at least how Gundam in particular attempted to make them more like "legit" vehicles of war
was basically to do what the Powered Suit from Starship Troopers did
create a one-man unit that can traverse terrain quickly and has access to multiple hand-held and mounted weapons
because they had to keep the size of the robots fairly large (roughly the size of an F-15 standing on its tail) what happen was we got something that was almost akin to a ground based weapon with many aspects of combat airplanes
Even in terms of how they frame the Mobile Suits in Gundam as being based on carriers and launched from catapults. having a single pilot or sometimes two being in control of multiple weapons and sensors.
Battletech likes to claim they're doing otherwise, but Battlemechs try to occupy the same hybrid plane/powered suit role
and horribly fail at it :v
also Gundam F-91 had a cool military parade with Mobile Suits
one of the Armored Core openings had a platoon of ACs marching across the desert
Or a Sega Saturn emulator if you want to play some Gundam games. Also Assault Suits Leynos 2 is for Saturn. It's the sequel to Target Earth (Leynos 1) on Genesis. The game Cybernator (Assault Suit Valken) for SNES is a prequel to Leynos. They're fun side scrolling robot games.
The good robot games are spread across so many systems. There used to be a website dedicated to cataloging robot games but it is long gone. Lol angelfire.
I think you can get Thexder Neo for XBLA. Another fun side scroller based on two old PC games.
You know, I understand all the problems btech has and how ridiculous and stupid it is.
I still really like it . It's very medieval, and I think I accept it more readily because in my mind it's like a bunch of backwards feudal era 'knights' who didn't understand when to stop adding on the plate mail, and it's got this grungy, haphazard, everything-could-stop-working-in-an-instant attitude while crunching around in enormous, clunky, inflexible robots with incredibly short range explody canons.
joviwan wrote:You know, I understand all the problems btech has and how ridiculous and stupid it is.
I still really like it . It's very medieval, and I think I accept it more readily because in my mind it's like a bunch of backwards feudal era 'knights' who didn't understand when to stop adding on the plate mail, and it's got this grungy, haphazard, everything-could-stop-working-in-an-instant attitude while crunching around in enormous, clunky, inflexible robots with incredibly short range explody canons.
I dunno, that appeals to me.
If ya'll knew how much this applied to me and how much Btech stuff I have you'd be ashamed of me.
. It's very medieval, and I think I accept it more readily because in my mind it's like a bunch of backwards feudal era 'knights' who didn't understand when to stop adding on the plate mail, and it's got this grungy, haphazard, everything-could-stop-working-in-an-instant attitude while crunching around in enormous, clunky, inflexible robots with incredibly short range explody canons.
