Quick Look: Steel Battalion: Heavy Armor

Well it is made by From Software. Maybe it's intentional?

@Masha2932 said:

I like the picture in picture stuff guys, it really helps with kinect quicklooks. I hope this becomes the standard for all videos from now on. Especially with the Wii U releasing later this year, we as an audience will benefit having a camera on the gamepad.

That's how they did all Kinect games before moving to the CBSi offices. They didn't for the past few months because they were getting a proper studio setup first.

Lack of Fist bumps, fuck this game

Such a shame, it sounded like it had some potential...

I'm wondering what the fuck is going on because I played the demo at a friends house and it worked perfectly. Not even the usual kinect jank and was up there with Dance Central with fidelity. This just looks like an utter disaster.

I think it's time to flash the Klepek signal and ask him to ask Capcom "What the hell? Fist bump privileges are revoked till we get answers".

This needs to be the next breaking brad game !

Ouch

Looks like this would benefit from less Kinect and more Smart Glass

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armor-piercing

AP (Armor Piercing) rounds are used against enemy armor. HE (High Explosive) rounds are usually used against groups of enemy infantry.

It still looks intriguing, I'll have to try the Kinect demo myself before I give judgement.

So I guess the fact that I got too tied up to do my Steel Battalion 1 "battle reports" idea is no big loss as a warm up for this.

First 6 seconds into the video, I went, "Oh no! Really? AWWW!"

I wanted this game to be amazing...

@Robo said:

"Fucking shit! This fucking fucker is fucking our shit up! Fuck!"

HARDFUCKINGCORE

Hey, guys. Did you know that our game is rated M? HEY GUYS OUR GAME IS RATED M!

GB crew are pussies when it comes down to playing reeeeeeeeeeeeal games.

@gike987 said:

This looks like it could have been a pretty good PC game. A keyboard would have all the buttons you need to reach things quickly and using a mouse would be much more reliable than the kinect.

Have you seen the original Steel Battalion? Keyboard and mouse got nothing on that. Only way to top that is motion controls but obviously that hasn't worked out too well.

Aw man :( this game could've been so cool. Such a disappointment.

Well, it was nice hoping for something more interesting but unfortunately the result isn't so surprising considering how Kinect software seems to be going. Between an older QL featuring Drew trying out a tank battle mode of Red Orchestra 2 (I think?!?), some awesome moments in that tank mission in the BF 3 campaign and this I can't help but still crave a gaming experience that 'simulates' tank or generally mechanized warfare from the perspective of the crew without resorting to that abstracted shooter perspective where you're driver, gunner and commander all in one arcady package. Maybe that's just a dumb idea but I'd love to see something akin to that executed well.

Damn, I really wanted this game to be good.

this looked so cool too.... even when hes moving around pulling and pushing all these things..... i feel like... that could have been so cool.

To the dick who doubted my ability to read Brad: CALLED IT.

This game sounds like Call of Duty 1's tank missions on veteran

Shame, but how did it make it this far without someone on the team figuring out it doesn't work?

I feel like this would be a good pc game, though

Honestly this game isn't simply bad because of Kinect. This game is bad because it's a bad game by itself.

@ninjastarz808 said:

@gike987 said:

This looks like it could have been a pretty good PC game. A keyboard would have all the buttons you need to reach things quickly and using a mouse would be much more reliable than the kinect.

Have you seen the original Steel Battalion? Keyboard and mouse got nothing on that. Only way to top that is motion controls but obviously that hasn't worked out too well.

PC game.

I'm pretty sure you would be able to control everything in the pretty simple cockpit in Steel Battalion just fine with M&KB. Standard keyboards have over 100 keys.

Welp, that was the complete opposite reaction I was expecting after all I've been hearing about the game from the guys.

Oh well.

Best thing about this game is the DDP reference that Jeff made

not really surprised, so far kinect games keep demonstrating how unintuitive the system remains

with no one lifting a finger to dig into the system to fix this and other issues.

Besides dance central, it seems no one invests time trying to play these games to see if they work;

they just build them, put some good demos to rile people up about it, and ship it-

the rest is bad history.

The dialogue in this game seems hilarious. I'm getting a good sense of the characters here.

Brad/Jeff could clearly give two shits, though. :D

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It's a letter for his family. C'mon, man!

Oh well will have to stick with DUST warfare for my mech gaming fix

For a few hot minutes I was considering buying a Kinnect just for this game. I'm not sure if I'm bummed because the games bad or happy because it wasn't so good to force me to buy a Kinnect.

Worst game of the year?

Self high-five!

@Recall said:

Worst game of the year?

you forget south park: tenorman's revenge

Missions that are only a few minutes long?

I'm guessing Team Armored Core worked on this game; that franchise has also had weirdly paced/bizarrely lengthed missions

"dicks out of the dirt" wow, this game has some awful dialogue.

I think I will stick with Iron Brigade for all my mech needs.

Hrm. I'm not convinced that Brad's opinion is worth much in this particular case - I don't think he gets it. Of course, the Kinect stuff could still be garbage (and probably is) but I've been wanting a slow, meticulous mech game for a long time. I was always bummed that I missed out on the original.

I really wish there was competitive multiplayer though.. that's the primary reason I have little interest in this..

@isnipeyoudie said:

Welp, that was the complete opposite reaction I was expecting after all I've been hearing about the game from the guys.

Oh well.

And I just walked in, haven't even looked at the ql, yet. WAT HAPPENED????

All I had in mind was how exhuberant the guys were after a demo of this somewheres.

Wow, that officer. What an asshole

You refused to give me fist bumps so I am pressing this self destruct button.

@MattBodega said:

Missions that are only a few minutes long?

I'm guessing Team Armored Core worked on this game; that franchise has also had weirdly paced/bizarrely lengthed missions

That was exactly my thought, Bodega.

The main reason he gives for not liking the game is the difficulty. Too repetitive, plodding, and unforgiving. In other words, for being more sim-like than arcadey. It should always have been obvious that this game would stay true to its sim roots rather than play like transformers. There are so many conflicting reports on the quality of this game but if that's all that's "wrong" with it, I'll enjoy the hell out of it.

Ugh... Very sad. I'll still get this, but I imagine it will be from the bottom of the bargain bin in a couple of months.

This was the game I was looking forward to most this summer. Normally I'd say screw the reviews and pick it up, but $60 for a game that is universally despised is something I cannot abide.

How come this looks NOTHING like the first Steel Battalion?

I still think this looks kinda awesome. Too bad the kinect controls are kinda wonky. And yeah, it's a FromSoftware mech game, expect it to be weird and hard(core). I wonder if it's crazier than their AC games.

DDP reference.

@Nasar7 said:

The main reason he gives for not liking the game is the difficulty. Too repetitive, plodding, and unforgiving. In other words, for being more sim-like than arcadey. It should always have been obvious that this game would stay true to its sim roots rather than play like transformers. There are so many conflicting reports on the quality of this game but if that's all that's "wrong" with it, I'll enjoy the hell out of it.

I don't know. Brad also mentions that he played the original Steel Battalion with a reasonably positive tone, but he then talks about how it was mitigated by the fact that the controls were right there and you weren't fighting the technology to just get shit done. But you're right. I had fun with the demo, in spite of the janky kinect baggage. It seems like this is the kind of crazy that I'll enjoy.

Looks like this game could have been amazing.

Kinecticide