Crispy™ Battletech: The Crescent Hawk's Inception

[Agesilaus]

Battletech is a great universe that has been around for a long time. However, they only made 1 computer RPG: The Crescent Hawk's Inception.

Here's an introduction to the first hour or so of this great game. It has held up well over the last 30+ years, and it remains one of the better CRPGs out there.





EDIT: Also, I just realised that I used the inbuilt webcam mic instead of my (slightly better) alternative mic. Oh well, enjoy the shit audio quality. If I make another episode I'll use the proper mic.

 

[tindrli]

i prefer image lets plays so ill pass

 

[octavius]

I enjoyed the game back in the days, but using a pirated copy I was not able to complete it.
When I tried to replay it 5+ years ago I couldn't stomach the real time combat.

 

[ValeVelKal]

i prefer image lets plays so ill pass

http://crpgaddict.blogspot.com/2012/03/game-xx-battletech-crescent-hawks.html

 

[Inspectah]

I wanna follow your Channel to help a fallow old nerd out, but I may not have the time in the next few weeks to watch fuckall

Now, I've heard that if I follow someone but don't actually watch the content I may be fucking with the channel's visibillity, that true?

 

[Agesilaus]

I wanna follow your Channel to help a fallow old nerd out, but I may not have the time in the next few weeks to watch fuckall

Now, I've heard that if I follow someone but don't actually watch the content I may be fucking with the channel's visibillity, that true?

Thanks, I'm not trying to grow that channel so it's all good. I just use it as an easy way to host and link videos, the views come from outside of YouTube. If people want to support my hobby projects, I have a site (antiquitystudio.com) that links to games and other things.

I'm not sure how the algorithm currently works on YouTube. It seems every so often there's a big shakeup and people complain about radical changes in viewing numbers.

I'm not going to make another video of this playthrough, although I'm vaguely tempted to make a video where I show how to get the urbanmech.

 

[RobotSquirrel]

This game is brilliant and it sort of disappointed me that PDX's battletech wasn't an attempt to replicate it instead it was an attempt to bring the tabletop over. I always felt that Battletech worked better as a pure CRPG anyway because it correctly captures the non-mech elements better than any other game.
I think the most impressive thing about it is that its an Open World Mech game, you jump in your mech drive around the world map doing quests for people and customising your lance along the way. Its the only Mechwarrior/Battletech game to have done that.

Very impressive for an 80s game. The reason why I started playing it was because I had just finished Mines of Titan and noticed that this game was very similar and I'd already played Wasteland so that wasn't an option lol.

 

[Agesilaus]

This game is brilliant and it sort of disappointed me that PDX's battletech wasn't an attempt to replicate it instead it was an attempt to bring the tabletop over. I always felt that Battletech worked better as a pure CRPG anyway because it correctly captures the non-mech elements better than any other game.
I think the most impressive thing about it is that its an Open World Mech game, you jump in your mech drive around the world map doing quests for people and customising your lance along the way. Its the only Mechwarrior/Battletech game to have done that.

Very impressive for an 80s game. The reason why I started playing it was because I had just finished Mines of Titan and noticed that this game was very similar and I'd already played Wasteland so that wasn't an option lol.

Oh man, mines of titan, I played that around the same time too. In fact, I think Crescent Hawk's Inception and Mines of Titan were sold together at one point as part of a pack of four games. At least, I know my father bought Crescent Hawk's Inception that way, but i don't recall how we got Mines of Titan other than that it was around the same time.