Poll: Japanese or Western Mecha?
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My First encounter with japanese mecha was Techno Man... i doubt thats its original title. I went mecha mad afterwards... gundam wing was after that.
My first encounter with western mechs was the good old chicken walkers from star wars (at-st's for those who seek their real name) i love the design of walkers and they are the true western mech.
If i was to pick a favourite however, hmmm. I love the western style mechs for the sheer weight of the design and how they look tough and warlike, japanese mechs are, well... the robot equivalant of teenage angst. I'm sorry but i can't look at a japanese mecha without thinking of that whingy baby Shinji from Evangelion at the cockpit. (techno man is different, he's the... bees knees...)
Edit: just read the name on the poster of "tehno man"... it's actually Tekkaman Blade, so much better dont you think.
My first encounter with western mechs was the good old chicken walkers from star wars (at-st's for those who seek their real name) i love the design of walkers and they are the true western mech.
If i was to pick a favourite however, hmmm. I love the western style mechs for the sheer weight of the design and how they look tough and warlike, japanese mechs are, well... the robot equivalant of teenage angst. I'm sorry but i can't look at a japanese mecha without thinking of that whingy baby Shinji from Evangelion at the cockpit. (techno man is different, he's the... bees knees...)
Edit: just read the name on the poster of "tehno man"... it's actually Tekkaman Blade, so much better dont you think.
A walking castle powered by rage? Gurren Lagann DOES run on rage, and has been known to grow to 10 million light years tall.Ultrajoe said:
I'm a Gundam fanatic, but no gundam in the universe can compete with that.
So... yeah, I like Eastern mecha.
Ah, but you've clearly only seen the foolish creations of the WH40K universe. They can do power armor very well, but dreadnoughts are not battlemechs.Onmi said:
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darn, ninja'ed.Akalabeth said:And just because this thread needs something a little more awesome:
I sincerely hope you were attempting some ironic humour there.TheMadTypist said:Ah, but you've clearly only seen the foolish creations of the WH40K universe. They can do power armor very well, but dreadnoughts are not battlemechs.Onmi said:
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Ultra_Caboose said:
It has got nothing on an eldar Wraithlord, the epitome of grace and fury on the battlefield *Drool*
What!? You don't like Mechwarrior!? At least that have some variation to them, every Gundam show I watch should have a sidebar to let me know which man-shaped machine is which. They should at least pull a star-wars and try to have some variances in the beam/laser colour.Xom said:
My first giant robot experience was with the animated series Battletech. Now show your hands, who remembers Battletech? No one? Man I'm old! Anyway, the Hatamoto-Chi was always the shit to me. It looked like a giant samurai and to my wondering five year old eyes, that was massively cool. The Mauler was pretty awesome too.
That being said, I was also a fan of the "Unseen" mechs. These are the ones that FASA cribbed from Harmony Gold and such. They included iconic mechs such as the Marauder, Warhammer, Stinger, Crusader, Phoenix Hawk and of course LAMs. So that made me, indirectly, a fan of the Japanese designs from Robotech and Macross.
So I suppose you could say that I loved both types in the one universe that managed to unite them, albeit a little illegally. Western designs, like the Atlas, Bushwacker and Wolfhound for example, looked like bruisers, you knew that if one of them showed up to a party, some serious wrecking was going to happen. Eastern designs had that unity of form and function managing to look ridiculously awesome especially since a lot of the weaponry seemed to be blended into the chassis.
In the end though, it's a Western mech that I usually take out, a specially modified Victor.
That being said, I was also a fan of the "Unseen" mechs. These are the ones that FASA cribbed from Harmony Gold and such. They included iconic mechs such as the Marauder, Warhammer, Stinger, Crusader, Phoenix Hawk and of course LAMs. So that made me, indirectly, a fan of the Japanese designs from Robotech and Macross.
So I suppose you could say that I loved both types in the one universe that managed to unite them, albeit a little illegally. Western designs, like the Atlas, Bushwacker and Wolfhound for example, looked like bruisers, you knew that if one of them showed up to a party, some serious wrecking was going to happen. Eastern designs had that unity of form and function managing to look ridiculously awesome especially since a lot of the weaponry seemed to be blended into the chassis.
In the end though, it's a Western mech that I usually take out, a specially modified Victor.
On reflection, the summoner is just a bunch of boxes stacked on each other. but the other two, they're the real deal! Yes, they don't have hands, or extensive flight capability (And the irony here is the only mech of those three that comes with jump-jets standard is the summoner.), or even heads that serve as sensor nodes, as you've said you prefer, but they are extremely well suited to their designed purpose.Xom said:
