^if you like aoundtracks, play Crypt of the Necrodancer. It's a mixture of DDR, rogue like and you find different weapons on each level. It's also pretty tough sometimes because your attacks and movement have to match the music.

I'm probably gonna cop Armored Core 4 very soon btw so if it sucks I'm gonna tell the Nazis that you're hiding Jews in your closet.

I would suck so bad at that, but it does look very fun. I'll grab it sooner or later.

Cool, but don't judge it before you've given it a few hours. There's a fairly steep learning curve. At least at first, it will seem that way.

I know mech games aren't known for always being the most user friendly and if it turned out to be Gundam Dynasty Warriors I'd be pretty disappointed no matter how much I love Gundam Dynasty Warriors.

I think you know what you're getting into then. When I first played these games, the mech building gave me more trouble than the actual missions. The interface hates you. I got used to it, but at first, I was scratching my head quite often.

The mech building is what I'm looking forward to possibly more than actual combat. I love crafting and building and customizing ****. I'm half tempted to look up builds on the internet to see what's awesome and fun but will most likely not to keep it fresh.

If you get really into it, you can easily spend much more time building and saving mech designs (with custom paint jobs and names, of course) than on the missions. If you build the right mech for the job, most missions can be over in 5 minutes.

I'd definitely recommend coming up with your own designs. It's where a lot of the fun lies. I like both building mechs that are made specifically to deal with certain types of missions or even one specific mission, but it's also a lot of fun to build more wacky designs, just to see if you can win with it.

How deep is the customization? Can I do it RPG style and essentially create specific mech classes that can be viable if played correctly? Or am I just figuring out how to make a mech shoot the best?

Incredibly deep. There are all sorts of equipment that makes the mech behave differently and all these things can be combined.

You can build a slow mech that turns poorly, aims poorly, but packs a punch and has all sorts of missile defences. A mech that's all about long range auto aiming or maybe a mech built for strafing around with mid ranged guns. It's not only the weapons and movement related units (legs, boosters) that affects how your mech plays. It's also targeting computers, energy generators and varying sorts of special equipment like scanners and lock-on scramblers.

There's a huge amount of freedom in how you combine these things, but also a lot of tradeoffs you have to make, since your machine can only carry so much weight and euqipment burns varying degrees of energy and weapons have quite limited ammo.

You can take your own play style into consideration, while also trying to figure out an approach that would work well for a mission that's giving you trouble. The solutions I found for tricky missions will probably differ from yours.

*says **** it and places Amazon order*