Uncertain MechWarrior Future

Damn. This news makes me frown.

awww

Curses, Im really bummed about this, I've been a screaming little fanboy with MW4, then Black Knight, then Mercenaries...
And recently a friend and I sat down at college and brainstormed on ideas for MW5, five pages later we were considering keeping them to ourselves, or sending them to FASA in hopes they would implement any they liked ( Did same thing for Turok 2, to no avail, that was 4 and 1/2 pages typed as I recall ).
All is lost... Save for our hopes... pinned on a hobbit... errrrrr MicroD'OHsoft

i have been a huge fan of MW every since i got MW2 in the bundled cd pack with my old 166 (ahh those were the days). When in got my hands on MW4: Vengence, i was near giddy with joy to play it, and i wasn't dissappointed. But the rest of u are right. the game has been dumbed down, when it could have been one of the best games of all time. the game is based on 80ft mechanised warfare. the battlefield should look dark and gothic, and at time it looks more suited to seaseme street. With all the cash mircosoft has, they could at least give us some realism

This is a shame. Though still great games, MW3 and 4 (and their numerous expansions) tried to simplify the control scheme and change jumpjets to make it more appealing to the average joe-gamer, but instead it just felt like the game had been dumbed-down. Moreover, for whatever reason the developers figured they'd use the same old-engine with minor improvements over and over. I think MechWarrior, more than almost any other game, practically demands a high-fidelity physics system like will be seen in Deus Ex2 and Thief3, and would benefit from the geodamage system of Red Faction/2 much more than those atrocious games would. When you run into an object or another mech, it still feels like you're a 5lb. pole bumping into solid rock, instead of the 80ton behemoth which could walk right through the wall.

i just beat mech commander 2 -> good game

i still think mechwarrior 2, ghost bears and mech 2 mercs were the best versions of the game

mech3 was alright, it just didnt feel the same

I'm glad MW5 was suspended, especially after playing that total abortion that was Mech Warrior 4. Kudos for doing the right thing.

double Kudos for delaying Crimson Skies II so that they could bring back the original Crimson Skies development team to unfuck it.

what a hard time this frachise has had. First with activision and its buggy releases. And then with microsoft, and its unrealistic day glo orange approach to the universe. Mechwarrior 4 was just to bright and pretty for me.

Did anyone buy the first crimson skies game? I remember the demo, but barely.

Mech Warrior is already dead. Ever since Microsoft got their grubby little hands on it.

this sucks i really liked the mw series but yes it was fucking moronic to release game after game with basically the same engine. Mech warrior should have among the best graphics out there for terrain, cities, bashing though buildings ect. The latest installments just dumbed the game down more. If they wanted to dumb it down they should have introducted elementals, protomechs, and other things that dont have heat or very adjustable weapons. I think an elemental sim a la terra nova would be sweet

expect more xbox developed games from fasa

lame.