.99 new at Gamestop. Tempting...

[Bebpo]

I saw that.  I'll pick it up eventually (on steam when it's $5) because I like mech games and if it's anything like SH Homecoming it won't be that bad.  Will just be totally average and do no justice to the series name.  But it'll still be cool looking mechs shooting stuff for a dozen hours.

Only 10 days until Gundam Musou 3.  I'm getting pretty excited.   

[Mr. Gundam]

I'm totally stoked for GM3. It should be here on Saturday the 18th, so I'll have a full two weeks of winter break to waste on it!

[Bebpo]

Yeah I finish law school on the 14th and then don't start my bar prep classes until like the 27th.  So my break is going to be LOT O' GUNDAM

can't wait

[Mr. Gundam]

We need to get some Gundam 0081 multiplayer in soon.

[Bebpo]

Totally.  I'll be playing that as well next week.  Gotta play something until Musou 3 shows up

[Mr. Gundam]

Gonna pick up FM:E on my lunch break. The teachers I work with got me a $25 Gamestop giftcard for School Psychologist Appreciation Week, so it doesn't cost me anything.

[Bebpo]

Gundam Musou 3 got a 34/40.  Not that it means anything coming from famitsu.

GM1 = 33/40
GM2 = 36/40 (what were they thinking)
GM3 = 34/40

[Mr. Gundam]

I need a new Famitsu scan source. The Korean site I was using appears to have stopped putting them up.

The guys who made Front Mission Evolved clearly played the underrated Votoms PS2 game.

[Bebpo]

I don't know where to find scans.  I just get the info from here:
http://nekonyan15.blog85.fc2.com/

[Mr. Gundam]

Knight Gundam is in the game... what else is in there?

[Bebpo]

wtffffffffffff

what gundam is that from?  I don't recognize it and the only Gundam I haven't seen is V!

[Mr. Gundam]

Knight Gundam is spinoff stuff. I got a card of it in an issue of Gundam Ace I bought in Japan this past April.


There's also a PSX game of it. I picked it up while there, but haven't tried it yet.

[cool breeze]

Danbol Senki / Little Battler Experience / The Little Battlers / whatever it's called : new trailer

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[Bebpo]

Looks like armored core arena for kids

might be fun.  Sometimes I think games that are too kiddy won't appeal to me but then I play stuff like Inazuma 11 and it's a ton of fun. 

[cool breeze]

Even if it's for kids, it will please you with a depth that might surprise you.

It actually reminds me of Gotcha Force a bit

[Bebpo]

Even if it's for kids, it will please you with a depth that might surprise you.

Sounds like a fortune cookie quote

[Bebpo]

First DLC unit pack for GM3 comes out a week after release on the 23rd.

This and the fact the DLC characters + future DLC OO Meisters are listed in the credits gives me hope they might actually integrate into the story modes instead of being throwaway units with no story mode and no point.

[Mr. Gundam]

First DLC unit pack for GM3 comes out a week after release on the 23rd.

How much? I've only got 200 yen left, so I'll need to get more moon-money.

[Mr. Gundam]

Trophy list for Gundam Musou 3

究極のガンダム無双
Ultimate Gundam Warrior
Platinum
Unlock all Gundam Musou 3 trophies

撃墜王
Shotdown King
Bronze
Achieve 10000 total shotdowns

伝説の撃墜王
Legendary Shotdown King
Silver
Achieve 100000 total shotdowns

ジオン十字勲章
Zeon Cross Medal
Bronze
Play 100 times (missions)

ネビュラ勲章
Nebula Medal
Silver
Play 200 times (missions)

賞金稼ぎ
Bounty Hunter
Bronze
Money in possession is over 10000 G

ラストシューティング
Last Shooting
Bronze
Clear all History Missions for Mobile Suit Gundam

宇宙を駆ける
Riding the Space
Bronze
Clear all History Missions for Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam

戦士、再び……
Soldier, Again...
Bronze
Clear all History Missions for Mobile Suit Gundam ZZ

虹の彼方に
Beyond the Rainbow
Bronze
Clear all History Missions for Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn

宇宙海賊
Space Pirate
Bronze
Clear all History Missions for Mobile Suit Gundam F91

天使たちの昇天
Ascension of the Angels
Bronze
Clear all History Missions for Mobile Suit Victory Gundam

スターダストメモリー
Stardust Memory
Bronze
Clear all History Missions for Mobile Suit Gundam 0083

希望の未来へレディ・ゴー！
To the Hopeful Future, Ready, Go!
Bronze
Clear all History Missions for Mobile Fighter G Gundam

最後の勝利者
The Last Winner
Bronze
Clear all History Missions for New Mobile Report Gundam W

月はいつもそこにある
The Moon is Always There
Bronze
Clear all History Missions for After War Gundam X

黄金の秋
Golden Autumn
Bronze
Clear all History Missions for Turn A Gundam

選ばれた未来
The Chosen Future
Bronze
Clear all History Missions for Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Destiny

ソレスタルビーイング
Celestial Being
Bronze
Clear all History Missions for Mobile Suit Gundam 00

黒歴史の語り部
Storyteller of the Dark History
Silver
Clear every History Missions

人類の指導者
Leader of Mankind
Bronze
Clear all Story Missions for either People who Understand or People who Fight groups

人類の革新者
Reformer of Mankind
Silver
Clear every Story Missions

真のガンダム無双
True Gundam Warrior
Gold
Clear every single Missions

研究の鬼
Research Demon
Silver
Mobile Suit Lab reaches Level 10

鬼教官
Demon Instructor
Silver
A single character reaches Level 50

ライセンス収集家
License Collector
Silver
All licenses are unlocked

パイロット集結
Pilot Gathering
Gold
All unlockable playable pilots are unlocked

モビルスーツ集合
Mobile Suit Assembly
Gold
All unlockable mobile suits are unlocked

純粋種のイノベイター
Purebred Innovator
Gold
Every character's sympathies reach Level 5

キャラコレクター
Chara Collector
Bronze
Complete the Character Gallery

モビルスーツコレクター
Mobile Suit Collector
Bronze
Complete the Mobile Suit Gallery

サウンドコレクター
Sound Collector
Bronze
Complete the BGM Gallery

ムービーコレクター
Movie Collector
Bronze
Complete the Movie Gallery

Co-oP20
Bronze
Play in Online 20 times (missions)

Co-oP100
Silver
Play in Online 100 times (missions)

アベンジャー
Avenger
Bronze
Achieve 100 online shotdowns

最恐のアベンジャー
Most Terrifying Avenger
Silver
Achieve 1000 online shotdowns

[Bebpo]

Reading that I'm a little worried the missions will basically be:

1. History/Official storyline for each series like the official storylines from GM1
2. An original cross-over storyline with only 2 sides and everyone is lumped into one of the sides.

I guess that wouldn't be that bad if even within the cross-over storyline each character got their own unique cutscenes instead of half the characters seeing cutscene group A and the other half seeing group B.

We'll see.


Also I gotta wonder how long the history modes are.  I mean they're worth a trophy but how many history missions can you have for Gundam X when there is only A SINGLE UNIT FROM THE ENTIRE SERIES INCLUDED 

[Mr. Gundam]

NCSX shipped my copy of Gundam Musou 3!!!!

[Mr. Gundam]

MAF got his copy (PS3) of GM3 yesterday, he really enjoys it. It's his first import. 

[cool breeze]

nice.  It has been announced for America, right?  I passed on two (my rule for anime games is to get every other entry, if that) but would like to get the third game whenever it is released here.

[Mr. Gundam]

I was talking to Ichi last night and he said that the 360 version displays the achievments in English and refers to the game as Dynasty Warriors Gundam 3. MAF was playing the game last night and the title was displayed in Japanese, but he hadn't updated his trophy list so I don't know if those are in English or not.

[Bebpo]

So L is out a month already and Jump Festa is going on and still no SRW announcement.

I'm getting a little worried the April 11th 20th anniversary of SRW won't be the release date for the next big console SRW, but rather the announcement date and the game will be in the fall 2011 or later.  Would be kind of sad if that happens since SRW was always ~3 years per team for PS2 ones and since each team released a year+ apart there was only a 1 year gap and then 2 years of console SRW back to back.  But it could go to 4 years per team and have 2 years of gaps between console SRW titles on PS3 :\  If OG3 isn't until the end of 2011, it means next licensed SRW is until the end of 2012.

/fingers crossed that we get an announcement in the next 4 weeks.  If there's no announcement by Jan's end, the game isn't coming in April.

[Mr. Gundam]

I'd love to have a new HD SRW before I have a baby (probably 16 months away)....

[Bebpo]

You two decided to have a kid??

Congrats!  I'm sure it'll change your lives in a good way.

[Mr. Gundam]

Gonna start trying in May when we get back from Belgium and the Netherlands.... totally freaked out still!!

Gundam Musou 3 should be in the mail today.

[Bebpo]

Yeah, I'm on the lookout for my copy today.

[Mr. Gundam]

My copy has arrived!!!

[Bebpo]

shoot, I got my mail and the game didn't come today :\  Checked tracking and it arrived in my city at 6:15am this morning but for whatever reason didn't make it on the daily route for delivery. 

Won't be getting my Setsuna F. Seiei on until monday night  :'(

[Mr. Gundam]

We're painting our bedroom, so I'll probably play some late tonight. Gonna get some coop going with MAF. He also bought ACE:R and Gundam 0081 is his next import order.

[Mr. Gundam]

Game is awesome. Cel-shading looks great.

You don't get to select a storyline and play through it right away. Predetermined characters/suits for the first few levels of what I've seen so far.

Only complaint is the camera seems way too close to your character.

[Bebpo]

Got my MUSOU

Gonna play play play tonight.  Setsuna you are my gundaman

[Mr. Gundam]

I played from 10pm to 3am last night. Gonna do it again tonight.

[Bebpo]

This game is AWESOME.  Such a huge jump from GM2.  Feels like the first real HD gen Gundam Musou. 

The camera is both awesome and awful at the same time.  I love the close-up action, looks cool!  But yeah it can be lolz to keep track of stuff.  Luckily I realized I could play most musou games blindfolded 

[Mr. Gundam]

I seriously hate how the History missions are buried within random characters, and spread across multiple characters. "Oh, you haven't unlocked Char AND M'quve yet? Yeah, you can't go any further right now fucker!"

[Bebpo]

This game is too good. 

I am addicted.  omg.  I've played 4 hours straight of JUST SETSUNA. 


I'll probably put 100 hours into this game, lololol.


Huge improvement over GM2.  Love it.

[Bebpo]

Hey Mr. Gundam, do you have a headset?  If you do I'll try to get my old warhawk headset working for future matches.
Also do you use aim?  Would make it a lot easier to setup lobbys than typing in XMB messages.

I'm probably going to play with randoms online for a while after I finish the first storyline since it seems like the fastest way to grind out some xp/money for my setsuna.

[Mr. Gundam]

I've got headset, but I've never used it. I'll have to find it.

I'm just finishing up the third storyline (using Ribbons).

[Bebpo]

I'm still working on the first one.  Been doing a lot of other missions and stuff.  Almost have the full moveset for Setsuna.  He's about to hit lvl.23 and you finish your moveset at lvl.24 with the final SP bar.

Will finish the first storyline tonight.


If you haven't, you should do all the memorial missions once you get them.  They unlock stuff like rank 2/3/4 blueprints and more pilot skills.


Also the Big Zam is really annoying to fight and all the non-story maps are random.  I got owned by it and lost the map and then I tried the map again and it was a completely different layout with no big zam or MA and I won easily.  I think I'll use that knowledge to avoid fighting MAs in non-story missions.

[bork]

So what's the online like?

I'm tempted to get this, but I still have Sengoku Basara 3 and Hokuto Musou to finish up, Sengoku Musou 3Z hits in February, and then the big one...Shin Sangoku Musou 6, is hitting in March, and that one looks like it's going to end up owning all the rest.

[Mr. Gundam]

Also the Big Zam is really annoying to fight and all the non-story maps are random.  I got owned by it and lost the map and then I tried the map again and it was a completely different layout with no big zam or MA and I won easily.  I think I'll use that knowledge to avoid fighting MAs in non-story missions.

Big Zam is nothing. Psycho Gundam Mk. II is a huge pain in the ass.

[Bebpo]

Heh.  Yeah I think they should have ditched the MAs all together.  Thankfully you can put the game on easy for all the 5+ star super difficult missions that give good rewards

So what's the online like?

I'm tempted to get this, but I still have Sengoku Basara 3 and Hokuto Musou to finish up, Sengoku Musou 3Z hits in February, and then the big one...Shin Sangoku Musou 6, is hitting in March, and that one looks like it's going to end up owning all the rest.

4 dudes hitting an enemy who can't move because he's getting stumbled in every direction  

It's fun but really easy.  At least on the 4 star missions we did.  Might get harder on higher missions and I KNOW it's pretty hard even with 4p going against giant mobile armors.


It's easy to get into a room with randoms.  You can jump in and start a match in like a minute.  But after the match it kicks you out to the menu, which is dumb.  
Also the camera is fine for single player but in online it makes it hard to find the other guys even if they're in the same room for you.  The camera is very zoomed in so you just see the group of enemies right in front of you and nothing surrounding you.

[Mr. Gundam]

Now on the fourth storyline with Full Frontal. Looks like the one after this is with a bunch of smaller tier character (Lunamaria, Rosamia, Lacus, etc.)...

[Mr. Gundam]

I beat the Gundam UC history missions and got the trophy. Two missions, second one uses an instrumental version of the Episode 1 ED.

[Mr. Gundam]

Super Robot War Z2 FOR THE MOTHERFUCKING PSP FUCK ME IN THE ASS

Gundam OO
CODE GEASS Lelouch of the Rebellion
Armored Trooper VOTOMS
Armored Trooper VOTOMS: The Red Shoulder Document Roots of Ambition
Armored Trooper VOTOMS: Pailsen Files
Dai-Guard
Macross Frontier Itsuwari no Utahime
Psalms of Planets Eureka Seven: Pocket Full of Rainbows
Gurren Lagann
Gurren Lagann The Movie: Childhood's End
Shin Mazinger Shogeki! Z Hen

At least I own a PSP 

[Bebpo]

fuck you Japan

I hate you

die plz

 


They spent all these years since Z to make the new licensed SRW and the sprites will be worse than Z.  Seriously Japan can fuck off.  I'm out

[Mr. Gundam]

Yeah, fuck 'em.

In brighter news, my GM3 saves are intact on my new Slim.... my ACE R and some of the Gundam 0081 saves are not... they were one of like two or three games I own that actually have copy protected saves.