I grew up watching my dad play two series of games: Age of Empires, and MechWarrior 1-4. It always bums me out when people talk about Mech Assault, and have never even heard of the MechWarrior games. Customizing mechs, loading them with different weapons and war paint, using actual tactics. So awesome. I think it also helps that my dad won an awesome force feedback joystick when I was young. I can't imagine playing the game without one.
 
Well this turned into more of a blog post than I was planning. Anyway, who else absolutely LOVED the MechWarrior games?
 
And is anybody excited for Mechwarrior 5? I am, though I hope it's not dumbed down at all like Mech Assault was. 
 
Final note: Mad Cat Mk. II is the best.

I was aware of it, but I never really got into MechWarrior. And prepare to be bummed out because I loved Mech Assault. Part 2 sucked balls because they turned it into Grand Theft Mech, but I played the hell out of the first one, and yea the Mad Cat was my favorite too.

I played them, wasn't really good at it, There was this game, I can't remember it's name, but you were flying some sort of Stargate type wing thing, blowing up weird flying enemies in a Egypt setting, played that alot. 
 
AoE was where it was at though, awesome games, I just wish 3 was up to par.

" I was aware of it, but I never really got into MechWarrior. And prepare to be bummed out because I loved Mech Assault. Part 2 sucked balls because they turned it into Grand Theft Mech, but I played the hell out of the first one, and yea the Mad Cat was my favorite too. "

" There's a new MechWarrior game coming out? Whoah...  Although i always found them to be...a bit unlikeable, controls wise. I've always liked everything else about them though. Although, if you want those kinda games, i guess the Armored Core series could do it for you these days? "

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I played them, wasn't really good at it, There was this game, I can't remember it's name, but you were flying some sort of Stargate type wing thing, blowing up weird flying enemies in a Egypt setting, played that alot. 
 
AoE was where it was at though, awesome games, I just wish 3 was up to par.

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I sank hours upon hours playing Mechwarrior 2 when I was about twelve. I sucked at it, but I loved and continue to love mechwarrior.

I spent a lot of time with Mechwarrior 2.  MW3 and MW4 were good, but didn't hook me like MW2 did.  Very excited about a new one.
 
@Shirogane said:

" i guess the Armored Core series could do it for you these days? "

My uncle had some of the games when I was young. I'd always play around with the games and usually end up getting very confused.

Man, I was so disappointed by 3. AoE 2: The Conquerers still holds us for LAN parties with my dad and friends at his office. Though we haven't done it for a while due to uneven teams.... and nobobdy wants to play with my dad, all he does is play Teutons and create monks. 

Played a bunch of MechWarrior 2 back in the day. Great stuff.

My only Mechwarrior game was 3 and I had a lot of fun with it. Never tried 4 though. Speaking of which, what the fuck happened to MW4 coming out free? It was announced a few months ago and it seems it hasn't happened yet.

I bought this game when I was little, but I didn't play it much.
 
I still have the disks someware.

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Man, I was so disappointed by 3. AoE 2: The Conquerers still holds us for LAN parties with my dad and friends at his office. Though we haven't done it for a while due to uneven teams.... and nobobdy wants to play with my dad, all he does is play Teutons and create monks. 

Wololo :)  I just installed it into my PC last week, Made a blog, Self promotion, (Yet again)  Damn thing does not like Vista, you have to Re-install it every time you want to play again...  Can you play Multi on it still?      "

" My only Mechwarrior game was 3 and I had a lot of fun with it. Never tried 4 though. Speaking of which, what the fuck happened to MW4 coming out free? It was announced a few months ago and it seems it hasn't happened yet. "

I played a ton of MW4, with a joystick it was an awesome experience.
Rolled with a Hauptmann, used to strap 3 20LBX's on that baby.
Yeah really hoping that 5 sees the light of day and that it will not be dumbed down.