I'm a Davionfan by myself and I loved MW4 back then but seeing this today... it was so cheesy black and white, with Steiner becoming the typical german hollywoodnazis. In the mission pack, then it turned out that Ian Dresari, your character in the main game, was a dick himself and you head to kill him and all his friends, which was shitty, too, lol. But at least MW4 Mercs did tell a good story and was defenetly the best microsoft MW game.
And give your little sister a PLUG. In the ASS. (I mean, seriously now...it's so cheesy they might as well have gone onto incest, a 'love interest' is all that's missing there).
I was hired to play Ian Dresari in this video (the blonde guy) . It has some weird camera direction and some bad acting but the game was good. It was fun making it! We shot all that video no green screen in one day. Why did they make me hold that hug on the duchess? I don't know... and how about a couple more close-ups of people....
Anyhow, you can see my other work at: TroyNorton com
@21boxhead wow....u worked on that all night, didnt u? good 4 u. now im going to go live my life...but u just keep going, you'll find someone who cares about what u say. its not me, though. PEACE!!!
But since im not a huge fan of the mechwarrior series and i only played the first and second mechassault plus the second mechwarrior (wich's weird controls distasted me at the time) sooo yeah...
Mechwarrior 4 is supposedly going to be free for download soon...
Yeah, they are much larger and very poor in the weapons department. And because they are so rare (none since the Star League era) there is an unwritten law that no-one should attack and destroy them - even the Clans enforce this rule.
Don't base MechWarrior solely on the games - try reading the BattleTech books they are much better and give more feel to the scale of things.
Actually no, after deposing Katrina, Victor decided that politics were just too much work and that the divisions between the Lyran Alliance (House Steiner) and the Federated Suns (House Davion) had become too great, so he placed Peter Steiner-Davion in charge of the Lyran Alliance and Yvonne Steiner-Davion in charge of the Federated Suns and dissolved the Federated Commonwealth (the nation the Federated Suns and Lyran Commonwealth had combined to form). Victor is not well liked among the fans.
I liked all the characters in this game more so then MW4 mercs....Castle, Spectre....aaaalll those people in that game hav annoying ass voices, Castle esspecialy
yes, this one did seem..too "i am going to be like victor and just total ignore WHY i fought...............no, shut up i'm good so i'm doing this"....the "bad" ending is "i'm doing as everyone said...get the fucking mechs, why am i evil? because my moron sister went into a raid blind?!....well fuck hang me out to dry i didn't go on a suicide run to save her possibly stil alive ass. Then in the black knights your a total D bag.
I found this ending incredibly unsatisfying, I ended up reloading to get the other one. The whole GAME is about Ian taking his fathers throne and for the -good ending- to deprive him of that is stupid.
The bad ending doesn't even seem tragic. Nobodys at all bothered you let your sister die except mechkeeper willy.
95% of teens would cry if they saw the Jonas Brothers at the top of a skyscraper about to jump. Copy and paste this EVERYWHERE if you are in the 5% that would shout "Jump"
THis game is awesome hehe...have played the campaign like 7 times now. For one reason or another the Palace lvl always gives me a hard time....and its amazingly annoying when u tell ur dudes to attack somethng and they dick around and dance, I charge into battle thinkin my guys r w/ me and they are prancing around 500m behind me...its like WTF, haha
Yeah, no kidding. Apparently Microsoft couldn't afford a "boom mic" either. You can barely understand what the hell they're saying. They should've been able to fix some of it in editing, but they didn't appear to even bother with that. Not to mention the fact that the [cinematics] music sounds like it was that canned "B" movie synthesized crap that they always use in bad Sci-Fi flicks.
The intro CGI was awesome, while the ending was a total let down.
wow.... the acting sucked balls. I think WING Commander: Prophecy was one of the best "cutscene" games of the 90s..... if ur stuck in the 90s, check that one out. Mark Hamill is on it. haha
I guess you're right, they didn't show Casey in this clip. In MW4: Black Knight, Casey Nolan becomes the leader of a cadet training school, and you have to kill him before killing Ian Dresari in the next mission. It was my favorite mission because I hated Casey and it's fun to try and kill as many cadets as possible.
I HATED that they didnt continue off this ending instead of the other one... making Ian and all of Omega Lance EVIL? NO! It's retarded that they demolshed house Davion like that... Black Knight should not have been made like it was...
Ian turned evil. u had to kill like his right hand man or him in mercenaries. i liked how they used some live actionish stuff. there were so many different endings for this like his sister died etc.
They should have made Black Knight continue from this ending instead - Ian could have been hiring the Black Knights to help him drive out the Steiners. That would have made a WAY better storyline. And Casey and Jules were really cool, having to kill them in Black Knight is retarded.
This was my fav ending. I played through this game with the other ending. (Where you get the better 'Mechs and armor, weaps and other stuff, over saving Ian's sis's life.)I find it ironic, that you can kill Ian Drisari in MW4: Mercs? OR was it Black Knight? OR Vengance? I don't remember.
Compared to other games in 2000, MW4 had some pretty good graphics and videos. I would really like to see what could be done on a MechWarrior 5 with today's graphical improvements.
Sorry, I was kinda in a mood when I wrote my last comment. For the kind of budget games typically had in 2000, it's not bad. The wide shot of the whole hall before they start talking is pretty good. The rest of the shots just have some lighting mismatches between the background and the actors that make it hard to believe the people are actually in that room and not just pasted on to a background picture.
10 people are in Roland's dropship
MsGunMetal 1 week ago
Thanks for uploading this one. Definitely the ending you get if you take the game seriously :)
MsGunMetal 1 week ago
Thumbs up for the token black guy!
goibee 1 month ago
Hahaa, I'm glad crappy FMV cutscenes have gone the way of the dodo bird.
Spybreak9 2 months ago
i wish there was a porno version of this
"To our nude duchess" "And my sister!"
guerilla707 4 months ago
@guerilla707 what perverted wretch are you?
MsGunMetal 2 days ago
LONG LIVE THE CLANS!
tripdefect87 6 months ago
This deserved better acting.
MrMaxaminus 6 months ago
wow the memories!
BunnyPoopCereal 6 months ago
You may hear that MW4 can be downloaded for free. It's a lie! Only Mercenaries can be downloaded, not Vengeance. What a shame!
SuperWunderwaffen 7 months ago
It's like Star Wars Episode I....except GOOD.
TheLackofattack 8 months ago
lol @ the acting
KypHeM 10 months ago
I'm a Davionfan by myself and I loved MW4 back then but seeing this today... it was so cheesy black and white, with Steiner becoming the typical german hollywoodnazis. In the mission pack, then it turned out that Ian Dresari, your character in the main game, was a dick himself and you head to kill him and all his friends, which was shitty, too, lol. But at least MW4 Mercs did tell a good story and was defenetly the best microsoft MW game.
Gammelbit 11 months ago
you can get her killed before the last mission, that's what I always did.
Startmenu4 1 year ago
CHEESE FACTOR IS OFF THE READINGS
tHeWasTeDYouTh 1 year ago 2
@tHeWasTeDYouTh haha hey look it's the Star Wars prequels
GoatDaddyVersion2 11 months ago
@GoatDaddyVersion2 the actors suck so bad I think the government should make it a crime to make these type of games with real live action scenes
tHeWasTeDYouTh 11 months ago
And give your little sister a PLUG. In the ASS. (I mean, seriously now...it's so cheesy they might as well have gone onto incest, a 'love interest' is all that's missing there).
Foxstab 1 year ago
i love this game OMG
Gavrock345 1 year ago
I was hired to play Ian Dresari in this video (the blonde guy) . It has some weird camera direction and some bad acting but the game was good. It was fun making it! We shot all that video no green screen in one day. Why did they make me hold that hug on the duchess? I don't know... and how about a couple more close-ups of people....
Anyhow, you can see my other work at: TroyNorton com
TroyScottNorton 1 year ago 2
DON'T DRINK IT! ITS POISON . . . maybe?
ComPrt3 1 year ago
I love how in the mech series the acting/movie quality rapidly goes down as you progress through the campaign haha
Bluedrake42 1 year ago
Love the awkward group nod at 1:00.
macobyte 1 year ago
Aw, I sided with Steiner. Turns out she's the bad guy... oh well >:)
VillainousOperative 1 year ago
lmoa
calerdonian 1 year ago
@calerdonian Laughung my of ass?
TheJZVideos 1 year ago
can someone help me i dont know how to use this game i dont know what a valid pilot name is
joompiproductions 1 year ago
Well boys and girls, it doesn't get much cornier then that, though it is for the best pc game out there.
blekkster 1 year ago
very very lame ending and acting super cheese factor indeed but love all mech games
21boxhead 1 year ago
Horrible acting and horrible CGI...
God damnit I still love Mech warriors! lol
angelmarine1292 1 year ago
EPIC ENDING IS EPIC!
spleefrog9 1 year ago
@spleefrog9 your a fag
21boxhead 1 year ago
@21boxhead wow....u worked on that all night, didnt u? good 4 u. now im going to go live my life...but u just keep going, you'll find someone who cares about what u say. its not me, though. PEACE!!!
spleefrog9 1 year ago
@spleefrog9 but you cared to reply right??
21boxhead 1 year ago
@21boxhead hahaha....u got me on that one. yes but only enough to reply. that was good. have a good day :)
spleefrog9 1 year ago
fuckin beautiful
bonertron34 1 year ago
I thought dropships were not suppose to be destroyed. In mechwarrior 4 they were blowing up dropships left and right
Shadowblindx 1 year ago
Nope, only jumpships are off limits. Dropships are really just shuttles.
mst3k4evur 1 year ago
...wha? Is it just me, or isn't one of the mechwarriors missing? Was it... Casey? The talkative joker guy?
matohibiki 1 year ago
this is 1 of 2 endings for this game lol
TJDFlinn 1 year ago
Amazing ending to an amazing game. Too bad they undid it with Black Knight.
sunderking 1 year ago 3
@sunderking wack ending but ok game black knight had starship trooper endiing
21boxhead 1 year ago
is the ship at the ending a dropship or jumpship?
77shadowknight 2 years ago
It's a Leopard-class Dropship, capably of carrying only 5 'Mechs.
You can tell the difference easily between Jumpships and Dropships - Jumpships have solar sails
gribae 1 year ago
@gribae Also jumpships are hella bigger...
And are poorly armed from what i saw...
But since im not a huge fan of the mechwarrior series and i only played the first and second mechassault plus the second mechwarrior (wich's weird controls distasted me at the time) sooo yeah...
Mechwarrior 4 is supposedly going to be free for download soon...
Anyone has a a heads up ?
hydremajor 1 year ago
Yeah, they are much larger and very poor in the weapons department. And because they are so rare (none since the Star League era) there is an unwritten law that no-one should attack and destroy them - even the Clans enforce this rule.
Don't base MechWarrior solely on the games - try reading the BattleTech books they are much better and give more feel to the scale of things.
gribae 1 year ago
@hydremajor really how where were they 3inches tall? :D
21boxhead 1 year ago
yeah you are right
kilikolo56 2 years ago
Horrible ending, and not characteristic of the Mechwarrior FASA series brutality. Mechwarrior 2 and MW2 Mercenaries intros got it perfect.
benfirst 2 years ago
What a low-budget crap show.
adam45011 2 years ago
wtf? the steiner have to be driven out? House Steiner and Dragons Fury have been my favorite armies since i started BattleTech
KireektheAndroid 2 years ago
Because Victor is the true air to teh throne not Katrana
Victors forces are called Davion Loyalists
While Katrenas Are called Stiner loyalists
But both still bear the Stiner-Davion name.
After the Cival war the two sides are united again........ I think.
I.
77shadowknight 2 years ago 2
Actually no, after deposing Katrina, Victor decided that politics were just too much work and that the divisions between the Lyran Alliance (House Steiner) and the Federated Suns (House Davion) had become too great, so he placed Peter Steiner-Davion in charge of the Lyran Alliance and Yvonne Steiner-Davion in charge of the Federated Suns and dissolved the Federated Commonwealth (the nation the Federated Suns and Lyran Commonwealth had combined to form). Victor is not well liked among the fans.
bobdolepwns 2 years ago
After the Civil War the Fed Com was united for a short time before splitting again into the Lyran Alliance and the Federated Suns again
Daycrist 2 years ago
y does the palace that u attack in game look nothing like the one in the intro?
CMDRFandragon 2 years ago
I always did like Elise, She was probably my
favorite character in the game to bad that this was the only role that the actress that played her seemed to have,according to Imdb anyway.
Anyways super cheesy yet super cool ending.
Coolkillerbear 2 years ago 3
I liked all the characters in this game more so then MW4 mercs....Castle, Spectre....aaaalll those people in that game hav annoying ass voices, Castle esspecialy
CMDRFandragon 2 years ago
yes, this one did seem..too "i am going to be like victor and just total ignore WHY i fought...............no, shut up i'm good so i'm doing this"....the "bad" ending is "i'm doing as everyone said...get the fucking mechs, why am i evil? because my moron sister went into a raid blind?!....well fuck hang me out to dry i didn't go on a suicide run to save her possibly stil alive ass. Then in the black knights your a total D bag.
nikku9000 2 years ago
I found this ending incredibly unsatisfying, I ended up reloading to get the other one. The whole GAME is about Ian taking his fathers throne and for the -good ending- to deprive him of that is stupid.
The bad ending doesn't even seem tragic. Nobodys at all bothered you let your sister die except mechkeeper willy.
ErisTheGoddess 2 years ago
and based on Mw4 Black Knights its the Evil ending that actually happened...Ian let his sister die and all hell broke loose..lolz
CMDRFandragon 2 years ago
no the good ending happen then Ian offed his sister and Throned himself.
LeaderoftheFates 2 years ago 2
Bahhhh Free Birthers... Long live the Clans
TheUnNerved 2 years ago
Bahhhh, Trashborn....Long live Jade Fal-
Oh, wait...
Kemonokami 2 years ago 2
GAH!!!..DAVIONS!
where is my second sword of light and my 2nd legion of vega army company at!!!!
fucking there the "elves" of battletech... everything is pretty and good for them.
ill take the DCMS anyday
"Hail to the Dragon!"
broadkil 2 years ago
hurray for FMV!
mager56723 2 years ago
i never liked this ended, I always wanted some bad ass mech battle and like my character dying and becoming a martyr
Pinesol23 2 years ago 4
there''s coming a new mechwarrior game not 5 but al whole ****ing reboot yeaaaaahhhhhhhhh!
keyter10 2 years ago 3
Long live BATTLETECH!!!!!!!!!!!
ARMOROID5000 2 years ago 29
Wow, this brings back memories, its been a long time since ive played this game
saviordd1 2 years ago 4
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95% of teens would cry if they saw the Jonas Brothers at the top of a skyscraper about to jump. Copy and paste this EVERYWHERE if you are in the 5% that would shout "Jump"
ErAsEdDiSc 2 years ago
THis game is awesome hehe...have played the campaign like 7 times now. For one reason or another the Palace lvl always gives me a hard time....and its amazingly annoying when u tell ur dudes to attack somethng and they dick around and dance, I charge into battle thinkin my guys r w/ me and they are prancing around 500m behind me...its like WTF, haha
CMDRFandragon 2 years ago 3
Check out MechWarrior Living Legends... the seires is not dead.
Stevo5000X 3 years ago
I am not great at these games, but I worked hard for just this ending... only to have Black Knight turn everything on its head. Rather annoying that.
RifterBlade 3 years ago
It all went down hill from their. It follows the good ending but yet it's like the bad ending.
BlackHawk38 2 years ago
I meant published not made.
Sam39150 3 years ago
Great Game though the acting could of been better, but then again, this was made by Microsoft rather than HollywooD.
Sam39150 3 years ago
Yeah, no kidding. Apparently Microsoft couldn't afford a "boom mic" either. You can barely understand what the hell they're saying. They should've been able to fix some of it in editing, but they didn't appear to even bother with that. Not to mention the fact that the [cinematics] music sounds like it was that canned "B" movie synthesized crap that they always use in bad Sci-Fi flicks.
The intro CGI was awesome, while the ending was a total let down.
User8571 3 years ago 14
Good story, just needed better movie editing equipment, and some better actors.
BlackHawk38 2 years ago 2
@User8571 they just couldn't be fucked to use it
metroidsax1 10 months ago
@User8571 The ending rocked! Or at least the good ending did. The bad ending where the sister dies is awful. I always saved the sister.
SuperWunderwaffen 7 months ago
@SuperWunderwaffen As did I. Played 4 times, saved 4 times. Good job kid :)
MsGunMetal 1 week ago
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Cheese factor on HIGH
valiumsummer 3 years ago 22
@valiumsummer lol agreed
superpsilocybin 1 year ago
Hahah I got the other ending. Of which i believe is canonical.
OverwatchSniper 3 years ago
yeh mate the other others is what the expansion is based on i think
i got throught he game using both endings i felt like a prick though with the other ending
having katrina shot by firing squad while i knew i coulda took the palace
AlienFirefox 3 years ago
Yeah I felt like a dick too :(
OverwatchSniper 3 years ago
hard to not
AlienFirefox 3 years ago
wow.... the acting sucked balls. I think WING Commander: Prophecy was one of the best "cutscene" games of the 90s..... if ur stuck in the 90s, check that one out. Mark Hamill is on it. haha
InNicksMind 3 years ago
god the acting is terrible
mantislayer 3 years ago 2
i kicked ass at this game!
gasflame62 3 years ago
The Clans are superior to these freebirth scum always.
Loki2416 3 years ago
LONG LIVE DAVION!!!! *kicks steiner ass in vulture*
Lordredratson 3 years ago 2
Maulers are the best and WTF ur all confusing me Ive only played mercs there as no storyline in that just shooting ppl i killed stiener whoever he is
spamman343 3 years ago
I miss the live action cutscenes from the 90's.
FaronCuca 3 years ago 2
I don't!
Stantzs 3 years ago
Or from 2000. FMV was long out of favor by the time they did this, it was already a joke.
aristonkyle 3 years ago
So . . . whatever happens to Casey?
hobyboy07 3 years ago
I guess you're right, they didn't show Casey in this clip. In MW4: Black Knight, Casey Nolan becomes the leader of a cadet training school, and you have to kill him before killing Ian Dresari in the next mission. It was my favorite mission because I hated Casey and it's fun to try and kill as many cadets as possible.
raby760 3 years ago
I HATED that they didnt continue off this ending instead of the other one... making Ian and all of Omega Lance EVIL? NO! It's retarded that they demolshed house Davion like that... Black Knight should not have been made like it was...
MW4 was amazing, and we need a MW5!
garfield749 3 years ago 3
Ian turned evil. u had to kill like his right hand man or him in mercenaries. i liked how they used some live actionish stuff. there were so many different endings for this like his sister died etc.
MCPOJohn 3 years ago
Down with jingoistic Davion propaganda! Long live House Stiener!
DougGlendower 3 years ago
No they should have showed us a nipple!
YtothemuddafukinT 3 years ago 3
They should have made Black Knight continue from this ending instead - Ian could have been hiring the Black Knights to help him drive out the Steiners. That would have made a WAY better storyline. And Casey and Jules were really cool, having to kill them in Black Knight is retarded.
ogremagus 3 years ago 3
the best one is daishi :D
ArminJung 3 years ago
no way MadCat MKII wipes the floor with it
PhoenixDaga 3 years ago 2
Atlas & live hot sis > Daishi
vince2682 3 years ago 2
i loved this game because the acting was sooo terrible it was fun!! and the gameplay was great@
ECSit 4 years ago
This was my fav ending. I played through this game with the other ending. (Where you get the better 'Mechs and armor, weaps and other stuff, over saving Ian's sis's life.)I find it ironic, that you can kill Ian Drisari in MW4: Mercs? OR was it Black Knight? OR Vengance? I don't remember.
SplendidChimp 4 years ago
aye i think the other game is based off Ian getting the better mechs and stuff instead of saving his sister.
MiniChiken 4 years ago
It was in Black Knight where you have to kill Ian. I seriously wish they continued the storyline from this ending instead.
Anthuz777 3 years ago
Yeah, It's too bad Mw5 was cancelled in 2003.
SplendidChimp 3 years ago
Why did they cancel it??? it so typical for great series, movies or games alike.
EmberBurn333 3 years ago
i use to play arcade vertion of mw4:v it was a vr game
ravinsnest 4 years ago
i was disappointed w/ the ending.....
79camaro454 4 years ago 4
heh, if you install MechCommander 2 they mention this planet, i think it's Kentares IV... they mention the Dresaris are in need of Mercs
pendraco2000 4 years ago
sappy
smartnerd 4 years ago
Yes, the acting was pretty mediocre, but you have to admit, the graphics/background images are really nice.
PlanckLimit 4 years ago 2
Actually the background and compositing are also just as mediocre...
BasketQase 4 years ago
Compared to other games in 2000, MW4 had some pretty good graphics and videos. I would really like to see what could be done on a MechWarrior 5 with today's graphical improvements.
PlanckLimit 4 years ago
Sorry, I was kinda in a mood when I wrote my last comment. For the kind of budget games typically had in 2000, it's not bad. The wide shot of the whole hall before they start talking is pretty good. The rest of the shots just have some lighting mismatches between the background and the actors that make it hard to believe the people are actually in that room and not just pasted on to a background picture.
BasketQase 4 years ago
The acting was sorta crappy, But this game is pretty good.
scolen3 4 years ago 2