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  • I did see it. It was the entire highlight of the trailer. I did not like it.

    I do not have to play the game in order to give my opinion on what I have seen. If you take a crap on my dinner plate, I do not have to eat it to make sure it is crap first. I can see it, and I do not like it. It is an element that was completely unnecessary, and continues to make it very easy for me to avoid purchasing products that fund a vexatious litigant with a video game side business.







  • I mean, a lot of the games on that spreadsheet (I would even guess more than 50%) contain licensed material, music, or other intellectual property that is not owned by Microsoft, ActiBlizz, or any of the subsidiary studios.

    If someone was going to actually make a really list, those games should not be on the list that anyone would reasonably expect to come back, probably ever. It would require renegotiation of the licensed content with the license holder, if they are still easy to find, who would absolutely demand more money than originally agreed upon at the original game’s release (thereby making the effort immensely expensive), or it would require developers to alter the artistic vision and integrity of some of those games that they can, while others like “Bee Movie: The Game” would require so much reworking it would be better to make it an original game instead.

    I mean, imagine if Square Enix decided to remaster Omikron: The Nomad Soul. They would have to either renegotiate the soundtrack license with David Bowie’s estate and the record label company that publisher the album, or they would have to destroy the legacy of the game by replacing the music with some other artist that would be guaranteed to be genuinely worse than David Bowie. Honestly, I am surprised but also overjoyed that Square Enix is still selling the game on Steam.



  • If you had asked a while ago I would have recommended Super Mecha Champions, an anime styled third-person Battle Royale game where you could call in a mech or fight on foot as a pilot. Sadly, the servers shutdown, so I can’t play it anymore. The game had gacha elements for cosmetics, but characters and mechs were earnable in game. The gameplay was fun too, I really miss it. Which feels crazy for me to say about a NetEase game that started on mobile. I guess they needed more server hardware and developers for Marvel Rivals.

    You might try M.A.S.S. Builder, although it is more similar to Gundam than MechWarrior. It is also anime styled, but the anime characters aren’t really on screen for very long compared to your own mech. The mechs are more humanoid in appearance and are insanely customizable, down to the bare frame even. It has some multiplayer though it is primarily designed as a singleplayer game.

    There is of course, MechWarrior 5, I think Clans is new, and MechWarrior Online has what, 16v16 or 8v8 matches?

    Mecha Break might be one to look into. I haven’t looked into it took much myself but I have heard good things about the gameplay. I think its a 5v5 PvP game.

    As greatly pained as I am to say it, mech games are a tiny niche. One that suffers from “the mech curse,” which is basically that a game gets popular for a month and then dies off hard.





  • games with little to no internet

    This is kinda vague and I dont exactly know what you mean by this. Do you mean games that you can play on a single screen? Or games with LAN or private server capability such as Minecraft?

    For local co-op games:

    • Gauntlet Legends & Dark Legacy
    • Halo 1-Reach
    • Dragon’s Crown
    • Helldivers 1 (broken in RPCS3 unfortunately, but if you have a PS3 can be played offline)
    • The Legend of Zelda Four Sword Adventure
    • Any Call of Duty Zombies (beginning with World At War)