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Blog – So i’ve played quite a lot of Mechwarrior: Living Legends lately…

Cosmo — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 08:37:00 +0000

I’ll start this up by saying this, “MechWarrior: Living Legends is to the Mechwarrior franchise what Black Mesa Source is to Half Life.”

I don’t really know if this is nostalgia or actual fact, but i am having a blast in Living Legends. This is a game, since i think it would be a bit insulting calling it ‘just a mod’, that even though it’s in Beta, it has exceeded my expectations. I’m not talking content-wise, but about the core of the game. The words ‘heart of gold’ keep popping up in my head in relation to this. It’s clear the developers really put heart and soul into this experience and it shows. Leaving aside minor crashes, bugs and what have you, the amount of sheer awesome that i was exposed to in the game was world-shattering. It’s hard to explain, but everything just seems right. Everything is just done and feels so congruent that it’s hard to miss.

Given a few months down the pipe i’m sure this mod will be a beacon for all fellow Mechwarriors out there to gather around. Mechwarrior 5, the official game made by the initial developers of the Mechwarrior franchise, is still a ways off, and i’m sure it will be awesome on its own, but i’d love for them to peek inside Living Legends and if not correlate with the devs, or atleast ’steal’ a few ideas for the multiplayer component.

I’ll end this little praise-work here, but really, spread the word, this mod deserves it.

News – Today’s roundup 04/09/2009

Cosmo — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 16:28:30 +0000

For today we’ve got a new L4D2 campaign unveil, some new Dragon Age Origins trailers, a launch date for Torchlight, the beta for Star Trek Online and some hitches in the road for Mechwarrior.

L4D2 third campaign unveiled… Dark Carnival

Continuing in the long line of corny movie-poster style, Valve greets us with “You must be this tall… TO DIE!” on the Dark Carnival campaign loading screen . The new screenshots look good, and to be entirely honest, i think i might buy it, no matter the criticisms thrown at it due to the nature of it’s development.

Dragon Age Origins… original Origins trailers.. of their Origins

Sorry, i just couldn’t make a straight face while writing that.

If we just got a trickle of videos until now about Bioware’s, upcoming, Baulder’s Gate spiritual sequel, RPG, Dragon Age Origins.. we’ve just got thrown 6 videos presenting each of the possible starting choices/Origins storylines: The Noble Dwarf, The Nobel Human, The Common Dwarf, The Mage, The Dalish Elf and the City Elf. Each of them having their own motivations and deeply-threaded storyline.

Personally i’d play the City Elf. Just the fact that it’s a chick that was against the wall and decided to fight back. Just seems to appeal to me more then a Dwarf mugger gone gladiator or a Mage love-story. Still, we’ll see when the game comes out. I’m really excited about it.

Torchlight launch date set to October 27th.

Runic’s Torchlight has gotten a release date, and it’s closer then we might think.. October 27th. It’s a smart thing too, since there are no real hack’n’slash action RPGs planned for this autumn. Well.. that’s if that Diablo 3 rumor that it’s close to completion and coming out by the end of 2009 is false.

Star Trek Online beta applications are a GO!

Star Trek.. Online.. Beta. If i have to say more to get you to click that link and sign up, then you’ll make a thousand kittens cry.

MechWarrior 5/Reboot legal problems.

Check the link for the News Flash from last night.

Flash News – MechWarrior 5 problems?

Cosmo — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 00:45:37 +0000

IGN got a cease and desist order from the makers of Robotech/Macross. IGN is supposed to drop all videos of MechWarrior 5. They’re collaborating with Smith And Tinker and set out emails trying to figure out what the problematic element is.

If you don’t know, the MechWarrior license comes from Battletech which in turn, took some creative privileges with Robotech’s material. While there are some disputes about this in the Battletech boardgame realm in relation to certain models, i’m really uncertain as to what is the problem with the videos.

This can be a huge problem for MechWarrior 5, or just a small hitch. I seriously hope it’s the latter, as God knows i’ve giggled like a little girl when MW5 was announced. The MechWarrior community deserves a sequel to the franchise.

UPDATE: It seems it was about the Warhammer Mech, looking just a tiny bit like the Tomahawk Destroid from Macross. I think this will blow over easily.