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Steel Battalion: Heavy Armor Debut Trailer

You won't need to connect a fancy controller to play the third Steel Battalion game.

Sep. 15 2010

Posted by: Jeff

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Steel Battalion: Heavy Armor

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woot 

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@Hobbaswaggle: Gratz :D
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Close but ahh well

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Wait...what?
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haha I had given up on that quest a loooong time ago... 
 
on topic: If I didn't know what steel battalion was I would know nothing about this game from this trailer.

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Did Capcom buy From Software? They seem to be doing a lot of business lately.

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It works with Kinect? How? Must know more!

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@Chris2KLee said:
" Did Capcom buy From Software? They seem to be doing a lot of business lately. "
capcom created & published the original two games on the xbox.
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You are the controller!?
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So... I could have a kick ass 40 button, 3 section controller with a set of pedals.
 
Or... I could wave my hands around with... nothing.  How is this an improvement?

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JESUS CHRIST ARE YOU SERIOUS?

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I would have thought a game like this would work better on the Move...

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Yo, if this works for reals, like crazy Minority Report magic, I am going to pee myself.  Also, I will be excited.

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Have we trivialized world war II to the point of giant battling robots? I like think, Yes.

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 wow an M16 in a game 40 years in the future. *sigh*
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A Kinect Steel Battallion game with pseudo D-Day trailer and no ridiculous peripheral? Cats are barking, dogs are chasing mice and pandas are in heat.

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O.o; Sexy.
 
But if you have mechs whats the point of sending in men to get stomped on by the mechs?

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Sweet irony, we meet again...

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@Stonecutter: If I'm going to drop over a hundred dollars on a controller, it might as well be something with a sweet eject button.
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@sushisteve said:
" @Stonecutter: If I'm going to drop over a hundred dollars on a controller, it might as well be something with a sweet eject button. "
AND a way to clean my windows!
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Well, hey. From Software. I like those guys. We'll see where this goes.

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Dude, the controller was half of the fun.


If I was playing Steal Battalion with that fantastically ginormous controller, sure I looked geeky and I could feel my virginity growing back, but it was geeky in a charming way.


With me waving my hands around with the Kinect, I'd feel like a douchebag

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@Hero_Swe said:
" Wait...what? "
Same here. This makes no sense. Why is it WWII with Mi6s and Mechs? They are wearing WWII cloths and storming a beach, but they have modern guns and future robots....
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Mother fucker.
 
Someday a cool giant robot game will come out for a platform I own.
 
SOMEDAY.

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That font almost made it look like Steel Battalion: Hervy Armor.

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STEEL BATTALION! AWESO-
kinect
lol nevermind

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Edited By snakeeyes327

It's no fun if you don't have that tactile sensation of using the 40 button controller. Sorry, but the start up sequence in the first 2 games was one of the coolest things ever, and not being able to do that and feel that again is a big letdown.

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wait its going from a huge ass controller with more buttons than I have pairs of shoes to no buttons and no controller at all? Balsy Move.

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KINECT? Yo, what!?

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@Bionicicide: That's a good question.
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Drool!

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I heard "move" at least three times in that trailer.  Buying a Move.

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Buh?
 
Maybe it uses Kinect AND a normal controller. That would be cool.

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World War 2 with mechs! Only from Japan.

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You'd think that massed infantry on open ground would be kinda redundant against giant steel robots.

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My initial reaction. 
 
 [19:19] <@J5> HOLY SHIT
[19:19] <@J5> a new steel batallion!
[19:19] <Hero_Swe> using kinect
[19:19] <Hero_Swe> :P
[19:19] <@J5> FFFFUCK
[19:19] <Hero_Swe> sorry brah     
 
First Front Mission, now this. I wish From Software would just work on improving Armored Core. 
 
Mechwarrior...you are my only hope. *sob sob*

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Why do those tanks need legs, now? IT IS MAKING NONE OF THE SENSE. NONE.

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ah this sucks, i still play steel battalion [fairly regularly] and as some people have already said the controller was half the fun and immersion, seems like a shame such a great piece of kit is going to be left out; i would take that over the kinect anyday.
 
oh also, if you like mechwarrior 4 and still have the SB controller, you can play it with it on PC [you'll need an xbox to USB adapter, which are pretty cheap] and this - 
http://vt.beckament.net/

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Trading down in gimmicks. 

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Kinect?  It's going to suck.

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The Kinect thing at the end startled me.  The graphics for this looks like it's suppose to be a PSP trailer.

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Nolan North

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@Frumpa: Not only that they look like they have WWII uniforms :O
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 Stupendous!

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problem is, I totally WANT this game to need a new crazy controller. =(

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this game is ugly :)

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I'm digging the alternate history and graphics look fine... for a Kinect game (ground texture needs work, but probably negligible when in a mech). I just worry it'll be on rails more than "No start up sequence."

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How do you go from having a billion buttons to none?

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Damn it, From Software, you are supposed to be working on Otogi 3.  This is bull.