Giant Robots, hell yeah!

[ThePlasmatizer]

I think giant robots are great, I love mechs and the epic battles that take place between them.
Which is why I'm very disappointed with video games atm; if I want to play a game with mechas I'm limited to either Gundam Dynasty Warriors or Armored Core 4 or For Answer...

I know we don't get a lot of the mecha games from Japan, but is there a game I'm missing?
because unless I go and play retro games, I won't be able to find a half-decent mech game.

There's something srsly wrong with that, and as someone who grew up with Power Rangers and Transformers I think we need some awesome giant robot games now!

 

[Galletea]

Here here. More giant robots please. Armoured core and DW Gundam were not good enough.

 

[TylerC]

You forgot about ChromeHounds. Oh wait, that game sucked too.

I always thought mechs were cool, why can't they make a good game I'll never know.

 

[ThePlasmatizer]

@Richard: Yeah it does, but it seems developers insist on neglecting the giant robot genre.

I had a look at Supreme Commander and it didn't really interest me.

 

[PedroSteckecilo]

My personal favorite Giant Robot games are Xenosaga 3 and Zone of the Enders 2.

And Richard Groovy Pants, do you remember SHOGO? It was a first person Mecha Shooter... it was not that great.

 

[Toiboi]

sorry I never played a giant robot game I like. So i'm not a fan

 

[Ronwue]

There was Mech Warrior series back when I was in 5~8th grade.

 

[Axolotl]

Also Liberty Prime was the highlight of Fallout 3!

"DIE COMMIE SCUM!"

You know originally the player got to control Liberty Prime?
The Bethesda remebered how much fun everyone had in Oblivion watching other people do awesome things so they had you just follow it around instead.

 

[shadow skill]

Bring back Mech Warrior! I wonder if the Crytek sponsored mod for Crysis is going anywhere? Oh and ZOE 3 please.

 

[ThePlasmatizer]

Also Liberty Prime was the highlight of Fallout 3!

"DIE COMMIE SCUM!"

You know originally the player got to control Liberty Prime?
The Bethesda remebered how much fun everyone had in Oblivion watching other people do awesome things so they had you just follow it around instead.

Liberty Prime is the best giant robot I've seen in ages, he could single handedly beat communism.

 

[Drake the Dragonheart]

There was Mech Warrior series back when I was in 5~8th grade.

indeed, bring back the mechwarrior series! I would love a new mechwarrior, but this time around why just mechs? Bring in the entire battletech universe. tanks, helicopters, battle armors, mobile batteries, aerotechs, dropships, and jumpships, the whole nine yards! There is an entire smorgasboard of material to use for a story, I mean there are at least 20 novels written about it's story line. Go nuts with it! Of course with mechwarrior the story was at least for me a backdrop for the favorite pastime of many, blowing the crap out of things with completely rediculous arsenals!

 

[Toiboi]

I got to say thought I did love Gundam Wing that seris was awsome

 

[Ronwue]

There was Mech Warrior series back when I was in 5~8th grade.

indeed, bring back the mechwarrior series! I would love a new mechwarrior, but this time around why just mechs? Bring in the entire battletech universe. tanks, helicopters, battle armors, mobile batteries, aerotechs, dropships, and jumpships, the whole nine yards! There is an entire smorgasboard of material to use for a story, I mean there are at least 20 novels written about it's story line. Go nuts with it! Of course with mechwarrior the story was at least for me a backdrop for the favorite pastime of many, blowing the crap out of things with completely rediculous arsenals!

Actually I've never played the damn thing, my computer at the time ran like it was being held by the balls by Mike Tyson if I tried to play anything other than supaplex or GTA 1. But I had a ... classmate that was obsessed by the series. He only talked about it and I wanted to shoot him.

 

[Raikone]

I recommend MechWarrior 4. It was a fairly decent first person(or third person if you prefer) shooter with a wide variety of customizable mechs as well as weapons.

 

[PedroSteckecilo]

I'm still waiting on a worthwhile Macross/Robotech game. So far they've all been crummy and unfun and the Eureka 7 games are aweful beyond reason.

 

[wgreer25]

If you have a 360, I would take a good look at Lost Planet. It is like a year old or so, so you could probably get it cheaper. It is not 100% robot fighting, more like 30-40%, but what was there was good. I personally thought this game was a little bit of an underappreciated gem, IMHO.

 

[Amnestic]

ZoE, Armoured Core and Mechwarrior are my favourite mecha game series (in that order, no less). I wait for the day when Bandai will finally cobble together a good Gundam game. Using either the AC or ZoE rough gameplay system with a bit of a tweak for the Gundams would be more than enough, but thus far I've yet to see anything that really captured the pace of Gundam combat minus the theatrics.

ZoE2 I played and loved, then my younger brother lost my disk while I was away on holiday and it's fucking impossible to find anywhere. It's on ebay for something like £40.00 a pop, which is a tad too rich for my unemployed blood. I picked up a used copy of ZoE1 from CeX for £2.50 a week ago though ;D

Bring back Mech Warrior! I wonder if the Crytek sponsored mod for Crysis is going anywhere? Oh and ZOE 3 please.

Kojima has said he wants to do a ZoE3. I just wish he'd get round to it.

 

[I III II X4]

Long time AC follower here, I was on it when I received the demo with my Playstation. I was kinda disappointed to see the AC series turn into "LOL GUNDAMS" but it's still fun, but they had to change something about it. (I so wanted to pilot a MT.)

Robotech Battle Cry was fun, it showed it's true colors on hard mode. Chromehounds is only good (In my opinion) if you've got LIVE. Twenty bucks for a "tutorial". I enjoyed it though. Gundam Crossfire (Title may include "Mobile Suit Gundam" I never get it right.) is a good one if you want challenging game play. Any other Gundam title is good too...usually.

Lost Planet also features battle mechs, nothing really ground breaking though.

 

[HSIAMetalKing]

Earth Defense Force 2017 had lots of giant robots. And lots of giant ants. And lots of giant spiders.

Fuck, that was a really intense game.