I actually did read the entire review, and I will admit, I did misread that part. That is my bad. And, as I said, I agree with your comment about the story for the campaign.Here's the caveat though. You don't mention any of the small events that can occur while you're jumping from planet to planet. During one event, you can have an engineer complain to you that people are trying to go swimming in water tanks. One of the upgrades for the Argo is to invest in a pool. A follow up story involves some of your pilots going skinny dipping and it gives you an opportunity to chastise them, or let it slide. I found some of those small little anecdotes to be quite interesting and funny. I also wonder if you've tried Flashpoint?I'm not going to say the story is still anything fantastic, but there are small gems here and there. That said, the story is not the focus of Battletech, and expecting Battletech to have the same level of story as Shadowrun considering Shadowrun is an RPG is silly.Then there's the difficulty. You talk about the game being easy later on, but there are ways to make the game infinitely harder. You can decrease the amount of money you receive, require more parts to build a mech, etc. Yet you do not mention this.You clearly wrote this review with the intention of bashing it because it wasn't an RPG. From your introduction: "It is pure tactical strategy with little in the way of RPG elements." I could just quote the whole intro, but I think this line sums up your entire thought process.That is what I found to be juvenile.Of course it has little in the way of RPG elements! It's not an RPG! You say so yourself right there!And who cares if Harebrained made Shadowrun first? That has nothing to do with anything. That's like like getting pissed off at Baldur's Gate for not being like Shattered Steel. Bioware made Shattered Steel first, therefore shouldn't everything that followed be just like it? (Also, small piece of trivia, but Shattered Steel was a MechWarrior clone, guess what franchise MechWarrior is from?)Does that honestly make sense to you?Also, the game is listed in steam under "Strategy", and if you pay attention to the most popular tags for the game, you'll notice that RPG is not among them. You can find tons of games on steam with an RPG tag slapped on them for something as simple as being able to choose left or right. Hell, Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy is labelled as an RPG.
