So wait, you're saying MechWarrior is uninteresting even though they started doing the mech games back in 1989? Huh.

Not much of an article really. I agree you can express your views but at least back them up instead of writing a shit, two paragraph article and refusing to give a game a chance before you've even touched it.

Um, Mechwarrior 2 defined my childhood. Mechwarrior is amazing. This article is not.

Also saying Hawken is better than Mechwarrior is like saying Starcraft 2 is better than Shogun 2 Total War. You can't really compare them now can you?

MechWarrior used to be a staple of PC gaming in the '90s, but it all feels a bit antiquated now. It needs to modernize.

Luckily PC Gamer actually did a preview of it.

http://www.pcgamer.com/previews/mechwarrior-online-preview/

From reading the preview it looks like they went really really in depth with the whole mech thing. I honestly don't know if I'd be able to handle it.

The tone of this article is totally unnecessary. But hey, it's not like anyone wants to take video games reporting seriously anyway. Some people have been waiting over a decade for a new MechWarrior game. Some people, but obviously not you. That's okay. Clearly the mech genre is more well-served by an arena-FPS like Hawken than an actual simulator like this.

How can anyone not be exicted about this (that isnt extremly against any games like this)

Its a free to play game... that looks like that, and seems to play like that. I got a boner and i named it Jim

I played this at E3 at the Razer booth. It was actually a LOT of fun, definitely up there with Hawken gameplay-wise, but with not-as-good graphics but much larger battlefields.

And yes, it is very immersive, especially when you see your characters hands doing stuff to the controls and you are inputing keys. Very cool.

Overheating feels awesome too, your whole mech kinda slumps down and you can barely see anything except the ground in front of your feet.

They definitely took this in the right direction. It's not as blah as the video might make you think.

I am all about this game. In the late 90s, I had a friend who had a rumble chair, VR goggles, a rumble vest, and a full joystick rig similar to Steel Battalion's original controller. This entire setup was dedicated to just playing the MechWarrior series.

Subsequently I got into the franchise, and even when it basically turned into an action game with MechAssault, I ran (for a time) the best MA clan in the US. I'm really stoked to see what they can live up to the franchise's legacy.

Guys, stop acting like a bunch of fanboys. In all honesty I found the video very douchy, and I too, as an old man and all, played all the previous games way back in the day.

Like I mentioned before I found the video douchy, but not out of indifference. The dude says some shit that is simply not true, in Mechwarrior 3 we had ECM that would limit the range at which enemy mechs could detect you, if you made your radar passive, this decreased this range even more. We also had C3 computer and C3 slaves, that allowed a scout, or any other mech to relay targeting information to it's lacemates. Beagle probes anyone?

So all I hear is a dude talking about shit that was done decades ago, like they just made this shit up.

So is this article on the PR video or the game? Did you play the game? If you did, What are the pros, the cons, the presentation?

Why are you whining a game exists?

Look buttercup, no one gives a shit about a piss poor article where you bemoan a video or game not meeting your expectations. If you're gonna write, try and build an audience, be fucking interesting or do something else. 1990's style journo attitude ain't gonna cut it.

Sure you may not have wanted to write the article, but if someone at Dtoid have you the job be fucking professional and do it. A two paragraph article about how disinterested you are in a games existence ain't gonna cut it.

Gotta agree with the others its a NEW fucking MW game, and its a huge deal!

Who is this douche-nozzle? We get it, you're trying to live up to Destructoids edgy standard of "don't give a fuck" game journalism. Unfortunately the other writers here at the very least attempt to have substance underlying their brevity. Way to come off as a complete dick hole and not even back up why you're being a dick hole. Word of advice, go back through some of Jim's posts for a dick hole refresher course.

*Walks in* "oh look a new Dtoid blogger" *walks out*. Dtoid, stop hiring fucks.

Protip: Destructoid is not Facebook. Give a bit of a fuck about what you write.

Kyle MacGregor exists as a Dtoid contributor, I've comes to terms with that.

http://www.pcgamer.com/2012/06/27/frozen-city-is-mechwarrior-onlines-new-map/

Here's a video of a new map just released. The environment is snowy and will effect heat management globally (nothing new for Mechwarrior) but there will be intermittent snow storms that will severely decrease normal visibility, like not being able to see your dick because your beer guts too big decreased visibility. Fortunately they've added heat-vision, which I have to admit looks really bad ass when you're firing lasers at an enemy and you leave a heated trail on their mech. Now if only I could use heat vision to find my dick, I know its around here somewhere...

There, your job done in about 4 minutes. Now mail me my check, asshat.

Completely douche article. Play the game before you judge. You should have mentioned the points you said in your comment in the article. You better have not been paid for this.

Opinions. People have them. Yup.

Wow, mech fans are about as defensive and bitchy as ninty fans. Noted.

@tekbunny

Give them a break a mech game comes out every 5 or 10 years xD and they have to play the shit out of that till the next one haha

Kind of a dick, new guy. Kind of a dick.

As a mecha fan, I'm a little disappointed in the shit-tier behavior I'm seeing in the comments in this article. And you guys are ignoring mighty_marcos, who's totally right. Some of the shit they're talking about isn't new at all. Anyone who believes so is just as full of shit as their PR guys.

Don't get me wrong, I'm looking forward to a new MW, but it's not the second coming. And seeing as it's a F2P, I practically expect its economy and community to collapse within the first year or so, just like every goddamn F2P game I've ever played.

@Gee-MAn i kinda agree with you

i feel that the F2P model is getting a little too overused because i would prefer to pay 60 bucks for acces to everything in mechwarrior instead of microtransactions ( i want a mecha game that is not f2p dammit!!!)

Anyone who thinks MWO is "bread-flavored" is smoking the bad drugs.

TL; DR for this article:

"This game will such because it sucks. Or something. Whatever."

TL; DR for this article:

"This game will suck because it sucks. Or something. Whatever."

Hey, we all have the right to be critical about whatever we want to be. "journalists" even more so I suppose so they can bring us information about a product without the bias of PR spin. But there is a difference between criticism, cynicism, and even parody, with laziness. If you don't give a fuck about what you're writing about, then don't write about it. And I would be saying this regardless of whether or not I was a fan of mech games. This is just piss poor blogging. And shouldn't we hold these guys to the standard of information regurgitation that we expect from a video game news sight?

My bitch isn't from mechwarrior love, which meh, I have DayZ to play and not really interested in F2P. My beef Is this dudes lazy attempt at a story and I'm too cool for this attitude. No one gives a fuck if he's disinterested in a game, we clicked the link to be informed about the game.

i used to play mechwarrior the tabletop game all the time. i wish i had a computer that would run this. i really hope mechwarrior makes a come back.

Yeah, gotta say; if you're 'meh' about a game and don't have any interest in the series...why are you blogging about it?

Sorta like people on Facebook, posting about everything they see but not really caring about any of it; moreso a "Look world! I exist! Facebook is proof!"

I could understand abit of a backhand if you were interested and yet kinda let-down about the dev diary, and explained why the dev diary itself was kinda 'meh', but to give grief over a game(and a series) that alot of people have thoroughly enjoyed over the years(Mechwarrior being one of the bigger franchises), then bow out and just don't write a tripe article.

Save us the time by just not writing an article in the future. I hope you've learned from this experience, because this is why we can't have nor enjoy nice things. =[

@Gee-man

The point isn't really that. Yes, this was a crappy PR video, that has absolutely no real appeal to anyone who isn't already waiting for a beta key for MWO with how they structured it, the terrible looping footage/music, etc. And that all the information is bare-bones and super obvious to anyone who's been following the game.

But the point is the article writer just spits out random bullshit and bashes a game and a game series he knows nothing about solely on a small scale PR video. I've noticed this type of thing with all the new Dtoid writers they've brought on - it's like they were all hired from Gawker or something. Because they certainly write like it, and it often feels forced.

Especially since the only one in old-school staff who I really recognize posts here frequently anymore is either Jim Sterling, Holmes, or Conrad. And even then, they all post less and less. It honestly makes me want to just bail ship on Dtoid and stick to Rock Paper Shotgun. Only bad thing about RPS is that they mostly cover only PC-relevant news instead of all gaming news, so that's why I come to Dtoid.

As long there is jetpacks and flamers I will be happy

@Retrofaction

Don't worry there is much flamer action, though lasboats are currently op and need tweaking.

@Retrofaction

Don't worry there is much flamer action, though lasboats are currently op and need tweaking.

I can't wait for the game, I have played every Mech game, MPBT, MPBT 3025, MechWar 2, 3, 4.

"All Systems...Online."

NO. ALL SYSTEMS ARE NOMINAL. NOMINAAAAAAAAL.

Ruined forever.

(iwantthisgamesohard)