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Excellent! Was that so hard? by Mischief Maker 07/12/2018, 5:14am PDT
Rey Mysterio Jr. wrote:

1. Battletech - A great story hampered by all the combat you have to struggle through. This game is a slog. I don't mean it's dull, but the number of rando battles you have to fight to get the nice toys you want is ridiculous because of the RNG. Patch 1.1 rebalanced some stuff around and fixed most of the problems so this is as good as it's going to get. I still haven't beat it because I want 3 Assault-class mechs before I stop after the campaign's over and I only have 2. FUCKING RNG! I also feel like considering how much cash they got thrown at them to do this game the end product was still very under-ambitious. It's text and still-picture dialogue cutscenes, I don't think 3 or 5 more campaign missions would have broken the bank, guys.


Have you played the tabletop? Because I don't disagree with you, I think the reason the final product seems so underwhelming is because they actually made such a heroically streamlined version of the ruleset they lost sight of the fact that most players weren't going to notice what was going on under the hood.

Kinda like what happened with the Starfleet Command games. I never played that game, but other people who had were going nuts over how this computer game had taken such a complicated tabletop ruleset and made it so you could do what would have been a half hour's worth of dice rolls and calculations on tabletop into 5 minutes on the computer. But to me who never played the tabletop I found the game to be kinda dull and simple, save for having to watch the ECM/ECCM window like a hawk.

I do think Battletech was more successful than Starfleet Command at their shared goal.
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    Excellent! Was that so hard? by Mischief Maker 07/12/2018, 5:14am PDT NEW
        I meant to say I never played Starfleet Battles tabletop. NT by Mischief Maker 07/12/2018, 5:17am PDT NEW
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