hades80 Posted December 20, 2003 Share Posted December 20, 2003 There's a new game, either coming out or already out (depending on your area), called One Must Fall: Battlegrounds. Its the sequel to One Must Fall 2097, or OMF2097, or simply 2097. It has 90 foot HARs battling in 3D enivorments. It has 8 bots to choose from, including Jaguar, Force, Pyros, Warlord, Katana, Mantis, Gargoyle, and Chronos. There are also 50 pilots to choose from and 12 arenas all with hazards in them. You can also battle with 16 other fighters on the same server. Its made by a small developing company called Diversions Entertainment (DE) which is based in Florida. You can go here to see previews of the bots and the arenas. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MxxCon Posted December 20, 2003 Share Posted December 20, 2003 i was beta tester of this game for over a year and i can tell you this game is not worth buying. the game is a major disapointed not worthy it's name. it's nothing like original OMF:2097 the only similarities is it's name and the look of some of the bots. it "looks" very nice..but that's the only good thing about this game. gameplay is absolutly horrible. it's nothing like a normal fighting game. from the screenshots you can see it's 3rd person view from behind. fighting is boring and awkward. game menus look like they are from 1998. loading times are unacceptably long for the size of arenas and amount of details in them. this game should've been the killer fighting game on pc. it could restore PC back to the king of fighting games, alas it miserably failed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Osiris Posted December 20, 2003 Share Posted December 20, 2003 ahh ONE MUST FALL 2097, how fun that game was. Good ol Pyro, ah nothing beats that bot.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+E.Worm Jimmy Subscriber¹ Posted December 20, 2003 Subscriber¹ Share Posted December 20, 2003 i was beta tester of this game for over a year and i can tell you this game is not worth buying.the game is a major disapointed not worthy it's name. what. that sucks. :( i had my hope up high for this one. fighting game for pc. :woot: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crazy@5$ Posted December 20, 2003 Share Posted December 20, 2003 wow, i remember that game! i kicked ass with pyros! i've been searching for that game (the original) and now i've found the name!! :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shrike Posted December 20, 2003 Share Posted December 20, 2003 hey everybody.... notice how i already made this thread a couple of weeks ago? guess how far it got? nowhere. https://www.neowin.net/forum/index.php?showtopic=123652 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kriz Posted December 20, 2003 Share Posted December 20, 2003 Looks pretty **** tbh Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crazy@5$ Posted December 20, 2003 Share Posted December 20, 2003 Hey look!!! i found the original!! http://www.dosgamesarchive.com/download/game/66 i'm gonna play it right now!! :happy: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sin-ergy Posted December 20, 2003 Share Posted December 20, 2003 lol .... well it's nice to see a fighting game on the pc :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MxxCon Posted December 20, 2003 Share Posted December 20, 2003 lol .... well it's nice to see a fighting game on the pc :) omf:bg is as much fighting game as nfl blitz is football simulator :rolleyes: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hades80 Posted December 22, 2003 Author Share Posted December 22, 2003 i was beta tester of this game for over a year and i can tell you this game is not worth buying.the game is a major disapointed not worthy it's name. it's nothing like original OMF:2097 the only similarities is it's name and the look of some of the bots. it "looks" very nice..but that's the only good thing about this game. I'm a current beta tester. You are wrong! :no: I don't know what build number you stop testing at, but a lot has changed since you drop out. Don't believe what this person says. It has a greate combo system. Its better then OMF 2097. You can have more then 2 players on the same screen. The demo is coming out soon (in a week or two). Download the demo and play it. Then you decide if the game is good or not. If you want back in the beta test, contact the apporiate people and see how much it has changed since you left. Until then, don't judge something that you don't know anything about. Remember the phrase, "Don't judge a book by its cover", do the same with this game. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MxxCon Posted December 22, 2003 Share Posted December 22, 2003 (edited) hades80, how about you eat your words? :crazy: regarding your post on here http://forums.omf.com/showflat.php?Cat=&Bo...97582&bodyprev= it's not nice to setup spamming compain on messageboards to advertise this game :angry: tell eeZee I DID NOT DROP OUT OF THE BETA TEST, so rest of this assumptions are incorrect. if you don't belive me i can show you copys of all the beta emails i recieved from Wayne Frazee. Xaronth, he told me what? :rolleyes: beside beta testing the game, i was also assigned to review it for an online gaming site. i was given RETAIL copy of the game. so whatever the issues game had during my beta test are irrelevant now becuase most of the boring gameplay elements exist in retail copy. this game did not "scare me off" like you put it just becuase it's different. in my beta testing experience i played enough 'different' games than you could possibly imagine and none of them "scared me off". it is nowhere near the original OMF. and it's definitely not better. yes, you can have more than 2 players on the same screen..i played against 5 other bots..big deal. it's nothing special in todays games. combos are uninspiring. just hit a bot, advance forward, and keep hitting it while it's in the air. i wouldn't call it greate combo system. if you miss, it takes like 2seconds to turn around..by that time other bot might run away to the other side of the arena. check out recent game w/ absolutly awesome fighting system: Prince of Persia. watching fights in this game is like watching choreographed gracefulness. movements flow and connect with each other, everything is dynamic, yet not dis-jointed. on the other hand OMF:BG is....clunky is the best word i can come up with right now. i wouldn't exactly expect huge bots to jump around and flip all over the place, but at the same time it's not realistic like MechWarrior/StarSiege games. this game stuck somewhere in between, and the way it is right now, it's not a good place to be. Don't believe what this person says. ask people on this msgboard whom they will belive more, me who's been here for a long time and people know my attitude toward things: i say how it is w/o holding back(i think ;) ) or you who joined this forum just to promote this game, a "fanatic" of this game, who will blindly follow it even if it's sure crap(i'm not saying it is), and says something like "we just have to make sure we have bg's back on other forums" on offical msgboard :no: plus you run OMF:BG fan site, and a member of a clan. ofcuase you will try to justify your investment of time no matter what it takes. btw, check out this "First Look" at isonews. http://www.theisonews.com/firstlook.php3?firstlookid=2061 this guy also feels that this game is..ungracefull, and falls far short of the OMF name. Edited December 22, 2003 by MxxCon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LitaQueenExtreme Posted December 22, 2003 Share Posted December 22, 2003 Well I for one wouldnt believe a word your saying no matter how long you have stuck around here... Firstly.. It mighta been wrong to come here and promote OMF BG in the first place.. But you beta tested you say?? Well I do now and have for a good while and I can tell ya OMF BG is better than 2097 in MANY ways... Just try the demo when it comes out and form your own opinion guys... 16 ppl kickin the **** outta eachother in one arena is utter coolness tho.. U musta popped out of the beta ages ago dude.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
threetonesun Posted December 22, 2003 Share Posted December 22, 2003 Well I for one wouldnt believe a word your saying no matter how long you have stuck around here...Firstly.. It mighta been wrong to come here and promote OMF BG in the first place.. But you beta tested you say?? Well I do now and have for a good while and I can tell ya OMF BG is better than 2097 in MANY ways... Just try the demo when it comes out and form your own opinion guys... 16 ppl kickin the **** outta eachother in one arena is utter coolness tho.. U musta popped out of the beta ages ago dude.. No way, it's better than an old DOS game! Wow! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nugg3t Posted December 22, 2003 Share Posted December 22, 2003 what is this, robots in a arena? oh man gimme a break. that game looks awful Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MxxCon Posted December 22, 2003 Share Posted December 22, 2003 nugg3t, this game "looks" good. but gameplay is on the weak side ok, another things regarding this thread http://forums.omf.com/showflat.php?Cat=&Bo...97582&bodyprev= this will not turn into me vs rest of you. i'm telling you my opinion of the game from playing it for over a year and a half of beta test and playing final retail copy of the game. so all your BS about me playing old version is nonsence. on the other hand i would think twice about blindly trusting "fanboys" from OMF msgboard since obviously they like the game for whatever reason and will say it's the best thing since the sliced bread. if a game is different doesn't mean it's bad, however in this case it does. wait and see for other reviews but i highly doubt this game will get over 75% Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toxicfume Veteran Posted December 22, 2003 Veteran Share Posted December 22, 2003 Heard quite a bit about this game, played a little of 2097 before. In all honesty I do think I have to go with MxxCon's view about this game..knowing his way of praising and criticising things, he seems to explain quite an clearly on why it isn't as good. I have 2 more friends who are in the beta and now they don't seem particularly excited themselves as they were in the beginning. Anyways despite all that I will try the demo ;) But from people's reviews so far it doesn't seem all that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
plasticparadox Posted December 22, 2003 Share Posted December 22, 2003 If the beta were to become leaked, then everyone could try it and see just how good/crappy it is... :whistle: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nugg3t Posted December 22, 2003 Share Posted December 22, 2003 nugg3t, this game "looks" good. but gameplay is on the weak sideok, another things regarding this thread http://forums.omf.com/showflat.php?Cat=&Bo...97582&bodyprev= this will not turn into me vs rest of you. i'm telling you my opinion of the game from playing it for over a year and a half of beta test and playing final retail copy of the game. so all your BS about me playing old version is nonsence. on the other hand i would think twice about blindly trusting "fanboys" from OMF msgboard since obviously they like the game for whatever reason and will say it's the best thing since the sliced bread. if a game is different doesn't mean it's bad, however in this case it does. wait and see for other reviews but i highly doubt this game will get over 75% yeah i know, "looks" arent everything. id rather play an amazing game, which dont have amazing graphics, then play a bad storyline game, with good graphics. although i dont really like fighting games, when i see something like virtual fighter 4 (which was amazing) or even tekken series, which have an amazing fighting system i can say, "hey, thats a good fighting game". Well I for one wouldnt believe a word your saying no matter how long you have stuck around here...Firstly.. It mighta been wrong to come here and promote OMF BG in the first place.. But you beta tested you say?? Well I do now and have for a good while and I can tell ya OMF BG is better than 2097 in MANY ways... Just try the demo when it comes out and form your own opinion guys... 16 ppl kickin the **** outta eachother in one arena is utter coolness tho.. U musta popped out of the beta ages ago dude.. did he just suscribe to neowin forums just to flame you? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sinkaro Posted December 22, 2003 Share Posted December 22, 2003 did he just suscribe to neowin forums just to flame you? Congratulations. You have proven you cannot read... Let me explain: LitaQueenExtreme = that person's name, therefore, SHE. That is exactly why none of you have the right to criticize. And she didn't flame him... What you people do not realize is that this game is unique. It is different from any other fighting game, and thus, it cannot be judged along the lines of games such as Tekken or Virtual Fighter, and especially not the 2D fighters of the past such as Mortal Kombat and Street Fighter. Let us start with the fighters. In other games, you pick a fighter with a predetermined attacks, speed, strength, etcetera. In OMF:BG, you pick your pilot, with his own stats (strength, speed and ability to take hits). And THEN you pick your highly-unique robot, whereas other games usually have similar fighters with similar movements. I could go on all night about the differences between the Jaguar and Pyros and Mantis, and then the redundantly similar Ryu and Ken. After you pick your fighter, you then have to deal with the other fighters... No, not other fighter. Not the cliche one-on-one, but rather fighters..... That is plural. You can have anywhere from the slightly uncommon duel, to the massive brawls of up to... Well, there is no real limit, but 16 is probably the largest safe number... This game is a sport. I'm not saying it's a sport game, I'm saying that the game is a sport. The robots in an arena fighting each other... It's just a sport in the OMF universe. You would know that if you took a moment to realize there is an actual storyline behind it. But I'd also like to point out that it IS a fighting game. Nobody should give a damn about a storyline in a fighting game... You fight, you kill (or in the case of robots, scrap), that's it. And another thing, the beauty of OMF is not the SP storyline, it's the multiplayer capability. The SP is there to practice, and get better so that you aren't utterly humiliated the second you take a step into MP (a concept that's difficult for anyone to grasp, unfortunately). I'm not a fanboy. I hate fanboys. I'm just a guy who thinks you're judging this game unfairly. It is true, I am a limited tester, but so what? You are a beta tester, and you seem to be acting like it is the worst piece of crap in the world, so why should I not be allowed to state openly that I'm not a fanboy? MxxCon, you're entitled to your own opinion, but do not enforce your ideals on these people. The demo will be out soon, direct them to, what you obviously believe, to be the worst game in existance and let them agree or disagree. But I think it only fair you first tell them to talk to one of those fools on the official board to teach them a few rules: 1. This game is unique. It aint Soul Calibur, it aint Tekken, and don't you expect it to be 2. It is not like the 100 FPS games out there, you actually have to attack somebody in this game, and you have to learn to do it well 3. It has a huge learning curve, so it takes a lot of practice... Like any other fighting game. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clide Posted December 22, 2003 Share Posted December 22, 2003 nice post sinkaro, I will probably give this game a try Congratulations. You have proven you cannot read... Let me explain: LitaQueenExtreme = that person's name, therefore, SHE you cant assume that someone is a female or a male just by their name, some guys call themselves queens. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
plasticparadox Posted December 22, 2003 Share Posted December 22, 2003 you cant assume that someone is a female or a male just by their name, some guys call themselves queens. Come on now, we don't need to hear your personal details... :p Just kidding. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toxicfume Veteran Posted December 22, 2003 Veteran Share Posted December 22, 2003 Congratulations. You have proven you cannot read... Let me explain: LitaQueenExtreme = that person's name, therefore, SHE.That is exactly why none of you have the right to criticize. And she didn't flame him... Way to generalize the entire community based on a few people's reply. :whistle: And just as clide said, how can you know what gender a person is from their nick. Anyways, that was a one of the few good reviews I have heard, but I still won't be convinced it's all that big until I try the demo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sinkaro Posted December 22, 2003 Share Posted December 22, 2003 (edited) I know Lita a girl because I know Lita. So do a few others here.... That is to say, the other "fanboys," as MxxCon states. Edited December 22, 2003 by Sinkaro Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toxicfume Veteran Posted December 22, 2003 Veteran Share Posted December 22, 2003 I know Lita a girl because I know Lita. So do a few others here.... That is to say, the other "fanboys," as MxxCon states. I know that you know. I am saying how do you expect others to know just from her nick. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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