Mecha is a man's romance! Tencent netease set off mecha fever, ushered in the "mecha year"?

Hello everyone, here is a small pan group. When it comes to mecha, I believe that everyone's mind will immediately come up with a large number of familiar faces, such as mobile warrior Gundam, the New Century Evangelion, Super Robot Wars, etc. But these are more well-known foreign IP. However, these are more well-known foreign IP, think about it, the domestic temporarily and what can not get out of the mecha type of IP, and mecha type of game is more than a handful of.

But most of the boys, in fact, have a mech dream of their own, when I was a child watching TV robots, will fantasize that one day you can sit in the cockpit in the battlefield to kill the enemy. After growing up, the assembled model has become a must-have collection for many mecha fans.

On April 1, senior mecha fan Guo Weiwei announced on Weibo that XISHANJU is about to release a mysterious mecha game, and when this news started, many people took this as an April Fool's Day joke, because XISHANJU had no experience in the development of mecha games, most of which are fairy games, and mecha games in the country, is also a niche subject. The mecha genre is also a niche subject in China. XISHANJU has a tradition of announcing some news on April Fool's Day, which is true or false by the players themselves, so many people didn't take the news seriously at first.

Until June 6, when XISHANJU's microblogging company announced that its self-developed mecha sci-fi game Code B.R.E.A.K. would soon be on display at E3, we didn't know that mecha fan Wei-Wei Kuo was playing for real this time.

But the game has not yet released more news, from the video captured at E3, this is a game with the same name, emphasizing the "destruction" of the game, the player can be synchronized in the multiplayer online mode to experience the scene of real-time destruction of the building, the destruction will follow the rules of physics, according to the different directions and types of attacks, present the The destruction will follow the rules of physics, with different levels and styles of performance depending on the direction and type of attack.

Overall, this is a bold attempt, as there weren't many mech type games in the country before, and it took a lot of courage for XISHANJU to try a niche title without this kind of development experience.

However, the small pan group found that "Code B.R.E.A.K" is not the only mecha type of game this year, on the contrary, this year, many manufacturers have begun to independent research and development of mecha type of game, including Tencent, NetEase, such a big factory, there is a hidden domestic game is about to enter the "mecha year" trend. "The first time I've seen this, I've seen a lot of people who are not interested in it.

The next small pan group will introduce you to these several domestic mecha games expected to be tested this year.

Metal Revolution is a new concept fighting game being developed by Tencent's NEXT Studios. The cyberpunk mecha theme with the first minimalist fighting operation design, bring a new battle game experience.

It can be seen that this is a 1V1 horizontal board fighting game similar to the King of Fighters, and from the information so far, the biggest selling point of this game is the good art style and excellent sense of combat, as well as cool mecha character design. The small pan group myself is very much looking forward to this game, in the horizontal board fighting game is basically the King of Fighters and Street Fighter ruled the situation, this hardcore mecha style fighting "Metal Duel" in the end will bring the player what new experience, will there be and usual different things, which are very worthy of looking forward to.

In the NetEase May 20 conference, NetEase announced a new action shooter handheld game with the theme of urban mecha - "Mobile City Alpha", compared to Tencent to do the hardcore style, this game to do more inclined to the secondary yuan some.

"Mobile City Alpha" is set in the near-future mobile city, a mysterious contest out of nowhere. You, piloting a mech, will join contestants representing various forces on a globally-visible stage and fight for the honor of being the champion.

From the current information, this game has two forms of mechs and people, players can switch in the course of the game, and in the two different modes, with different skills and advantages, very much a test of the player's combat ability.

This game NetEase walk or and its "forever seven days" the same way, through the form of anime style to attract secondary user groups, if you like Japanese mecha anime, I believe that will be attracted to this game.

This game from the strict sense, may not belong to the too pure mecha game, after all, this kind of nymph type of game more selling point lies in the people, rather than in the mecha. But this time Beili Beili made a better balance, this game in yesterday is also has opened the test, small pan group download play a little, found that inside the mecha elements are still very rich, according to the player's preferences, reassembling parts, according to the collocation can produce a variety of changes.

And the game's tactical requirements are still relatively high, the difficulty is not low. For Beeper, the secondary story background setting can already be said to be familiar, so the sense of immersion in the plot, on the whole, is still quite strong.

This game, for users who like both cute girls and mecha is simply double the pleasure.

Overall, in the past time, the emergence of so many niche themes of the same type of game at once, is not rare. So what exactly is the reason, so that domestic manufacturers have begun to hit the sci-fi mecha this theme idea? Small pan group personally feel that there should be the following reasons.

It is said that mecha is a man's romance, this is indeed not false. Every year, spend a lot of money on assembling models of mecha fans in the minority, and mecha type of game, can let players recognized is only a handful of foreign players are more popular "Super Robot Wars" series, "Mobile Suit Gundam" and other well-known IP derived from the game products, but not all of the games have been praised by the players.

In the view of the small pan group, the mecha type of players for the game is very picky, for example, "real Gundam Undisputed" in the eyes of Gundam fans belong to the praise and criticism, a lot of fans can not accept the mecha fighting style has been magically altered, because the Gundam has become a kind of culture, belongs to a kind of stereotypical thinking, if you do the thing a little bit differently, then he is not Gundam, but something else. It's something else.

The situation is different in China, where there are no well-known mecha IPs, and game makers can boldly set the style and tone of their mechs on their own, without worrying about clashing with players' perceptions. But there's also a downside to this, because without a well-known IP, the audience may be affected.

But the mecha player group's ability to pay is worth digging, domestic players want to play to the foreign mecha games, in many cases also suffer from language barriers and many other problems, thus falling into the dilemma of no mecha type of game to play. And now on the market specifically for female players dress up games are making a lot of money, and specifically for male groups more mecha type games are still to be developed land, I believe that many manufacturers are also holding this "earn men's money" idea to dig this piece of the subject matter of the reason.

At present, whether it's a handheld game or an endgame, the lack of subject matter has reached a very serious point, homogenization is very serious, and the main types are just a few, MOBA, Jedi survival, role-playing class, gun battle class.

So, in this case, the game makers continue to find new explosive game mode, this time science fiction mecha into the eyes of the major manufacturers. NetEase launched this year, "After Tomorrow" had driven a lot of manufacturers together with the launch of apocalyptic survival type of game, and this is now the major manufacturers have to bet on sci-fi mecha theme of the reason.

And there is a concept that must be mentioned, niche things do not mean that can not fire, for example, the domestic hard science fiction fans relatively speaking is also a niche group, in the spring of this year before the release of "Wandering Earth", no one can think of China's sci-fi movie can achieve such results, so everything still has to rely on the strength of the speak. As long as you make out the quality is too hard, you can certainly fire up.

All in all, this time the big manufacturers for science fiction mecha type of game pile of self-research, small pan group think it is a good thing, no matter in the end these games can not fire, this is secondary. This shows that the game makers in the current players more and more high demand, began to change the idea, no longer a brain research and development of skin games, and began to research and development of a number of niche subjects, which can make us later play to the game subject matter more rich and diverse, to avoid falling into a homogenization of the strange circle.

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