ec013f No.14288822
What are the best mech(a)/giant robot games out there?
c2e616 No.14288920
be2240 No.14289545
R.A.D., of course. Unfortunately, all I've got of gameplay are old, tiny gifs.
b8910d No.14289602
Anyone rembers a robot fighting game for PC mid 90s? iirc robots were quite tall and lanky. At least the one you were fighting with.
728a0c No.14289637
>>14288822
I wish there were more games like Slave Zero, just a third-person shooter where you don't have to think and just blow the shit out of everything. The only thing that REALLY sucks about it is that the more you upgrade your weapons, the more ammo they use and there's so little ammo placed throughout the levels that it's tough to just all-out shoot the shit out of everything. Also Shogo is a game everyone should experience at least once.
Also excuse my ignorance but what's that Dreamcast game in the second picture?
b9f932 No.14289642
>>14289545
is that the one were you can destroy your gf house/school?
e42c1d No.14289645
>>14289637
It's called Tech Romancer.
8c0559 No.14289673
>>14289637
the katakana reads as Kikaio
it was localized as Tech Romancer
9e50f0 No.14289681
>>14289645
Can I hold hands with my robot waifu?
517b21 No.14289690
>>14289645
>>14289673
>Tech Romancer
With a title like this it's practically cockteasing you if it doesn't include mech romance.
4c63db No.14289764
>>14289602
I remember one on PS1 where they attempted to make an half-assed killer instinct with around 20 robots instead of a mix of fantasy and futuristic designs. It wasn't all that great. I can't remember the name though, last time I played it was in 2000.
4c63db No.14289791
>>14289780
Nope, it was rendered in 2.5D and sold in one of those long cases. Can't remember it for shit since it was mediocre at best.
4a6d26 No.14289806
>>14289572
That's rad as fuck.
be2240 No.14289808
I remember this game being pretty fun. It's basically Gundam VS, but for Zoids, and just about every Zoid that existed at the time is playable.
>>14289642
It's your childhood friend, and her workplace, but yeah. You can also destroy the businesses owned by the rival for your other love interest.
e42c1d No.14290222
>>14289690
I don't think any video game on the planet includes mech romance.
be2240 No.14290313
The Goemon series has some really fucking great boss fights that you do from the perspective of a super robot cockpit. You can do it in co-op in one of the SNES titles.
e55402 No.14290390
What are the most Super Robot games? You know stuff that actually makes me feel as if I were a part of a hotblooded mecha action shounen.
998586 No.14290611
>>14289602
Rise of the Robots?
>>14289764
Megatudo 2096?
998586 No.14290676
>>14290329
Ichiro Mizuki is the king of super robot songs.
Being the performer of the first super robot song from anime:
https://hooktube.com/watch?v=MR7xA2JbNCQ
You may also hear him in the japanese super hero (tokusatsu) series Spielvan (partly adapted as VR Troopers in the west) singing the super robot theme:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkxyyCLpOGI&index=21&list=PLwJOkVkZqMqoDAlxtCS27j0-TSfGEiX4w
be2240 No.14290729
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>>14290676
Mizuka is great, so is Kageyama, and they're the best when together.
ec5e64 No.14290758
>>14290741
>>14290751
Great game. Too bad the the sequel, Battlegrounds, was such shit.
d754aa No.14290829
Asura's Wrath probably isn't exactly what you had in mind, but the characterrs are all robot, a few oof them turn giant, and it has some of the best "beating the shit out of each other" in vidya period.
It's really more of an interactive anime then a game though, but holy fuck it's a good ass interactive anime. Actually does interesting stuff with QTE's towards the end of the game and in the DLC too
31fa09 No.14290841
>>14290829
being QTE heavy itself is reason enough to not bother with it.
be2240 No.14290855
>>14290802
*clears the path*
4c63db No.14290891
>>14290611
No. It was made in the west I guess and was played like a 2d fighter yet had horrible 3d-esque graphics. It was so obscure and mediocre that I can't even find it on the net easily.
1387e0 No.14290961
>>14290751
Ah, the days when Epic's games were truly mega, and Cliffy B. was just some faggot who came up with a gun-toting green rabbit.
1387e0 No.14290968
>>14290891
Pretty sure you're thinking of One Must Fall 2097, in case you missed it.
>>14290751
4c63db No.14290989
>>14290968
Not even. I'm starting to feel like I was the only one who tried it. I don't even know where the fuck I put the thing last time I moved. It might be all the way back of a closet or even up a shelf where I can't reach without using a stepladder. I sure as hell ain't gonna search for it tonight though.
be2240 No.14291173
Hooktube embed. Click on thumbnail to play. Man, this game isn't great, but I love the soundtrack.
ad706e No.14291228
Anything wrong with Iron Brigade.
ba4af6 No.14291390
>>14288822
>Giant robots punching the shit out of each other and destroying everything
If you don't mind a bit of tanks with your mechs, Brigador's a sure thing.
a650a2 No.14291406
Sorry, anon, dragons took giant robots' place for decades and haven't budged since.
Now where are our fucking dragon fighting and sandbox games?
1abc08 No.14291414
Ow, goddamnit, I think I broke my hip again.
7e5a27 No.14291416
d754aa No.14291435
>>14290841
Again, just think of it as an iinteractive anime rather then an actual game, since that's what the devs clearly wanted. The missions are outright called episodes, tthere's mid mission commerciial bumper breaks, and "next time on" previews at tthe end of each one.
Normally i'm not a fan of QTE focused games eitther but it works out because the devs weren't under any pretense about trying to make it out like it' an actual game like walking simulators and just actually executed well on the idea of it being an interactive anime, and also because instead of trying to make it """"cinematic"""" or do MUH FEELS, they just go balls to the walls with how over the top everything is and use the QTE'sand cutscenes to do insane bullshit you couldn't do during gameplay feasibly anyways Even if you don'tt wanna spend money on it, even just watching it on youtube or whatever is well worth the time assuming you like dumb hype over the top bullshit, since this is some of the best dumb hyper over the top bullshit around.
If G Gundam, Gurren Lagann, other super robo shows, Wonderful 101, platnmum's stuff in general, etc is stuff you like, you really owe it to yourself to give it a shot. The DLC for it is pretty much W101's ending, but on a massively increased scale and with the planet sized laser being the start of the final mission rather then just the climax of it.
998586 No.14291493
>>14290729
True.
It is a shame that JAM Project traded Mizuki for the communist huelander. He dragged down the whole team's quality.
Soul Taker, even not being super robot, felt like it just for the song itself:
https://hooktube.com/watch?v=AqT-2i2jymk
>>14290829
Great concept, visuals and soundtrack. All ruined by it being a non-game and by Crapcom's greed.
They just had to copy Devil May Cry and that would be good enough.
>>14290751
The soundtrack is nice.
>>14290989
Still sounds like Rise of The Robots:
https://hooktube.com/watch?v=gDvQgkExpKM
>>14291173
Another nice one.
Thanks for that.
68fc3a No.14291503
>>14290989
You might be thinking about Rise 2: Resurrection .
be2240 No.14291508
>>14291493
>Another nice one.
>Thanks for that.
If you aren't already familiar with him, Hyakutaro Tsukumo does great stuff. He did the music for a number of the Thunder Force games.
998586 No.14291804
>>14291508
I have great appreciation for the Thunder Force 3 soundtrack. Did not know the composer. Thanks again.
be2240 No.14293150
Why am I the one who has to mention AC?
84f237 No.14293198
>>14288822
>What are the best mech(a)/giant robot games out there?
Virtual On, and not that new weeb crossover game
>tfw no PC port of VOOT or Force
1ef363 No.14293517
>>14289572
Gllang is best boy.
be2240 No.14299271
I guess War of the Monsters has to get a mention.
c99eae No.14299274
>>14289764
>>14290611
No, sorry, not what I meant.
>>14290741
FUCK YES
That's the game!!! Immediately recognized the music when I looked it up. Have to find and play it again. Thanks anon!!!
428264 No.14300961
>>14291390
Punching with them is extremely impractical though. You can do it, but it will take forever and wont be fun in the slightest.
aba6bf No.14300986
4e4f7d No.14300994
>>14290222
What a sad life,this is depressing
4e4f7d No.14301002
I just wanna have sex with a giant robo,is that so much to ask?
7bc75f No.14301010
>>14288822
There really is a conspicuous lack of fun giant robot games. Most of the so-called "good" ones are actually mediocre underneath the giant robot cool factor. I'd say pic related is the best because it would still be genuinely great even if it wasn't about mecha.
483f87 No.14301023
>>14291414
Hey, I didn't know that someone made bootleg punch-out toys.
be2240 No.14301372
>>14291414
Did anyone else like the rock'em sock'em robots action figures as a kid? I thought they were pretty cool, especially the interchangeable parts. There was a playstation game for them, but I don't know if it was any good.
d754aa No.14301568
>>14291493
>Great concept, visuals and soundtrack. All ruined by it being a non-game and by Crapcom's greed.
>They just had to copy Devil May Cry and that would be good enough.
Again, I really don't think it being a non-game is an issue: It obviously is if you *want* a mechanically satisfying game, but I don't think there's anything wrong with it trying to be an interactive anime when the end result is still very entertainiing.
b1b5c1 No.14301599
>>14301372
I actually played the ps1 game based off these, I doubt it was good because i only kinda rememebr it
998586 No.14301716
>>14301568
It IS wrong when they sold it as a game without it being one.
If they wanted a CGI anime, just release it as one.
It was a deceiving move to call it a game.
e42c1d No.14301946
>>14300994
I posted that hoping somebody would correct me.
Unfortunately, it seems I turned out to be the one who was correct.
998586 No.14302067
d0f4e7 No.14302267
>>14302067
Cybernator, also.
253b25 No.14309812
I wish shogo was just the mech segments, the human segments were just painful.
90d85d No.14310582
>>14289572
>>14289545
I fucking love RAD. One of the coolest parts is that you're not inside the robot, you're controlling it by remote and must position yourself out of the field of combat but still with a decent view - if you're not careful, you can totally launch an enemy into yourself and die like a bitch.
30ab37 No.14310604
Noone ever talks about mad stalker full metal force
highly recomend this game its a sidescrolling 2d beatem up with fighting game motions, techs, air recovery and combos
e744c6 No.14310658
>>14289698
Holy shit that's the first time I realized that cat is crying.
be2240 No.14322170
I don't want to know what 8chan's /m/ is like if this is the state of our mecha threads.
e42c1d No.14322180
>>14322170
It's slow but it's alright.
bbe249 No.14322222
>>14288920
Any other strategy games with mechs outside of Front Mission and that one MechWarrior game?
be2240 No.14322369
>>14322222
You mean, aside from SRW, as well? There's the Zone of the Enders: Fist of Mars game on gba. There's also Metal Fatigue, shown here >>14293216. If you count Total Annihilation and Supreme Commander, there's those. My brother had a Zoids TBS game on gba, but I forget what it's called, and I'm not sure if it was any good.
84f237 No.14322964
>>14302267
>Cucknator
You mean Assault Suits Valken
dad217 No.14323052
>>14322222
I think there's at least one medabots game on gba, if that counts. They are robots, they can punch each other, and it's actually surprisingly good.
62b761 No.14323126
>>14291390
That's not robots punching shit though, that's tanks with legs also known as the true patrician's mecha
be2240 No.14323172
>>14323126
You're tempting me to get into an autism war over the practicality of tanks with legs.
62b761 No.14323307
>>14323172
It's not about the practicality, it's about the aesthetics, and tanks are the most beautiful things on the battlefield.
05f7aa No.14323340
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>>14290729
>When they work together
be2240 No.14323350
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>>14323340
Yes, when they work together.
SRX is the best SRW OG bot and no one can convince me otherwise.
05f7aa No.14323354
>>14322170
slow.
>>14299271
>Not the Mazinger Z rip off
be2240 No.14323382
>>14323354
I wanted to go with the robot more akin to the kinds of movies War of the Monsters is inspired by. Ultra V is great but doesn't fit the aesthetic quite as well.
e02e97 No.14324297
>tfw MEGAS city destruction and aylien fighting game never ever
81f8fa No.14324386
Does EDF count with Balam? Because that was the tightest shit ever. I haven't played the new one yet but I hope its as good.
be2240 No.14330008
>>14324386
Of course EDF counts.
5a0b7e No.14330215
>playing games for vapid settings instead of good gameplay or a well developed genre
05f7aa No.14330281
>>14330215
>LOTGH
trash honestly. Watch Dougram instead
94265d No.14330305
>>14309812
This. Shogo really could use some rebalancing. Sometimes you could have full health and an enemy would still one-shot-kill you.
be2240 No.14330332
>>14330305
It's the critical hit system. For some reason, Monolith decided adding in a random critical hit mechanic to a game with no rpg elements was a good idea. This is on top of enemies already having unreal reaction times and accuracy.
1859fa No.14330660
Holy shit, had no idea Robot Control Dandy was story heavy. Hope I'm not screwed not knowing moon.
1832e7 No.14330744
>>14309812
> the human segments were just painful.
they werent THAT bad.
8159d8 No.14330767
>>14289572
>no RAD 2
RAD is a Remote Control Dandy spinoff
Go play those games
1859fa No.14330807
>>14330744
I liked them myself, mainly because I liked most of the weapons and things were more humorous than the mech sections.
d60882 No.14330888
>>14288822
I heard that the Slave Zero artist didn't like the final product of the game stating "failed to convey the theme of becoming a monster to fight the monsters" due to design-by-committee.
f1bcc1 No.14330907
>>14290222
The closest would probably be xenoblade 1 where the love interest gets turned into a half-mech.
d37726 No.14330936
What I want to know is why the fuck we're cursed to not have any solid MechWarrior games. The last good one (and the best) was MW3. Since then it's been retarded shit, if any shit happens at all. MW4 was an abomination, MWO was not worth anything, and anything MW related seems to get the GamesWorkshop treatment that WH40k fans know too well: license to work on IP for a franchise given to random devs that don't have a great track record and predictably they crank out something that's mediocre at best.
It is not fucking hard to make a good MW game. All someone, anyone, would need to goddamn do is copy MW3 mechanics, tie some levels together in a campaign with a solid story, and publish it.
1859fa No.14331019
>>14330936
Why didn't you like 4? I've somehow managed to skip over 3 but played everything else.
998586 No.14331026
>>14302267
Valken is great.
But the way that the missions in Metal Warriors must be solved, and the freedom to change mechs at will in large environments, along with it's simple but good enough plot, made it a classic for me.
And there is still the versus mode, which is fun and practically another game in itself.
d37726 No.14331399
>>14331019
For lack of a better word, the gamefeel, with mechanics pulling in second place. Weapons felt liked they lacked punch and pizzazz, like you were firing party favors. Mechs were animated and moved like plastic toys. Controls were awful and the way they had them set up was pretty bad, I wish I could remember specifics about that but it wasn't a simple case of rebinding things, we're talking how the mechs handled with the control mechanics themselves. Everything about it almost felt like Mechwarrior: Plastic Legos edition, minus the Lego aesthetic. It wasn't gritty, nothing felt solid, controls sucked, weapons were lackluster…it basically looked and felt like someone made a game for children starring "cool walking vehicles with lasers."
8cc8c4 No.14331508
>>14330281
Dog Ram is alright. VOTOMs and Patlabor best.
>>14301010
i'd like fun adventure game where you have a mech, but also can on foot. roam the comfy postapoc scavanging and doing odd jobs and hijinks.
1859fa No.14331533
>>14331399
I'm going to get on 3 at some point here, nice to see it's probably a lot more weighty and all that going by what you said, also interested to try MFBs.
e5d0e2 No.14331556
>>14291390
Brigador is real fucking neat.
bae421 No.14331616
>>14322222
CRW Metal Jacket for the PC-98.
Has an English traslation and it isn't difficult to emulate.
8cbcc3 No.14331671
>>14291390
>>14331556
>twin 30mm BRRRT
>turn on infinite ammo
>recoil is so massive it pushes this lumbering behemoth backwards
>the dakka only stops when it's time to reposition
b5a044 No.14331703
>>14289690
>>14289673
>>14289681
>>14289645
Game is fully nip still, just with english text. All the characters are parodies of mecha in games/anime.
b5a044 No.14331728
>>14289810
>>14289808
>Zoids
that was pretty fucking awesome.
I went out of my way to get an action replay so that I could add the boss zoids to the playable selection.
My main gripe is that the super attacks are strictly activated by being "nearly dead but not actually dead, then you get one chance to shoot a super powerful attack".
>>14301372
HOLY SHIT YES
Those figures were fucking incredible, namely because they included some die cast metal parts to them that made them durable as fuck. You could also completely disassemble them and re-assemble them as you saw fit, meaning every new action figure you got was an additional 7+ parts you could use to make a totally boss robot monster. Best thing was that the die cast metal was used on important joints, so you could have the most impractical looking motherfucker, but he still wouldn't fall apart.
b5a044 No.14331732
>>14301946
let me upgrade your suffering
b5a044 No.14331747
>>14330888
Considering the mech on the box cover is this beast of a thing, I can see how that got muddled up by the execs.
05f7aa No.14332641
>>14331508
I dunno I felt Dougram was better, even Votoms falls into that "unnatural BS" thing with Chirico. Despite my love for gundam even characters like Amruo I felt better handled the "Supernatural abilities" better
Dougram is just mooks fighting mooks and a overarching political subplot concerning food shortages and the need to keep Deloyer under their thumb till they can send ships to two nearby planets in a attempt to try and keep earth's population from starving en masse
d37726 No.14333073
>>14331533
3 is amazing but the only issue is that getting it to run is very finicky, especially on modern machines. I believe there's one particular torrent of it on TPB, whether it actually works on your PC is a shot in the dark. On my previous PC it didn't work; on this one, it did but required changing of some texture settings or something, but MW3: Mercs didn't work right. It's a bit sad that the best installment of the franchise is so unstable on anything that isn't Win95 but hopefully it works for you, they did a great job with it.
>>14331556
>>14331671
I was here for a number of the Brigador threads (I had played one of the first versions and then an updated one some months later) and general concensus was that it had potential but it just burned out very quickly. It's good for the first few hours when you're trying everything, and the worldbuilding was surprisingly well done for a game like that, but every thread most of the /v/anguard seemed to agree it got boring fast. Pick your movement style, pick two weapons, walk around and shoot shit, use distractions if there are too many enemies. I distinctly remember that the threads would bring up the topic of how a developer could possibly take what's there and make it more fun, and we never really had a good answer. I wish I could articulate better why it's the case but Brigador just gets too boring too quickly, difficulty doesn't fix that.
8cc8c4 No.14348610
>>14333073
i still fire up Brigador in downtime, it's great for that. missions arent too long, replayable.
i want a Brigador on the Men of War engine, now that would be something.
d754aa No.14348890
>>14301716
>It IS wrong when they sold it as a game without it being one.
>If they wanted a CGI anime, just release it as one.
>It was a deceiving move to call it a game.
That's my point though: It'd be impossible to do what Asura's Wrath ended up doing though either purely as a normal game or a CG anime.
It being a normal game doesn't work, because part of the appeal and fun is the amount of insane, highly coregraphed shit that happens in cutsceens and QTE's which couldn't woork inside active gameplay. It being a CG anime doesn't work, because it actually DOES do legitimately novel and interesting stuff with those QTE's. Removing the QTE's and just having it be an anime would take away from some of the best scenes in it.
It straddles the line of booth and only accomplishes what it does accomplish by doing that. I don't think it's fair to fault it for daring to do something interesting and unique by doing that when it largerly succeedes and pulls it off and manages to be fun and entertaining.
>>14301372
I had the Dino Venger one.
998586 No.14349493
>>14348890
They should have released it as an animation, and not a game then.
3b78e5 No.14349533
steel battalion has the best looking mechs
>>14330215
>posting fujoshit
>>>/bl/
faggot
e42c1d No.14349543
>>14349533
>steel battalion
Didn't FromSoft made a SB game for the 360 and it turned out fucking awful?
>fujoshit
But anon
Would you go homo for a mecha? I wouldn't
d4235e No.14350459
>>14331703
This video is pretty kickass. Makes me want to dig out my dreamcast now.
e9402e No.14350917
>>14349543
It relied heavily on the Kinect. No further explanation necessary.
348541 No.14350941
>>14333073
I posted that they should have overhauled the freeplay mode, added more weapons and varied up the objectives or create special unlocks for unique methods of play (not being spotted, only using the shittiest weapon combos etc.) I loved my first 2-3 hours of playing it but the story is shit and does nothing to hold my interest, and playing the same 4 maps in freeplay with the same fucking objectives over and over again has a seriously limited potential.
d754aa No.14351480
>>14349493
Did you even read the fucking post?
>It being a CG anime doesn't work, because it actually DOES do legitimately novel and interesting stuff with those QTE's. Removing the QTE's and just having it be an anime would take away from some of the best scenes in it.
d602a7 No.14352056
Does anyone remember that f2p nexon mecha game?
discounting the jewish progression and p2w it was fun as fuck
d602a7 No.14352065
>>14352056
Just remembered what it was called.
Exsteel.
81f8fa No.14352803
Ultimate knight windom was fun when we played, when are we doing it again?