Mechwarrior 5 Mercenaries Announced

Russ "the bus" Bullock just showed off footage of a new in development mechwarrior game. Supposed to be single player focused "single point of purchase" game. MWO is apparently going to continue as the multiplayer mechwarrior title.

O HAPPY Day!

This is great news! I was always much more about the singleplayer than the multiplayer for these games.

FUCKING YES

This looks pretty cool. Very curious to see how this turns out.

Windjammers! A New Mechwarrior Game! What a time to be alive.

Please be good, please be good. I don't think I can handle anymore hype, what with Windjammers yesterday and this being announced.

I really hope there'll be FMV cutscenes, that'd probably make this just about perfect.

Um, yes please.

A great man once said this was the best time to be playing video games.

I like how they just straight up skip to Mercenaries.

Also, they got the boot-up sequence right, so this is already better than Mechwarrior Online.

Pigs can fly and Hell froze over. I couldn't believe it when brad posted this on twitter. What a incredible announcement? I'd imagined that they would have been working on this behind the scenes.

@fisk0: "alpha assault this is hq, what is your situation? please comply."

:O

Will it come with a massive layout of what all the keys on the keyboard do? I want impenetrable complexity in my Mechwarrior!

I was thinking more of MW4 where they had live actors. It's probably my least favorite game in the series, but the intro is amazing:

Same. Nice to see a singleplayer one.

Hopefully it's a good game and it sells well.

This whole Christmas on Dec. 25th is totally wrong. My gift showed up in that trailer.

This is the one game I have been wanting for over a decade. Fingers crossed!!!

Between Battletech and this, I am ON. BOARD.

Games are back folks!

Here's hoping it's better then MWO.

Looks real rough so far.

@tennmuerti: Considering we have until 2018 I think we can be cautiously optimistic no?

@fisk0: that looks dumb and great but honestly havent played much of mw4. :( im a heathen i know.

i mainly have wuch a big nostalgia-on for mw2, particularly for that intro which blew me away back in the day and playing the hell out of the pc gamer demo for it. i'm looking forward to great things regardless!

Looks nice. I haven't played a mech game in a long time so I'm kind of itching for one.

I don't know after seeing how Piranha handled MWO with its horrible optimization, fixing technical issues, in game menu/ui , game balance, rather bad maps and just grossly feeding off people's nostalgia. I feel extremely wary about this and I predict they're going push release date back further. They will instead just offer more "founder" packages like MWO since that was in "beta" for more than two years.

The only good thing coming out of this is they're sharing assets with Harebrained Studios for their Battletech game, which is bound to be good.

In a year of surprises... another surprise. Damn.

The last?