/cog/ - Traditional & Video Gaming

Its been awhile since I played a mecha game really, there really needs to be more of them on Steam.

Games I've got there and played include BATTLETECH and Hardcore Mecha.

Chaos Sector / Chaos Galaxy are games obviously inspired by Super Robot Wars (though not quite the same kind of tactical experience).
Basically strategy games where you build up your forces of battleships and mechs to take over enemy planets.

The setting is very "space ancient Chinese empire which is on its last legs and needs to deal with rebels and invaders gnawing at the cracks", get to choose from various factions to play as.

Been playing MASS Builder.
Its kind of shallow in its action gameplay but the mech designing gimmick is fun.

Supercharged Robot Vulkaiser
Side-scrolling shooter game.

70's Robot Anime Geppy-X Original Soundtrack - Geppy-X Theme

Metal Fatigue is a pretty good mech-focused RTS. The gimmick of being able to individually redesign your Combots with limbs you tear off your enemies was fun.

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Unusual upcoming mech related game. Like the use of black and white.
Wolfstride - Official Gameplay Trailer | Summer of Gaming 2021

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1331210/Wolfstride/

Fist of Mars might just be a SRW-knockoff set in the Zone of the Enders universe where you can defuse most of the difficulty by setting attacking and dodging to manual instead of automatic but I loved it.

Was great seeing more love giving to LEVs in your team and having them actually be useful.
Love when the gruntier mechs are focued on in mecha series instead of just the 'gundams'.

So its the 30th anniversary of SRW
Super Robot Taisen 30 ~Full PV~

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People not more excited for SRW 30?

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KAIJUFAGS PREPARE YOUR ANUS

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>>419127
You can do fun stuff with it indeed.

>>420298
The original battleship/carrier for SRW30

>Dreistreiger

>Design: Kazutaka Miyatake

>The first ship of the Dreistreiger class of all-purpose battlecruisers. It combines the functions of an aircraft carrier, which carries a wide variety of manoeuvrable weapons, with those of a battleship, which is the centre of tactical operations. It is a very large trimaran (three-body ship) of 2 km in length, and its main engine is an over-technology large helical laser tandem compressed light quantum thermonuclear fusion reactor. It has launch gates for humanoid manoeuvre weapons in various parts of the ship, and in particular, behind the vertical super-robot launch gate in the upper centre of the ship, there is a huge hangar that can hold several large machines.

And its fucking gigantic.

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>HUEG

>>418824
This game is Rad.

I'm always curious how many future games will be made for the super robot wars franchise, will Japan itself have to be destroyed utterly before it could be stopped?

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Speaking of the SRW franchise I'd say one of my favourite OG mech designs from it would be the SRX, hardly controversial to state but its a strong design. (second I'd probably say all the various Gespenst models, its an amazing-looking Grunt mech that still kicks ass, quite literally in certain respects)

What OGs do other people like from the series.

PV2 for SRW 30
『スーパーロボット大戦30』第二弾PV

Some small things revealed, there's going to be a PV3 released and it feels like they might have held stuff back for it.

Fanfiction can be some crazy shit.

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From playing the demo people have said the male MC (Edge) of SRW30 is pretty much just Gintoki.

Combattler looks beefy as hell in the upcoming game.

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France fucking loves Grendizer (or Goldorak as they call it)

The second DLC pack for SRW 30 is coming out on the the 24th.
But honestly the mechs included in it are pretty shit.

I'm way more excited about this guy being added as FLC instead.

>>419127
FIRE

ALL

MISSILES

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>Front Mission
Speaking of-
>>418824
They are remaking the first Front Mission game which seems like something relevant to talk about for this topic.
Only ever played FM3 so can't really comment on how good the other games in the series are. Still it seems like some big news.

>>419461
Lineup of robot designs from its development

>>421067
Speaking of;
How do people feel about mechs with shields?

>>418824
13 Sentinels is popular and justifiably so.
Though to be upfront its heavily a VN kind of game with the mech combat being a strategy game that takes place in segments where you are on defence against hordes of enemies.

SUPER ROBOT WARS 30 - Suparobo Channel
Announcement for the new content in SRW30 just dropped and its pretty major.
They even got all new original upgrades or variants to mechs from existing anime designed for it

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just about jizzed my pants on starting the stage that gets you horse riding dygenguar

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Animu Visual Tower Defence Simulator Novel.

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>>420968
Its neat when mech settings in games flesh things out with different combat robot manufacturer companies, with their own quirks and gimmicks.

Which you then just chop up and use the parts to customise your own unique fighting robots.

>>418831
There's a pretty good looking Gundam game coming to steam in the next few months.
Its a franchise crossover sort with action gameplay kind of like that Gundam Warriors.

Enter the Breach is a good mecha-based puzzle game masquerading as a strategy game.

If you want more of that gameplay style there's a new game kind of like it called Kaiju Wars, being a similar premise where you need to hold off giant monsters from destroying a city during stages, but that one only has a single giant robot unit amongst the forces you control.

This is a case where I actually loved the 'censored' version of a game much more than the original. Robot Soldiers are cooler than dudes in wife beaters.

Happy America Day.

Take a moment to go polish your constitutionally-protected robot suit of FREEDOM.

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>>420420

>When you play Into the Breach as a beginner
Or maybe just when you play most mech games where you are supposed to be protecting a city, Robot Alchemic Drive was quite bad when it came to the collateral damage.

Game called Volta-X is being removed from Steam on the 5th of August (only found out because I own it, must have bought it during some sale)
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1282930/VoltaX/

Like usual for Steam games removed from the store you can still play if you purchased it beforehand, so if for whatever reason you wanted to buy the thing get to it in the next few days (not sure if also being removed from the Switch store)

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>NICE!

Wish they would make a new Gihren's Greed game.

I just want to say I love the Leo mobile suit, I love it so much and wish it was playable in more Gundam videogames.

>>421910
Hopefully it will appear in this, and not just the base model but some of the variants too.

>>422206
Its not 'inspired' in the case of BattleTech. It was taking specific designs from anime series 1-to-1.

>>419461
https://twitter.com/jushiip/status/1563073865190109190
Has mech modification confirmed so I'm really excited, its one of my favourite things to do in giant robot games.

Front Mission 1 and 2 are getting remakes released on the Switch mentioned in the Nintendo Direct.
But it also says there is a Front Mission 3 remake coming as well!

>>418824
Comstar Commercial

>>420293
sad that the franchise is dead

>>423290
Which route is better- Alisa or Emma?

>>423930
Fuckin Sick

A giant robot/monster game called Dawn of the Monsters is getting a new fighter added to it, a Voltron-inspired giant robot.

Was decided by vote against some other concepts, just happy since it was the one I voted for personally.

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(this was the other two options if anyones curious)

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Dunno if you'd strictly call it a Mecha Game, since the mechs are just one of the types of units, but have been pretty obsessed with playing Chaos Galaxy 2 recently after buying it during the winter Steam sale.
Its a sci-fi space 4X type of strategy game and feels as if heavily inspired by the likes of Koei's Romance of the Three Kingdoms games, makes sense since it seems to be made by an asian indy dev.

I'm excited that there's a number of good looking mecha games in development at the moment but also pissed off that they aren't available YET.

>>424579
I love the guntank so fucking much, it deserves more love from the franchise.

>>424411

The SD Gundam G Next games were ones I played so much on an emulator as a kid.

It was the combination of basic strategy combined with arcade combat gameplay all in a Gundam shell.

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>>424250
Tank mechs are cool.

>>420374

>The balls on that dude

This looks pretty cool.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2559370/The_Scramble_Vice/

Super Probotector and its robots was so much cooler than Contra and its army dudes.

Bring this up because apparently the new Contra game is adding the Probotectors as playable characters.

EDF getting into SRW would be so sick.

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Is there examples of mecha games where you have playable mechs that are radically different in size?

>>425745
Better image representing possible size different between mecha.

Though because its a jpeg the small mechs will be totally unrecognisable before too long, they are already getting pretty blurry.

【家庭用最新作】ガンダムブレイカー4　アナウンスメントトレーラー| NSW, PS5, PS4, STEAM
So that's Gundam Breaker 4 announced.

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The suit creator in that new GB game seems really advanced, lets people who want to spend the effort make all sorts of crazy things out of the gunpla parts availible with all the different editing options on hand.

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This image here is too good not to share

>>418824
The mechanical designers of the BattleTech franchise are pretty crap at their job, this is even more evident when it comes to the non-mech units which are even wackier than shit seen in 40k.

>>426146
With talent like this its no wonder they had to rip a bunch of their mecha designs directly from anime series

Buriki Daioh gets into a SRW like I've always wanted... and its fucking DD
SRW DD: LIVE A LIVE Debut PV (Buriki Daioh)[スパロボDD ライブアライブ 近未来編 ブリキ大王 アキラ 期間限定参戦 ショートシナリオイベント 新規参戦]
That's a monkeys paw if I've ever seen on.

There's a ridiculous amount of effort put into shitty gacha games.

Why can't they spend that effort making something that is actually good?

There's a new SRW installment coming, seems worth noting

I'm so burned out and dislike alot of modern mecha not gonna bother with it, even G Gundam coming back can't bring me in

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