If I had to describe how I felt this morning when I saw Mobile Suit Gundam: Guild Wars Mission 2 log on to pc and start issuing free beta qualifications, I think even Marfty, who spoke passionately, couldn't simply summarize my mental journey from disbelief to ecstasy at the beginning to not wanting to go to work and wanting to take a vacation to celebrate.
Perhaps many friends have not heard of this game, let me briefly introduce this game.
"Mobile Suit Gundam: Guild Wars Mission 2" is a UC Era as the background, using free + in-app purchase of online battle games, compared to other "Open Gundam" battle games or more familiar "Mobile Suit Gundam OL", the highlight of this game is that the player operates a pilot, we can attack with a Gundam posture, can also be used as an infantry unit to repair the Gundam, suppress the base, steal the body of other pilots, etc. This game allows players to participate in many of the well-known battles in the original game from a more role-playing perspective, with a bit of Gundam Battleground/Titanfall flavor.
This series has produced a total of 2 canons, the first generation in 2012 to log on to the PS3 platform, the second generation has also logged on to the PS4 and PS5 platforms. The reason why the news of its landing on the PC has aroused the hearts of the glue guys is also very simple - there are a large number of Gundam enthusiasts on the PC who can't find a meal replacement, and Bandai Namco has noticed them.
I don't know if you've ever played Starter Warrior Windom XP on PC based on a system modification based on The Gundam EXVS series United VS Zaft.
My first exposure to this game was more than 10 years ago, when the Gundam IP was still a no-fly zone on pcs, thanks to Bandai's spirit of OCCUPYING XX bu laX, and the accurate transnational crackdown on various piracy behaviors, at least in the version of "Starter Warrior" that I played, not only the game name was played with a side ball, but there was no machine in it that could be called Gundam.
For PC players, this is somewhat helpless, at that time, the replacement meal of the Gundam battle game on the PC was a family, and if you didn't want to play this, you could only play the "SD Gundam" next door that an A-class functional angel had to spend a week on the meal (although in the end I played it all), fortunately, the quality of "Starter Warrior" was quite good.
Because there is no commercialization, "Starter Warrior XP" is completely a fan game for love power generation, the original author is a Japanese, after the release of the free version he also quickly open sourced the game, many high-tech Gundam enthusiasts joined, but also derived many fan versions of the fan game, such as in Baidu "Start Warrior Bar", there is a group of ordinary players who love Gundam Battle Games but are suffering from not logging on to the PC, using different engines, from the CG model network to find open source models, they build maps against the original game , the development of each body's action/moves, adding arcade, doubles mode, etc., the workload and the redevelopment of a game has no difference, and this group of brothers have been insisting for more than ten years.
At the beginning of this year, I also went to Tieba to glance at a few glances, and found that this game still maintains a major update speed of this year, bypasses bandai's copyright warning by entering the bar friends group to get mods to unlock the Gundam body in the original game, and also adds the body of the latest work "Gundam EXVS2XB" that just logged into the series last year, which can be said to be the contemporary Internet version of the Yugong moving mountain.
If we can't come out of the world, we Chinese be able to build our own
Here is another piece of hot knowledge - from the first work on the MSX platform in 1984 "Mobile Suit Gundam: Last Shooting", gundam IP derivative games are full attendance every year, I counted on the wiki, excluding "Super Robot Wars" and "ACE" such as the gundam debut robot theme games, a total of 249 games have been launched, the login platform covers FM-7, MSX and other early personal computers, arcades and Solein Micros four four host /handheld The game theme is involved in RPG, FPS, FTG, AVG and so on.
Until about 19 years ago, the options for PC players to play Gundam games were almost zero, and official works such as SD Gundam and Mobile Suit Gundam OL were also stopped due to poor management of "Baku Youwang".
Obviously, the exclusive host/arcade machine does not meet the impression of the shrewd businessman Bandai, the past two years Bandai has launched a sophisticated layout in the global market and has also gained, whether it is relying on less than 10 US dollars of GU series finished toys to successfully pry open the low-price market in Europe and the United States, or in the three years from 2018 to 2020, up to IP sales climbed steadily (78.1 billion yen, 78.1 billion yen and 95 billion yen, respectively), you will also find that Almost all gundam games launched in the past two years have quietly added steam at the end of the login platform, and most of them can even be launched synchronously, such as "Mobile Suit Gundam: Guild Wars Mission 2" that logged on to the PC this time, and also released a special adaptation optimization for the key and mouse operation, which can be said to be sincere.
Maybe we can also take a longer view, and the Gundam EXVS series, which is more successfully commercialized but still sticks to the arcade/console platform, will meet more players one day in the future?
"Gundam EXVS2" has not yet landed on the host, ah, that's fine
So, after more and more Gundam adaptations land on pc platforms, will you be willing to give it a try?