Brings back memories. Never knew they did a tabletop version. Still got the 2nd game here somewhere......
It sounds like if they reach the 10 million as expansions they will do a campaign like the first two that can be single player or co op.
10 million is a crazy amount of money though, so that seems unlikely to reach. The really big kickstarters usually only reach arond 3½ million. If we look past just kickstarter Star Citizen most likely have the record when it comes to crowd founded games, and even they have "only" reached just over eight million.
Pretty difficult to get 10 million indeed. Considering HG is not as well known as BT and dp9 as well as stompy bot aren't very big companies I can't really see it happening myself. I'd wish, truly wish it did but... Naaah. As for the tabletop version, they had a nice model where they had released an RPG and a miniature tactical game under the same mechanics with little variaton, so you could mesh the two very well and go from a standard rpg plot to a skirmish, or large scale combat with Gears and tanks and what not. Now, they're focusing more on their miniature games and I -think- they were giving out the base rules for free in drivethrurpg. Or at least, they did so a few months ago, don't know if that offer is still active.
MW:O is not an arena universe, the whole Solaris circuit was an offshoot and never the main plot. Likewise, Heavy Gear's universe is not an arena universe either. Their main difference is that HG was (at first) mostly about a single planet and the wars on that planet, whereas BT spans a galaxy. BT takes the "Walking Tank" approach to mechs, where HG is a little more Japanimation style mech closer to those found in the Full Metal Panic series (rather than the very agile Gundam series). And... MW:O has IS and Clans, whereas HG is not as well known ^_^ but it is a cute setting, with lots of space to play plots in. On the table top. No idea how it will be in the arena game.
Eh as soon as they put Solaris in MWO the sooner I lose myself to this game, dont know what it is but I have always loved Solaris. Heavy Gear has always interested me, but then I have like a shelving unit full of Anime "gundam" series.... pretty much anything that has gigantic robotic death machines piloted by people has me interested.. :/
What Maatard said. If MWO was focused ONLY on Solaris, and was trying to become an e-sports game, I would have had much less interest in it as well.
This got a new video. It's a "promotional ad" flick from the largest Corp in the Heavy Gear universe. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-CdcMXSbHFQ It may not be our usual, lovable, slow, lumbering battlemech... But I love the graphics!
I really do want it to do well, but I'm already pissed about the deathmatch-centric gameplay of MWO. If Heavy Gear manages to branch out away from that, though, count me in.
