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Front Mission Evolved - Out Tuesday!
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NEW FRONT MISSION fans cry tears of rage/joy
Giant Robots need love too.
Front Mission Evolved is a Third Person Mecha Shooter by Double Helix and published by Square Enix.
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Releasing on Tuesday, September 28th in the US and October 8th for erryone else. Available on PC (Steam), Xbox360, and PS3. Single Player Campaign and some sort of Multiplayer Deathmatch Mode. Buy it before tuesday and get some free Wanzers.
Wanzers? The Front Mission games focus on battles with Wanzers (german Wanderpanzer = Walking tank) a mere 15-20 foot tall mecha keeping them slightly more probable then your average Gundam.
Not really surprised this game has no thread. Giant Robots as a genre is super niche. A strategy game rebooted as a 3rd person shooter leaves fans of the series a bit cold. There have been very few reviews of the demo version from assorted game shows and I can find none for the finished product.
So is the game going to be good? Honestly, I have no idea. Game play videos look alright? Wanzer destruction looks bad. Outside of wanzer on foot fighting looks meh. Not getting a good sense of scale in the Enviroments. I have read the storyline is short as well. But, Hey! Multiplayer! Up to 4 vs 4! That could be fun. Most importantly wanzer customization in your garage looks as deep as ever, so giant robot dress up is a go. Everyone loves big guns right?
big guns are rad.
Buy this game because you believe in giant robots and giant guns.
So yeah, Front Mission Series, Front Mission new game: Discuss.
Giant Robots need love too.
Front Mission Evolved is a Third Person Mecha Shooter by Double Helix and published by Square Enix.
Official Site
Releasing on Tuesday, September 28th in the US and October 8th for erryone else. Available on PC (Steam), Xbox360, and PS3. Single Player Campaign and some sort of Multiplayer Deathmatch Mode. Buy it before tuesday and get some free Wanzers.
Wanzers? The Front Mission games focus on battles with Wanzers (german Wanderpanzer = Walking tank) a mere 15-20 foot tall mecha keeping them slightly more probable then your average Gundam.
Not really surprised this game has no thread. Giant Robots as a genre is super niche. A strategy game rebooted as a 3rd person shooter leaves fans of the series a bit cold. There have been very few reviews of the demo version from assorted game shows and I can find none for the finished product.
So is the game going to be good? Honestly, I have no idea. Game play videos look alright? Wanzer destruction looks bad. Outside of wanzer on foot fighting looks meh. Not getting a good sense of scale in the Enviroments. I have read the storyline is short as well. But, Hey! Multiplayer! Up to 4 vs 4! That could be fun. Most importantly wanzer customization in your garage looks as deep as ever, so giant robot dress up is a go. Everyone loves big guns right?
big guns are rad.
So yeah, Front Mission Series, Front Mission new game: Discuss.
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The really sad thing is that the fiction surrounding the Front Mission stuff could make for some incredible stories, but the games always seem to be jammed with the worst kind of hammy, awkward writing. Further development of the strategic combat system coupled with a high-end story could make for something magical.
Anticipating a horrid cliche single player storyline (same writer/scenario developer as FFXIII, Motomu Toriyama), and a decent multiplayer. 4 modes, something like: King of the Hill, Free for all, Team Deathmatch, and some sort of Domination.
I know I am probably only going to play this game till Fallout: NV come out unless I can find people to play the online modes with. (assuming controls are good, customization is deep and varied, and all the 12 year olds are playing Halo)
sacrilege
I remember playing (3?) long into the night on playstation.
They tried to bury us. They didn't know that we were seeds. 2018 Midterms. Get your shit together.
They keep talking about intensity and action but it just looks like a slower, lamer Armored Core
I'd love a giant robot game that was slower paced but still intense, like that new MechWarrior game, or Chromehounds or something, rather than super fast and over the top like AC, but this game looks just as arcadey and nowhere near as involving
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Unfortunetily, from what I've read it sounds like this is a pretty shoddy tie-in that SE's only involved in for writing and the like. Terrible weapon balance, regenerating health, on-foot sequences in which you have to fight other Wanzers - yeah, I think I'll pass. It's a real pity, too, since FM always managed to stride the fine line between slow-ass lumbering death machines and crack-fueled schizo-twitch humanoid jets and give you a bit of both without too many extremes.
The good news, I also succumbed to the stupidity and pre-ordered it on steam.
The bad news, yeah its more than likely gonna suck.
One side-scrolling spin-off in a TBS series does not make a pattern. And, so far, this looks terrible.
So, ah.... you go get yourself stuffed? :P
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Like Steel Battalion, except cheaper and more forgiving
(the new Kinect game doesn't count)
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I'unno, maybe I'd try a demo or something? I love giant robots, and I want to give giant robot developers my money, but I'd also like it not to be a total donation.
Hey now
That's just mean
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More than anything this makes me want a sequel to Chromehounds...
Anyone still play that these days?
You cannot be serious!
Brb dusting off ps1
And Olivaw, there is a cockpit pov cam in FM Evolved, read it was odd though. AND AUGH! I knew about regenerating health, but wtf Bullet-time? ACTIVATE YOUR WANZER'S EDGE SYSTEM!
The more I learn the more /sadfaced I get. Oh well, I will know how erroneous my decision was in 30 odd hours.
As far as FM3 storyline awesomeness, hell yes, it was awesome. Branching storyline, believable cliche characters, hard fights against ridiculous odds, and salvageable Wanzers. Amazing game. One of the reasons I still have a PS2.
I have been playing FM5 for a few weeks now off and on and it is far a better game then 4 was, with this amazing addition to the Battle Simulator called Survival Mode. It is essentially a mini roguelike inside the simulator with 100 floors to climb. You start as a level 1 pilot with level 1 skills and an ok wanzer and upgrade from pickups and level up your pilot, it is very addictive. Plus you can bring a limited amount of gear back out into the game proper with you.
I am still sad they never released a patch to give your single player mode all the weapons from online.
I know the singleplayer was basically a tutorial, but I would probably still toss it in from time to time.
They at least tried to make it work like a combined-arms system instead of 3's "use eject skills all the time" setup
I really wanted to play 5 but I'm not gonna learn a language just to play a video game
Anyways, i hope this game is better than it at first appears. I haven't seen any mech style games in ages, but all the videos make it look awful..
Totally and I both purchased it.
I won't be home to try it until after work though.
Whether or not I cancel that preorder is going to be determined by reviews and people in this very thread's opinions.
It's the only way I'd bother to play this game
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Can you elabotrate? I played through the training level before I left for work this morning and thought it was good. Is the story just dumb? Or is the combat bad?
I can't figure out how to turn voice chat off in the game.
Also there aren't enough people online to do multiplayer yet. Kind of a bummer, plus I don't have time tonight to get into the single player.
PS, I also disliked FM4, but FM3 was the fucking shit.
Edit: Also, the physical PC copies have steamworks, so if that's an incentive for you like it is for me, it's fucking radical. Best of both worlds.
The real best of both worlds is Dark Messiah of Might and Magic. You could install that, without needing steam, off the disc, or register the code on Steam.
But I finally got into a match, and it was glorious. Really simple gameplay, but super pretty, and the mechs actually feel like mechs. Everything has the proper feel, which is all I wanted. Nothing ground breaking, but fun when it works.
Still, don't take my word for it since I've only played one match. Just first impressions.
Still, I dig it. The mechs have weight, the combat is frenetic and furious (and unbalanced). Missile spam all over.
Good times.
The gameplay is fast enough that it seems like the multiplayer would be too frenetic for me.
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Does it look like you're in a cockpit or is it just a shitty first person view they put in for no real reason
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