Anyone play the Front Mission games? I was considering pic related, or number 4.
Definitely in the mood for a turn based strategy game, and robots seems cool.
Haven't played any of them besides 4. It can get kind of grindy at times, but its still pretty good. 7.5-8/10 would play again.
3 and 4 are great, you can't go wrong with either. 3 has two unique campaigns and a whole lot of content, 4's campaign is nowhere as in depth and constantly has you switching back and forth between 2 groups (which is admittedly pretty frustrating since the two teams have pretty different skill sets), but it has a fantastic combat system that is probably one of the best ever seen in a srpg. Seeing 3 of your characters attack in unison is incredibly satisfying.
>>330612026
Love them.
Don't rule out 1 (on DS). Most people start Front Mission with 3, but the tactical depth is totally there, and it is really nice getting to field 10 mechs instead of FM3's 5
FM3 is based.
You make one arbitrary choice at the beginning and you get a totally different storyline for the entire rest of the game.
>>330613960
Emma route best route.
USN
USN
USN
>>330612026
3 is really great. I really enjoy being able to capture enemy mechs.
Couldn't get into 1 or 4 though desu.
>>330615903
emma route is bad end nigga, the sister route everybody alives.
this game also one of yearly replay in my psp.
>>330616264
Kazuki being able to bang his sister doesn't really make up for the fact that you end up supporting the villains at every single turn, preserve the OCU, murder countless freedom fighters, and leave the sexy non-sister woman a vegetable. Aside from the DHZ still being around, Emma's ending is by far the better ending.
Also you halo jump into American Capital Building, and that's rad.
REEEEEEEEE
OP here, got Front Mission 3, any pointers?
>>330617108
>not knowing this could be fun under special circumstances
gather friends
"no op parts"
"no health pickups"
>>330617634
Try to capture enemy Wanzers by killing their pilots
>>330617634
>play your characters to their strength's (obviously)
>always opt for unit based strategies and work as a group to take out one enemy or a smaller group at a time
>>330617634
Try not to leave anybody too underleveled and not have completely garbage equipment. You're going to be forced to use all the characters at one point or another.
>>330617634
Salvo is broken
>>330618031
>* much smaller group
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One tactic that works well for is fishing or to use a lanky speed type mech to lure in a single enemy Wanzer. Then pincer attack it when it came in range of my heavy hitters or better yet, long range mechs.
>>330617634
Give everyone one weapon type and one shield. No exceptions ever.
"RoF I" is a skill you get from the best friend character's default Wanzer, stack this shit on every machine gun or shotgun user you have.
Melee Wanzer use Stun Punch, Eject Punch and Shield Bash I.
Missile Wanzers and Rifle Wanzers use Target Pilot I.
I didn't played much of FM3 because I was emulating it on my shitty Pentium 4 like 5 years ago. Emulated Front Mission and its a pretty great mecha SRPG.
FM3 is easily the worst in the series. Anyone else is either blinded by nostalgia or has never played the other games.
5≥ 2>4=1>>>3.
>>330619376
>>330617634
>RoFUP
>RoFUP
>RoFUP
Congratulations you win.
>>330619541
It's a massive step backwards from 2 in every single way, only uses it's (admittedly nice) gimmick well for 3/4 stages tops, and features the worst story with an almost insufferable cast.
Nostalgia or not playing any other game in the series is the only reason why anyone would say it's better than any other game in the series, let alone the best. FM5 is the undisputed best game in the series.
>>330617634
Rifles are garbage and belong in the trash.
>>330612026
I beat 3, 70% through 4, 20% 1.
I can say 3 has the best "feel", looks and is more colorful in general. But the story is godawful. AWFUL.Rifles are useless here, don't even bother
4 has pretty good gameplay, smoother animations and a very...complex story. Not good, but not bad. Some characters are beyond bland, and the game is VERY gray. Like, everyone is wearing gray, every level is gray, every wanzer is gray and even the fucking menus are gray.
1 is old school. Can't say much else.
>>330619926
And a huge part of what makes 5 good is fucking nostalgia for the series in the first place. I don't think I would have liked the game half as much as I did if I had not played the other 4, because it isn't like the story it tells is that good without knowledge of those games, and the characters are mostly lifeless shit because of how recruitment works.
It definitely refined 4's combat but I don't think its perfect by any means either.
>>330620573
FM5's gameplay shits so hard on every other game that even if everything else about the game was bad, it'd still be the best.
Luckily it also has the best OST, best animations, most amount of content, and highest mission variety.
>>330619541
Except he's correct. Few Wanzers and all ugly as fuck save for returning models, an unlikable and completely ineffectual cast, a plot that has so much filler that both routes could be condensed into 20 missions and yet each arc is still rushed, YO DAWG I HEARD LIKE ANIME TROPES, LMAO METHANE WANZER, only 5 units, Wanzers are divided into archetypes making mixing and matching pointless, entire game becomes a series of coin flips as to whether or not high level skills or skill links will activate (also a problem in 2), too slow to be as quick and easy fun as 1, too shallow to be as interest as the rest.
>>330620864
>only 5 units
4 actually. The enemy count is also drastically reduced from previous games to compensate for this, so every mission is over very quickly with little thought involved.
Certain things about the ranking system are also ass backwards. Why I'm apparently a worse player for one unit suffering 25% damage but a good player when four units are hit for 15% damage is just silly.
>>330620832
Does it actually have the most content? 4 has a much longer campaign, more Wanzers and more weapons.
Survival Mode is randomly generated, and there are less sims, and they aren't as good either.
So 3 is shit? got it
>>330620573
Was 5 every translated? I can't into moonrunes
>Front Mission DS
Yay or nay?
>>330621345
Only if you've played any other FM. It's not a bad game, but goddamn is it the worst FM.
out of the 70 hour campaign, easily 60 is filler missions
>>330621440
Best version of 1. UCS campaign is fantastic.
>>330621409
Yup. The actual translation is pretty jank for a few reasons, especially some of the later bits, but it's all there and it looks professional.
>>330621605
Time to fucking look for it
>>330621440
Yay, nothing like abusing Short to wipe out the final boss in one attack.
>>330621250
>4 has a much longer campaign, more Wanzers and more weapons.
Really doubting FM4 has more stuff than FM5 considering you think 29 missions is "much longer" than 27.
>>330621345
Its not shit at all. I mean its nowhere as good mechanically as 4&5 but neither are nearly any other srpgs.
>>330621795
Well I also misremembered the mission count, so there's that.
can i play front mission 3 on ppsspp?
>>330621971
4 just feels a lot longer due to the constant team switching. Every time you finally get used to one group they make you play the other.
>>330622008
No.
>>330616994
>preserve the OCU
the japs and mc is in the Oceanic Cooperative Union dumb ass. fuck off USN and DHZ
sieg OCU
5 > 2 > 3 > 4 > 1 > shit > evolved
every game in the series is worth playing except for evolved
>>330617108
>No one pronounces wanzers with v
Flares up my autism like no one's business
>>330622362
>the japs and mc is in the Oceanic Cooperative Union
Not by the end of the Emma path they aren't. The OCU is the most corrupt political entity in the FMverse, and a sinking ship besides, and Japan wanted the hell off.
>>330622434
>Front Mission 2: Skating Simulator that high
>Front Mission 4: Learn to Link Faggot Edition that low
>>330623043
FM4 has shit-tier pacing, dropped it at the sniper wanzer battle on the bridge
>>330623043
Also,
>No Front Mission: Gun Hazard at all
>>330623181
>dropped the game not even 1/5th of the way in
Opinion nullified.
If I just drop into 4 or 5 will I be lost?
>>330623181
You mean before Links? The cornerstone of the game's combat?
>>330623895
4, no, as long as you can keep up with all of the names.
5, kind of, they just gloss over a lot of core elements.
>>330619926
I just remember 2 from how incredibly long it was due to the fact every time you attacked it was a mini cutscene.
Does anyone have a mirror for the Front Mission 5 translation patch? I could just download a pre-translated iso, but it wouldn't be ideal.
Front Mission 4 is definitely gray.
>>330625063
Holy fuck frontmission.info went down. Sorry, I got no idea.
Emulating Front Mission 4 and I've got these lines going through my text windows. Any idea what's wrong?
>>330625727
Nothing, that's part of the UI.
>>330626046
No it isn't.
>>330626046
Nah, if I run at native resolution it goes away.
>>330625063
https://mega.nz/#!KN9GWSRQ!yGv6Pv8I9IktUrME5mki8DSXaH5TdUCiy9iOB3GxGM0
Look up how to patch the iso on gamefaqs
aw shit front mission thread
