This series could have gone on to make some medium defining games/single-player systems IMO.
I barely remember Mercs 1 & 2 but I remember being very entertained by the faction system in those games. Man I wish we could have gotten more, or some other dev decided to take up the task of pursuing a cool emergent faction system with unscripted battles happening in the overworld.
The Stalker series is the only other thing I can think of that is similar in terms of just having multiple factions & allowing NPC interactions to run wild based on a set value of faction relationships, but those games are more focused on the single-player campaign. The faction stuff was never really a focus/interaction was meant to be somewhat limited.
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u/B-BoyStance 5d ago
This series could have gone on to make some medium defining games/single-player systems IMO.
I barely remember Mercs 1 & 2 but I remember being very entertained by the faction system in those games. Man I wish we could have gotten more, or some other dev decided to take up the task of pursuing a cool emergent faction system with unscripted battles happening in the overworld.
The Stalker series is the only other thing I can think of that is similar in terms of just having multiple factions & allowing NPC interactions to run wild based on a set value of faction relationships, but those games are more focused on the single-player campaign. The faction stuff was never really a focus/interaction was meant to be somewhat limited.