GloryElron, on February 16 2013 - 09:32 PM, said:
Favorite flavor of mech
#101
Posted February 16 2013 - 09:43 PM
#102
Posted February 16 2013 - 09:48 PM
#103
Posted February 17 2013 - 01:38 AM
SW robots have a cardboard flavour, Gundams are cheap plastic, battlesuits are ok (but all that Battletech is too fantasy-like).
Hawken mecha are what we need. These look fitting in Hawken universe, not like "there should be mecha because it's cool".
#104
Posted February 20 2013 - 03:37 PM
I'm biased, I loved mechwarrior ever since I was 5 years old.
#105
Posted February 20 2013 - 04:33 PM
#106
Posted February 20 2013 - 04:43 PM
D20Face, on February 13 2012 - 05:15 PM, said:
Walkers are damn sexy. Tanks on legs man, tanks on legs.
I personally hate the Gundam Style humanoid mechs. Giant humanoid mechs are fine so long as they remain slow and heavy. That means none of that martial arts bullcrap you see in those weeaboo robot cartoons. Nimbleness is not a quality mechs should have. Fast, sure, mobile, sure, nimble, no.
Battle armors are fine, so long as they stay small enough to feel like armor and not weeb robots.
Everyone is entitled to their own style. There's no reason to bash on other's tastes. Although I agree with you that Gundam is maybe a little over the top, I do enjoy the Armored Core style of mechs with the shoulder mounted weapons and more fast paced fighting. Although unreasonable in terms of gaming, my favorite "mechs" are the Evangelion series.
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#108
Posted February 22 2013 - 05:25 AM
I must say, I'm loving Hawken's particular brand of mech design. It's much more functional-looking that most games and thanks to the awesome graphics engine the mechs really look like something you might see 20-30 years down the line.
Still difficult to put my finger on what sort of mech is my favourite, probably the armoured core approach: very humanoid style mechs but with an appreciation of the fact that they are still machines and don't have to look TOO human.
#109
Posted February 22 2013 - 01:05 PM
SutibanTanuke, on February 16 2013 - 08:48 PM, said:
Xuande, on January 18 2013 - 09:48 AM, said:
As for me, I always enjoyed the heavily realistic mech design depicted in Square Enix's Front mission series, while more humanoid then Hawken's designs, a similar design philosophy is quite apparent. Especially when the tallest mechs barely reach only rarely around 2 stories high. and in many cases are outclassed by a battalion of main battle tanks. another fun thing noted is the fact many mech designs sport wide or long feet with bulky and heavily reinforced legs, short mechanical arms, Wide torsos and minimalist head cameras, only a select few taking advantage of binocular vision. the designs are excellent in taking in account of the square cube law.
SutibanTanuke, on February 16 2013 - 08:48 PM, said:
Xuande, on January 18 2013 - 09:48 AM, said:
As for me, I always enjoyed the heavily realistic mech design depicted in Square Enix's Front mission series, while more humanoid then Hawken's designs, a similar design philosophy is quite apparent. Especially when the tallest mechs barely reach only rarely around 2 stories high. and in many cases are outclassed by a battalion of main battle tanks. another fun thing noted is the fact many mech designs sport wide or long feet with bulky and heavily reinforced legs, short mechanical arms, Wide torsos and minimalist head cameras, only a select few taking advantage of binocular vision. the designs are excellent in taking in account of the square cube law.
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#110
Posted February 28 2013 - 04:05 PM
Read as: VOTOMS, Heavy Gear, Nightmare Frame.
Humanoid
~5m tall, fast, dual drive systems (legs and rollers/treads)
Single pilot,
Stupid lots of guns, both hand held and hard mounted.
#111
Posted March 03 2013 - 03:46 AM
For more power armor style mecha, I like Masamune Shirow's designs a lot. The Landmates from Appleseed and the Tachikoma from Ghost in the Shell are really cool. He also puts a lot of though into how they would actually function, instead of just focusing on making them look cool. They are also much more tactical in their use, since in both Appleseed and Ghost in the Shell they are primarily used by police forces instead of being military machines.
And as much fun as having your mech be an unkillable juggernaught, I also like the idea of smaller, more agile designs like Heavy Gear. Gears are the king of the battlefield due to their high mobility and versatility instead of their firepower. This makes them more effective than tanks in most situations, even though they are not nearly as heavily armed or armored.
And even super robot style mecha can be cool, mostly for the sheer ridiculous awesomeness. Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann is one of my favorite animes, and the mechs in it are basically powered by believing in your self, but Gainax really managed to pull it off. And besides, who would say no to piloting a mech that uses a giant drill as its main weapon_
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