I would show a pic of i but, I don't know how but Metal Gear Ray http://images.wikia.com/metalgear/images/e/ef/Metal_Gear_RAY_%28MGS4%29.gif
btw, can some tell me how too do that?
btw, can some tell me how too do that?
Favorite Mech designs
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This is about as close as anyone has got to recreating the Marauder Suit. It's from the Roughneck Chronicles TV series.Nouw said:
Well to be fair that thing has to be surrounded by a capsule and the soldier should have enough space to move his head around. Also, the weapons were held separately. The nuke-launcher wasn't attached to their arms or something. Neither were most of the weapons.[sub]Except the Y-Racks?[/sub] Sorry but that's just how I see it...Soviet Heavy said:
Like I said, its the closest people have got. I always imagined the Nukes were attached below the wrist via a rolling rack on the back that launched them like a ski ball.Nouw said:
Damn! I forgot about these two!
Lead guys mech in Ring Of Red
WW2 mecha. How awesome is that?
Orgun from Detonator Orgun
And in this show they look like blokes in armour for a good reason.
Lead guys mech in Ring Of Red
WW2 mecha. How awesome is that?
Orgun from Detonator Orgun
And in this show they look like blokes in armour for a good reason.
Hmm i think my favourite has to be the daishi from Battletech/ Mechwarrior. It just looks so functional and brutal, yet also has a certain elegance about it with all those smooth edges. Also there's the fact that like most Battlemechs it actually looks functional and realistically possible. The Blood Asp and cougar are also awesome.
Though the warlord titan from 40k also has a very sweet design. (the warlord not the warhound).
Though the warlord titan from 40k also has a very sweet design. (the warlord not the warhound).
Not sure old school Optimus Prime counts as mecha but he's been my hero since I was twelve.
Battletech: Timber Wolf and Thor.
Gurren Lagann.
Battletech: Timber Wolf and Thor.
Gurren Lagann.
For as much as I hate, HATE, Shinn Asuka, the Destiny Gundam is badass.
And while I applaud those of you who noted Armored Core 4A, Evangelion, Eureka 7, and Big O, why has no one mentioned Super Robot Wars? I'd love to get my hands on an Alteisen Reise!
But a mech that I absolutely love is VF-25 Messiah from Macross Frontier.
And while I applaud those of you who noted Armored Core 4A, Evangelion, Eureka 7, and Big O, why has no one mentioned Super Robot Wars? I'd love to get my hands on an Alteisen Reise!
But a mech that I absolutely love is VF-25 Messiah from Macross Frontier.
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Lancelot, from Code Geass, all of it's variations.
Wing, from Gundam Wing, and it's successor double 0
Exia from Gundam 00, and the twin drive gundam, I forget what it's called.
Admittedly, Guren, from Code Geass was also a badass design, it just doesn't quite catch up to those 3.
Wing, from Gundam Wing, and it's successor double 0
Exia from Gundam 00, and the twin drive gundam, I forget what it's called.
Admittedly, Guren, from Code Geass was also a badass design, it just doesn't quite catch up to those 3.
Let me just ask, does Iron Man count? It mean...it' a robot suit that a man wears...it has weapons on it. I don't know, I'm not fully informed on what is a mech and what isn't.
I see your Alt Eisen, and raise you DYGENGUAR!!!!wildwind1290 said:For as much as I hate, HATE, Shinn Asuka, the Destiny Gundam is badass.
And while I applaud those of you who noted Armored Core 4A, Evangelion, Eureka 7, and Big O, why has no one mentioned Super Robot Wars? I'd love to get my hands on an Alteisen Reise!
Plus this:
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Can any of your robots do that!
That was a good response. At the end of the day my criticisms are more about the lack of substance I perceive in your average anime Mech battle; as I was saying in Code Gease, at the start taking fire was an issue, cover was important, quick tactical moves using the rollerskates were used to out-flank etc etc. However, by the end everyone was flying and magically evading all incoming fire indefinitely - there was no sense to danger, or threat, they just magically never got hit, relying on huge quantities of plot armour whilst they slaughtered the nameless hordes of grunts around them. I just find it hard to get too excited about that sort of thing.Raso719 said:
I've watched my fair share of anime and know that that sort of hero worship is pretty much the thing they do, but because I don't like it and it's become so entrenched with the mecha design the two are synonymous. As soon as you see those exaggerated eye-brow whiskers, you just know it's going to be a pretty-light-spitting, untouchable, flying, mass-murdering magic machine piloted by a teen suffering from an identity crisis, not a mech with substance and weight that will make even a semblance of an attempt at maintaining internal logic with the rest of it's universe.
What I'm more interested in are not realistic mechs - as you pointed out, we're talking about giant robots (that chicks may or may not dig) - but mechs that maintain a logic and limitations with the universe that they're in, without using handwavium or unobtanium to make a couple with are literally infinitely more powerful than any other object in the entire universe. I must confess to having watched only one of the long Gundam series all the way through, but from the odd episode of other series I've seen, if you have a mech with a weapon that can literally slice a full-sized space battleship in half, why don't you give more mechs similar weapons and slice ALL of their battleships in half, rather than just the one? 'Gundanium alloy' surely doesn't affect the powersources for weapons that you can have available? Same with beam cannons whose shots are visible from outside of the galaxy. Give EVERYONE one of those and I'm pretty sure the war would be over pretty sharpish, one way or another.
I can enjoy something for the fun of it, sure, but in the same way the Power Rangers wouldn't be on my list of best warriors, Gundams are a long way from my list of best mechs.
I think one way that Gundam counteracts this is that there's only a handful to go around, usually with one side holding a few and the other side holding the rest. They're powerhouses, yes, but countries won't use Gundams wily-nilly, as there's a risk that they'll get destroyed by the other side's Gundam or similar mobile weapon. They're a lot like nuclear weapons that way.Wicky_42 said:
The most numerous active Gundams I've ever seen in a series is the first Gundams of Gundam SEED, which equals five (Blitz, Buster, Duel, Aegis, and Strike), and that was four on two.