I wish he would too....It amazes me that ZOE 2 still holds up so well graphically even after all this time. My only real wishes for ZOE 3 are that we get a cooler looking mech than Jehuty, I was always kind of steamed that Anubis looked so much more awesome than Jehuty. I would also hope that the game can at least make it to ten hours straight through, though this isn't that big of a deal since Kojima has shown he can pack mountains of awesome into six hours.Amnestic said:ZoE, Armoured Core and Mechwarrior are my favourite mecha game series (in that order, no less). I wait for the day when Bandai will finally cobble together a good Gundam game. Using either the AC or ZoE rough gameplay system with a bit of a tweak for the Gundams would be more than enough, but thus far I've yet to see anything that really captured the pace of Gundam combat minus the theatrics.
ZoE2 I played and loved, then my younger brother lost my disk while I was away on holiday and it's fucking impossible to find anywhere. It's on ebay for something like £40.00 a pop, which is a tad too rich for my unemployed blood. I picked up a used copy of ZoE1 from CeX for £2.50 a week ago though ;D
Kojima has said he wants to do a ZoE3. I just wish he'd get round to it.shadow skill said:
Giant Robots, hell yeah!
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ZoE2 follows a formula I'd love to see more game devs follow. Every mission has a different feel too it, and the level gimmicks are never repeated, hence an annoying one is tolerable because you never encounter it again.
The Super Robot Wars series is awesome. I'm not talking about the SRTaisen OG for GBA(although it is from the same series and a good game in it's own right) I'm talking about the ones from Japan. The only ones in English are the two GBA games I just mentioned and fan-translated SRW 3 for the SNES. Its a good game, but not as user friendly as the later games. The series follows the same idea as Super Smash Brothers and Kingdom Hearts but precedes them by at least 10 years and instead of Mario you get gundam.
The early games don't have a whole bunch in plot except to give you a reason to beat up the main bad guy, but it gets better as the series has gone on. The series in the games are small in the early games consisting of the main Gundams(0079 to F91) and Super Robots mainly from Mazinger and Getter robo. The list expands to include others such as Aura battler Dunbine, Heavy Metal L-Gaim, Gundam Wing, and even G Gundam in a few of the games.
The games are SRPGs. The main units are essentially divided into Super Robots(High armor, low mobility) such as Mazingers, Getters, Gunbuster, and Evangelion and real robots(High mobility, lower armor) which I pretty much listed. I wont list all the series since theres a huge number. The games start off easily enough with you being able to kill all the units no problem. Eventually though, depending on the actions you take and how you upgrade your units, the games can vary in difficulty from challenging to murderous. Not only will bosses have ten times the health of any of your units, some can regenerate a good portion of their health and if the game hates you, can absorb attacks and heal themselves.
Here are a few videos. First is of Alpha Gaiden, a game not too difficult(okay it can get difficult) but its not too hard that you can't beat it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8qL9SLQMMY
Next are a few of my favorite units. If these are in a game, they will be the best ones you can get.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4nESGoU64oA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5NirUWJ_uU&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wG1COvx55KI
And heres an example of a boss battle in Alpha 2.
http://www.crunchyroll.com/media-150191/Super-Robot-Wars-Alpha-2-Londo-Bell-vs-Nightingale.html?hires=1
The early games don't have a whole bunch in plot except to give you a reason to beat up the main bad guy, but it gets better as the series has gone on. The series in the games are small in the early games consisting of the main Gundams(0079 to F91) and Super Robots mainly from Mazinger and Getter robo. The list expands to include others such as Aura battler Dunbine, Heavy Metal L-Gaim, Gundam Wing, and even G Gundam in a few of the games.
The games are SRPGs. The main units are essentially divided into Super Robots(High armor, low mobility) such as Mazingers, Getters, Gunbuster, and Evangelion and real robots(High mobility, lower armor) which I pretty much listed. I wont list all the series since theres a huge number. The games start off easily enough with you being able to kill all the units no problem. Eventually though, depending on the actions you take and how you upgrade your units, the games can vary in difficulty from challenging to murderous. Not only will bosses have ten times the health of any of your units, some can regenerate a good portion of their health and if the game hates you, can absorb attacks and heal themselves.
Here are a few videos. First is of Alpha Gaiden, a game not too difficult(okay it can get difficult) but its not too hard that you can't beat it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8qL9SLQMMY
Next are a few of my favorite units. If these are in a game, they will be the best ones you can get.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4nESGoU64oA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5NirUWJ_uU&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wG1COvx55KI
And heres an example of a boss battle in Alpha 2.
http://www.crunchyroll.com/media-150191/Super-Robot-Wars-Alpha-2-Londo-Bell-vs-Nightingale.html?hires=1
Beating the airship level was awesome. I saved at the start of it and replayed it like...5 times in a row once >_> I loved that so much. The following "protect the weak ass LEVs from slightly tougher Raptors" level was a bit tedious though. Bloody useless Vic Viper. ;/PedroSteckecilo said:
I thought they both looked pretty on par with awesomeness actually. I quite liked the transition to Naked Jehuty, which I thought looked superior to your basic Jehuty. Preferred the design of Neith to Nephtis though. It's likely that if he does make a ZoE3 we'll either see or play as Jehuty. I doubt they'd cut it entirely from the series. If not Jehuty then we'll have ADA get transferred to a new OF which we use, which would be pretty sweet.shadow skill said:I wish he would too....It amazes me that ZOE 2 still holds up so well graphically even after all this time. My only real wishes for ZOE 3 are that we get a cooler looking mech than Jehuty, I was always kind of steamed that Anubis looked so much more awesome than Jehuty. I would also hope that the game can at least make it to ten hours straight through, though this isn't that big of a deal since Kojima has shown he can pack mountains of awesome into six hours.Amnestic said:ZoE, Armoured Core and Mechwarrior are my favourite mecha game series (in that order, no less). I wait for the day when Bandai will finally cobble together a good Gundam game. Using either the AC or ZoE rough gameplay system with a bit of a tweak for the Gundams would be more than enough, but thus far I've yet to see anything that really captured the pace of Gundam combat minus the theatrics.
ZoE2 I played and loved, then my younger brother lost my disk while I was away on holiday and it's fucking impossible to find anywhere. It's on ebay for something like £40.00 a pop, which is a tad too rich for my unemployed blood. I picked up a used copy of ZoE1 from CeX for £2.50 a week ago though ;D
Kojima has said he wants to do a ZoE3. I just wish he'd get round to it.shadow skill said:
But yeah, Anubis>Jehuty.
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I so want a glorious and explosive return of the Mechwarrior franchise. Fasa Studios has become Smith & Tinker, and they'd better inaugurate their new name with something good.
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I so want a glorious and explosive return of the Mechwarrior franchise. Fasa Studios has become Smith & Tinker, and they'd better inaugurate their new name with something good.
shadow skill said:I wish he would too....It amazes me that ZOE 2 still holds up so well graphically even after all this time. My only real wishes for ZOE 3 are that we get a cooler looking mech than Jehuty, I was always kind of steamed that Anubis looked so much more awesome than Jehuty. I would also hope that the game can at least make it to ten hours straight through, though this isn't that big of a deal since Kojima has shown he can pack mountains of awesome into six hours.Kojima has said he wants to do a ZoE3. I just wish he'd get round to it.
Never played the ZoE's however i love mechs and Hideo, especially after the awesome but short mech fight in MGS4 - The only mech game ive played where you genuinly feel like you're controlling a multi-billion-dollar robot of death and rampant smashing. Anyway, point being that if it does go into production it'd be great, hopefully because the the extreme outdated-ness of the old ZoE's it would mean a complete overhaul, putting it into line as the start of the 2nd generation of games for the current platforms.
A game based on Iron Kingdoms and WarMachine would be pretty cool, Anarchemitis has got that one down.
Wait, isn't that the one where the president of the US pilots some insane mech in a pitched battle against the VP, along with terrible, and I mean terrible voice acting?CantFaketheFunk said:
Sigh
Front Mission 5 - No NA Release
Macross Ace Frontier (PSP) - All VF from Super Dimensional Fortress Macross to Macross Frontier, with a gameplay similar to Dynasty Warriors. No NA Release because of issues with harmonix and robotech (wtf!)
And Mechwarrior which is long dead, I still have Mercenaries installed, which is still my favorite Mechwarrior game so far.
Front Mission 5 - No NA Release
Macross Ace Frontier (PSP) - All VF from Super Dimensional Fortress Macross to Macross Frontier, with a gameplay similar to Dynasty Warriors. No NA Release because of issues with harmonix and robotech (wtf!)
And Mechwarrior which is long dead, I still have Mercenaries installed, which is still my favorite Mechwarrior game so far.
Thor in SCII looks bloody awesome... And I remember ooooon... PS1 I believe, there was a game where you had this spider-robot that went around on walls blasting down other spiders with missiles, anyone recall the name of that game? It was out the same time as the first spyro I believe.
Meh. It's more of an exaggerated script anyway. I just doesn't appeal to me, but when I think about it, it could've been a lot worse.CantFaketheFunk said:
I would love a good new mech game. Walk around in ten story tall death machine, shoot lazers and missiles and shit at whatever is dumb enough to get between you and what you want to blow up.
Also, I second Lost Planet. Aside from the grappling hook and rocket launcher fun, the mech sections were crazy fun. Fighting giant bugs in giant robots.
Also, I second Lost Planet. Aside from the grappling hook and rocket launcher fun, the mech sections were crazy fun. Fighting giant bugs in giant robots.