"Ultima
Ultima Underworld
Wing Commander
System Shock
Bioforge
Crusader
Privateer "

You know a lot of communities have put out apps to run these in their original and better forms.
I've been playing Ultima 7 in 2xsai, and super eagle in high resolution.

http://exult.sourceforge.net/index.php

You just need the originals

Honestly I still hold out hope that Bungie will make another Oni game

A new Oni would be tits.

Thing is, I really don't mind. Consoles are getting more and more PC-like anyway. all we really need is the ability to make mods and more support for mouse/keyboard and continuing support for backward compatibility and we'll be golden. maybe some more independent developer support too.

I don't see the mod or indie dev things happening anytime soon. The console makers want to keep a stranglehold on anything that gets onto those boxes. It has to go through them, and usually you'll have to pay for it unless the developer has enough clout to get around that. Only official mods will be allowed, and indie devs will probably have to pay through the nose to get their stuff offered for download. Consoles just have a very different business model than PCs.

Mechwarrior and Mechwarrior2 were cool because they felt and looked a lot like simulators. The later games I played seemed more like shooters with mechs.

I didn't like MW3 much, but I think that MW4/Mercs got better again.

A 'spiritual successor' a la Bioshock as someone mentioned earlier, could be excellent even without the FASA license.

Not sure what the future will be for MW, but I'd be happy if someone would make another Heavy Gear game.

Really, I think DX10 and Games For Windows is just a scam to kill off PC gaming. They'd rather just collect royalties on Xbox games.

Bingo! Why develop games for two platforms that already sorta similar when you only have to develop for one.

Thing is, I really don't mind. Consoles are getting more and more PC-like anyway. all we really need is the ability to make mods and more support for mouse/keyboard and continuing support for backward compatibility and we'll be golden. maybe some more independent developer support too.

but the PC gaming industry has been digging its own grave for a while now. overly expensive video cards and physics cards. games that focus more and more on graphics when we really don't fucking need cutting edge graphics. we need GOOD GAMES, fuck graphics, right in its ear.

Mechwarrior sort of lost me after the second one. I didn't play enough of the others to really pass judgement, but it seemed to me they started to lose depth.

Mechwarrior and Mechwarrior2 were cool because they felt and looked a lot like simulators. The later games I played seemed more like shooters with mechs.

All that being said, I think you could make a pretty impressive mech-combat game without a license. Nobody owns the rights to giant-killer-biped-tanks in general. A 'spiritual successor' a la Bioshock as someone mentioned earlier, could be excellent even without the FASA license.

It's a shame these guys lost their jobs, but hopefully they'll find new, better ones. I didn't follow the goings on for the most part, but the studio closing came as no surprise.

Really, I think DX10 and Games For Windows is just a scam to kill off PC gaming. They'd rather just collect royalties on Xbox games.

Oh well, I hope they fail.

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is gonna buy up Freespace

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Yeah Derek, FASA was solely responsible for stopping all PC game making and making Crimson Skies and Mech Warrior games only for the Xbox.

Which is really sad considering how active the MechWarrior community is, and how much they have added to Mech 4.

Honestly I still hold out hope that Bungie will make another Oni game

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I miss a lot of those Origin (or Origin-related) games:

Ultima
Ultima Underworld
Wing Commander
System Shock
Bioforge
Crusader
Privateer

It would be fun to see updates to older games, too: Magic Carpet, Terra Nova, Duke Nukem 3D :o, numerous adventure games, etc.
We so need a new Shadow Warrior.
Wishing current day games tried for more,
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Haven't you heard??? Derek Smart is gonna buy up Freespace and make a SEQUEL!

Most of their games were crap anyways

Any other favorites with gameplay that people miss?

Freespace
Wing Commander
X-Wing

Aw, man...why ya gotta go there?

Poor, poor Freespace. Never got the love it deserved...




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Any other favorites with gameplay that people miss?

Ultima *sniff*

And NO, MMO does not count. That's a 3D chat, not a RPG!

The Dungeon Keeper series
The Myth series
The Mechwarrior series

Any other favorites with gameplay that people miss?

Freespace
Wing Commander
X-Wing

Their first and only mistake was working for microsoft, LOL.

This is just another example of how the games that a lot of use grew up on or were introduced to gaming with are simply not being made anymore and maybe never will be.

FASA games were always about making choices, and having advantages and drawbacks to everything. Wanted to load up a mech with nothing but PPC's? Sure go ahead, but you have to worry about overheating. Want to load a mech up with nothing but AC20's? sure go ahead, but you're going to have ammunition issues. Want to go fast? fine, but your armor may be thin or you may not be able to carry lots of weapons.

You have to think, you had to calculate, you had to have a strategy, you had to have a tactic that maximized your strengths and minimized your weaknesses. Oh and if economics played a part? forget that, because then you may not be able to afford that 100 tone munchkin clan-tech Diashi can't have that now can we?

In today's world? fuck that, thinking makes my brain hurt. I just want to mash some buttons and be rewarded with pretty graphics.

Even when you get it all right, the odds of it being a success are still stacked because at the end of the day, its down to the finicky gamers.

If this is the case why gamble on mech assault or what ever that Xbox version was called?
The original Mech worrior games had a cult. At least that is the impression I've always had.

Oh thats easy. Its called market demand. Neither made enough money to warrant sequels. If a game makes money, trust me, the suits will run to milk it dry before sun up. Look at Crackdown. Nobody expected it to be a hit. But by the time the suits at MS figured this out and got the ball rolling, the devs had already moved on to [hopefully] better things. So, Crackdown2 will probably still happen but from a different studio, who - we hope - won't bastardize it on cue.

Not even Activision wants to do a mech game. Heavy Gear was a pretty good series.

On the console side, it didn't help that the only Mech game worth playing (a) didn't sell well (b) required a monstrous peripheral to play it.

My guess is, if you want some Mech lovin', either install your old favorites in DOS-Box in WinXP, install a virtual machine or subscribe to GameTap (assuming they even have them on license).

Sometimes, I have to tell you, I hate being in the business. More often than not, you're damned if you do and pretty much f*cked if you don't.

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This is what happens when game developers get told what to do by men in suits. MS decided to use Shadowrun to sell Vista and their pay-to-play service, the same way they used Halo to sell the XBox.

Any gamer could have told these guys that there was no way this strategy was gonna work. They didn't think and didn't listen, and the result was a disaster. Way to go.

It's far easier to ignore a message board full of angry users than a bunch of employees you work with every day.

That's the problem now that games have become more mainstream, since you have a much bigger audience, the percentage of people you have please gets way lower, just as long as its enough to make a profit. who cares about that vocal niche of players like us who can't stand the continual dumbing down of the franchises we loved.

This could just be a move to consolidate and when they do eventually make another Btech/Shadowrun game, there won't be anyone to complain that its not faithful to the source.

Internally maybe. But just like with SR, the sound of crickets when it gets released is all the complaining they need to hear. Although the months of angry posts on their forums and everywhere else should be a hint too, but we've already seen how well they take those hints.