[aldo_14]

Oh, for goodness sake.  Who gives a monkeys whether mechs actually make sense, they're simply supposed to be big cool stompy things.

[delta_7890]

Flaser, a slight correction.  It's Macross, Mospeada, and Southern Cross that make up the horror that is Robotech.  Orguss, while made from the same studio that produced Macross, does not appear in the Robotech series to my knowledge.  ^^;

>>;  And I'll agree with Aldo as I said the same thing a few pages ago and no one seemed to care.  It's all about fun and explodiness.

And on a side note, Ideon beats any mecha you can toss at it.  It has the ability to end reality itself!

[TrashMan]

Originally posted by Getter Robo G

BTW if you want a good robot get a Super Robot  (like me!) Any robot from the 70's will run rings around the voltrons and megazords...

What?
Voltron rulez!!!!

[TrashMan]

Originally posted by Flaser

Battletech and Mechwarriror are games with game mechanics.
Just like Freespace it's not the 'real' stuff.
Gundam, Escaflowne, Macross is entertainment and for all their realistic aspects they're the 'real' stuff either.

???

What are you saying here, as I'm kinda confused...
The realism factor of different movies/games does differ (from mech controling to power source and construction), but are you saying all such series are crap or that the 3 you mentioned are better and more real than the others?

[Grey Wolf]

Originally posted by TrashMan


What?
Voltron rulez!!!!

Voltron falls into the same genre as Robotech and Power Rangers: Japanese shows with new American storylines.

[TrashMan]

Originally posted by Kalfireth
Heh... I'll see your spider tank and raise you:

I'm in!



And I raise you:

[Mongoose]

I thought Big O was true to real life.  I mean, those giant piston things make sense, don't they?

[kode]

hmm... should I really bother getting a screencap of the decaulion from kiddy grade...

[Jetmech Jr.]

Originally posted by TrashMan


I'm in!



And I raise you:

[Unknown Target]

One thing that's always bugged me about most Japanese robots is that they're...like humans in a big suit. For instance, look at that picture above - it doesn't even look like a robot at all, and some Japanese robots have mouths, two eyes, etc, or like Gundam, have human-ish proportions. Macross is one of my favorites, because the robots actually look like robots.
I guess American robots are better in the respect that they look like giant walking death machines. Batteletech mechs (for the most part - let's just go with the Mechwarrior games for now), look like they have actuaters and pistons and basically like they're built out of metal.

A good compromise between the two are Heavy Gear mechs. At 14 feet tall, they're not the largest, but they're certainly the most plausible humanisque robots around.

[Jetmech Jr.]

Originally posted by Unknown Target
One thing that's always bugged me about most Japanese robots is that they're...like humans in a big suit. For instance, look at that picture above - it doesn't even look like a robot at all, and some Japanese robots have mouths, two eyes, etc, or like Gundam, have human-ish proportions. Macross is one of my favorites, because the robots actually look like robots.
I guess American robots are better in the respect that they look like giant walking death machines. Batteletech mechs (for the most part - let's just go with the Mechwarrior games for now), look like they have actuaters and pistons and basically like they're built out of metal.

A good compromise between the two are Heavy Gear mechs. At 14 feet tall, they're not the largest, but they're certainly the most plausible humanisque robots around.

You don't know much about Evangelion, do you?

[kode]

Originally posted by Jetmech Jr.

game over.


looks like I could be bothered to post it...

[Jetmech Jr.]

Indeed:

[Mongoose]

I'd better stay out of this thread if it starts getting spoiler-ish regarding EVA; I'm still on the second episode of [adult swim]'s run.

[NGTM-1R]

Originally posted by delta_7890
Flaser, a slight correction.  It's Macross, Mospeada, and Southern Cross that make up the horror that is Robotech.  Orguss, while made from the same studio that produced Macross, does not appear in the Robotech series to my knowledge.  ^^;
 

I'll see your horror and raise you babbling about spiritua. THAT'S horror, son. I came for the giant robots. Robotech keeps the giant robots at the forefront.

And the game is only over if you're conceding your defeat to me.

[Taristin]

I see this thread and all I can think of is "Boys and their toys"...

[TrashMan]

Originally posted by Jetmech Jr.

Ha!

[Jetmech Jr.]

You fail to realize that Berserker Unit 1 would quite handily tear apart Escaflowne . That, and it looks cooler.

[NGTM-1R]

Sadly, my money's on the EVA.

Unless you can disconnect it from its powersource...five minutes to shutdown without cable connections.

[Grey Wolf]

Metal Gear Rex vs. EVA? Use the nuke as an EMP weapon and destroy the powersource.