I'm a long time fan of, well let's face it, old-school mech simulations games. The earlier days of Mech Warrior when it was more about building a solid mech and putting it to use in a large scale campaign the way you wanted is gone. Replaced by tight, uncomfortable maps filled with way too many people in the spirit of your everyday FPS game like Modern Warfair or Battlefield. While that's well and good, the market saturation of FPS games is too much, and frankly I'm just sick of them. I was hoping Hawken would be a breath of fresh air, a return to the classic simulation genre --- but it's just another FPS game.... with mechs.
My biggest complaint was that you, as a pilot, had no real progression. All progression in this game is just inside the mech itself, which is more like a class to be played ala Team Fortress 2. Instead of collecting a bay full of parts, weapons, paint scehems, items, and upgrades you can freely mix and match at your leasure like the classic Armor Core titles, you can only purchase and upgrade one mech at a time --- often buying the same parts over and over again and making you feel like you really have not gone anywhere if you choose a new style of mech.
People with a single minded playstyle, like a Sniper for instance, can just dump all of their money into just upgrading and playing the Sniper. If they wanted to try something new, they cannot deconstruct their Sniper mech and put something together using all of the parts they've earned --- instead they have to start 100% from scratch once more, re-buy everything again, and feel like they are a day-1 nooby when they pick up a new type of mech.
That's just not my style of play, I find that extremely unfun and too much of a waste of time. I love to build mechs, spend hours designing them and tweaking them. This games takes that ability AWAY from you, and just pretty much desides what's best for you, without really caring what you wanna do because you aren't designing this game.
Okay, I get it. I didn't design the game, so it's not for me. But I hope you developers love it, because I won't be joining you and nor will any of my massive old school mech lovin' clans either.
Temper
Edited by TemperWolf, October 29 2012 - 12:30 PM.

 

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