The most epic bit about this intro is the fact that it plays straight into the game. You start with a single commando mech, a wad of cash, and a pre-recorded message from the person that was left behind (with her telling you that you're in charge now). I just thought this was a movie with random people in it the first time I saw the intro. When I heard that pre-recorded message... my heart sunk.
This is the game that made me fall in love with the Battletech universe. They never topped this one in my opinion. The atmosphere, the mission variety, it's all just perfect.
Did you check the Battletech tabletop boxsets? Battletech a game of armored combat. Battletech beginner box. Also check the "battletech fan" youtube visual guide to play tabletop. These sets have inner sphere mechs.
SoldierGeneral64 All the lines on this intro are incredible... Modern games could learn a thing or 2 from this. "There's still room in hell for your sorry carcass"
@@zacktrever1878welcome to the future - games generally don’t look as good as an early 2000s cutscene and those that do are either a janky mess or borderline rail shooter
It still does have the best intro than any of the rest of the games. The only intro that rivals it, would be the MechWarrior trailer (before it turned into that shit arsed MWO).
This game featured some of the most difficult missions I've played in the MechWarrior 2 era, especially when the Clans showed up in the midst of a new Succession War. Good thing you could hire a full lance of 'Mechs and, if you're rich enough, an aerospace pilot flying a 100-ton "Riever" heavy fighter.
Sean Kelly's voice just bleeds pure Narm and hamminess. "So, you daaamn well better be at the dustoff sight when I *get* *there*. You get the stuff?" "You're out of *time*. I'm not getting paid enough to *die*. Secure for orbital burn!" "Look at the bright side, kid: you get to keep *aaallll* the money." Sean Kelly may as well be Captain Kirk.
@@BTG514 Sean Kelly is the Dropship pilot's name, mentioned in a number of briefing texts (notably, if you survive a pirate's trap meant to jack your 'mech).
nothing matches this level of badassery. The voices and theme and graphics depicted as this noble intense mechpilot thing with this stunning eye grabbing visual of this mars like planet and heated battle.
It's so weird how I forgot this, and yet seeing it again after nearly 20 years everything is so familiar and fresh in my memory to me as if I seen it a dozen times again recently
I was just thinking that as I watched this. It's been _decades_ since I've seen this intro but as soon as it started, all the memories came flooding back.
@@richardmitchell7895 I don't remeber how old I was exactly when I first saw this intro. I'm 41 now and this is one of the fondest memories of my childhood. To this day I pick Awesome over any other mech as I did back then.
For how little you actually have interaction with this character. Being the intro and the first message of the game. I think that colonel Holly Harris probably had one of the most influential impacts on me as a gamer from the beginning till now.
It's as good a call back as any to MW2 Merc's intro. There hasn't been a more riveting, chilling, brutal and heart pounding intro to a mechwarrior game before or since. The closest is perhaps MechCommander with that exchange "Sir it's real quiet here, I think we can call it clear" - "You think? Don't think, Mechwarrior, find out. Finish your sweep." right before their seemingly pitiful lance stumbles into a Timber Wolf.
This is the first game in the Battletech universe that my brother and I have ever played. It came with our dad's first computer. My brother and I played this game a ton and at the time thought that the Battletech cartoon and tabletop games were unrelated. Love this game! 😁
Great great game. So much freedom (although not as much as in MW1 tbh) and this awesome intro. Also, what should be mentioned are the beautiful ingame menues and screens. Yeah, there wasn't variety, but the station, the office, these graphics really blew my mind back then.
MW1... I missed so many days of school because of that game, with my friend. I'd jockey the keyboard, he'd use the ancient joystick for my Tandy, and we'd wreck hell on a lance of heavies with our Locust. Ohhh... the memories. But damn, I loved this game! I felt like an actual merc in the universe. MW5 is doing it for me now, when I get time to play.
Man, I remember I finished a mission in this game by squirming across the ground with one leg back to the dropship. I definitely haven't played something like this in a long time.
this was the first game I played seriously online. Clan matches were amazing, a series of 2vs2 matches between different members of each clan. I was a young nerd back then. There was actually a smoking hot chick in my clan (or unit, the 328th, we played Inner Sphere) who I always partnered with in the game. She actually became my GF in real life for a while. Hellbringer was my fav mech, MPLAS config with maxed out heat sinks, JJ and AMS, Never forget this game, never forget you Firefly (Jessica)
Watched that intro as a kid. Didn’t speak English so had no idea what they were talking about or the lore of the game. I can imagine the kid getting some « lone survivor » guilt and having become hardened over the years he kills the Starship Command that left her behind through some ruse to avenge his former commander.
I first played this in 1996, the soundtrack still holds up! Best part is when she dropped an Atlas with an autocannon armour shot, that is boss marksmanship right there!
A guy that my mom was dating would occassionally send me games that he pirated in the mail. This was one of those games. I remember him vidly telling me about it and his love for it When I popped that thing into my Windows 98 computer, I ejected a load from my pants so fierce that........... Well, anyway, great game Loved it when I was 9, still love it today The disc it came on unforuntately is unresponsive, but I can't bring myself to part with it
Just imagine being there in that mech, watching that ship lift off without you, and realizing that absolutely nothing is going to save you from death...
god this brings back so much nostalgia. i used to play this game as a kid. i decided to look it up after i saw mechwarrior mercenaries on the epic games store
Olli Thomas under the Mechwarrior 2 Mercenaries timeline is around 3046 to 3050 or so so it's a prequel MW2 timeline is 3057 it's the Refusal War Jade Falcon is defeated MW2:Ghost Bear Legacy is after the Refusal War timeline it was hunting down to recover their stolen genetic material from a group from within Clan Wolf it used captured Draconis Combine clan mechs to frame Draconis Combine into war none of these games follow a one clan or cause different points in history of battletech universe
By timeline MW2Mercs = Pre war, the years before the invasion and you being captured by the clan wolf during a mission, you escape gloriously! and watch the fall of the Clans at Tukkayid MW2 = Refusal war, when The Clan wolf Escapes from clan space to IS after converting themselves as Wardens, all of kerensky's bloodline is killed by the clan jade falcon, Phelan Kell become the new Khan of the New Warden Clan Wolf In Exile, The most radicals under Ward's ring still continued as Crusaders and using the name Clan Wolf, they became thew new Smoke Jaguars. MW2GBL = When Ward along with the falcons tried to frame the DC for stealing tseng and jorgensson's DNA, They wanted to force the creation of new clan material to bolster their forces, the Bears Kill the Wolves in a space battle and recovers the DNA material, this makes the bears think more about the Crusader ways, who years later would make the Clan become Wardens and form the Rasalhague Dominion. MW3 = Operation Serpent and Bulldog MW4 and MW4Mercs = FedCom CivilWar MW5 = it would be Word of Blake but this one went to consoles as MechAssault series, which everyone hates it...
To be fair, she's in a Zeus so that's an LRM-15 almost point blank. I can believe that punching thru the Atlas's SRM tubes to detonate the ammo, and the close-up looks like multiple internal explosions.
@@timothymccormick5208 At least on the Amiga 500 I played it on, you could fire jump jets... horizontally. I remember my Atlas whizzing along the ground like it had rocket powered roller skates. Good times man. Good times. Can't even remember if that was a cheat or just how the game was. It was hilarious though.
Y'know...after all these years I think I got the meaning behind the money line; I think he was telling the panicky pilot (kid) that although they had abandoned his partner to her death, at least he got to keep all the money as a result.
"What did the dropship guy say at the end after not getting paid enough to die?" He then said "Secure for orbital burn." Which means "everybody inside, hold onto something, we're firing the engines hard enough to go into orbit"
Catapult: standing only a few meters away. Harrris: inside an 80 ton mech the size of a townhouse. First missile: flies harmlessly over her head, missing completely. Inner Sphere technology sucks. All hail the Clans.
The voice acting in this early one is shocking, but the dialogue is *great*. "You're out of time. I'm not getting paid enough to die." "There's still room in hell for your sorry carcass." "Look on the bright side, kid. You get to keep all the money." Bahaha so gold. Yes.
His normal transport fee and hazard pay, all of it upfront BEFORE the mission begins. He likely didn't think it high enough to stay long in a very hot landing zone. The Mercs get the the contract fee (if the mission was successful) along with any bounty per enemy mech destroyed (at least, that's how it works in the game).
WOOOOOOOOOO. I had mostly forgotten about this game. Somehow remembered it and stumbled upon these videos here on RUclips. Ran out to the garage and found the old original Microsoft Sidewinder joystick in a cardboard box out there, covered in dust. My PC didn't have a compatible port to plug it into (no USB plug on the Sidewinder). That didn't stop me! I salvaged an old soundcard from a junked computer in the garage and got it all working beautifully. Going to install and play now. xD
@stevesan The dropship captain is talking to the pilot of the smaller mech that made it to the dropship. Instead of a two way split between the Commando mech pilot and the Zeus mech pilot, the kid keeps all the money. And the other pilot gets nothing cause she was left for dead.
Could be a number of possibilities. Leg actuator damage forcing a slowdown, engine heat forcing a momentary shutdown that in her case caused a fatal delay, or gyro damage making it very dangerous for her to move faster than a walk. A great intro movie though. I miss the good old days of Activision.
Surprisingly sad beginning. She was just 5 seconds away then the ending, "Look at the bright side kid, you get to keep all the money." That was a, "woah" moment when I played this game.
YOU ARE AWESOME FOR POSTING THIS!!!!! this game is still my most favorite, even though i cant play it. oh and thanks for posting the ending cinematic, i never beat this game.
yeah, the conical shape of the lrm15 on left hand was a dead giveaway. Not to mention the 5 shots from the AC5. As for those that claim it would be a modified Thug, no field modification will produce the designed shape of the LRM housing of Zeus. it's build that way so that the pilot can use the left hand as a bludgeon without damaging the ammo feed.
They already mentioned that they are aware of that but the voice actress was not available to rerecord it, since they needed to get it ready for GDC they went ahead with what's available... there are already video of the ACTUAL gameplay of MWO from GDC showcase. i HIGHLY recommend you watch it, glorious return of mechwarrior gameplay the way it should be.
omg this was like my fav game ever. thanks for the upload. good memories. i use to like to camp on buildings and use those super long range missles and go into missle camera view to take out mechs.
The K2 which is the base PPC varient was around for quite some time. The K3 was a prototype ERPPC varient it was introduced just in time for the war of 3039. It was probly droped or turnd into the K2K. The K4 is a Heavy PPC config baised off the K3, with the K5 changing out the PPCs for Plasma Rifles (post 3067 varient).
My god, the memories of playing mercs. Got my first taste of this game with a demo on my friends computer. I played the demo constantly until I bought the game...and my own computer :)
I think what was meant was the dropship's weapons were down regardless, but it doesn't come across that way due to the time of the line. Regardless, awseome video none the less.
I can't even tell what Cmdr. Harris is piloting, but I do like the quadruple tap of AC 20 against that Atlas. This cinematic is why I always felt guilty about taking DC jobs, but DC cash is as good as any.
His pay that he was entitled to. The "kid" gets to keep the share of the money that his leader would have gotten since he still got the recon data (presumably the mission objective)
Arrow IVs are lostech but that doesn't mean the Catapult's pilot didn't find some in a lost Star League cache. Also the DC did get some Star League equipment through a deal with Comstar.
Mech Commander - " There's still room for your sorry carcass" Missles comes in and impacts -Mech Commander " WHAAA" Drop Ship Commander" Look at the Bright Side kid, you get to keep all the money"
PS they really really need to rerelease this game (as well as MW1, MW2, and Ghost Bear) for more modern windows systems instead of forcing us to rely on shady Ebay sellers and Piracy to get these games going again. I mean it worked for Fallout and Elder Scrolls and quite a few other franchises, so why not Mechwarrior?
I believe it is because of the compability issues. MW1 would need a COMPLETE overhaul, MechWarrior 2 and its Expansions as well, sense they mostly ran on DOS. You might as well ask for a HD remake/Annivesary edition of the game.
IAMELIPHAS Diff is that Bethesda was the proprietary of those games back then and now... In the case of Mechwarrior its a freaking mess, hence why they couldnt continue after the 4 entry of the game.
Well Mercs take place during 3046-3052, The IS recovered much of the "lost tech" sense the mid 3030s and the Catapult C3 variant was introduced around 3050. Though no catapults carry more than one launcher. Though Interestingly the two missiles that hit came in from a different angle than the first that we see the cat fire off.
Well, with reason. Holly's mech seemed to suffer an abrupt shutdown, and they couldn't afford to wait for her Zeus to reboot, especially with a Catapult looming right next to them.
Ahhh memories. I remember preordering this back in 96. The last time battletech was associated with its creator Fasa Games. A great followup to Mechwarrior 2
One hand: lmao she one-shotted the Atlas. Other hand: To be fair, she's in a Zeus so that's an LRM-15 almost point blank. I can believe that punching thru the Atlas's SRM tubes to detonate the ammo, and the close-up looks like multiple internal explosions.
I remember working so hard to honor her memory ... after all these years, I still miss her.
*stirs martini on my yacht*
She said draconis scumbag therfore she is based
Forget that b
it's what she wanted for you
look at the bright side, kid. you get to keep all your money.
@@sevensixtwothirtynine3020 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
The most epic bit about this intro is the fact that it plays straight into the game.
You start with a single commando mech, a wad of cash, and a pre-recorded message from the person that was left behind (with her telling you that you're in charge now).
I just thought this was a movie with random people in it the first time I saw the intro. When I heard that pre-recorded message... my heart sunk.
You gotta admit Activsion was at their best before the Blizz merger.
This is the game that made me fall in love with the Battletech universe. They never topped this one in my opinion. The atmosphere, the mission variety, it's all just perfect.
Thats because when you are a Merc you have no Permenant Alignment to any faction ...
You get to see the Universe ...
Did you check the Battletech tabletop boxsets? Battletech a game of armored combat. Battletech beginner box. Also check the "battletech fan" youtube visual guide to play tabletop. These sets have inner sphere mechs.
What about MW5 coop sometimes ? ;)
This is my opinion too. There are good Battletech games, but none really compare.
Chrstopher Blair did you havd this for windows 95 CD rom as kid
11 people didn't look at the bright side.
15 clanners smashed that dislike button like it was made of urban mech
@@ColonelMetus 16, now.... bunch of test-tube ubers...
@@timothymccormick5208 17 LRM spammers accidentally smashed that instead of the Alpha Strike button
Now those people have been paid enough to die.
Love that line. "I don't get paid enough to die".
SoldierGeneral64 All the lines on this intro are incredible... Modern games could learn a thing or 2 from this.
"There's still room in hell for your sorry carcass"
SoldierGeneral64 Look on the bright side kid, you get to keep ALL the money.
Funny thing - mercenaries here are really look like mercenaries. Not like that shit in most BT books.
The first PC game I played, at the age of 5. I will never forget this intro "Look at the bright side kid, you get to keep all the money."
Looked like deadeye killed her.
“Heheh, poor bastard, didn’t even have time to eject.”
I remember watching this intro and wondering if one day video games would actually look as good as this intro
Welcome 2 da future - Phone games look as good or better
@@zacktrever1878 yeah but mercs 2 is more fun than all of them combined
@@zacktrever1878welcome to the future - games generally don’t look as good as an early 2000s cutscene and those that do are either a janky mess or borderline rail shooter
In 2023 games look amazing but don’t have half as much heart
basically no - we have more pixels but pixels are no substitute for art direction.
I loved this game. All new pc's should be able to run all old games. No excuses.
This can easily be run on DOSBox... Just need to get MechWarrior 3 patched to modern systems.
My laptop can run them, atleast Mechwarrior 4.
My memories of this game are that it had the best damn intro ever, it had a great soundtrack, and that I got to keep all the money!
Agreed.
But the Commander sounded hot :(
Lt Col Holly Harris
It still does have the best intro than any of the rest of the games. The only intro that rivals it, would be the MechWarrior trailer (before it turned into that shit arsed MWO).
True! I tried to play it for my channel but it wouldn't run on my computer :(
This game featured some of the most difficult missions I've played in the MechWarrior 2 era, especially when the Clans showed up in the midst of a new Succession War. Good thing you could hire a full lance of 'Mechs and, if you're rich enough, an aerospace pilot flying a 100-ton "Riever" heavy fighter.
Bro I was a stupid kid and thought you had to solo all the missions! don't even get me started...
@@LEWTSPEC Every fuckin aerospace fighter I hired would spawn 60 kilometers outside of mission bounds and just twirl around and do loops forever
My favorite was the ice astroid escort. Sliding around.
Sean Kelly's voice just bleeds pure Narm and hamminess.
"So, you daaamn well better be at the dustoff sight when I *get* *there*. You get the stuff?"
"You're out of *time*. I'm not getting paid enough to *die*. Secure for orbital burn!"
"Look at the bright side, kid: you get to keep *aaallll* the money."
Sean Kelly may as well be Captain Kirk.
Sean Kelly is the actor's name? Sounds like Phil Lamar
@@BTG514 Sean Kelly is the Dropship pilot's name, mentioned in a number of briefing texts (notably, if you survive a pirate's trap meant to jack your 'mech).
@@NewTypeDilemma01 Thanks!
I always thought it was "You're out of time. I'm not getting paid enough to die. Securing orbit is your own worry."
Considering the shit-hot zone he dropped into, I can't imagine any mercenary pilot being less crass in tone.
easily the best video game intro ive seen. Seriously can't think of a better one
+steve122288 NO, COS GIRLY DIES!!!! WORST INTRO EVER!!!
+steve122288 Warcraft 2?
eta on planet is 40 seconds, you damned better be on the dustoff site when i get there; you got the stuff?
+steve122288 quake 2 c:
nothing matches this level of badassery. The voices and theme and graphics depicted as this noble intense mechpilot thing with this stunning eye grabbing visual of this mars like planet and heated battle.
Jeehun Hwang did an amazing job on these soundtracks!
I got the recon data and ONE PISSED OFF ATLAS ON MY TAIL!
Gotta love that...
"Look on the right side kid, you get to keep ALL the money"
great line
This was the one I played as a kid back in the 90´s thinking if only the gameplay looked like in those intros. Now I´m playing MW5 :)
It's so weird how I forgot this, and yet seeing it again after nearly 20 years everything is so familiar and fresh in my memory to me as if I seen it a dozen times again recently
I was just thinking that as I watched this. It's been _decades_ since I've seen this intro but as soon as it started, all the memories came flooding back.
I was 12 now I'm 46 it was the best game introduction.
@@richardmitchell7895 I don't remeber how old I was exactly when I first saw this intro. I'm 41 now and this is one of the fondest memories of my childhood. To this day I pick Awesome over any other mech as I did back then.
For how little you actually have interaction with this character. Being the intro and the first message of the game. I think that colonel Holly Harris probably had one of the most influential impacts on me as a gamer from the beginning till now.
Just saw a bit of MW Mercenaries 5 that they unveiled at MechCon. It got me nostalgic for the old games. Merc 5 looks awesome.
Cannibal713 look at the bright side, we just got a pay raise
It's as good a call back as any to MW2 Merc's intro. There hasn't been a more riveting, chilling, brutal and heart pounding intro to a mechwarrior game before or since.
The closest is perhaps MechCommander with that exchange "Sir it's real quiet here, I think we can call it clear" - "You think? Don't think, Mechwarrior, find out. Finish your sweep." right before their seemingly pitiful lance stumbles into a Timber Wolf.
This is the first game in the Battletech universe that my brother and I have ever played. It came with our dad's first computer. My brother and I played this game a ton and at the time thought that the Battletech cartoon and tabletop games were unrelated. Love this game! 😁
Great great game. So much freedom (although not as much as in MW1 tbh) and this awesome intro.
Also, what should be mentioned are the beautiful ingame menues and screens. Yeah, there wasn't variety, but the station, the office, these graphics really blew my mind back then.
MW1... I missed so many days of school because of that game, with my friend. I'd jockey the keyboard, he'd use the ancient joystick for my Tandy, and we'd wreck hell on a lance of heavies with our Locust. Ohhh... the memories.
But damn, I loved this game! I felt like an actual merc in the universe. MW5 is doing it for me now, when I get time to play.
Man, I remember I finished a mission in this game by squirming across the ground with one leg back to the dropship. I definitely haven't played something like this in a long time.
My first ever mechwarrior game. This intro and the game itself were so good and fun to play.
this was the first game I played seriously online. Clan matches were amazing, a series of 2vs2 matches between different members of each clan. I was a young nerd back then. There was actually a smoking hot chick in my clan (or unit, the 328th, we played Inner Sphere) who I always partnered with in the game. She actually became my GF in real life for a while. Hellbringer was my fav mech, MPLAS config with maxed out heat sinks, JJ and AMS, Never forget this game, never forget you Firefly (Jessica)
The memories this brings is unrivaled
Watched that intro as a kid. Didn’t speak English so had no idea what they were talking about or the lore of the game.
I can imagine the kid getting some « lone survivor » guilt and having become hardened over the years he kills the Starship Command that left her behind through some ruse to avenge his former commander.
Man, these were the days, this was my favorite game as a kid
"I'm not getting paid enough to die" - should tell that line to my boss
Your boss would probably reply with "There's still room in Hell for your sorry carcass."
Relevant
@@pakiprince7135 so relevant
2020 checking in
i already have =p =]
I first played this in 1996, the soundtrack still holds up! Best part is when she dropped an Atlas with an autocannon armour shot, that is boss marksmanship right there!
Mechwarrior belongs to Battletech franchise. Check "battletech fan" for a catalog of new stuff. Battletech started as a tabletop game.
@@aquarius5719 cool story, bro
A guy that my mom was dating would occassionally send me games that he pirated in the mail.
This was one of those games. I remember him vidly telling me about it and his love for it
When I popped that thing into my Windows 98 computer, I ejected a load from my pants so fierce that...........
Well, anyway, great game
Loved it when I was 9, still love it today
The disc it came on unforuntately is unresponsive, but I can't bring myself to part with it
this was the first video game I ever played. It came before Pokemon, halo, Runescape or WOW. My life as a gamer started here. ALL PPC.
Just imagine being there in that mech, watching that ship lift off without you, and realizing that absolutely nothing is going to save you from death...
I always wondered where a missile that long could have been stored inside that Catapult.
In its pants.
god this brings back so much nostalgia. i used to play this game as a kid. i decided to look it up after i saw mechwarrior mercenaries on the epic games store
I still have this game, I played it once when i was young, when i still didn't understand battletech, i should play this again.
the timeline goes in this order
MW2 mercenaries
MW2
MW2 Ghost Bear Legacy
+21boxhead You sure MW2 doesnt came before Mercenaries?
Olli Thomas
under the Mechwarrior 2
Mercenaries timeline is around 3046 to 3050
or so
so it's a prequel
MW2 timeline is 3057 it's the Refusal War
Jade Falcon is defeated
MW2:Ghost Bear Legacy is after the Refusal War timeline
it was hunting down to recover their stolen genetic material from a group from within Clan Wolf it used captured Draconis Combine clan mechs to frame Draconis Combine into war
none of these games follow a one clan or cause
different points in history of battletech universe
Oh, im sorry. I thought you mean the release from the games! Thank you!
Olli Thomas
oh the release of the game
MW2
MW2 GBL
MW2 Merc
By timeline
MW2Mercs = Pre war, the years before the invasion and you being captured by the clan wolf during a mission, you escape gloriously! and watch the fall of the Clans at Tukkayid
MW2 = Refusal war, when The Clan wolf Escapes from clan space to IS after converting themselves as Wardens, all of kerensky's bloodline is killed by the clan jade falcon, Phelan Kell become the new Khan of the New Warden Clan Wolf In Exile, The most radicals under Ward's ring still continued as Crusaders and using the name Clan Wolf, they became thew new Smoke Jaguars.
MW2GBL = When Ward along with the falcons tried to frame the DC for stealing tseng and jorgensson's DNA, They wanted to force the creation of new clan material to bolster their forces, the Bears Kill the Wolves in a space battle and recovers the DNA material, this makes the bears think more about the Crusader ways, who years later would make the Clan become Wardens and form the Rasalhague Dominion.
MW3 = Operation Serpent and Bulldog
MW4 and MW4Mercs = FedCom CivilWar
MW5 = it would be Word of Blake but this one went to consoles as MechAssault series, which everyone hates it...
I love how she one-shots the Atlas.
To be fair, she's in a Zeus so that's an LRM-15 almost point blank.
I can believe that punching thru the Atlas's SRM tubes to detonate the ammo, and the close-up looks like multiple internal explosions.
@@saeyabor Floating TACs to ammo. Best way to ruin someone's day in 3025.
Such a FANTASTIC intro scene and great game. Even inter-mission fluff and mech-equipping parts were great.
loved decking out a nova with medium pulse lasers and mowing anything down in my path since you can out run the missles short range or long range.
This opening always gave me nightmares when I was little.
"Watch it dropship command! I've got the recon data and ONE PISSED OFF ATLAS ON MY TAIL!"
Love it =P This game will always be a close one for me.
AND ONE PISSED OFF ATLAS ON MY TAIL
LOL.. How the heck does an Atlas keep up with that little Commando?..
@@timothymccormick5208 At least on the Amiga 500 I played it on, you could fire jump jets... horizontally. I remember my Atlas whizzing along the ground like it had rocket powered roller skates. Good times man. Good times. Can't even remember if that was a cheat or just how the game was. It was hilarious though.
@Ironeagle 777 The top speed of a Commando is like 100kph.
I prefer to use a Stalker to escort my Atlas. Stalker may be slow but with a good pilot it will hit clanners hard.
Despite its outdated graphics, this intro is more intense than most game intros today. Now why is that? I miss this shit bigtime.
This intro rocks. I just covered the games on my channel and this was probably the best of the three.
Y'know...after all these years I think I got the meaning behind the money line; I think he was telling the panicky pilot (kid) that although they had abandoned his partner to her death, at least he got to keep all the money as a result.
"Look at the bright side kid, you get to keep all the money."
F3nyx, you win at life for posting this!
Who in their right mind would pilot a Commando in the first place?
me
A dude who thought this was a simple recon mission
Brings back memories... :)
I've been playing it on XP recently and it's still awesome.
"What did the dropship guy say at the end after not getting paid enough to die?"
He then said "Secure for orbital burn." Which means "everybody inside, hold onto something, we're firing the engines hard enough to go into orbit"
That looks like a Zues. My favorite mech.
Finally! I found out! Memories from 1st grade, where we would watch the big kids play this after school, this cutscene has been burned into my brain!
Based on the newest rules by Catalyst Game Labs. They publish the new rulebooks for "Classic Battletech" now.
Catapult: standing only a few meters away.
Harrris: inside an 80 ton mech the size of a townhouse.
First missile: flies harmlessly over her head, missing completely.
Inner Sphere technology sucks. All hail the Clans.
The voice acting in this early one is shocking, but the dialogue is *great*.
"You're out of time. I'm not getting paid enough to die."
"There's still room in hell for your sorry carcass."
"Look on the bright side, kid. You get to keep all the money."
Bahaha so gold. Yes.
"Look at the bright side kid, you get to keep all the money" :D A stand out quote, it really set the tone for the game. Dammit I miss this franchise.
I love how her scream get cut off lmao, literally an og scream then disappear
His normal transport fee and hazard pay, all of it upfront BEFORE the mission begins. He likely didn't think it high enough to stay long in a very hot landing zone.
The Mercs get the the contract fee (if the mission was successful) along with any bounty per enemy mech destroyed (at least, that's how it works in the game).
WOOOOOOOOOO. I had mostly forgotten about this game. Somehow remembered it and stumbled upon these videos here on RUclips. Ran out to the garage and found the old original Microsoft Sidewinder joystick in a cardboard box out there, covered in dust. My PC didn't have a compatible port to plug it into (no USB plug on the Sidewinder). That didn't stop me! I salvaged an old soundcard from a junked computer in the garage and got it all working beautifully. Going to install and play now. xD
@stevesan The dropship captain is talking to the pilot of the smaller mech that made it to the dropship. Instead of a two way split between the Commando mech pilot and the Zeus mech pilot, the kid keeps all the money.
And the other pilot gets nothing cause she was left for dead.
Could be a number of possibilities. Leg actuator damage forcing a slowdown, engine heat forcing a momentary shutdown that in her case caused a fatal delay, or gyro damage making it very dangerous for her to move faster than a walk.
A great intro movie though. I miss the good old days of Activision.
Surprisingly sad beginning. She was just 5 seconds away then the ending, "Look at the bright side kid, you get to keep all the money." That was a, "woah" moment when I played this game.
YOU ARE AWESOME FOR POSTING THIS!!!!! this game is still my most favorite, even though i cant play it. oh and thanks for posting the ending cinematic, i never beat this game.
quite possibly the best one of the series
awesome soundtrack
yeah, the conical shape of the lrm15 on left hand was a dead giveaway. Not to mention the 5 shots from the AC5. As for those that claim it would be a modified Thug, no field modification will produce the designed shape of the LRM housing of Zeus. it's build that way so that the pilot can use the left hand as a bludgeon without damaging the ammo feed.
i remember during the summer when i was a kid, i stayed up late playing this game
They already mentioned that they are aware of that but the voice actress was not available to rerecord it, since they needed to get it ready for GDC they went ahead with what's available... there are already video of the ACTUAL gameplay of MWO from GDC showcase.
i HIGHLY recommend you watch it, glorious return of mechwarrior gameplay the way it should be.
This is hands down one of the greatest games ever made
omg this was like my fav game ever. thanks for the upload. good memories. i use to like to camp on buildings and use those super long range missles and go into missle camera view to take out mechs.
The K2 which is the base PPC varient was around for quite some time. The K3 was a prototype ERPPC varient it was introduced just in time for the war of 3039. It was probly droped or turnd into the K2K. The K4 is a Heavy PPC config baised off the K3, with the K5 changing out the PPCs for Plasma Rifles (post 3067 varient).
My god, the memories of playing mercs. Got my first taste of this game with a demo on my friends computer. I played the demo constantly until I bought the game...and my own computer :)
I was rly excited about this game in the 90s when it came free with my HP comp :)
This game made my pants brown when I was a kid. It was fun as hell, but scared me when I played it. lol
Best game in the MechWarrior series right here.
Thanks for re-adding this vid and the GBL vid. You rock.
I loved the whole Mechwarrior series. The sattelite overview taught me to read maps. Who says you can't learn from games?
Absolutely! For example, I learned that "scumbag" was a word that made my mother yell at me! 😂
I think what was meant was the dropship's weapons were down regardless, but it doesn't come across that way due to the time of the line. Regardless, awseome video none the less.
and this video perfectly sets the tone for what they represent!
Damn! Eat this!
I'm amazed you could make out what that pilot said. I never could.
one of the best Mech intros ever =)
I can't even tell what Cmdr. Harris is piloting, but I do like the quadruple tap of AC 20 against that Atlas. This cinematic is why I always felt guilty about taking DC jobs, but DC cash is as good as any.
His pay that he was entitled to. The "kid" gets to keep the share of the money that his leader would have gotten since he still got the recon data (presumably the mission objective)
I miss this game so much..Something about games today are too real. This was just perfect.
Great introduction video for an excellent game. Thanks for making this available to watch on RUclips.
Arrow IVs are lostech but that doesn't mean the Catapult's pilot didn't find some in a lost Star League cache. Also the DC did get some Star League equipment through a deal with Comstar.
Mech Commander - " There's still room for your sorry carcass"
Missles comes in and impacts
-Mech Commander " WHAAA"
Drop Ship Commander" Look at the Bright Side kid, you get to keep all the money"
PS they really really need to rerelease this game (as well as MW1, MW2, and Ghost Bear) for more modern windows systems instead of forcing us to rely on shady Ebay sellers and Piracy to get these games going again.
I mean it worked for Fallout and Elder Scrolls and quite a few other franchises, so why not Mechwarrior?
I believe it is because of the compability issues. MW1 would need a COMPLETE overhaul, MechWarrior 2 and its Expansions as well, sense they mostly ran on DOS. You might as well ask for a HD remake/Annivesary edition of the game.
OyGAMING Joseph
Again, same story with Elder Scrolls I and II.
IAMELIPHAS Diff is that Bethesda was the proprietary of those games back then and now... In the case of Mechwarrior its a freaking mess, hence why they couldnt continue after the 4 entry of the game.
IAMELIPHAS You can download a fully-patched, Windows compatible version of Daggerfall at UESPWiki: www.uesp.net/wiki/Daggerfall:Files
Well Mercs take place during 3046-3052, The IS recovered much of the "lost tech" sense the mid 3030s and the Catapult C3 variant was introduced around 3050. Though no catapults carry more than one launcher. Though Interestingly the two missiles that hit came in from a different angle than the first that we see the cat fire off.
The Commander's mech looks like a BattleMaster. I think the protagonist's mech is a Commando, or maybe a Clint or Panther.
It's a Zeus 😉
And yeah, you start off with a Commando
Its clearly a Zeus, it has an autocannon and the thug doesn't have a protruding head with antennae. Yes, so its what I think.
Well, with reason. Holly's mech seemed to suffer an abrupt shutdown, and they couldn't afford to wait for her Zeus to reboot, especially with a Catapult looming right next to them.
these days you get crappy sounding lasers and that, i miss the old classics. Mechwarrior ruled!
Thanks a lot guys !! Finally I get the gist of it !!
Just a Catapult belonging to the Draconis Combine, the faction they were fighting against in the intro video.
I looove the sound of medium lasers in this game.
Ahhh memories. I remember preordering this back in 96. The last time battletech was associated with its creator Fasa Games. A great followup to Mechwarrior 2
Old comment, but MW4 lists Fasa as well since they were just bought by Microsoft. MW3 was under Fasa too.
Look at the brightside kid, YOU get to keep all the money. -epic
One hand: lmao she one-shotted the Atlas.
Other hand: To be fair, she's in a Zeus so that's an LRM-15 almost point blank. I can believe that punching thru the Atlas's SRM tubes to detonate the ammo, and the close-up looks like multiple internal explosions.