You know, I grew up playing Mechwarrior and I loved those games, still love mechs. But the Japanese mechas don't do much for me, especially the Gundams. The Neon Genesis Evangelions are the closest ones to cool.
Now, fighting in a Mech is my kind of military action! Sign me up and could I get some cybernetics installed with that order?
Oh, I'll be the first to admit. Seeing a mech use a sword ruins the illusion for me. I'm much more a 'weapons bolted to steel' kind of guy. I never could get into mechs that moved around rapidly in human-like fashions.
Battletech is great because it presents a future that's plausible, and potentially not far off from today's technologies.
Though I'm with UPSLynx here. Giant robot samurai fighting with swords just didn't quite click with me, either. I watched it, but still...
I guess I can understand how it would be intuitive to fight in a giant version of yourself, with two legs and two arms and all, but it still doesn't seem to make much feasible sense to me.
But I suppose being "realistic" is over-rated and isn't necessary to make a fun and entertaining viewing experience when it comes to space/futuristic scifi things. Hell, Nintendo was quite successful in bringing us furries in space fighters and Bungie with "ring-worlds". =P
Big fan of Battletech myself, played since MechWarrior2 and have even played a bit of the original games. I used to read the novels like crazy, bought up the mech readouts and various things game related but never got to play as I grew up in a non-geek area
Those pics of that Gundam had my jaw dropped and plenty of drool flowing. One day maybe it'll be plausible, but they try to make Tanks as low profile as possible for a good reason, they don't stack more on top to make it a bigger target. But technologies change and if a mech could be built with the agility as a Gundam or Veritech fighter then it'd liely be more feasible.
Realistic is relative, things we think are rediculous or just outright impossible may not be so in the future or even near future. We have an XOS powered armor suit that works great except batteries suck, they we can soon build a space elevator, or put a Dome over downtown Houston(thank you Mega Engineering!). I can't wait to see what the future holds, even though some of it is downright scary.
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Now, fighting in a Mech is my kind of military action! Sign me up and could I get some cybernetics installed with that order?
Battletech is great because it presents a future that's plausible, and potentially not far off from today's technologies.
Somebody had to shout it.
Though I'm with UPSLynx here. Giant robot samurai fighting with swords just didn't quite click with me, either. I watched it, but still...
I guess I can understand how it would be intuitive to fight in a giant version of yourself, with two legs and two arms and all, but it still doesn't seem to make much feasible sense to me.
But I suppose being "realistic" is over-rated and isn't necessary to make a fun and entertaining viewing experience when it comes to space/futuristic scifi things. Hell, Nintendo was quite successful in bringing us furries in space fighters and Bungie with "ring-worlds". =P
Those pics of that Gundam had my jaw dropped and plenty of drool flowing. One day maybe it'll be plausible, but they try to make Tanks as low profile as possible for a good reason, they don't stack more on top to make it a bigger target. But technologies change and if a mech could be built with the agility as a Gundam or Veritech fighter then it'd liely be more feasible.
Realistic is relative, things we think are rediculous or just outright impossible may not be so in the future or even near future. We have an XOS powered armor suit that works great except batteries suck, they we can soon build a space elevator, or put a Dome over downtown Houston(thank you Mega Engineering!). I can't wait to see what the future holds, even though some of it is downright scary.
I don't care how it's done, I just want real mechs.