Let me first clear the air by explaining that I first discovered Battletech while dealing with my parents divorce. That was some 25 years ago so I've had time to seriously consider my point vis a vie this game. Classic Battletech is not perfect, nor is this game; for me this game represents an era where wargames were king and the combining of wargames and rpg's was the zeitgiest of the moment. Battletech has always tried to create a "hard Sci-Fi" experience while giving us a war movie perspective. What I mean is, compare "Saving Private Ryan" to "The Great Raid". One is so accurate that veterans hug and humble random people in the audience (I was not the veteran in this example, in fact it pushed me into joining the military) brought about genuine emotion and made one consider war philisophically, and the other is your classic war movie bravado. One represents a real story and the other is an exageration of real events to pull people to a line of thinking. Vets will understand though both movies represent war as it is, though one is more realistic than the other in visuals. This game represents an evolution of the original tabletop game from the 80's. It makes me feel as though I am playing my first mission ever (in my case a Clan attack on a FedCom firebase) but in the 3025 timeframe. You can do everything perfectly and have everything screwd up by hatred from the RNG. Save scumming is possible but super unrewarding. Where this game fails is that it is so faithful to the original source material that I wan to punch my monitor. This was easier on me when a computer monitor could survive a proper punch and was hard enough to make me reconsider punching it in the first place. Lol, seriously though, expect to yell at your copmputer a lot. Oddly enough, this game is amazing in that you don't have to rage quit if you set yourself up right. If. you didn't, be prepared to go back 12 hours to when you started. This game is old school. Be warened.
Let me first clear the air by explaining that I first discovered Battletech while dealing with my parents divorce. That was some 25 years ago so I've had time to seriously consider my point vis a vie this game. Classic Battletech is not perfect, nor is this game; for me this game represents an era where wargames were king and the combining of wargames and rpg's was the zeitgiest of the moment. Battletech has always tried to create a "hard Sci-Fi" experience while giving us a war movie perspective. What I mean is, compare "Saving Private Ryan" to "The Great Raid". One is so accurate that veterans hug and humble random people in the audience (I was not the veteran in this example, in fact it pushed me into joining the military) brought about genuine emotion and made one consider war philisophically, and the other is your classic war movie bravado. One represents a real story and the other is an exageration of real events to pull people to a line of thinking. Vets will understand though both movies represent war as it is, though one is more realistic than the other in visuals. This game represents an evolution of the original tabletop game from the 80's. It makes me feel as though I am playing my first mission ever (in my case a Clan attack on a FedCom firebase) but in the 3025 timeframe. You can do everything perfectly and have everything screwd up by hatred from the RNG. Save scumming is possible but super unrewarding. Where this game fails is that it is so faithful to the original source material that I wan to punch my monitor. This was easier on me when a computer monitor could survive a proper punch and was hard enough to make me reconsider punching it in the first place. Lol, seriously though, expect to yell at your copmputer a lot. Oddly enough, this game is amazing in that you don't have to rage quit if you set yourself up right. If. you didn't, be prepared to go back 12 hours to when you started. This game is old school. Be warened.
