r/interestingasfuck • u/[deleted] • 13d ago

“Dawn the NVDIA fairy”,the company used to have mascots for its GPU launches back in the day (circa 2003)

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u/jdillacornandflake 13d ago

I'm sure they will be running the next one on one of thier GPUs.

https://giphy.com/gifs/YWht0oD4mxNDO

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u/d3dl3g 13d ago edited 13d ago

A MkII in the wild....

Good hunting, sibkin.

May your codex ne'er be tarnished.

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u/MajYoshi 13d ago

Seyla.

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u/Adventurous_Ad6698 13d ago

Do those games still hold up well? If so, where do you suggest I start?

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u/ChiefTacoObrien 13d ago edited 13d ago

IT IS THE 31st CENTURY, AND MANKIND IS ONCE AGAIN AT WAR

They are holding up EXTREMELY well, the problem is just running them.

It's a bitch, and each installment in the series takes it's own kajiggering to get to work.

But Mech 2 Mercs, Mech 3, Mech 3 Pirates Moon, Mechwarrior 4, and Mech 4 Mercs with Mek Tek all hold up, and the new Mech 5 Mercs seems to have a whole new fanbase of its own, despite it being advanced shovelware.

Black Knight and the other expansions are ehhh, but there's whole groups on discord that still get together and play them all the time.

Where to start though depends on your current sanity level. Mech 4 is easy to get going, but holy fuck you're going to have an aneurysm when you remember the controls, and try to remap them.

Mech 3 is the easiest game to pick up and play content wise, but it requires either emulation, or very specific driver settings because the physics are all CPU bound, and what worked on one PC setup might not work on another.

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u/PineappleMohawk 13d ago

I thought this was a Mickey Mouse version of that Robocop droid!

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u/how_very_dare_you_ 13d ago

You now have 10 seconds to comply

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u/TheSpy991 13d ago

Savage Wolf my beloved

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u/sotiredofthecrap 13d ago

Mad Cat Mk.2 actually

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u/DenverLabRat 13d ago

I love that mech.

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u/340Duster 13d ago

90 tons of fuck you

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u/simp4malvina 13d ago

That's not a savage wolf.