Who remembers Starsiege/Tribes?

[Washbaby]

Why can't we get something that cool again?

[kensw]

No I had to Google it.
You are comparing Battletech to a 20 year old multiplayer shooter ????

[Coyote]

lol i remember tribes.
Awesome game back in the day.

SHAZBOT!


And yeah, Regular "starsiege" was a mech game very similar to mechwarrior.
Played the demo a very very long time ago but didnt get to play the full version... Im gunna go hunt it down now.

[KDubya]

The cool thing about Starsiege was that you could also operate hover tanks that you could fit out as you wanted. It was a fun game with a pretty good story. I had it set up for a twist joystick in the right hand and a mouse in the left .... those were the glorious days of mech sims.

[Trip]

Did tribes have like a suit of heavy armor that could attach itself to the top of a vehicle and then you would be its "turret"

[desrtfox071]

While Starsiege: Tribes, and Earthsiege before it were great games (I even ran created a mod for Tribes), those games are like Battletech in only that they include mech type fighting units. As others have said, they're more of a first person shooter/sim than a tactical turn based game. Really nothing to compare Battletech and those games about except the general concept of mechs, called hercs in the Earthsiege lore.

[BLAMBLAM]

yeah loved tribes 2!

[BLAMBLAM]

planetside was like an extension to tribes I thought. That game was also so much fun in it's hayday, with 4000+ players in realtime at war on the servers.

[TVMAN]

Tribes: Ascend was good for a little while.

[BLAMBLAM]

going off on a tangent here, but 1998 the release year of Tribes was quite possibly one of the greatest years in gaming history. A year that gave us, Half Life, StarCraft, Metal gear Solid, Baldurs Gate. Xenogears, Panzer Dragoon, Resident Evil 2, Spyro (heh), Tenchu, Battlezone, Freespace, Tekken 3, Parasite eve, Unreal, Castlevania symphony, F Zero, Brave Fencer, Star Ocean, Rainbow Six, Suikoden. Fallout 2, Shogo mobile Armour, oddworld, Zelda Ocarina of time, Puyo puyo, Thief, Falcon 4.0. (with some help from wiki )

[(N☆G) Jackal ★JJ★]

I remember Starsiege and Starsiege Tribes and its expansion, miss it was super fun for its time

[Sr_SM]

Xenogears, a good candidate to best ever. Should have had continuity, remake, whatever.

[trousers]

the smell of shazbot in the morning

[BurgerJoe]

I still have the disc of Tribes 2 and it's manual on my shelf,but I was too late when I bought the game(2004 or 2005) so I only played with bots...still a cool game.

[Washbaby]

Originally posted by BLAMBLAM:

going off on a tangent here, but 1998 the release year of Tribes was quite possibly one of the greatest years in gaming history. A year that gave us, Half Life, StarCraft, Metal gear Solid, Baldurs Gate. Xenogears, Panzer Dragoon, Resident Evil 2, Spyro (heh), Tenchu, Battlezone, Freespace, Tekken 3, Parasite eve, Unreal, Castlevania symphony, F Zero, Brave Fencer, Star Ocean, Rainbow Six, Suikoden. Fallout 2, Shogo mobile Armour, oddworld, Zelda Ocarina of time, Puyo puyo, Thief, Falcon 4.0. (with some help from wiki :lunar2019smilingpig:)

Dude, you're right! That was a hell of a year for games.

[Washbaby]

Originally posted by desrtfox071:

While Starsiege: Tribes, and Earthsiege before it were great games (I even ran created a mod for Tribes), those games are like Battletech in only that they include mech type fighting units. As others have said, they're more of a first person shooter/sim than a tactical turn based game. Really nothing to compare Battletech and those games about except the general concept of mechs, called hercs in the Earthsiege lore. [/quoteI
Totally agree. I just haven't played a game involving mechs at any point that was entertained me/sucked up my time like the Siege games. Especially Starsiege. Loved the customization and lore. Really was great, for it's time. Can you imagine a remake with today's tech?!